Grunge

[gothwalk]

We have a new shared music drive in work, and enthusiasm for playlists is starting to pick up. I've been asked to work out a "Best of Grunge" playlist, to match the "90s Singles" one there already. So, what would you include on such a playlist? Don't be shy about suggesting obvious classics, either, because it's entirely possible I'll have missed them.

Comments

[niallm.livejournal.com]

Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana?

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Pearl Jam - Jeremy

Those are the first that come to mind ...

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

NIN Head Like A Hole
Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit

Good luck!

[sares2000.livejournal.com]

Amen to that, Teen Spirit is IMO the definitive song of its times.

[nightmares-fear.livejournal.com]

any Metallica, Deftones, Pantera, definitely NIN, couple of Rage Against the Machine.

[aidian.livejournal.com]

none of which are "grunge".

[aidian.livejournal.com]

but all of which are on my own playlist. :D

[nightmares-fear.livejournal.com]

Well I think that was always going to be the case. However, the bands I mentioned should ALWAYS be included on playlists - of any kind!

[penexpers.livejournal.com]

Peaches - Presidents of the USA

purely for ironic purposes of course.

[herrulrich.livejournal.com]

Nordwind they are a heathen band

[ex-agname.livejournal.com]

I care little for grunge, I'm afraid - but I'd be curious to know what's on the 90s singles playlist. Have you got Winamp or anything that could easily make a playlist that you could stick up? If you wouldn't mind, of course.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I thought Winamp used to have a way to export Playlists to HTML... can't find it now, though. However, having munged the playlist file itself through a text editor:

George Michael with Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me).mp3
Cast - Walk Away.mp3
Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens.mp3
Seal - Crazy.mp3
Perez Prado - Guaglione (Guiness Advert).mp3
Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy.mp3
Kula Shaker - Hey Dude
10_Hey Dude_Free CD Music_Kula Shaker.mp3
George Michael & Mary J Blige - As
inner circle - baby i love your ways.mp3
Various artists - Perfect day
perfect day - Lou Reed, Bono, Elton John, David Bowie, Brett Anderson, Tom Jones, etc.mp3
Robert Miles - Tell Me a Fable (Ever After Soundtrack).mp3
Lou Bega - Mambo Number 5.mp3
Cast_Finetime.mp3
Maya & Wyclef Jean - Ghetto Superstar.mp3
Jock Jams - Everybody Dance Now.mp3
Mya - Ghetto Superstar.mp3
Babybird - Because You're Gorgeous.mp3
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight.mp3
Cartoons - Witch Doctor.mp3
Sash - Ecuador.mp3
The Seahorses - Love Is The Law.mp3
Dario G - Sunchyme.mp3
Kelly Family - An Angel.mp3
Space - Neighbourhood.mp3
4-Non Blondes - Whats Up.mp3
Del Amitri - Roll To Me.mp3
Seal - Killer.mp3
olive -- you're not alone.mp3
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.mp3
Soul II Soul - Back To Life (How Ever Do You Want Me).mp3
Lighting seeds - Pure.mp3
Dodgy - Good Enough For You.mp3
Kula Shaker - Govinda.mp3
The Saw Doctors - N17.mp3
Coors, The - What Can I Do To Make You Love Me.mp3
The Bluetones - Slight Return.mp3
Old School Rap - Kriss Kross - Jump.mp3
Eagle Eye Cherry - Falling In Love Again.mp3
Garth Brooks - If Tomorrow Never Comes.mp3
Duran Duran - Ordinary World.mp3
Blueboy - Remember Me.mp3
Sash - Stay.mp3
Del Amitri - Always the Last to Know.mp3
Dodgy - Staying Out For The Summer.mp3
Olive - You're Not Alone (ATB Mix).mp3
Lemon Tree.mp3
Cast - Alright .mp3
The Saw Doctors - I Useta Love Her.mp3
Sash - Encore Une Fois.mp3
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This.mp3
Chumbawamba - I get knocked down - 90s pop rock.mp3
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy.mp3
Everything But The Girl - And I Miss You.mp3
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby.mp3
90's Rednex - Cotton-Eyed Joe.mp3
Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me.mp3
Robert Miles - Children.mp3
Garth Brooks - The Dance.mp3
Blind Melon - No Rain.mp3
Space - Female of the Species.mp3
Edwin Collins - Never Met A Girl Like You Before.mp3
Robert Miles - One and One.mp3
Things Can Only Get Better - D-Ream Various Artists 20.mp3
the boo radleys - wake up boo.mp3
Craig David - Seven Days.mp3
Kula Shaker - Hush.mp3
TMPAdamski feat. Seal - Killer.mp3
Garth Brooks - I've Got Friends in Low Places.mp3
The Connells - 74-75.mp3

