twistedmentat posted:

Shania Twain had more crossover success, and honestly, when someone says that they hate country, they're thinking of stuff like this. The New Country that popped up in the mid 90s. It's been discussed earlier, that after Grunge took over and drowned hair metal and most other rock in a shallow puddle, the producers and song writers that were so important in making those bands that ruled in the late 80s and early 90s moved to Nashville and helped develop a new crop of country singers that had a pop sensibility for crossover success.

chitoryu12 posted:

He was dead for two weeks when he was found. He was a decomposing 85-pound skeleton.

fast cars loose anus posted:

Random Middle School Dance Song for 90s kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W5pq4bIzIw

fast cars loose anus posted:

What the gently caress is up with how some people's youtube links embed the video and some others' don't; do I have a wrong setting somewhere?

Anyway that Boyz II Men song is cool

JediTalentAgent posted:

I don't think The Crow was as popular as expected when it released in theaters and around where I lived it took about a year or so for it start growing a larger cult popularity, and by the late 90s it was that entire South Park joke of, "I'm dressing as The Crow for Halloween" brought to life.

I do want to say that The Crow HAS been largely forgotten, I think, by a lot of modern audiences because the Heath Ledger Joker has supplanted it in the minds of a lot of audiences. Granted, not the same characters, but there are some shared elements between the characters and even the actors that played them.

fast cars loose anus posted:

What the gently caress is up with how some people's youtube links embed the video and some others' don't; do I have a wrong setting somewhere?

El Gallinero Gros posted:

It's an impressive performance when you realize he was basically ready to tip over and the rest of the band wasn't even sure he'd be there. It's also probably the last thing he ever really did of significance with the band. He recorded two songs for a box set type thing afterwards, but to give you an idea of how bad things got for him, when the band went on Rockline (which used to a fairly popular syndicated show that hipped me to a lot of stuff and probably deserves it's own post from someone more knowledgeable) to promote it, he ended up calling into the show and it clearly surprised the rest of the band and the host. I guess it could have been planned but given how incredibly hosed up his life got it's totally plausible.

Apparently when they found him, it was "Rookie officer in the corner puking his guts out" bad, guy's injection arm had gone gangrenous. He had a hell of a singing voice and was apparently really kind according to a lot of Seattle peers, his story was really sad. His mom had plenty to say about the ghouls who hung around Layne once he got famous in the excellent book Grunge is Dead by Greg Prato. Kurt Cobain had a similar issue. I know Mark Arm (Mudhoney, and a friend of Kurt's) says he wishes that when Kurt asked Mark how he got clean, he wished he'd have said "You have to take a break from all of this, and you have to ditch your junkie wife, too."

Maybe unfair to Courtney, but I kinda get it.

El Gallinero Gros posted:

It's an impressive performance when you realize he was basically ready to tip over and the rest of the band wasn't even sure he'd be there. It's also probably the last thing he ever really did of significance with the band. He recorded two songs for a box set type thing afterwards, but to give you an idea of how bad things got for him, when the band went on Rockline (which used to a fairly popular syndicated show that hipped me to a lot of stuff and probably deserves it's own post from someone more knowledgeable) to promote it, he ended up calling into the show and it clearly surprised the rest of the band and the host. I guess it could have been planned but given how incredibly hosed up his life got it's totally plausible.

Apparently when they found him, it was "Rookie officer in the corner puking his guts out" bad, guy's injection arm had gone gangrenous. He had a hell of a singing voice and was apparently really kind according to a lot of Seattle peers, his story was really sad. His mom had plenty to say about the ghouls who hung around Layne once he got famous in the excellent book Grunge is Dead by Greg Prato. Kurt Cobain had a similar issue. I know Mark Arm (Mudhoney, and a friend of Kurt's) says he wishes that when Kurt asked Mark how he got clean, he wished he'd have said "You have to take a break from all of this, and you have to ditch your junkie wife, too."

Maybe unfair to Courtney, but I kinda get it.

Flaggy posted:

Every graduation I went to in the 90's had this song. Including my own, for years afterwards this song was played.

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

Randaconda posted:

this song came out when i was 20, and yet i have no memory of it

Quote-Unquote posted:

Alice in Chains Unplugged starts off really strong and is pretty amazing throughout but it's noticeable by the half way point that Layne was really not... well.
He takes off his sunglasses and he looks half dead.

Mu Zeta posted:

High school was better without phones and social media

Laocius posted:

High school was never good.

Laocius posted:

High school was never good.

Flaggy posted:

Every graduation I went to in the 90's had this song. Including my own, for years afterwards this song was played.

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

Mu Zeta posted:

I'm just saying it was better, not good. I had AIM and ICQ but it wasn't really as pervasive as something like Facebook. I did hate high school though.

Iron Crowned posted:

Anyway here's a contribution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hJ4VzA0Yk

Phanatic posted:

Here's some fuckin' 90s. The school I graduated from would have an annual big music concert, it was always hyped up and eagerly awaited.

First year, the lineup was Dropkick Murphys, The Amazing Royal Crowns (back when they could still legally call themselves that), Bim Skala Bim, and Mighty Mighty Bosstones. So that places it square in like, what, 1998? Right around the time of the swing revival and the peak of third-wave ska. Show was amazing.

The following year?

Better Than Ezra.

So few tickets were sold that they had to cancel the show. Busta Rhymes was the replacement act.

Show was amazing. Way better than Better Than Ezra.

Randaconda posted:

So they thought a one hit wonder from three or four years earlier would attract the kids? (Better Than Ezra, obvs)

Mu Zeta posted:

High school was better without phones and social media

Wheat Loaf posted:

Pour Some Sugarland On Me

Wheat Loaf posted:

I think the most 90s of all the 90s ska bands was one called I Voted for Kodos, whose first album came out in 1999 and included a song about how much they wished they could be Reel Big Fish.

Pneub posted:

Is saying Nirvana's Man Who Sold the World is better than Bowie's still usually treated like a hate crime, now that he's been dead a couple years?

Wheat Loaf posted:

I think the most 90s of all the 90s ska bands was one called I Voted for Kodos, whose first album came out in 1999 and included a song about how much they wished they could be Reel Big Fish.

chitoryu12 posted: