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Inspired by the better alt 90s bands thread. What's your favorite 90s songs in sort of an 80s vein, and not just latter day songs from new wave artists. You know, stuff you know NWO members would like or should take a listen to?

One rule: only one song per band...no stream of consciousness regurge of all favorites. Variety!

Blind Melon - No Rain
Blur - This is a Low
Bush - Glycerine
Catherine Wheel - Crank
Charlatans - Then
Cranberries - Dreams
Dinosaur Jr - Feel the Pain
Electronic - Feel Every Beat
Garbage - Queer
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
Heart Throbs - Dream Time
James - Born of Frustration
Jesus & Mary Chain - Sometimes Always
La's - There She goes
Lemonheads - Into Your Arms
Lightning Seeds - Pure
Lush - De-Luxe
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Grey Cell Green
Radiohead - Exit Music
Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 or Thirty-Three (tough choice)
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
Teenage Fanclub - What You Do to Me
Toad the Wet Sprocket - All I Want
Veruca Salt - Seether
Verve Pipe - The Freshman

Man, I hate to say it but after looking at that list, with a few exceptions, it reminds me why I seem to think the '90s were a complete void - musically speaking...

[quote][i]Originally posted by Jason²[/i]
<br>Man, I hate to say it but after looking at that list, with a few exceptions, it reminds me why I seem to think the '90s were a complete void - musically speaking...
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That's harsh Jason, I'm afraid I agree.
When I see Blind Melon all I can do is roll my eyes.
I do like:
Cranberries
Smashing Pumpkins
The Sundays
And I love Garbage.
They're possibly the best band to come out of the 90's.
Some of the others are not offensive, just bland.

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[quote][i]Originally posted by Jason²[/i]
<br>Man, I hate to say it but after looking at that list, with a few exceptions, it reminds me why I seem to think the '90s were a complete void - musically speaking...
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Hey, I'm never afraid to let it all hang out there, so bring it on. And no doubt the 90s weren't the 80s...that's why we're not sitting on "90s Music Void Outpost". But I'm trying to dig up some stuff here! I was trying to think of good light jangly pop that captured some 80s mood. I actually liked a lot more or the harsher sounds too. Comments aren't offensive but bland is what a lot of critics called the 80s remember??

Yep, Yep, Yep, dat was one musically vacuous decade.
That's when I sought to revisit my club music roots and plied those waters for most of it.(topic for <a href="http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9011" target="blank">another thread</a>)

My 2 Cents (some notable trax- taking a leetle genreal license here and skipping the obviously popular grunge trax)

10K Maniacs - These Are The Days
Beats Intl. - Won't Talk About It
Beck - Loser
Belly - Feed The Tree
Beth Orton - Stolen Car / Central Reservation
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality
Black 47 - Funky Ceili / Maria's Wedding
Boxcar - Freemason (You Broke The Promise)
Cake - Never There
Chemical Bros - Let Forever Be
Cheryl Crow - A Change Would Do You Good
Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot
Collective Soul - Shine
Chumbawamba - Amnesia
Concrete Blonde - Caroline
Counting Crows - Mister Jones
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm
Dido - Here With Me
Divinyls - I Touch Myself
Dimitri From Paris - Une Very Stylish Fille(How Do I Look)
DNA (feat. Suzanne Vega) - Tom's Diner
Duncan Sheik - I Am Barely Breathing
Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Edwin Collins - A Girl Like You
Elastic Band - Running Up That Hill
Enya & Loreena Mckennitt - The Mummers Dance
Filter - Take A Picture (LUV THIS TUNE) [:p]
Fiona Apple - Criminal
Folk Implosion - Natural One (Ditto Here!)[:p][:p]
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
Garbage - Stupid Girl
Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You
Goo Goo Dolls - Name
Hole - Celebrity Skin
James - Laid
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Jesus Jones - International Bright Young Thing
Live - Pain Lies On The Riverside
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend / I've Been Waiting / Divine Intervention
Michael Penn - No Myth / This & That
Peter Gabriel - Steam
Porno 4 Pyros - Pets
Primal Scream - Loaded
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Tollbooth..
Propellerheads - History Repeating
Prozzak - Sucks To Be You
Republica - Ready To Go
Seal - Crazy
Sinéad O'Connor - Jump In The River
Single Gun Theory - From a Million Miles
Sophie B.Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
Stereo MC's - Connected
Sugar Ray - Fly
Sunscream - Love U More
Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
The Beloved - Hello / Sweet Harmony
The Cardigans - Erase-Rewind
The Cranberries - Linger
The Farm - Groovy Train
The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray / Mrs. Robinson
The Proclaimers - 500 Miles
The Rembrandts - Just the Way It Is
The Shamen - Move Any Mountain / Ebineezer Good
The Soup Dragons - Divine Thing
The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums
The Sundays - Wild Horses
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go
Touch & Go - I Find You Very Attractive
Wire - Ahead

Hopefully I didn't dupe any.[:I]

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I can only offer a couple of additional ones.

