Top 10 Artists and Bands of the 1990s

Ladies and gentlemen, before we get too far into

Geekcast Radio's music spotlight, the countdown

of our top 10 favorite artists or bands from

the 1990s, I am TF2 and Mike. Steve Megatron

is joining me. Hello, sir. Hello. And we have

some business to attend to. We have to respond

to a couple of iTunes reviews for Geekcast Radio

podcast. This first one, recorded a YouTube rant

video about it I have that video unlisted so

unless people have the link they won't be able

to find it because I'm probably gonna end up

deleting it because my initial reaction to this

this iTunes review was very very in the negative

and very in the pissed -off kind of way mm -hmm

so here's the first one jack of all trades master

of none one star review by DJ Cruxus, Cruxus,

I don't know how to say his name or her name,

whatever, left on March 3rd, 2012. This is basically

one guy with different co -hosts covering every

geek topic out there. It's fun sometimes, a lot

of the time the host seems barely knowledgeable

on the subjects and often cites lack of time

to really watch research the show's topics he

is discussing and has so many podcasts to watch

stuff for. He should really pick one topic he

loves and make a podcast. Trying to make a network

out of poorly researched shows with no coherent

publishing schedule is just pretty pointless.

Let's take the first paragraph before we go to

the second one. For instance, it's not just one

guy. Yes, it is primarily Mike because he has

the most time. However, there are others. There's

Kevin, there's myself, there's Michael Wilson

on selective shows, there's a rotating co -host

thing. And it's not because we just want random

people, it's because those people happen to be

knowledgeable in the topic that we're covering.

Exactly. And it's not that we aren't knowledgeable,

it's just that they're more knowledgeable and

the fact that we can have someone to bounce off

of. Exactly. and basically calling me out and

saying that I don't do my research. Are you flipping

kidding me? Seriously? Now, that may be true

with some early shows in the very, very, very,

very, very early Geekcast Radio, M .Y .E .R.,

you know, any of the shows and their infancy

within, you know, maybe their first 10 episodes.

Right. Beyond that. They've all gone through

a massive overhauls, and we've gone to the extreme

of not even trying to use Wikipedia. I mean,

we may use selective elements from it, but we

do not read from it. First people bash us for

citing Wikipedia or reading off of it, and then

people ... uh... bashes for not having enough

information not having enough information so

i mean it really doesn't make sense to sit here

and bitch on this comment but uh... but the thing

of it is though it's like essentially he's he's

saying to me that i don't know what the hell

i'm talking about when i a overall i put in probably

in in all aspects of the castro network i put

in forty to sixty hours a week between recording

podcasts, editing podcasts, doing research, watching

shows, listening to music, having toy reviews,

stuff like that, doing blogs. I spend a lot of

time creating the network that we've created

and getting it to where we want to get it to.

I said in my video that... I spent an entire

week and I watched all 130 episodes of Thundercats

to be researched and be ready for the Thundercats

Tunecast Classic episode. And as Steve said,

in the beginning we were very rough. In the beginning

I was very rough in TFG1 Podcast. I know that,

I've learned from it, and I've gotten better.

So if you're just finding us now... You know

keep listening because it does get better you

want to take part of that second paragraph Okay,

this is where I take a little bit more offense

And I'm trying to be constructive about it, so

don't chew my head off The fact that he says

he should really pick one topic he loves and

make a podcast Isn't that what we're doing with

different podcasts? We're picking one topic,

i .e. Transformers or Beast Wars or cartoons

in general, television shows in general. There's

separate shows based on that one topic because

I'm sorry you're not just going to sit there

and have one show if you're loving various ones.

Yes, there are people that sit and do one show.