[ex-agname.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, I remember Winamp being able to export to HTML too. I was looking to see if there were any songs on your list that I might like for my own playlist at home. Alas I either have everything on the list or don't want the remainder (with the exception of the Boo Radleys song, which I don't especially like, but got hooked on in a have-to-listen-to-it-to-get-it-out-of-my-head kinda way).

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Cartoons - Witch Doctor would get stuck in my head if I could remember the nonsense lyric. I'd never heard it before, though.

[nightmares-fear.livejournal.com]

I told the witch doctor I was in love with you
And then the witch doctor he told me what to do
He told me: Ooh eeh ooh ah ah, Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang
Ooh eeh ooh ah ah, Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang!

:-) Happy Friday!

(Janey Mack the 90s seem to have sucked for music! I'd remembered it as being much better.)

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Wench. :)

Janey Mack the 90s seem to have sucked for music! I'd remembered it as being much better.

Well, do note that this list is short all the grunge, metal, harder rap and electronica that constitute good music (from whatever point of view; I can't stand rap) - in short, it's pop with the worst crud removed (2Unlimited don't feature, for instance). No sign here of Nirvana, REM, Smashing Pumpkins, The Prodigy... maybe I should just do up a whole rival "REAL Best of the 90s" listing. :)

[nightmares-fear.livejournal.com]

I think that sounds simply mahvellous!

[d-morff.livejournal.com]

Dont forgat any Alice in Chains stuff... Probably It aint like that or Them Bones.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Or Don't Follow - my favourite song by them.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much just seconding others: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains.
Temple of the Dog. Hole?

Some things I don't think are grunge; NIN, Presidents of the USA. But you could morph stuff like that in there, along with groups like Belly, Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians, Crash Test Dummies, Concrete Blonde, Four Non Blondes, the Lemonheads, etc. simply for a feel of that time period.

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

OH! Stone Temple Pilots. *cringe* (Not my thing) Soul Asylum and Living Color also aren't grunge, but can kind of fit to round things out.

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why my first comment is credited to Anonymous. I was logged in. o.O

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Pearl Jam - Nothing Man, Stone Temple Pilots - Creep, are the Pixies grunge? if so Debaser or Wave of Mutilation or Monkey Gone To Heaven, anything off the Nirvana Unplugged In New York album (Dumb?)...

Breeders - Cannonball?

How're you doing, btw?

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I'm doin' good. Expect a general update and return to more frequent posting over the weekend.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Eeeexcellent.

Chat on Farflung when I get back? (Monday)

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Evening time, quite possibly. :)

Although it always takes me a few minutes these days to work out where "back" is for you - Dublin, Oxford, or if you're temporarily in Manila or Rio, but will have proper net access when you;re back to Benelux. :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I know, and here I was planning to be nice and settled and not budge out of Oxford for a while. Oh well. And bah/hurrah for people with cars :)

I may have to erk at you a bit. In a good way. I think.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I'm on google talk at the moment, if you've access to that. Or there's that old-fangled email thing.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thank you, but I may have to leave here in a hurry.

(not in any scary way, I hasten to add, just I'm expecting to have to go somewhere as soon as mine host returns from work which is Real Soon Now)

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

The suspense is killing me.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Mailing you now, since there's no sign of him yet...

