Great Moments in '90s Mediocrity

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In 1994, I got laughed at and patronized by a bunch of indie-rock fan coworkers for daring to suggest that the rhymes on the Beastie Boys' "Pass the Mic" were wack, and for saying that there were a lot of other, much better rap records around that weren't made by the Beastie Boys.

I sense this thread is redundant already, but what the hell.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

blur

― phil turnbull (philT), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

please don't just list things, tell stories related to them.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

(originally had "--personal experiences division" as part of title--could a mod. maybe add it back?)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't "Pass the Mic" the one where "commercial" is rhymed with "commercial?"

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

yep.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

but you know this was '94 when too many people in Minneapolis were still under the impression that all non-Beastie Boys rap was in fact of the gangsta persuasion. dorks.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty Girls Make Graves---one of the last, if not one of the greatest. They're like a triceratops who lived to see hominids go biped.

― Rod Smith (Biggie Stardust), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

after listening to the mp3s of sigur ros's agaetis byrjun on the law journal's computer, i realized that it was total shit and deleted all of them. an underclassman said "what the fuck?" i said, "cause i'm the managing editor and it sucks, THAT's what the fuck."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

'90s, motherfucker!

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(that was for Rod, but it applies across the board)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Seaweed in the house!

― Rod Smith (Biggie Stardust), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Although it seemed like Cypress Hill's debut used to play all the time between bands at the Entry.

Rhyming a word with the same word is bad form.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

FWIW I hear that "...commericial/...commercial" repetition as rhyme offense committed by a billion rappers.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a little confused--do you mean it's making fun of them or that everyone does it?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's go lounge: Combustible Edison, Love Jones, Brian Setzer Orchestra---those fuckers with the moogs---all those fuckers with the moogs! Are we there yet?

― Rod Smith (Biggie Stardust), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Here are are two artists soundpeople compared my band to during the '90s:

Weird Al (feelings of high mediocrity followed)
Leon Russell (this I was flattered by)

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Girlfriend breaks up with me: I trade my half of the sofa (by which I mean we bought it together) for all of her CDs, even the ones I hated.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude from Possum Dixon almost threw up on me in the VIP room at Worst Avenue once. I was barbacking. Had he puked, I was fully prepared to drop a case of beer on his head.

― Rod Smith (Biggie Stardust), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Toadies, "Backslider," "Possum Kingdom," "Tyler" - the singer has a new band that sounds exactly like the Toadies. I heard their single on the radio and wondered if the Toadies got back together.

Blink-182, "Dammit" - the second-to-last great punk-pop hit ("Adam's Song" came later?) Unbelievably easy to sing along to, which should be an absolute requirement for every punk-pop song that gets on the radio.

Jill Sobule, "I Kissed A Girl" - mom-rock lesbianism, but it gives me weird A League of Their Own/Tank Girl flashbacks from the Lori Petty video

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I could remember all the early '90s country I listened to.

Did anyone else love the Kentucky Headhunters'? I wish I still had the CD w/ "Dumas Walker"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the KH album w/ "Dumas Walker" is from '89. Great band, though. "Electric Barnyard" is my favorite of the ones I've heard.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

This is like firing point blank into a sardine can! I recall a Soul Coughing in-store at Let It Be that drew somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 people--nearly as many as the line-around-the-block crowd that showed up for Ben Folds Five the first time they played the Entry. It's like 800 below and these cretins are risking frostbite, hypothermia, and the likelihood that they won't even be able to buy a drink because they're part of a 517-person crowd cramming into a venue with a legal capacity of 215--all to hear "Underground."

― Rod Smith (Biggie Stardust), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's go lounge

Wah! But I just did a Rough Guide to Late 90's Lounge Pop! Although honestly, I have little love for the neo-swing of Brian Setzer/Squirrel Nut Zippers/Cherry Poppin' Daddies. Combustible Edison I like because they're more indebted to Esquivel-style exotica.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 January 2004 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Combustible Edison did a very credible "Surabaya Johnny." And they don't sound nearly as dated as, say, Prong, or Godhead Silo now. I think they just got an ankle tangled in the tide of fabulousness, paniced, and ended up being swept away in the tide of ironic preciousness that brought us Moog Cookbook.

― Rod Smith (Biggie Stardust), Friday, 16 January 2004 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd forgotten all about Squirrel Zit Nuppers. Brian Setzer was at least a pro, with seasoned fellow-professionals buttressing him on all sides. SNZ simply didn't have the chops to pull off what they were trying to do. It wasn't punk rock, it was just inept.

― Rod Smith (Biggie Stardust), Friday, 16 January 2004 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Jill Sobule, "I Kissed A Girl" - mom-rock lesbianism, but it gives me weird A League of Their Own/Tank Girl flashbacks from the Lori Petty video

-- (suspectdevic...), January 16th, 2004 6:37 PM. (miloauckerman)

Strangely enough this is just about the only song I can remember all the lyrics too, no idea why. Possibly because they're so rhymey-whimey.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 16 January 2004 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Time for some UK mediocrity- I can't believe I got into arguments with young whippersnappers after declaring that I regarded both entries in the Blur vs Oasis singles "race" to be a bit wonky!!!!! (Similarly, I also got into arguments for declaring Tru-Steppers featuring Victoria Beckham to be far superior to some tepid filter-disco by numbers featuring a "posh bird" from a failed indie band, but I don't think that's 90s, strictly speaking, is it?)

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Well.

There was that whole SXEHARDCORE thing. I knew lots of kids who were real into that scene (from In My Eyes to Youth of Today to Converge, etc.) I went to a fair amount of shows of that nature as well; not much else to do when you're in middle school. I remember seeing Converge with American Nightmare and Converge's set was really short because people made a pigpile on the singer and made him puke and break things. Pussy.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha. I'm going to see Converge in a week. There's like a big stage and junk so I doubt that'll happen.

British mediocrity... um, going to see non-local band, non-festival live music for the first time (Groop Dogdrill and Cable - the British ones) and being a bit scared to talk to one of Groop Dogdrill cos he might think I was "unpunk", wearing a RATM shirt. That's quite lame in all respects. But I was 15.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos, Just so you know, that "commercial/commercial" line was supposed to be "commercial/rehearsal", but they fucked it up. That doesn't make that song any better, though. (when the best songs on a Beastie Boys record are hardcore punk, well yeah.)

I really used to think Stabbing Westward was the shit, thanks to Clerks. Then a REV 105 DJ told a story about a rat fancier who liked to put the rats' heads in her mouth and give them "lickies"; this was immediately followed up by the DJ referring to the Stabbing Westward album as Wither, Blister, Burn and Lickies before playing "What Do I Have to Do" and I found it impossible to take them seriously after that. I couldn't take Filter seriously after that, either; I was saved from a fascination with atrocious industrial proto-nu-metal and could otherwise be listening to Orgy today.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 16 January 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

That's interesting about "commercial/rehearsal," though I'm not quite sure why they didn't just punch in and fix it.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 16 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Squirrel Nut Zippers were at least creepy and had bad-ass songs though, wtf?

As for 'great moments' of 90s mediocrity: at a HORDE Festival* one year, I was treated to a Blues Traveler set** wherein Darius fucking Rucker from Hootie and the Blowfish came out to sing on a cover of John Lennon's "Imagine" with them***. Wow.

*90s mediocrity aplenty that year - Joan Osbourne, Black Crowes, etc.

**Blues Traveler - 90s mediocrity taken to it's PINNACLE

***NOT ENOUGH REEFER IN THE WORLD TO MAKE THIS SOUND COOL

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

1993 - Spin Doctors, Soul Asylum and Screaming Trees live in concert at Great Woods. Loved it at the time, plus I saw my buddies hot girlfriends bush peeking out of her underpants. There was no trimming in 93.

― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Time for some mid-90's Brit support band hell :

The Hair And Skin Trading Company
67
Bivouac
Elevate
Rosa Mota
Rollerskate Skinny
Done Lying Down
Tribute To Nothing
AC Acoustics

I'm sure they were all nice guys and all, but any of these lot were guaranteed to drive me into a catatonic stupor on a regular basis back then. They only positive thing I could say about any of them is that they always made the headline act sound better and, crucially, more adventurous.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Being told by a friend he had found an excellent band. I actually thought he might have good taste. "Northern Uproar" was the answer.

