Hey Danny, I put on Beautiful Freak the other day and thought of you. Apart The Eels, Cake, and Local H, what else were you listening to back then?

How do you feel about Spacehog? Geggy Tah?

This thread should probably be it's own forum, with Odelay as a sub-forum.

there's a lot of ground to cover here, mostly in the 90's i listened to the radio and had a few cd's. i really got to know bands when napster came out and i was tracking down albums of all these bands i heard on the radio. so i'll share some of the goodness discovered looking back to what i loved in the mid 90's.

first i'd say check out cracker. david lowery's one of my favorite singers/lyricists. his songwriting by now seems to have matured and got boring in recent albums, but there's a few really great records.

you might know them for low



they have some really great music dancing between alternative and country sounds.

this is one of my favorites.


david lowery's lyrics are really full of a lot of substance and worth paying attention to. great combination of wit and wistfulness

nostalgia, good simple tune complete with more cosmonaut imagery, the lyrics really get to me,especially when the chorus kicks in.


this is pretty plainly arranged, but the song is fantastic.


a lot of the songs i wanted to show aren't on youtube unfortunately. but they have a pretty rich discography worth mining. if you like what you hear, let me know i'll hook you up.


i'll be back with more later.

(spacehog and geggy tah, i never got beyond the singles. though i have the albums, they never stuck.)

not a fan of either of these bands other songs, but both these songs came out around the same time i love these:




really as good now as they were in 97.

I just discovered this, which was sampled in your woman:

Local H are still awesome

Female of the Species was always fun when it came on. Were you into the Toadies, Danny?

I believe he was, Reid, I believe he was. I bet he still spins Rubberneck and Hell Below, Stars Above, now and then.

man, that white town song is still one of my faves from the 90s...

this is true.

There was a whole Chicago scene of bands that were there with Local H which is worth digging through some of their stuff. The standout had to be Triple Fast Action:





I think brian st clair who is now in local h was a member of Triple Fast action.

I'm also a big fan of The Lupins, which was a chicago band, and I believe one of the members ran a chicago q101 radioshow called Lance and Stoley. The Rat's got heaven was their single as i recall. Take was their breakout on the dumb and dumber soundtrack. They didn't do much after that, but I dig their stuff.

veruca salt also rolled in those circles... I really dig this song.

Hum- Stars
Silverchair- Tomorrow
The Flys- Go You Where I Want You

I was just gonna say you guys should talk about Hum because that album "You'd prefer an astronot" was really cool

Ah, Veruca Salt. That Seether song made me feel weird, but I liked it.

How about Poe?



K's Choice?



Elastica?

i was listening to that k's choice song the other day. i haven't taken to their other songs really.

the Sheila Divine?

downward is heavenward is just as good

i thought everyone was aware of this.

i really wish i would have flown to Chicago to see them last year.

matthew sweet had some awesome songs that remind me of the mid 90's
sick of myself
girlfriend
looking at the sun
evangeline

I really dig Letters to Cleo. They came out around the same time. Had one single in the mid 90's called "Here and Now". They put out 3 quality cd's.

And Rocket From the Crypt. They got semi-popular with "On A Rope". I'm not a huge fan of horns in rock, but I love this band.