#3 Modern Rock Hits: The Pre-Nirvana '90s

Birdhouse In Your Soul

Funny, I was listening to "The Crying Scene" (AC's biggest American hit) just last week. The production is boxy but it still works.

Man I listened to BAD and "Ballerina Out of Control" quite a bit around this time in '91.

birdhouse easy, this list not too impressive to me

It's the definition of derivative, but "The Globe" is still catchy as hell.

"King of the Mountain" sounds like weak '85-era Mellencamp.

Bit of a weak list, with most of these being far from the bands' best.
Would love to throw a vote AC or Squeeze's way, but... EMF.

"Globe" vs. "Birdhouse." Went with the one I'd most wanna hear right now (B.A.D.).

Alex in NYC wrote this on thread B.A,D - C.L.A.S.S.I.C. or D.U.D. on board I Love Music on Aug 15, 2002

Also, changing their name from Big Audio Dynamite to Big Audio Dynamite Two to simply Big Audio was a....
....wait for it.....

Big Audio Mistake

this is easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HChzRB8h6LU

man had no idea the connells had a big modern rock radio hit in 90, figured there success circa '74-75' was standard college radio also rans getting swept onto commercial radio in the wave of alt hysteria.

This is the best Living Colour song. So many hooks. I don't even think I've listened to Time's Up since the 1990s, but one or another part from "Type" drifts through my head at least once a month.

A bunch I don't know (and going by artist, probably glad I don't know). If it were BAD's Einstein song, would gladly vote for that; ditto the Hoodoo Guru's "What's My Scene." As is, yawn, "Shiny Happy People." (Which I've always liked, especially the video. If you despise both, I do understand.)

I read once that you can hear Dice swearing in the "Unbelievable" sample, but I don't hear it.

Living Colour is an easy choice here

This is *so* Unbelievable it's not even funny.

Alex in NYC wrote this on thread B.A,D - C.L.A.S.S.I.C. or D.U.D. on board I Love Music on Aug 15, 2002

Also, changing their name from Big Audio Dynamite to Big Audio Dynamite Two to simply Big Audio was a.... ....wait for it.....

Big Audio Mistake

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BAM

TMBG all the way.

Defenders of Tim Machine, come forth.

"Under the God" -- I will defend that.

valerie loves me

i like midnight oil

me too and one day i'll check out the pre-diesel and dust stuff on spotify i've always heard is great. blue sky mining and time's up similar - followups to big breakthroughs that weren't quite as successful but hardly flopped, somewhere near or at the top of the critic's polls and then completely forgotten by decade's end. played the hell out of both of them at the time now the only time i hear anything from either is when some classic alternative station plays 'blue sky mine' or 'forgotten years' or if i play 'solace of you' on youtube.

Never knew Dice was sampled in "Unbelievable."

The opening guitar figure in "Blue Sky Mine" reminded me at the time of "Channel Z," enough to confuse me.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Was Bush still releasing hits after the Nu-Metal craze? I thought they came and went quickly.

Was Bush still releasing hits after the Nu-Metal craze? I thought they came and went quickly.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who initially misinterpreted "Bush's 2nd term" as meaning that.

Bush actually faded away for a couple of years before resurfacing in 2011, and they actually scored a #1 modern rock hit a few years back with "The Sound of Winter"

Bush had a 12-year gap between #1's -- "The Chemicals Between Us" (1999) "Sound of Winter" (2011). I think it's second only to Jane's Addiction's 13 years between "Been Caught Stealing" (1990) and "Just Because" (2003).

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Those really weren't Squeeze or the Hoodoo Gurus' best songs, that's for sure.

trying to think if this is the first time TMBG was won an ilm poll against comparably successful records by other artists

Yay for TMBG! Boo for "Shiny Happy People", such a dreadful cash-in. I prefer the Fatima Mansions messed up cover version.

connells were jobbed

BAD was robbed.

Now I'd vote Material Issue but at the time I listened to that BAD album obsessively.

Missed this but highly approve of the #1 result.

Can't believe 3 of you voted for Ocean Blue.

Yeah I'm p sure I voted Material Issue as well

Deserved to walk away with it.

One of the best pop songs of the last 25 years.