And yes, while it might be great, there's still

things that you don't want them to overlap. Yeah,

and here's the thing. We use stuff like Tooncast

Classic and Tooncast Beyond to do overall arching

discussion episodes of cartoons, where down the

line we may start a more in -depth podcast about

a specific cartoon, say... Transformers Prime,

for example, we'll start a more in -depth version

of that and we'll actually review episode by

episode. That's the way our process works. Well,

I mean, it's like the upcoming Tooncast Beyond

Delorean episode, which will be, I believe, the

first one. For Mega Man. There's Mega Man, which

eventually will be covered in another show. There's

Rebooting Mainframe. which will be divulging

from the reboot episode of the DeLorean time

episodes of Tooncast Beyond. So I mean, we're

not just trying to create a network out of just

random shows and know they're not poorly researched.

We don't talk about them if we aren't passionate

about them. I myself, for instance, we get people

that know what the hell they're talking about

because we don't want to look like asses. And

two, for instance, if any of us don't really

care about it, we don't cover it. If I don't

care about it, I won't even join the episode.

I'll listen to it and I'll enjoy it from my listeners

perspective. But I won't join a show that I know

nothing about or try and just dance my way through

it. Now, yes, there have been occasions where

we have jumped through episodes. But we're still

fairly knowledgeable on them to the point we

don't have to do the research. Right. As far

as where he says with no coherent publishing

schedule... Are you fucking kidding me? Every

Wednesday there's been a Tooncast or Tooncast

Beyond episode. Every Monday or Tuesday there's

been a different release, either Legends or...

I'm TTF or a TTF or you know some Transformers

related shows come out on a Monday Every time

and then on a Tuesday. There's been you know

Batman for right now and then Yes, granted some

other shows are not in production right now MWIRE,

when it's in production, which it still is, we

just have to get around to recording episode

87 and 88, MWIRE releases and for the last three

years has released when we've been able to get

it there every Saturday. every Saturday for the

last three and a half years unless the show has

been on hiatus unless real life interferes it

has released every Saturday there have been some

times where multiple M wires will go up in one

week and the same thing with any show you know

it just depends on what we can get done when

we get it done my goal with not only creating

the network, but my goal with all the future

podcasting that we're going to be doing is we

have, and this is going to depend on when Steve

can actually, because I give Steve all the credit

in the world for the web design, for the publishing,

for the RSS. He handles all the technical stuff.

When Steve can upload an episode and I can go

ahead and publish it on the website, that's when

it gets released, essentially. The entire schedule

is tentative, but we do aim for you know specific

days of the week my actual personal goal is to

have us have an episode of anyone podcast doesn't

matter what it is could be telecast could be

legends the dark night could be rebooting mainframe

whatever my goal is to have one podcast release

per day six days a week and then not do any releases

on sundays that's my goal eventually for the

entire network when we have so many podcasts

that we can release one piece of content per

day per week and again you're essentially bitching

about free content really I mean I I'm not trying

to totally bash because I do not either I I do

you know and I know you're not either I mean

it's just you there's kind of a whacked out accusation

to make and in the slightest. I know it's his

opinion, however, he obviously didn't go very

far in the shows to actually hear where it got

good. We do admit the old shit is bad. Please

send us an email and let us know what ones you've

listened to and we'll be able to direct you to

better ones later in whatever that show happens

to be. Just one final note on this thing of us

being poorly researched. Have you listened to

the 10 plus hours of podcasting we put into the

Geekcast Radio Network Top 100 Animated Series?

Kevin, myself, Steve, all of the contributors

that came on the episodes with us. Yeah, we put

in a lot of hard ass work into that countdown.

Anyways, the other review that I want to bring

up is the latest one left on March 15th, 2012

by our buddy Movie Revolt who does blogging on

GeekCastRadio .com. It says, unleash the geek.

It's a five -star review. GeekCastRadio is the

flagship of the GeekCastRadio network and covers

a large variety of topics of which any geek would...

Greatly appreciate great mixture of info fun

and downright good time They are certainly they

certainly know how to unleash the geek in a variety

of ways great work So thank you to movie revolt

for that review. Yes. Thank you, sir Yes, and

now without any more further ado or further bitching.