It was some time after that he tried the same with "Cast".

― ___ (___), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually wouldn't put Screaming Trees in the mediocre category, but that's just me.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Gay Dad. One of those bands with nothing wrong with them, except being mind-numbingly medicore. Britpop's last gasp maybe?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone remember Mishka? Alan McGee goes over to Jamaica in search of new talent and comes back with a white Bob Marley-alike hippy. His was the worst gig I've ever seen at Glastonbury.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesse James - Shake It Like A White Girl

― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 16 January 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, come on, "To Earth With Love" is ace. Now, Catwalk....

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

What was that one song that went "she don't eat meat but she sure like the bone"? I could never understand how something so first-song-written-by-a-fourteen-year-old-sounding became so popular.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

oh come on patrin stabbing westward were fucking great!!!

― iiii cant even saaaaave my-sellllllffff!!!!!!!, Friday, 16 January 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything but Space Ghost. Just got the first vol. DVD.

SG: Greetings, citizen! Do you have enough oxygen?
Guest: I'm fine. How are you?
SG: ENERGIZED!

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

What was that one song that went "she don't eat meat but she sure like the bone"?

Ben Folds Five - Kate

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

No it doesn't.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha Andrew not quite

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember watching the video to Material Issue's "Valerie Loves Me" and thinking, "Wow, this is insanely catchy and great! These guys are gonna be around forever." Five seconds later, I went, "Oh, wait a second, this is shit. No one's going to remember them in a month."

MORAL: First impressions can be wrong; don't discount the followup!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

DeadEyeDick

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

New Age Girl
SUNG BY - Deadeye Dick -

Yow Ruff I've got a new age girl
Tell us what she's like
Environmentalism girl
Does she ride a bike
She has a crystal necklace
She spend a lot of cash
Though her vibes are rather reckless
She's heading for a crash
Oh, her flowing skirt is blowing
In a transcendental wind
And she wonders without knowing
Where did we begin

Mary Moon... She's a vegetarian
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon
Mary Moon will outlive all the septugenarians
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon
Oh, she loves me so She hates to be alone
She don't eat meat But she sure like the bone Ruff

You know she drives a wind car
How does she like it
It doesn't get her far
Why she doesn't bike it
But it gets her to where she's going to
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
Where that is, I wish I knew
I don't know where she's going
And I don't know where she's been
All I know that lovin her has got to be a sin

Mary Moon... Will you hesitate
Don't segregate your thoughts from your emotions
Mary Moon... I know devotion isn't way up high
High... Ruff Mary Moon... She's a vegetarian
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon
Mary Moon will outlive all the septugenarians
Ohhh... Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon
Mary Moon... She's an intellectual
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon Mary Moon...
Moon... Despite that fact still remains quite sexual
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon Mary Moon...
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon Ohhh Mary Moon...
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon Mary Moon...
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon
She's the one for me, me, ohhh...
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon Ruff

― tweemu (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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Ann Powers (I believe it was her) gave Pop a 9 out of 10 in SPIN. I'm curious if she would today.

She's a whore...as is her man, Eric Weisbard. A pox on both their houses.

I actually saw the Zoo Tv tour four times. May god forgive me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Watching kids do that "skank" dance is, to me, the ultimate mediocrity of the 90's. It was so "blah" and it looked like jogging in place. And such an easy dance to do, yet I found myself unable to belong. Now I relish my unwillingness to skank. Plus, I got kicked in the head on my birthday by a ska-mosher at a Less Than Jake show. The kind of pain that keeps on giving.

The fact that people revelled in it to such a degree makes this practice the ultimate in 90's mediocrity.

― p.j. (Henry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Sister. Machine. Gun.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Lollapalooza '96. The big stink about it was that Metallica were headlining, **even** **though** they were METAL, NOT ALTERNATIVE!!!! And that was ACTUALLY CONTROVERSIAL!!!! Oh, and Rancid were there too. Sucked.

― Lewis J. Bateman (Lewis Bateman), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Totally unrelated mediocrity: Da Brat.