[suibhne-geilt.livejournal.com]

Personally, I despised grunge. It was just this unrelenting stream of crap that emanated from Seattle.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Dude. That's the music of my teenagerhood yer dissin'.

[suibhne-geilt.livejournal.com]

It was the music of the halcyon days of my college years. I seriously want a do-over on the soundtrack.

a few contributions...

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Screaming Trees- I Nearly Lost You
Candlebox- Left You Far Behind
Blind Melon- No Rain

[dangerdean.livejournal.com]

Mudhoney, Tad, Sleater-Kinney, Mother Love Bone?

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Goo Goo Dolls - Name
Alice in Chains - Rooster, Heaven Beside You
Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song

[microgirl.livejournal.com]

I'd say other Pearl Jam songs rather than "Jeremy". It's the one everyone remembers, but I don't consider it as "grungey" (why, I don't know)

But "Once", "Even Flow" and "Black" I'd stick in there

[aidian.livejournal.com]

let me check the remains of my old grunge playlist...
Nirvana - Heart-shaped box (in utero)
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit (nevermind) (not my favorite song, but better be in there for completeness)
Nirvana - In Bloom (nevermind)
Nirvana - The man who sold the world (unplugged) (anything from that album)
Alice in Chains - Sick man (anything off of Dirt, as well)
Butthole Surfers - Who was in my room last night? (independent worm saloon)
Butthole Surfers - You don't know me (independent worm saloon)
(not seattle grunge, but in the same timeframe and very close.. good)
Soundgarden - The day i tried to live (superunknown)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (superunknown)
Soundgarden - Black hole sun (superunknown)
Silverchair - Tomorrow (hell if i know)
Toadies - Possum Kingdom (possum kingdom)
PJ Harvey - My naked cousin (crow 2 soundtrack) (haha! but it fits.)
Jerry Cantrell - cut you in (solo album, i dunno) (ish, really)
L7 - Pretend that you're dead (dunno)
You may also try slipping in some Audioslave. it's from the 2000's, but it's chris cornell from soundgarden and sounds pretty 90's. try "Like a Stone". Dunno any songs, but I remember listening to the Germs too, and maybe some Dinosaur Jr.

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

Don't know if these are considered grunge, but songs I like that I feel are in the "Alternative" vein

Prodigy--Firestarter
Metallica--Enter Sandman

Anything on the soundtracts to "Reality Bites" and similar movies.
and there are more, but I have to go home and look at my playlists...

[jadedgeneration.livejournal.com]

The Smashing Pumpkins? The got lumped in there with Peral Jam and Nirvana back in the old school days. I dunno what precisely to define them as though.

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

ok I know I don't look like a crazed metalhead alterna-girl, but here's a list for you.

These are all taken from my “Alternative” playlist. Not all are grunge, I admit, but will hopefully give you some ideas. I know I’ve stated a couple before, but well, there you go.

Been Caught Stealing—Jane’s Addiction
Blood Sugar Sex Magic—Red Hot Chili Peppers
Burn—The Cure
Closer—NIN
Come Out And Play--Offspring
Creep--Radiohead
Epic—Faith No More
Firestarter--Prodigy
Give It Away—Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Greeting Song—Red Hot Chili Peppers
Head Like A Hole--NIN
I Alone--Live
In Bloom—Nirvana
Jesus Built My Hot Rod--Ministry
Killing in the Name Of—Rage Against the Machine
Lightning Crashes--Live
Living Dead Girl—Rob Zombie
More Human Than Human—Rob Zombie
More Than Words--Extreme
Self Esteem—The Offspring
Smells Like Teen Spirit—Nirvana
Thieves--Ministry
Three Days—Jane’s Addiction
Wake Up—Rage Against the Machine
Would--Alice in Chains

Anything from these soundtracks:
The Matrix (on the techno side)
The Crow
Reality Bites
Singles
Empire Records
Heathers

Hope this helps!