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@Chartex Gotta love a radio station that can fit Dead Milkmen, Ministry and Mission of Burma in the same set.

My money is on Beiber eating shrooms to "She Don't Use Jelly" and "Push the Little Daisies".

A song about irony that does not give one example of irony is, conceptually, the very definition of irony.

Most fans of the first wave of Alternative music - covered in earlier installments realized there was a shit ton of mind blowing music made by lesser known bands just below the surface of MTV and the big rock radio stations. For me, it was Nirvana talking about the Melvins and doing the split 7" with the Jesus Lizard…

Echoing the Monster praise and New Adventures was decent. I saw them on the Around the Sun tour and thought despite some lackluster albums the band still owns the stage.

@Tek I think you're about right. DMB was in the mix at this point…with the Neo Hippie Jam Bands. Horde was trying to be the next Lollapalooza….also seem to remember the first Woodstock reenactment around this time too.

@thewarfreak Swallowed Really? Such a grinding dirge that begs you to listen to awful lyrics:

@Chartex I'm just over the border in NH and being in range of FNX and the college stations and having Newbury Comics in the 90s was a godsend especially once the clone bands like Bush and STP showed up. Good call on the album parallels.

For decent 90s pop, I'd throw in the Gin Blossoms and the Jayhawks. Revisited both bands in the last few years, I wouldn't put them on a best of the 90s list but still a good occasional listen.

I was about ready to be a Live defender because I thought Mental Jewelry was a decent album until Hyden reminded me of songs like Beauty of Grey. I will still stand by Pain Lies on the Riverside. Lyrics are a little overblown but still a solid song.

MD regarded Kind of Blue as a disappointment claiming he never really captured what he wanted but In a Silent Way was the closest he came to accomplishing what he wanted on a record.

Sir Osis, you really know how to fuck up a wet dream don't you? I mean this was a fucking layup and you just dropped the ball. Going forward I'm going to let Geddy to go ahead quarterback these pitches. He knows the difference between a sprint and a fucking marathon - we're in the elevator stage and you're working on…

See you in the endzone!

Wolfy! Chalmers! I believe we just hit this one right out of the park. I'm going to go ahead and greenlight an exploratory committee just to put some feelers out into the marketplace. You know, to see if this idea really has legs. Dumbledore you're really going to step up your game and hit the ground running. I mean…

I like ONN when its called The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

@a Nick There were tons of Gen X "alternative" bands on the major company's rosters. Each record co was taking a bet on who would be the next big thing. If it wasn't Nirvana it would be another band that would unseat the Poisons and the Motley Crues of the world.

Grohl strikes me as a guy who always wanted to be a pro musician and saw Nirvana as a means towards that end. I'm not knocking the guy for wanting to hit the big time but I doubt he would have left DC to record Bleach.

The single before No Rain - Tones of Home was great.

Nirvana didn't force anything. The industry was already paying attention to Gen X, knowing the only band that would outlive the LA Glam Rock Scene was GNR - they needed replacements fast.