― Lewis J. Bateman (Lewis Bateman), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

There's got to be more '90s mediocrity around here somewhere. (Also, that Pop review was by Barry Walters.)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

The Smoking Popes. I bought their album because the lead single was catchy and the band was SO CUTE OMG even though I was old enough to know better.

"Rubella." In the song, the girl's name was "Rubella." "I'm in love with a girl she's infected my whole world." Oh man.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

And then, AND THEN...the cute lead guy went Christer.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I heard "It's a Shame About Ray" the other night. I got all weepy-nostalgic, and I couldn't think of a modern equivalent.

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Lenny Kravitz
Hank Rollins
Jewel
Cranberries
Cardigans
"Don't Sit On My Sunshine" or whatever it was called

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Ninja Tune

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

otm.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Last summer I attended a concert (one of those free, all-day 'celebrate our city' events put on by inconsequential cities) that included the reunited Spin Doctors, and, in a fit of stirring mediocrity, the singer messed up the lyrics to "Two Princes." How is that possible?

Also: "Molly" by Sponge is a good example.

― erklie (erklie), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

A dishwasher at a restaurant I was cooking at in the 90s used to snort coke in the bathroom during his shift and listen to Spacehog on this little tiny boombox. He seemed to be really into this band.

― p.j. (Henry), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Belly on the cover of Rolling Stone

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

i remember back at the '97 HFStival (my first non-parent-chaperoned concert and thus a really exciting one), i was out getting some pizza by the sidestage area w/my friends. what band should be playing said sidestage but third eye blind, who were starting to get big off of "semi-charmed life" (BTW, is there a better mediocre song title? I don't think so). at the conclusion of that song, stephen jenkins, apropos of nothing, yells out to the crowd "HEY MAN, FUCK THE GOVERNMENT!!!!" now i was pretty young and naive (i mean, i bought a fuckin dragon art magazine or something from a zendik earlier in the day), but that still seemed pretty dumb to me.

and re: spacehog, a dj at the radio station i used to work with definitely had a tatoo of their little logo guy on her inner thigh and had slept w/the singer.

― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Garth Brooks IS Chris Gaines

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

I might add that this dishwasher guy would mosh to *anything* He'd tell me about all these shows he went to, doing that stompy-stompy dance in a circle at every one. I think he liked Primus a lot too.

― p.j. (Henry), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

ooh now that Spacehog's been mentioned I remember a tour that took place circa 1996: Everclear - Spacehog - Tracy Bonham - 7 Year Bitch.

I was there, man!

― erklie (erklie), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Seeing Material Issue at an amusement park in NE Ohio and getting the singer's autograph on a piece of french fry wrapper.

AND

Going on a date with a guy whose license plate read "SKA GUY."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Fury in the Slaughterhouse.

― Ryan Pitchfork (Ryan Pitchfork), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Gruntruck.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Sorry. Let me elaborate: seeing Gruntruck open for Alice in Chains in Cleveland with my ridiculously stupid and mean-spirited boyfriend.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

That was a moment of painful, searing mediocrity.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Early 1996 my late flight to Boston gets cancelled so I rent a car and drive all night to make my 8am interview. Before heading back I stop into the woefully understocked mall record store attached to the hotel I was staying in and pick up some tapes for the ride back. I make the genius choices of Loud Lucy Breathe, Blur The Great Escape and The Mortal Kombat OST. Most mediocre Boston -> NYC drive ever.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, the Stone Roses have a new album coming out! Finally!!! Yeah, "Love Spreads" wasn't that great, but I'm sure the rest of the album is going to be great! And then we'll never hear from Liam and company ever again!!!!!!!!!

― Viz (Viz), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Tag Team lapping every last stray drop of honey from "Whoomp! There It Is" on everything they subsequently recorded.

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Also, knowing a guy who refused to buy anything but East Coast and English punk records because everything else sucked.

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

goldfinger was inexplicably popular in my school for a few months.

