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Alice In Chains - “No Excuses” From their...

Mon, 03 May 2010 19:22:50 -0400

Alice In Chains - “No Excuses”

From their 1996 MTV Unplugged performance.

Monster Magnet - “Negasonic Teenage Warhead” From...

Mon, 03 May 2010 07:22:56 -0400

Monster Magnet - “Negasonic Teenage Warhead”

From their 1995 album, Dopes To Infinity.

I CAN TELL JUST BY THE CLIMATE
AND I CAN TELL JUST BY THE STYLE
I WAS BORN AND RAISED ON VENUS, AND I MAY BE HERE AWHILE

The Butthole Surfers - “Pepper” From their 1996...

Sun, 02 May 2010 18:52:48 -0400

The Butthole Surfers - “Pepper”

From their 1996 album, Electriclarryland.

Cracker - “Teen Angst” From their 1992 self-titled...

Sun, 02 May 2010 06:59:47 -0400

Cracker - “Teen Angst”

From their 1992 self-titled album.

What the world needs now is a new kind of tension, ‘cause the old one just bores me to death.

Deconstruction - “Get At ‘Em” From their 1994...

Sat, 01 May 2010 11:22:47 -0400

Deconstruction - “Get At ‘Em”

From their 1994 self-titled album.

I’m caffeinated and incorporated
cog in the wheel of the machinery
naked aggressive
nightly newsish
and stress-related

Any Jane’s Addiction fans around? If so, you may have heard of Deconstruction. Or not! Following the first breakup of Jane’s, bassist Eric Avery and guitarist Dave Navarro hosted the short-lived Deconstruction project. Gaining almost no recognition while former bandmate Perry Farrell dominated radio airwaves with Porno For Pyros, their sole album, a self-titled effort in 1994, was a schizophrenic mashup of life in L.A. As Eric Avery put it:

“I did indeed have the abruptnesses intentionally in mind. It interested me to try making a record that mimicked the audio/visual randomness of daily life in any major metropolis. Like TV. I was thinking about how incredible the human faculty for making sense is. That we are able to make order out of the barrage of images and sounds that assault us all the time is amazing. I’m surprised we aren’t more fucking neurotic than we already are.

The record title refers to the post-modern architects and thinkers who played around with things being defined by what they are standing next to rather than by themselves. I wanted to try to pair up seemingly unrelated musical parts and see what kind of music would be produced.”

You can read a full review on VGRC:
http://www.vgrc.net/2009/12/90s-music-spotlight-deconstruction.html

The Infinity Project - “Mystical Experiences” Not so...

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:22:48 -0400

The Infinity Project - “Mystical Experiences”

Not so much “rock” as it is 90’s, we’re delving into the far psychedelic today. So what if it’s not exactly rock? I think we can do this once every other week or so. It’s called tastebuilding. :P

A few weeks back a friend of mine introduced me to The Infinity Project; an obscure and almost unknown psychedelic trance band that was briefly active during the early 90’s. While largely forgotten, some electronic music fans may recognize one of the contributing members, Raja Ram aka Ronald Rothfield, who has gone on to have a mildly successful career as the owner of the TIP World record label, as well as continuing to put out his own solo efforts and collaborations with other artists.

Source: http://www.vgrc.net/2009/06/90s-music-spotlight-the-infini.html

Ben Harper - “Excuse Me Mr.” From his 1995 album,...

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:22:47 -0400

Ben Harper - “Excuse Me Mr.”

From his 1995 album, Fight For Your Mind.

I’ve seen enough to know that I’ve seen too much…

Limp Bizkit - “Faith” From their 1997 album, Three...

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:58:48 -0400

Limp Bizkit - “Faith”

From their 1997 album, Three Dollar Bill, Yall$.

Filter - “Hey Man Nice Shot (Big Mac)” Got a rarity...