We're gonna get into Special episode. Top 10

favorite episode battles of the 90's. Hello and

welcome to this special episode of GeekCast Radio.

This will continue the epic music spotlight we

have planned here at GCR. I am one of your hosts,

Dave Jones Mike, and joining me is David Double

D Dennis from This Week in Geek. Hello, sir.

Hey, how's it going? It is going. Finally. After,

yeah. Houston we have a problem and JT from Saskatoon

who is an authentic geek that can't get his time

right because Saskatoon doesn't follow Daylight

Savings Time. Well yeah see that way we don't

have to worry about things like that. Yeah but

see I've been you know dealing with Daylight

Savings Time my whole life so I'm used to it.

to change our clocks we just oh let's see Ross

starts an hour ahead of time okay and we are

here to count down our top ten favorite artists

or bands of the 1990s before we get to that we're

gonna make some honorable mentions for me I only

have four honorable mentions 98 degrees who I

do not see them as a boy band I know that they

are classified as that but they had more of a

soulful sound than Bye bye. Bye Yeah, they were

more boys to men than in sinks. Yes, exactly

Creed I loved Creed in the beginning. I love

them up till weathered and then they kind of

disappeared they broke up and The three other

members went on to do ultra bridge with miles

Kennedy One of the reasons why I liked Creed

was because Hire kept showing up in everything.

It was a music cue for the Titan A .E. trailer.

That song was everywhere, and that's really the

only reason why I like them. DC Talk. I actually,

when I was younger and stupider and goofier,

I actually used to do music videos to DC Talk

songs. My cousins and I would dance around to

Free At Last. And Jesus is just alright and all

that That's so lame, but kind of hilarious. I

was 14 shut the hell up No, thank God that's

too that's unfortunate That would be awesome

it was I don't think I've ever revealed this

to anyone sadly it was before the popularity

of the trench coat mafia it was me and a black

trench coat and my two cousins and we would dance

to um love is a verb pretty much anything off

the free at last record all those songs because

those were some of the greatest songs that they

ever did um but yeah i absolutely loved dc talk

back in the day uh and collective soul um collective

soul Had a lot of great songs world. I know December

shine some of their other ones that I knew was

them, but I didn't like I think why part two

I paid attention to but one song that I I Heard

and I was like is that collective soul, but I

didn't really pay attention at the time was heavy

and I absolutely love that song so they are they're

a number of of my honorable mentions for this

countdown. What about you Dave? What kind of

honorable mentions do you have? Big ones for

me, there's two really big ones that almost made

my list. And then at the last minute, I just

cut them out. That would be REM, who I basically

cut out because I think they were at their peak

in the 80s, more so than the 90s. So they had

a lot of really great stuff in the 90s, Losing

My Religion, Man on the Moon, What's the Frequency,

Kenneth. There was quite a few really great songs

that they released in that decade. So they'd

probably be like a number 11. And if I had a

number 12, it would be the Pixies because they're

another band that's very influential to music

today and just released some of the best albums

of that decade with stuff like Do Little and

Surfer Rosa. I don't know, there's a few other

more obscure bands that you guys might not have

heard of that I like, like Yola Tango or The

Flaming Lips. I've heard of The Flaming Lips.

I don't think I've ever heard any other songs,

but I know of them. But you know who they are.

They're one of the best bands to ever go see

in concert. I'll just say, if anyone's listening

to this and they're wondering what concerts to

go to, go see The Flaming Lips. It's awesome.

Like you, I also was into Christian music more

so in the 90s than now. I don't think it has

anything to do with me being less of a Christian

or anything, but I think it's just Christian

music isn't as good now as it was in the 90s.

I mean, because in the 90s you had like what?

Newsboys, DC Talk, Jars of Clay. Audio adrenaline

was a big part for me. Even people that were

more adult contemporary like Steven Curtis Chapman

were better in the 90s than they are now. It

was a good era for that sub -genre of music.

