Ernest's Problematic Detective Agency was my favorite Ernest movie, though.

That's kinda the perfect Pavement anecdote.

Fair enough. From now on, that's a song about Jello shots.

"EVERY RESTAURANT IS TACO BELL!"

1993 - Pocket Full of Kryptonite. I regret nothing. (Kicks horse out from under himself so the hangman doesn't get the pleasure.)

Yeah. I mean, in the list of their musical crimes, Poison's desire to be the next Van Halen probably ranked pretty low to the average 80s hair metal fan.

Good post, and I tend to agree with your main point. I'm a fan of the Toadies first record, which came out in 1995. One of the best records of the decade, in my opinion. So why do so many discussions of that record center around the state of rock music after the death of Kurt Cobain?

13 year old me, who owned the cassette of her debut album and hornily gaped at the pictures inside, disagrees that there was ever a time Mariah Carey wasn't really hot.

ASCII boobies on a 9600 baud modem. Was the world ever so pure and innocent?

Yeah, I can buy that it had more to do with the story. One thing about 1995 and critics - they were credibility obsessed, man. I can totally buy the idea that they believed Pavement to be the Next Nirvana based on tons of stuff that had nothing to do with how the music sounded and if teenagers would relate to it and…

Hahahaha… I'd forgotten that about "All That She Wants", but you're right.

No. I'm asking you to describe it in text form. Pictures of your dick would typically have to come in via fax in 1995.

WhatEVER!

The one for Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Hot" seemed pretty cool at the time. I remember it had, like, weird marionette puppetry and stuff. That was back when video on a computer was still pretty novel. The Dark Ages.

I listened to an alt-rock station and they were all over "You Oughta Know". But I definitely remember the local pop station pushing "Ironic" a few months later and how that was the Alanis song that you could count on everyone knowing, no matter what station they listened to. So… it's sort of a point of view thing, I…

ASL? Anyone want to go private?

I heard a guy at a pizza place in Indiana shoo some gays once.

Except he pronounces it GlycerEEN. So if he wanted it to rhyme he should be singing, "It must be your SKEEN, I'm sinking EEEN…" which would be like an awesome Dick Van Dyke terrible cockney version of the song.

You know, one of the things about being a kid back then is that we didn't really see Bush as a Nirvana clone. To us, rock music was just supposed to sound like that. Just shows how much we took Nirvana and Pearl Jam for granted, I guess.

All these years later and I have no idea what the fuck he's talking about in that song. What is the relevance of glycerine to any of the rest of that stuff? Is it an additive to heroin or something?