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:00:00 -0400

Filter - “Hey Man Nice Shot (Big Mac)”

Got a rarity today, folks. Most of you have heard “Hey Man Nice Shot” from the band’s 1995 album Short Bus. However, have you heard the “Big Mac” version? It’s an extended 8 and a half minute cut that was one of the b-sides on a 12-inch vinyl used to promote the single.

Collective Soul - “Heavy” From their 1999 album,...

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:41:51 -0400

Collective Soul - “Heavy”

From their 1999 album, Dosage.

Screaming Trees - “Bed Of Roses” From their 1991...

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:25:48 -0400

Screaming Trees - “Bed Of Roses”

From their 1991 album, Uncle Anesthesia.

Blues Traveler - “Hook” From their 1994 album,...

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:03:50 -0400

Blues Traveler - “Hook”

From their 1994 album, Four.

This song’s success was a perfect definition of how ironic the 90’s really was.

Live - “Pain Lies On The Riverside” From their 1991...

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:05:48 -0400

Live - “Pain Lies On The Riverside”

From their 1991 album, Mental Jewelry.

Though they didn’t catch much mainstream attention until their 1994 breakthrough Throwing Copper, their debut album had some pretty energetic jams. Check out the bass groove on “Pain Lies On The Riverside.”

Todd Rundgren - “Worldwide Epiphany” Remember when...

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:01:48 -0400

Todd Rundgren - “Worldwide Epiphany”

Remember when Todd Rundgren underwent a drastic image overhaul in the early 90’s, rebranding himself as “TR-i,” dabbling in hip-hop and pioneering the whole “interactive CD” fad that went along with the Philips CD-i and CD-enabled Mac OS systems? Not many people do, but if you ignore the whole “interactive” bandwagon jumping, No World Order (and its companion single-oriented release, No World Order Lite) was actually a pretty solid album.

Phish - “Chalkdust Torture” Performed live on The...

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:59:47 -0400

Phish - “Chalkdust Torture”

Performed live on The Late Show With David Letterman on Dec. 30, 1994, this was first released on their 1992 album, A Picture of Nectar.

Radiohead - “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” From their...

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:30:00 -0400

Radiohead - “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”

From their 1995 album, The Bends.

And what does Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke have to say about this one?

Street Spirit is our purest song, but I didn’t write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers; its biological catalysts. Its core is a complete mystery to me, and, you know, I wouldn’t ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve. Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with that song. It’s called detachment. Especially me; I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn’t play it. I’d crack. I’d break down on stage. That’s why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That’s what’s meant by ‘all these things you’ll one day swallow whole’. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn’t have it in me to articulate the emotion. I’d crack…

Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don’t realise what they’re listening to. They don’t realise that Street Spirit is about staring the fucking devil right in the eyes, and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he’ll get the last laugh. And it’s real, and true. The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that too long, I’d crack.

I can’t believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that song. That’s why I’m convinced that they don’t know what it’s about. It’s why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell every time I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of its meaning, like when you’re going to have your dog put down and it’s wagging its tail on the way there. That’s what they all look like, and it breaks my heart. I wish that song hadn’t picked us as its catalysts, and so I don’t claim it. It asks too much. I didn’t write that song.

Semisonic - “Singing in my Sleep” From their 1998...

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:24:16 -0400

Semisonic - “Singing in my Sleep”

From their 1998 album, Feeling Strangely Fine.

Submitted by katiedoeslife.

Metallica - “Prince Charming” From their 1997 album,...

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:00:48 -0400

Metallica - “Prince Charming”

From their 1997 album, ReLoad.

The Offspring - “Way Down The Line” From their 1997...

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:30:50 -0400

The Offspring - “Way Down The Line”

From their 1997 album, Ixnay on the Hombre, this track was also featured in the Sega Dreamcast game Crazy Taxi.

The Stone Roses - “Love Spreads” From their 1994...

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:30:57 -0400

The Stone Roses - “Love Spreads”

From their 1994 album, Second Coming.