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i miss the radio. there is plenty of good music around these days, but it is a big effort to find it, as radio doesn't help out anymore... anyways, here are some of my favourites from listening to new-alt rock-type stations in the 90's...

- Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots
- Santa Monica – Everclear
- Rock 'n' Roll Star – Oasis
- Sex & Candy – Marcy Playground
- Possum Kingdom – The Toadies
- Rocket – Smashing Pumpkins
- Evenflow – Pearl Jam
- Stereo MCs - Connected
- Feel the Pain – Dinosaur Jr.
- Brain Stew/Jaded – Green Day
- Everlong – Foo Fighters
- Semi-Charmed Life – Third Eye Blind
- Even Better Than The Real Thing – U2
- Girls And Boys - Blur
- Do You Remember the First Time? - Pulp
- Letting the Cables Sleep – Bush X
- Love Spreads – The Stone Roses
- Cannonball – Breeders
- Roll to Me – Del Amitri
- The New Pollution – Beck
- Here's Where the Story Ends – The Sundays
- You Get What You Give – New Radicals
- The Only One I Know – The Charlatans UK
- Sliver – Nirvana
- Misery - Soul Asylum
- Me and You Versus the World - Space
- High – The Cure
- The Diamond Sea – Sonic Youth
- Fireman – Jawbreaker
- My Forgotten Favorite – Velocity Girl
- Into Your Arms – The Lemonheads
- Drops of Jupiter - Train
- Regret – New Order
- Here and Now – Letters to Cleo
- Girlfriend – Matthew Sweet
- Are You Gonna Go My Way – Lenny Kravitz
- Glamorous Glue – Morrissey
- Stay - Lisa Loeb
- Piss Bottle Man – Mike Watt
- Radiation Vibe – Fountains of Wayne
- Whoever You Are – Geggy Tah
- Natural One - Folk Implosion
- Goldfinger - Ash
- In the Meantime – Spacehog
- Connection – Elastica
- Money City Maniacs - Sloan
- Everybody Loves Me But You – Juliana Hatfield
- A Girl Like You – Edwyn Collins
- Ping Pong – Stereolab
- Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik
- Under the Bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Divine Thing - Soup Dragons
- Shine – Collective Soul
- The Concept – Teenage Fanclub
- I Found Out About You – Gin Blossoms
- So What'cha Want – Beastie Boys
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*DepartmentM Aug 25, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
well done sir! A list like this brings me back to words like "grunge" and "alternative rock" that kids today use to describe things they find in their underwear. I was big into classic and underground punk from the get go, but they never played that stuff on the radio, and in a pre-iPod era where your portable cd player was only good to you as long as your fking duracell batteries didn't die before the end of ONE cd, the rock stations were safe haven. I'm right there with you that good, lasting, classic-in-the-making music is hard to come by these days, but at least we can look back on a list like this and say "at least I was around before the flood gates of shit tainted the sound".
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~jimmymcwicked Aug 27, 2010  Professional Filmographer
hey man, thanks a lot for the response - i live and agree with your words. the limitations we had those few short years ago set us with a much better foundation than the limitlessness flood gate situation existing today!
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~HEROBOY Aug 25, 2010  Professional Interface Designer
i like whats happening in this list , i wish i could live in this list forever -dg
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~jimmymcwicked Aug 26, 2010  Professional Filmographer
i was thinking of you when compiling this list in the laboratory and fearing your reaction to omitting the soundgardens.
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~HEROBOY Aug 27, 2010  Professional Interface Designer
I did notice soundgarden wasnt in the list , and i thought of murder suicide , you being the one that would be murdered , then me committing suicide , but then i thought it would be much easier to just stay home and watch diners drive inns and dive's ( or triple D if you will). so you are lucky tv was there to calm me down --dg
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~jimmymcwicked Aug 27, 2010  Professional Filmographer
it is always either the TV or the mattress to distract you. these have saved my life numerous times.

hope you are doing well in your pursuits.
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*KrisSmithDW Aug 25, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Man, so much of this is on my playlist, lol. Growing up in this era was a great time for music and I remember being glued to the radio. Now, it makes me want to burn things down. I'm so stuck in this era musically still, its like my comfort music or something, lol. Music (for me, anyways) seemed to go downhill after 1997, after that all the alt. rock went bye bye and the last few bands either broke up or stopped selling and we ended up with the Spice Girls and then it just got worse from there.
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~jimmymcwicked Aug 26, 2010  Professional Filmographer
it was certainly a heyday for all types of music to get airplay, including my beloved spice girls!
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*KrisSmithDW Aug 28, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I still remember watching MuchMusic religiously, I'd be lucky if there was one video I didn't like every hour or so. And now? I try to pretend it never existed, lol. And so do they, its not like they play videos anymore :XD:
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*EddiePerkins Aug 24, 2010  Professional General Artist
Yeah, I don't get what's up with radio anymore. It's like it's almost a dead medium now. Do kids even listen to it? I totally agree that there is a lot of good music around today but, yeah, good luck finding it on the radio. Kinda have to search for it.

For example, the 'rock' channel here is still playing a lot of songs from the '90s. Some pushing twenty years old now. I mean, I like the songs but thinking back to when I was a kid, there was no twenty year old songs being played on the 'hip' rock stations. Blondie's 'Rapture' wasn't like followed up by Buddy Holly's 'Peggy Sue.'

I wonder how things got this way. Did internet radio really pull all the kids away leaving stations feeling they have to play a large amount of old stuff to keep us geezers listening? Did corporate music just bland everything out so that 20 year old stuff is pretty much the same as now? Just odd.
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