Julianna Hatfield - My Sister
Lemonheads - Rudderless
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Stockholm
Catherine Wheel - Show Me Mary, Strange Fruit
Garbage - I'm Only Happy When it Rains
Cranberries - Salvation
Geggy Tah - Thank You
Nada Surf - Popular

Air - Remember
Life in Mono - Life in Mono
Deep Forest - Sweet Lullabye
Smashing Pumkins - Tonight, Tonight
Portishead - Glorybox
David Sylvian - Wanderlust
Prodigy - Fuel my Fire
Mazzy Star - Fade into you
Dead can Dance - Anywhere out of the world
Sebastian Tellier - Universe
Electric Music - T.V
Yamo - I was a Robot
Wolfshiem - Once in a Lifetime
Moby - We are all made of stars

Blir and 2nu have touched on alot of ones I would choose. I just want to add (because I don't think the more electronic acts have really been addressed):

Dubstar, Stars
Saint Etienne, Nothing Can Stop Us
Air, Kelly Watch the Stars
Groove Armada, If Everybody Looked the Same
Basement Jaxx, Fly Life
DJ Sneak, You Can't Hide From Your Bud
808 State, Cubik
Orbital, the Saint
Nitzer Ebb, Family Man
Renegade Soundwave, Probably A Robbery
Daft Punk, Around the World
Chemical Brothers, Block Rockin' Beats
Moby, Honey

I wanted to include Front 242 and Meat Beat Manifesto but did'nt because even though I discovered them in the nineties and the bulk of their work was released in the nineties, they did have eighties releases.

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Lots of stuff that has already been mentioned, plus off the top of my head:

Elastica: Connection
Bjork: Human Behaviour

[quote][i]Originally posted by manekineko[/i]
<br>Lots of stuff that has already been mentioned, plus off the top of my head:

Elastica: Connection
Bjork: Human Behaviour
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Oh, that is SO scary--cuz I was just thinking about "Connection." Really! We are the psychic twins, you and I.

I'm gonna try to stick with artists from the 90s, but I may mention an old 80s act in the bunch...

"Alive 1997" by Daft Punk
"Born Slippy" by Underworld
"Come Undone" by Duran Duran
"Death Goes To The Disco" by Pulp
"Everything Will Flow" by Suede
"Far Behind" by Candlebox
"Get Off This" by Cracker
"Halah" by Mazzy Star
"I've Been Thinking About You" by Londonbeat
"J'Ai Dormi Sous L'Eau" by Air
"Karma Police" by Radiohead
"Linger" by The Cranberries
"The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get" by Morrissey
"#1 Crush" by Garbage
"Oproffessionell" by Kent
"Pay No Mind" by Beck
"Quarantine" by Rialto
"Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum
"6 Underground" by The Sneaker Pimps
"Turn" by Travis
"Undone - The Sweater Song" by Weezer
"Vicious Streak" by NewOrder
"World Class Fad" by Paul Westerberg

"You'll See" Madonna

Two more and I'd have a double-cd set[8D]

[quote][i]Originally posted by My Aural Stimulator[/i]
<br>Oh, that is SO scary--cuz I was just thinking about "Connection." Really! We are the psychic twins, you and I.
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So we shared a womb together? I can't think of anyone I'd rather have a prenatal game of Twister with.

Many, many great songs listed above. A couple more:
Happy Mondays - Step On
Inspiral Carpets - Generations

[quote][i]Originally posted by brock[/i]
<br>Many, many great songs listed above. A couple more:
Happy Mondays - Step On
Inspiral Carpets - Generations


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Inspiral Carpets RULE!

[i]Whaaaaat have I dooooooone with my life?
Is this the end, when two wooooooorlds collide?"[8D]

dang, everybody mentioned songs that I forgot about!

well, here goes nothing:

The Sundays - Summertime (pretty, guitar pop)

Cibo Matto - Sugar Water (slow grooviness)

Garbage - #1 Crush (sexy, slinky beat)

Autechre - Eutow (Kraftwerky, but at the same time, not)

Wolfsheim - The Sparrows and the Nightingales (dark synth)

Switchblade Symphony - Wallflower (Siouxsie-esque vocals and delicate 80s gothness)

Cranes - Paris and Rome (Flood Mix) (eerie, disturbed child-like vocals amidst David Lynch-like score)