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Least favorite popular 90s bands

reversedarwinismreversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
edited February 2008 in Other Music
I listen to the Sirus Lithium station fairly often. Best damn station I've ever heard. Good varitey staying in the area of "grunge and 90s alternative". Of the bands that get the most play, I cringe when I hear Offspring and Everclear. I never liked them. Useless, goofy music in a great period of time. They do play worse stuff sometimes (alanis), but not near as often. They are the bands I dislike the most from my favorite time in music.

so:

Offspring
Everclear
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  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    I listen to the Sirus Lithium station fairly often. Best damn station I've ever heard. Good varitey staying in the area of "grunge and 90s alternative". Of the bands that get the most play, I cringe when I hear Offspring and Everclear. I never liked them. Useless, goofy music in a great period of time. They do play worse stuff sometimes (alanis), but not near as often. They are the bands I dislike the most from my favorite time in music.

    so:

    Offspring
    Everclear

    I am with you on those two, both are absolutely dreadful. I would also like to add Cake to that list.
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  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Live
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  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Todd76 wrote:
    Live

    At least you do have some taste, the first couple albums were alright but everything after is crap.
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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    At least you do have some taste, the first couple albums were alright but everything after is crap.

    Make that the first couple albums were excellent and after that they were crap and I'd agree with you.
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    gabers wrote:
    Make that the first couple albums were excellent and after that they were crap and I'd agree with you.

    make that every album they have ever put out was absolute crap and I'd agree with you ;)
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    gabers wrote:
    Make that the first couple albums were excellent and after that they were crap and I'd agree with you.
    That sounds about right.....
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  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    the Goo Goo Dolls - they had one song on the "Angus" film soundtrack that I thought was good - it had good energy... the only reason I got that soundtrack was for the Weezer song, but it turned out to be a decent compilation of that style of 90's rock. but everything else by that band was awful, and they got worse and worse (and more popular) as the decade progressed.
  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Fuel. some decent guitar playing... but...... blech.

    still not as bad as today's standard rock music tho.
  • DMBPJ20DMBPJ20 Posts: 160
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    Fuel. some decent guitar playing... but...... blech.

    still not as bad as today's standard rock music tho.

    I think I will have to agree with all of that ... definitely not as bad, but I can only think of two songs that I liked.
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  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    We could list so many late 90s bands that were total garbage


    Our Lady Peace
    Vertical Horizon
    Bush
    Sugar Ray
    Marcy Playground
    Fastball
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  • bovy_jbovy_j Posts: 1,008
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    We could list so many late 90s bands that were total garbage


    Our Lady Peace
    Vertical Horizon
    Bush
    Sugar Ray
    Marcy Playground
    Fastball

    I am with you on all of those bands being horrible...except for Our Lady Peace. I love OLP! :)
  • Its Evolution BabyIts Evolution Baby Posts: 849
    I used to think that Bush was TOTAL crap but after listening to a lot of crap Rock music thats come out since 1995 they really weren't that bad.

    The first album was especially not horrible. Like a 7 out of 10 not horrible.
    10/31/2000 (****)
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    Offspring
    Everclear

    i think those two with cake is a pretty solid start.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Todd76 wrote:
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    Throwing Copper is like U2, as interpreted by Creed.

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  • reversedarwinismreversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Throwing Copper is like U2, as interpreted by Creed.

    cue vomiting.

    U2 gets played quite a bit on the Lithium chanel too. Their 90s stuff - pretty boring, but not as bad as the first two I mentioned. Blink 182 is later 90s, and they are another I'd probably add to the list.
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  • soclosesoclose Posts: 628
    Smash Mouth
    Sugar Ray
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    soclose wrote:
    Smash Mouth
    Sugar Ray

    I forgot all about that musical holocaust known as Smash Mouth. I am also embarrassed to say that I owned a cd by each of them. I think I redeemed myself by giving both cds to trick or treaters a few years back for halloween.
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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    soclose wrote:
    Smash Mouth
    Sugar Ray

    Let me add Uncle Kracker to that and make a trifecta of terror. I absolutely despise these bands. And I can usually find a nugget of decency out of every band.
  • zircona1zircona1 Posts: 293
    soclose wrote:
    Smash Mouth
    Sugar Ray

    You know, 14:59 isn't a bad album. It's just good, guitar-driven pop music.

    Smash Mouth, OTOH, I absolutely agree with, except for Walkin' On the Sun, which I still like b/c it sounds like something done back in the '60s.
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  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    gabers wrote:
    Let me add Uncle Kracker to that and make a trifecta of terror. I absolutely despise these bands. And I can usually find a nugget of decency out of every band.

    Lets not forget Kid Rock
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants1STmammal2wearPants Posts: 2,938
    Todd76 wrote:
    make that every album they have ever put out was absolute crap and I'd agree with you ;)

    nah, their first album was pretty great. also saw em in 2007, and put on a hell of a show.
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  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    live was good up through secret samadhi, after that album they sucked.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,853
    Third Eye Blind is the cream of the crap
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  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    I like the first Offspring album mostly because it brings back good memories from high school. Never liked Everclear, terrible.

    I think I didn't like *any* bands who broke out between 1996 and 2000.
  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    Third Eye Blind is the cream of the crap

    remember better than ezra?
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,184
    I'd have to say Guns & Roses for their constant disappointment when playing live.

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  • Pearls&StonesPearls&Stones Posts: 585
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    live was good up through secret samadhi, after that album they sucked.

    I am going to defend the next album after that, The Distance to Here, because it is my favorite album ever.

    After that, I think the 3 discs that followed had enough good stuff to make one good compilation cd.


    My votes for this thread

    Oasis
    Beck
    Black Crowes
    Counting Crows
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Matchbox 20
    Goo Goo Dolls
    Tripping Daisy
    Better Than Ezra
    SmashMouth
    Sugar Ray
    Unkle Cracker
    Kid Rock
    Creed
    Vertical Horizon
    New Radicals
    Bush
    Collective Soul
    3 Doors Down

    The sad thing is I know I'm missing about 100 bands :)
    NERDS!
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    soul asylum
  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    I forgot all about that musical holocaust known as Smash Mouth. I am also embarrassed to say that I owned a cd by each of them. I think I redeemed myself by giving both cds to trick or treaters a few years back for halloween.


    That's worse than being the guy who hands out raisins! :eek:
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