post-grunge bands that used to seem totally rocking that don't hold up upon returning to them years later

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I used to think Sunny Day Real Estate was the shit, but I just gave it a listen after many years and it sux, as does much of my other fodder from that period of my litening life: Arcwelder, The Fluid, Treepeople, Silkworm, godheadsilo, etc.

― yr mom (yr mom), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

litening is right

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

hammerbox

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Silkworm's cover of The Comsat Angels' "Our Secret" is surprisingly good. I should go request that on the new YSI thread.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

jawbox

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

A fruedian typo?

― yr mom (yr mom), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

hammerbox otm.

BTW - Is Gear! from tha PDX?

― yr mom (yr mom), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

jawbreaker

― darin (darin), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

jawbox OTM.
jawbreaker NEVER Seemed totally rocking.

Hammerhead.
Crackerbash.
Modest Mouse.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Girls Against Boys

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oi.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

you used to like oi??

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

All of these bands continue to rock me... Treepeople rules! Jawbox is fucking killer ("Chinese Fork Tie" just came on my iTunes a little while ago. That drumbeat!)! Godheadsilo's cover of "In the Air Tonight"! So Evil!

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I JUST LISTENED TO THE TREEPEOPLE YESTERDAY, STILL RULES.

gODHEADSILO WILL ALWAYS HOLD UP.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Fluid" - Can they really be considered post-grunge? Their recorded output spans '86- '92. Anyway, I think Glue holds up ("Black Glove" has always been a personal favorite).

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

HammerheadHammerboxJawboxJawbreakerCrackerbashStickerbush... who can keep 'em all straight? I still have to profess some love for a couple of Hammerbox tunes, loved the guitar and Carrie's voice. I'll listen again tonight and see if they hold up.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

...Candlebox...haha!

― Jockey, Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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ugh. On a Strict El Cholo Diet otm. sdre and arcwelder i can accept... definite highs and lows there, but treepeople? eh? jawbox had some really strong moments that have never returned in any of the after bands. same with jawbreaker. "BIVOUAC!" i'm sorry, but girls against boys was fuckin good. hammerhead? no vaz, this is true, but still... pretty good. modest mouse is more a pop band to me. not that i'm suggesting pop can't rock, but not like the balls to the wall nature of some mentioned upthread. (candlebox aside.)
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― msp (mspa), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fluid were legit Grunge, not faux-grunge or post-grunge.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Jawbox continues to amaze me every time I listen to them. It should be noted that I listen to them a lot. "For Your Own Special Sweetheart is one of the finest swansongs ever, IMHO.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

JAWBOX ARE/WERE TERRIBLE. THE ONLY GOOD THING THEY EVER DID WAS COVER A JOY DIVISION SONG.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

OK - the Fluid was not well thought out.

― yr mom (yr mom), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ddb... ff=66.
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― msp (mspa), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Girls Against Boys were always a steaming pile of bland wrongness, though.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

That Girls Against Boys album (on Adult Swim) was great. Then they started reading their press.

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Jawbox hate puzzles me as well.

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

meanwhile Six Finger Sattelite and Green Magnet School sound even MORE relevant than ever!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"JAWBOX ARE/WERE TERRIBLE. THE ONLY GOOD THING THEY EVER DID WAS COVER A JOY DIVISION SONG.
-- ddb (stupidpum...), June 2nd, 2005."

Not OTM.

"For Your Own Special Sweetheart" is an awesome album, but it wasn't their swansong - they also had the self/titled album after that, which had some amazing songs on it too, like "Nickel Nickel Millionaire" and "Mirrorful."

And their early shit is amazing, too - "Paint Out the Lights" on Grippe, and "Static" from Novelty. So many good songs. "68," the b-side to the "Savory" single, is A++++

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh hell, I'm smoking crack again...yer right, I forgot about the S/T Jawbox album.

I still like the GVSB "80's/90's" thing a lot (not the right title, can't remeber it at the moment), Venus Luxure was good.

How about some love for Circus Lupus/Lungfish/Shudder to Think/etc.?

I guess I've never liked the "post-grunge" label, because it seems to be more of a temporal placeholder than any coherent "school" of music. Plus, I like most of these bands, and I rapidly grew to ABHOR grunge, with few exceptions.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I will show Circus Lupus some love once they come up with a band name that doesn't sound like something I would have invented during one of my more pitiful moments in middle school.

(To my knowledge, I've never heard them, so they might be awesome and right up my alley but that name would be a huge barrier to entry for me if I was cold-shopping.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Shudder to Think are my fave band ever... I'm like Alex NYC/Killing Joke over them. But they don't fit into this, really...

Circus Lupus had some awesome songs... "Unrequited" ruled.

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Girls Against Boys were always a steaming pile of bland wrongness, though.

:-(

I will say that I've sold back nearly everything I once had on Dischord that wasn't Fugazi/Minor Threat/Rites of Spring related, aside from the early comps. Exceptions -- Faith/Void and some Lungfish.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i blame crappy early 90s mastering techniques. i can hardly believe how wussy my copy of Tad's "Salt Lick" sounds (not that Tad is in any way post-grunge but i couldn't think of a better example for my point)

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I always want GvsB to be better than they are -- and they should be -- but their records largely fall completely flat for me (though I do like "In Like Flynn" on Venus Deluxe Whatever).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember buying a GvsB album in '98, listening to it once, and getting very, very annoyed. I couldn't even tell you what it sounded like.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that would have been the one that came out on Geffen, Dan -- and I agree with you in that it was anonymous suck. The earlier stuff, a different story, but not necessarily your thing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I will now send Dan mp3s of "Jamie", "Move", "Angels", and "Skind". If they fail to convince, then I will accept defeat...but I think that at least they will illustrate my lurv.

It should be noted that these are NOT representative of the overall body of work. Nonetheless, they are something to be reckoned with...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 3 June 2005 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Number One Cup
Sloan
Lync
Sebadoh

― teekay, Friday, 3 June 2005 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Back in '94 I was quite enamoured of Cracker's "Low". And so I gave the matter one half-pitcher's worth of thought, then grandiosely proclaimed that it would someday be remembered as "one of the three great rock singles of the '90s, along with 'Epic' and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'!" Uh, yeah, whatever. (Must've been the Labatt Blue talking!)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 3 June 2005 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

You're all wrong. (the hataz that is.)

The only answer to this thread is Bestkissersintheworld

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 3 June 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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