― Sym Sym (sym), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

When I was attending Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, this label, Grass Records, decided to go on a "signing frenzy". They snapped up these bands Twitch, Rollinghead, and Doxie. I was into Doxie at the time, good kids. But man, looking back -- all those "Kalamzoo is the next Seattle" articles that appeared in the local newspaper sure were rough.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

I can remember going to an EdgeFest at Ontario Place in Toronto during the mid-1990s because my girlfriend at the time was a huge fan of Toad the Wet Sprocket and the Proclaimers. It was perhaps the blandest "festival" I have ever attended.
The headliner was the Lemonheads, and a drug-addled Evan Dando was in the midst of his alternahunk phase. When a large crowd of teen girls jumped the barrier during his encore, a paranoid Dando began swinging his guitar, prompting security to tackle him before he could concuss some 14-year-old.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

life's ruff for an alternahunk

― erklie (erklie), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 01:28 (twenty years ago)

The Adventures of Pete & Pete. I liked the show, probably still like if I saw it again, but all I remember music-wise is a lot of reverb-drenched cutes.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Betty Boo drops the microphone during a live performance, and naturally the vocal track continues, putting an end to Boomania. Miss Boo is not heard from until years later when she decides to seek revenge by cowriting Hearsay's "Pure and Simple."

― Chantilly Bass (ChantillyBass), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:08 (twenty years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6240/14/320/wigwam.jpg

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)

Although it pains me to say it, one of the most mediocre shows I saw in the 90's was Heatmiser (Elliot Smith's old band) and The Mekons at La Luna in Portland Oregon circa '92. Off night for the Mekons and it was years before I gave Smith a chance again based on the soul-sucking void of boredom that his band projected.

I also saw The Fall do a mediocre show at the same venue, only time I've seen them :(

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Summer 1994: Stone Temple Pilots's "Purple" has just come out. I learn the chords to "Big Empty" and play and sing it acoustic for the talent show at my CTY summer program (note: this is before the unplugged version had come out. I was a visionary). Later that afternoon, the hot asian girl that I have a crush on comes over to me and tells me, in a flirtacious voice, something along the lines of "All the girls on my floor think you have a really sexy voice." Simultaneously overwhelmed and embarassed, I blurt out something really retarded sounding like "That's awesome!" She gets a grossed-out look on her face and walks away.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:39 (twenty years ago)

1993: Pianist Michael Horn, Drummer Robbie Mitzner, and I (on guitar) form The Nice Jewish Boys (NJB) with the intent of making money playing Bar Mitzvahs. We are 14 and not very good. Bar Mitzvahs played: 1

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:48 (twenty years ago)

1991: I join The Common Hellbenders as a drummer. I haven't been playing very long. We cover Good Enough by Mudhoney and some other songs. I don't know who Mudhoney is. We play a benefit show at a church for a paraplegic kid. We are gently encouraged to get off the stage after our Mudhoney cover.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

― Chantilly Bass (ChantillyBass), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 07:03 (twenty years ago)

ani difranco & green day! The mediocrity that just keeps on giving.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 07:49 (twenty years ago)

Xpost

OTMFM!!!!!!! Lock thread.

― Elliot (Elliot), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 07:52 (twenty years ago)

Rise Robots Rise wins this thread

― [email protected], Wednesday, 8 March 2006 07:54 (twenty years ago)

The dude in Morphine (who is now dead) whenever he would try to pick-up my then girlfriend when she was waiting tables at the Middle East in '95 and '96. The dude wasn't even the cat's meow anymore, and he just kept making comment after comment. RIP bud, but you were still a prick.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Chantilly Bass OTM (and I'm from Winnipeg). Dullest band ever.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Listening to the painfully mediocre evolution of Seattle's 107.7, "The End" defines pretty much all of my mediocre 90s musical experiences.

I would also add the success of this:
http://i23.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/1c/5f/b1_1_b.JPG to this less-than-illustrious list.

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

In the early to mid 90s, the power of house music / PLUR had me and all my friends looking with disdain on people that contnuted to drink alcohol at any social event. Actually, alcohol, leather shoes, guitars, fast food...it all looked pretty bad to all of us enthralled by the promise of synthetics, water and fruit...

Is that mediocre? Not sure.

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

That Motorcycle Emptiness guy carving his arm was decidedly mediocre. As was the NWONW (although I still stand by S.M.A.S.H.'s "Lady love your cunt").

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

"Semi-Charmed Life" should not be here.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:50 (twenty years ago)

Buying the Meat Puppets album "No Joke" on the day it came out.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 9 March 2006 03:24 (twenty years ago)

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