Oh yes it was. What about you JT? Do you have

any honorable mentions that didn't make your

list? Say first of all, I never listened to the

Christian music back then just not because I

didn't think it was good. It's just basically

Everyone else is this is don't lie. I'm not an

atheist How dare you sir, I just outed JT from

Saskatoon on being an atheist Nothing Aquaman

No, I guess one of the honorable mentions gonna

bring up right away is the bands live and vertical

horizon now Live I really got into because of

a friend of mine named Curtis back in high school

and they just because they had a lot of passion

in their music and You know, like I said the

Dolphins cry is Probably one of my all -time

favorite songs that come out of the 90s. Yeah,

but unfortunately, it's Pretty much the only

song I really remember from live. I don't well,

I mean there's The only song I know by them is

lightning crashes. Yeah, that's the only one

I've ever heard. Oh man, you guys are missing

out on so much good stuff. Oh my god. Now see,

I know a lot, and I'm not trying to take away

from your honorable mentions here, but since

you brought them up, I didn't find them until

2000, 2001, and I had heard I Alone and Lightning

Crashes, and I absolutely loved it, and I immediately

went out and bought every album. that they had

ever done to that point. I've listened to all

of their stuff and I absolutely love those guys.

Amazing, amazing stuff. When it comes to the

boy band type things, I was a huge fan of Savage

Garden back in the day. Mainly, I wouldn't say

it's because of the song I Want You, I like to

Yeah, just the moon and back like that's a couple

of their other songs, but I mean I really I was

a big fan I've always been a big fan of like

catchy singing groups duets stuff like that,

and I guess another one I didn't know they had

a bigger catalog because I only really ever heard

like two songs of theirs back in the day was

Vertical Horizon, you know like I mean they started

in the early 90s, and I heard their stuff there

and there they never really became a big thing

for me until and it was like the very late nineties

when they're you're a god in everything you want

became a huge radio hits shut up those are the

only two songs by them i even know no i actually

it's like you said uh... you know i'm sorry i

blanketed who did you say you went and bought

all their albums? Alive Alive yeah when i got

into iTunes, one of the first bands that I went

and bought everything I could find in iTunes

was Vertical Horizon. I wouldn't necessarily

mean this exactly, but they're kind of like a

poor man's Goo Goo Dolls for me. They kind of

had that same kind of... Vertical Horizon was

a little bit harder. Johnny Resnick and the Goo

Goo Dolls, they can go hard, but... Vertical

was more so a harder version of the Goo Goo Dolls

a little bit in some instances, but they did

have that same style, I would say. And I think

just to another honorable mention I want to give

is just because I was huge into the Euro dance

music of the 90s. I loved listening to that stuff.

