I can't forget these forgettable 90s alt rock bands

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Postby antoine » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:25 pm

"Guys...do we wanna be the chili peppers? Jane's addiction? collective soul? metallica?"

"Dude...what if we're all of them?"
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Postby Grumby » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:35 pm

i always think of this band. it seems perfect for this thread. the sunglasses, the sound (which is like janes addiction plenty). it's a really dated aesthetic but not without it's charms

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Postby KPH » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:37 pm

worrywort wrote:that Lifter album rules imo and the videos for the singles are truly, truly godawful



Loved the lead track too

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Postby worrywort » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:39 pm

my favorite bargain bin alt rock album is Scheer - Infliction

they had this minor hit, a crunchy alt-rock tune with a very 90s video and a catchy if too-primed-for-hot-topic chorus:



but i really love some of the more expansive tracks on it, like In Your Hand, and the singer's voice is killer:
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Postby antoine » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:42 pm

I need to go browse the bargain CD bin at the local record store so I can add to this thread
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Postby Grumby » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:44 pm

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Postby antoine » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:45 pm

Failure definitely not forgettable
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:45 pm

KPH wrote:
worrywort wrote:that Lifter album rules imo and the videos for the singles are truly, truly godawful



Loved the lead track too


Loving that this thread is exposing love for this particular band/album
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Postby Grumby » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:45 pm

antoine wrote:Failure definitely not forgettable


not forgettable, but it's pretty damn dated aye. look at that video man
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Postby Grumby » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:46 pm

i think failure are a band that maybe could of been one of these bands but they were better
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:46 pm

antoine wrote:Failure definitely not forgettable

Yeah, Failure is firmly canon
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Postby antoine » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:47 pm

Sure but it was the 90s. they're also ridiculously influential nowadays and still touring and have a big following.
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:48 pm

Literally saw Failure in front of a big crowd just a few months ago
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Postby Grumby » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:49 pm

i probably need to give fantastic plastic another listen but i remember last time i wasn't feeling it
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Postby Grumby » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:51 pm

i'm not saying they're forgettable, obviously you guys are disproving that. but some of those guitar tones, you can't say it's not a little dated.
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:52 pm

I love Fantastic Planet so much
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Postby KPH » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:54 pm

"Another Space Song" comes up on various you might also like playlists and I'm always why yes I do like that when is autolux doing something again
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Postby Grumby » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:55 pm

what about this

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Postby antoine » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:57 pm

The guitar tones are what make it not dated imo. Space rock fx mang. Not many bands were doing the super fxd out guitar thing back then. It was all super boring chug distortion shit. Not that they didn't do a little of that too but their sound always seemed pretty unique to me. I mean I can't name another band from then that wrote something that sounds like "another space song".
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Postby antoine » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:03 pm

Even something like this has a weird angular bent and dissonance to the riff, even if superficially it has a lot of similarities to standard 90s alt rock. Oh yeah and it does have the crazy pitch shifted fx-y part too. I should listen to Magnified more. Cave In really ripped this band off lol.

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Postby doublethink0 » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:04 pm




thanks 89X
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Postby KPH » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:04 pm

Nice, was listening to Box Set a bit earlier this year. A friend who was a bit older than me gave me a copy when I was 18, describing it as a new band from some old friends of his, neglecting to tell me what their old band was.



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Postby Grumby » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:06 pm

wool were drave grohls friends, right.
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Postby futurist » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:07 pm

for some reason i was listening to this the other day

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Postby Grumby » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:07 pm

ex-members of scream. (that band's not too good either, honestly. pretty generic for that time period) other than it has DAVE GROHL on drums.
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Postby doublethink0 » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:07 pm

failure fucking rips



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Postby KPH » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:13 pm

Grumby wrote:ex-members of scream. (that band's not too good either, honestly. pretty generic for that time period) other than it has DAVE GROHL on drums.


Yep pretty much. Even in my peak Dischord years I kinda shrugged at them.
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Postby Grumby » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:14 pm

Ides of Smarch wrote:


this song rules. i never explored them further but this is a #classic
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Postby antoine » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:15 pm

Sorry last failure post. The verse on this song is just awesome melody wise. That bass tone.

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