one-hit "alternative" wonders of the nineties

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:33 pm

I think most, if not all.

Verbal Intercourse · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:34 pm

montythemongoose Wrote:

red Wrote:

for squirrels - mighty k.c.

(if that's been listed already, sorry)

Noice!

I own that record.

After "mongering", "molo" and "noice," if you use another annoying-as-shit Obner-staple word I'm going to knock you out.

Dalen · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:36 pm

Blue Milk Wrote:

montythemongoose Wrote:

red Wrote:

for squirrels - mighty k.c.

(if that's been listed already, sorry)

Noice!

I own that record.

After "mongering", "molo" and "noice," if you use another annoying-as-shit Obner-staple word I'm going to knock you out.

bitch, you can't even knock your scrawny girlfriend out.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:41 pm

PopTodd Wrote:

The Pursuit Of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now"

They had quite a few more hits in Canada. Great ones too, like 'She's So Young' and 'Hard to Laugh'.

red · **Joined:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:34 am **Posts:** 5009

HaqDiesel Wrote:

for squirrels all died in a car wreck, right?

not all of them. i think it was two from the band, the manager and crew. died before the damn album was even released. pretty great record, though. i still listen to it regularly.

Old Kentucky · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:54 pm

KonstantinL Wrote:

Presidents of the United States of America - "peaches" (i think!)
Weezer - "buddy holly"
Rage Against The Machine - "killing in the name of"

PoUSA = perfect. Weezer had Sweater Song 1st, tho. I think Rage had a couple hits too, really.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:04 pm

KonstantinL Wrote:

Presidents of the United States of America - "peaches" (i think!)

I would have picked 'Lump'.

beachy · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:14 pm

red Wrote:

mr. mister Wrote:

some songs i definitely liked in this thread, twice as many that i hated.
my additions:
julianna hatfield - universal heartbeat
can't remember their name - wierd me out
cracker - low
veruca salt - seether

cracker had other hits... "teen angst", "happy birthday to me" (?) are two that come to mind.

juliana hatfield had "my sister" as a single, too.

Did Eurotrash Girl get airplay? I can't remember now.

PS I like's me that Len disc still.

HaqDiesel · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:15 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

KonstantinL Wrote:

Presidents of the United States of America - "peaches" (i think!)

I would have picked 'Lump'.

I would have picked 'Mach V'.

red · **Joined:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:34 am **Posts:** 5009

beachy Wrote:

red Wrote:

mr. mister Wrote:

some songs i definitely liked in this thread, twice as many that i hated.
my additions:
julianna hatfield - universal heartbeat
can't remember their name - wierd me out
cracker - low
veruca salt - seether

cracker had other hits... "teen angst", "happy birthday to me" (?) are two that come to mind.

juliana hatfield had "my sister" as a single, too.

Did Eurotrash Girl get airplay? I can't remember now.

PS I like's me that Len disc still.

yes, unfortunately.

duckyboy · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:23 pm

Frente! had "Labour of Love" and the "Bizarre Love Triangle" cover...

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:21 am

Republica - Ready To Go
La's - There She Goes
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Having An Average Weekend
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Grey Cell Green
Lisa Loeb - I Do
Murmurs - You Suck
Jill Sobule - I Kissed A Girl
Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA
Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
Swirl 360 - Hey Now Now

And honorary two-hit wonders: Tonic

If y'all were Canadian, I could name so many more. See:
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=bigshinycanada

red · **Joined:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:34 am **Posts:** 5009

reindeer on wheels Wrote:

Republica - Ready To Go

Lisa Loeb - I Do

she also had a hit with "stay" from the reality bites soundtrack.

now there's a movie that i thought was terrible and i just couldn't get into, but the soundtrack was incredible. well, maybe not incredible, but it was damn good.

sensei · **Joined:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:20 pm **Posts:** 114

School Fish..

They had 2 albums. Neither of which had a song called 'Adult', to my recolection.

sensei · **Joined:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:20 pm **Posts:** 114

Closing Time/Semisonic.

The Dreaded Marco · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:07 am

HaqDiesel Wrote:

DumpJack Wrote:

KonstantinL Wrote:

Presidents of the United States of America - "peaches" (i think!)

I would have picked 'Lump'.

I would have picked 'Mach V'.

I would have picked "Kitty". I guess this means they don't qualify for this thread.

Ocean Blue---Ballerina Out of Control
This Picture---Naked Rain

mutty · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:09 am

James - Laid

pinkeyedwink · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:10 am

don't think these were mentioned

better than ezra - good
sponge - plowed

wenchlette · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:18 am

the Verve Pipe - The Freshman
Soul Coughing - Circles
OMC - How Bizarre
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

The Dreaded Marco Wrote:

Ocean Blue---Ballerina Out of Control

I knew this appeared on some 1992 Billboard Modern rock sampler, but I never knew it was a hit. ?? I figured if they had some semblance of a hit, it would have come from the first album.

shiv · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:20 am

sugartooth sold my fortune
ruby paraffin

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:32 am

pinkeyedwink Wrote:

better than ezra - good
sponge - plowed

Rosalia got considerable airplay in Milwaukee, since Deluxe happened to break just as Hot 102 (the hip-hop/rap/r n' b station) was converting to New Rock 102.1, thus the Better than Ezra would have been one of the first discs to cross the music director's desk and get added to rotation.

And I still say, Sponge were three, four years ahead of their time with Wax Ecstatic.

spontaneouspoet Wrote:

OMC - How Bizarre

QUAL.

Try to treat me like your girlfriend, now, Milk Dud.

red · **Joined:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:34 am **Posts:** 5009

better than ezra had at least one single from every album. of course you'd only know that if you were a closet bte fan (me) or if you listen to your local adult contemporary station. in chicago, the mix 101.9 loooooves them some better than ezra. and train. ick.

wenchlette · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:37 am

red Wrote:

better than ezra had at least one single from every album. of course you'd only know that if you were a closet bte fan (me)

I too. From the beginning. Wanna be friends?

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:38 am

red Wrote:

better than ezra had at least one single from every album. of course you'd only know that if you were a closet bte fan (me) or if you listen to your local adult contemporary station. in chicago, the mix 101.9 loooooves them some better than ezra. and train. ick.

I remember leaving an aborted house-party on Milwaukee's east-side on an eve in Oct '99, and as my friend turned the ignition, the radio came up, and it was Train. We didn't know it at first - hadn't heard it enough times, yet - and were trying to figure out what that shit was. Horrid.

It was the song for which the video featured a doe-eyed, beaten-down waitress... Titleplzkthnx.

one-hit "alternative" wonders of the nineties

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