Please do not tell me you're going to bring up

Eiffel 65. No. Thank God. I'm going to bring

up the Vanga Boys because... I love that one

music video. They sound familiar. What was like

the song that they did? Is that that boom boom

boom? Oh, yeah. You know, and well, you know,

everyone loves Aqua. So I'm just going to give

it up. No. No, sir. You have no soul. No, no,

no. Talk about an atheist. There are no Barbie

girls living in a Barbie world. Thank you very

much. Yeah, but you wait and you go on later

and see Some of what what's the lead singer Linaise

you see some of the music videos? She did after

the group broke up, and I'm just like damn All

right, so is that it for honorable mentions I

believe so I also want to throw out counting

crows They were an amazing amazing band. I loved

when I was living in Massachusetts back in the

early 2000s There was a radio station up there

called mix 98 .5 and they would do Acoustic Sunrise

every Sunday and it wasn't just counting crows,

but it was any you know top 40 artists that had

acoustic versions they would play that for like

two hours every Sunday morning and it was so

awesome and Counting Crows they were an amazing

acoustic band I won't argue with you on that

so just to let everybody know none of us know

what each of us has on our list. I'm sure it's

going to be very eclectic seeing as how one of

the two Canadians is very eclectic and he has

Arnold Schwarzenegger doing weird things to him

in his spare time. So without any further ado,

after this musical interlude, we're going to

head to the countdown. and kicking off the countdown

the way we're gonna do this is we're gonna go

10 to 1 and we're all gonna rotate so I'll do

my number 10 Dave will do his JT will do his

or whatever something like that so JT what is

your number 10 for your favorite artist or band

of the 90s my number 10 to kick it all off is

one of my all -time favorite bands from the 90s

Bush alternatively known as Bush X in Canada

for a short while because they got sued one of

the greatest rock bands of all time. One of my

favorites is Bush in Canada, you know, with the

ugliest man in rock and roll, Giddy Lee. Yeah.

And they actually got, you know, a quick little

side. Bush got sued by Bush. God, there's a lot

of Bush. Wait, don't you mean Rush? That wouldn't

be Bush. That would be Rush. Why would Rush sue

Bush? I was looking it up here. It says... Unless

Geddy Lee had a side band named Bush, Geddy Lee

is the bassist and lead singer from Rush. Yeah,

no, that's what is looking up here unless the

article I was reading was completely misspelled.

JT screwed it up. Mike, be quiet. No, but anyway,

I'm sure we'll figure that out. Bush. Yes, Bush.

They did get sued and they had to... It wasn't,

okay, it wasn't Getty Lee. It was, there was

an actual Canadian band named Bush led by Dominic

Traiano. Oh, okay, so it was a different band.

I was wondering, like, did Getty Lee make a different

band and just put, like, a circle on the bottom

of the R and Rush? It took a magic marker to

all the Rush albums? Getty Lee broke into a record

store last night. No, it's, uh, the Bush got

sued, uh, in, like, the mid 90s so they could

only appear in Canada as Bush X and then they

got the right to just perform as Bush after each

member of the band donated like 20 grand to the

Starlight Children's Foundation and a couple

other charities so but no Bush was one of my

favorite bands because that was when I was really

like mid 90s high school I was really starting

to get in and notice music like whereas before

I just listened, and if I liked it, I liked it.

If I didn't like it, I didn't like it. Kind of

like majority of the Christian rock in the 90s.

Not to say it was bad, it's just not my thing.

But no, Bush, I'd have to say stuff like everything's

in swallowed chemicals between us. A lot of the

big songs I listened to a lot, because in high

school, I got picked on a lot. Had some really

dark days not like really really dark days, but

you know I'd go home And I just I was like the

stereotypical moody high schooler yeah for a

while and you know I got through that listening

to a lot of different music and specifically

Bush, and I think it's the I Wouldn't necessarily

call their sound gothic, but they had this slightly

kind of goth sound really emotional and Gavin

Rossdale's voice can be alternatively soothing

and irritating. And that's just really, I mean,

they were a band that I listened to consistently.

If they're on the, if I'm switching to the radio

stations and I landed on one that was playing

anything Bush, I left it there until the song

was over. And yeah, I mean, it's, they also had

some really good, like I bought Razorblade's

suitcase simply because of the name. That is

a cool name for an album. It is a cool name for

an album, but that album actually, outside of

Swallowed in Mouth, actually kind of sucks. It

wasn't that great. I also loved Deconstructed,

which I think was an album that they put out

while they were under the Bush X label. Yeah,

I think so. Which was basically dance and techno

remixes of a lot of their songs. Very, very soundtrack.

Very much so. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but I loved it.

And you know, they did break up. I think was

it Oh, pardon me. Oh, two or three. They broke

up. And that's like one of the few band breakups

where I was really kind of bummed out about because

I really didn't love Bush. Yeah. What about you,

Dave? What's your number 10? My number 10 is

Weezer. A very different band than Bush. Like

you mentioned, Bush is more of a dark gothic

sound. Weezer is more for if you're in kind of

a happy mood. And if you like hash pipes and

being on an island in the sun. Yes. Very much

a band for the geek in all of us. They're just

a band that'll put you in a good mood, I think.

Especially when you're rolling in Beverly Hills.

With the Chihuahuas! They also have a lot of

really good music videos, so... Pretty much if

you go to YouTube and watch any one of Weezer's

music videos, I think one of them has the Muppets

in it. There's the one that's like a 1950s period

piece. If you're wondering if I want you to,

I want you to. There's the one for Island in

the Sun where they're like interacting with a

bunch of animals in Africa. I don't know. They

just have a lot of really great creative music

videos and they're just a very fun band to listen

to. That is why they're on my top ten spot. Whenever

I'm in a good mood, I'm in a Weezer mood. Did

they? Are all of their album titles like Colors

of the Rainbow? Because I remember like the green

album, the red album. Not all of them, but there's

three. Like there's a bunch that have different

titles. There's like Pinkerton, Maladroid, Make

Believe, Ratitude. But then there's three that

are just... self -titled albums that all have

different colors in the background. It's just

pictures of the band standing there with a different

color behind them. The first one, their first

ever album and probably their best album, if

you're gonna only listen to one Weezer album,

is the Blue album from 1994. And then the Green

album was actually after they went on hiatus

and then they came back in 2001. They released

the Green album and then the Red album came out

a few years ago. And those are basically all

this. Yeah, those are all this the colored albums

are also the the self -titled albums, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so so they basically They started

with With Jason Scott they went to Tommy Oliver

and then they went to Billy Cranston What Power

Rangers names you just linked Power Rangers to

Weezer that's right Okay. Good job. My number

10 is Hootie and the Blowfish. You just like

saying Hootie. I think we talked about these

guys in our 90s show, didn't we? Yes, we did.

And JT made fun of you. A little bit, yeah. but

that's okay because this is the crap about living

in canada i can give crap about it and he listens

to i mean i don't listen to them that much anymore

but in the nineties because they were you know

they were breakouts and you know i specifically

remember and i might have told the story in the

nineties episode i don't remember it's been so

long since we did that driving home driving to

and then driving home from a Bruins event a Boston

Bruins event Hold My Hand, their song Hold My

Hand was playing on the way to the Boston Garden

and on the way home from the Boston Garden. So

I had that song just mesmerized in my head. And

I just absolutely loved it. What I love now is

though, it's so funny that Darius Rucker has,

I mean the band since break broken up and he's

gone on to be a country artist. So weird. So

he went from Hootie and the Blowfish to Hootie

and the Crawfish? Nice one. Okay, JT, what's

your number nine? Nice segue, Mike. Number nine

is the Canadian band known as Moist, which is

a band that I can't really talk around a certain

friend of mine because for some reason the word

Moist creeps her out. I'm not gonna lie, that

word bothers me as well. It's probably the most

disgusting word in the English language. they

actually if you if you watch the show dead like

me the mom in that show is disgusted by the word

moist and Mentions it in the first episode. I

Don't get it. But that that's I mean if it bugs

you it bugs you so there just sounds gross Gives

why he likes the band. I I went through before

we did this recording because I wanted to make

sure actually after I did this recording I actually

went through and looked at different stuff and

I find it funny that their most famous song is

mmmmm I was like oh god horrible band name and

just wow the mmmmm song I believe that's crash

test dummies oh that's crash test? yeah Well,

we'll come to that later on, so... Anyway, why

do you like Moist so much? Why do you sound so

wrong? I like this band, because... There you

go. Well, this band... Because, again, it's a

band that I listen to in that dark... The Dark

Times, basically. They were a little more...

I would say almost hopeful and lighter than Bush,

but they still kind of... They had songs like

In the Universe Tonight, Push, Believe Me, stuff

like that. Their music and the way their lyrics

just kind of guided my mind to the better place.

You know, it's a band that I could really getting

me through a lot of tough times I mean basically

grade 10 through halfway through grade 11, you

know up until I embarrassed myself at the talent

show was Everyone picked on me a lot and I really

didn't give them reasons not to so It like you

say it's just a band they had this really is

alternative rock But it wasn't a hard alternative

rock sound the way a lot of alt rock was in the

90s and As alternatively irritating and haunting

as Gavin Rossdale's voice was, lead singer David

Usher had a really soft and melodic voice that

I just naturally gravitated to. So I just loved

all around. I loved their stuff. And again, they're

another band that maybe I wasn't into them as

much as I was Bush, but I was kind of disappointed

where they... Kind of they didn't really break

up, but they take long long gaps between recording

and touring and all that Oh, so they're essentially

the Canadian version of tool Yes, except their

videos don't scare the crap out of me Because

if you've seen a tool video that's dark visuals

man yes that's some scary shit right there though

i think the the scariest music video i've ever

seen just going off on a tangent here is the

smashing pumpkins video for try try try yeah

is easily the freakiest video i've ever seen

i burned images into my mind that will never

go away what about you dave what's your number

nine My number nine is a band that was around

in the 80s and reinvented themselves in the 90s,

and that band is U2. Very, very different band

from Octong Baby and Forward than they were in

the 80s with stuff like the Joshua Tree and War.

All of a sudden, it was almost like in the 80s

when dance music and having a lot of electronic

influence in your music was popular. you too

wanted to go against that and do stuff that was

more organic and then in the 90s all of a sudden

when music became more organic when bands like

Nirvana were coming forward they did the opposite

again and went back and did what was popular

in the 80s it was like they they contradicted

whatever was popular in that decade But they

did it so well that it was still great to listen

to. They had a lot of really good songs in the

90s. One is one that sticks out. Mysterious Ways.

Stay Far Away So Close. I don't know. I could

just go on forever. I think the first U2 album

I actually listened to was best of 1990 to 2000.

So that was this decade was kind of how I got

into them, actually. Yeah. Yeah, they are a great

band. My number nine, and we so did not plan

this, is actually going back to Bush. So there's

one crossover for you on this countdown. I absolutely

loved a number of the songs off of 16 Stone.

You know, and one thing that JC didn't bring

up is they got back together. They are still...

They're touring now with Nickelback. Oh, no,

yeah. No, it's just like when they first broke

up, I should have mentioned. Right. That's when

I... Well, right. Well, I mean, that's why I'm

glad you didn't mention it so I can mention it

here that they have gotten back together since

the 2002 -2003 breakup. They released The Sound

of Winter. And what I find is the 90s version

of Bush has a much harder edge than the current

version. Right now Bush to me sounds like every

other alt rock band and I'm not saying that against

them I love I mean that's the thing is like I

listen to almost every single track off of their

new album The Sound of Winter and I can I can

love almost at least six out of the 13 or 14

tracks you know whereas the older versions of

you know the older Bush stuff I can I think Between

glycerine machine head and come down off of 16

stone. Those are the only three songs. I like

off that album You know and then later with with

razor blades suitcase. I only like two songs

off of that one the science of things was the

only thing oh god chemicals between us off of

science of things was the only I liked off that

album, so I think that over the years as they've

gotten back together that they've obviously Went

the way of every other alternative rock band

of hey, we have to be radio -friendly so we can

make money I'm not saying that they've sold out

but I mean that's just the way I feel about About

how the band sounds now versus how they sounded

back in the day No, I get that So JT, what is

your number eight? Well, my number eight is probably

in my top five favorite bands to just play and

have fun listening to kind of like how Dave liked

Weezer I love listening to Matchbox 20 and Matchbox

20 is They're a band that like Dave said how

when he wants to have fun listening to music

You know I'm paraphrasing it test a same thing

same thing with Matchbox 20. I just love their

sound I love most almost all their music videos

Rob Thomas is got a voice that I just again naturally

gravitate to and enjoy listening to unequivocally

like it's very much a band that I just there's

almost nothing I don't like that has come out

from them yeah again they're they're a band that

you know it's not that they broke up it's just

they keep taking hiatus and I was like damn it

keep playing Even when they took that first hiatus

and Rob went out on his own and did his solo

work, I still liked his solo work. Oh yeah, no,

that's the thing. I love Rob Thomas' solo stuff.

He did the Smooth with Santana, which is easily

top ten favorite song, one of my top ten favorite

songs of the 90s, because you mix Rob Thomas'

vocals with one of the grandmasters of guitar

playing. You know, that song got so overplayed

in the 90s. But I will agree, it was a good song.

It did, but it was still a great song, though.

Yeah, that's like one of the overplays that I'm

like, and once again, for the fifth time this

hour, smooth. I was like, sweet. You know, I

think that in that instance, we can overlook

the overplayedness of songs. I mean, there are

other times where I've just You know, hated hearing

the same song over and over again, but that song

is so good that it wouldn't really matter. Yeah.

And I think probably my favorite song of theirs

that came out was 3AM. Tells an excellent story.

Yeah. I mean, four songs that tell a story, that

is probably one of my favorites. And the fact

that it's rumored that it was basically Rob Thomas

wrote the song. and was more or less inspired

by his mom, his mom had his cancer scare, which

is the rumor, it's never been confirmed one way

or the other. So, but I think the fact that he

took some very personal tragedy like that and

came out with this song that is almost hopeful.

I think it's a really good, is one of the main

reasons why I love the fact that he can take

something like that and crank out such good music.

Oh yeah. What about you Dave, what do you got

for number 8? My number 8 is another band that

went away and disbanded in the 90s and then just

came back recently, Dinosaur Jr. A band that

never really reached a huge level of popularity.

They were always kind of, I mentioned the Pixies

earlier, Dinosaur Jr. was always kind of in the

Pixies shadow in terms of like that independent

Kind of soft rock scene of the 90s. Yeah, but

I Don't know. I really love these guys Jay Mascis

their lead guitarist is one of my favorite guitarist

probably ever the the way this guy can solo is

just incredible and They're just kind of like

Weezer. They're just a cool fun band to listen

to and They got a lot of songs and a lot of albums

that I really like to listen to on a regular

basis, so Kind of a more probably the most obscure

band well actually not that's not true. There's

a more obscure band coming up later But but one

of the more obscure bands on this list, but definitely

if you haven't checked these guys out Go and

listen to something like you're living all over

me. It's It's one of the weirder, but definitely

one of the more rewarding albums of that era

like late 80s early 90s And just so we don't

confuse everybody, Dinosaur Jr. did not do Walk

the Dinosaur. That was was not was. My number

eight is Stone Temple Pilots. Everybody loved

these guys when they first came out. Even now,

I can listen to a lot of their songs. I think

the first song I listened to by them was Plush,

and then the acoustic version of Plush. It was

stuff like Vaseline, Trippin' on a Hole in the

Heart, Interstate Love Song, Creep. They were

one of the bands that really brought grunge to

a national stage. I would say Nirvana did it

more so in popularity, but Outside of Seattle,

Stone Temple Pilots, since they're based in San

Diego, they were really the ones that kind of

brought that grunge rock to a new light, and

I just absolutely love listening to their stuff.

They were basically the ambassadors of grunge.

Yes. Yeah, definitely one of the more important

grunge outfits, along with Nirvana. and Pearl

Jam, so... It's a genre you cannot avoid when

talking about the 90s. Oh no, not at all. What

is your number seven, JT? My number seven is

the second Canadian band on my list, which is

the Matthew Good band. And Matthew Good, I really...

I didn't I thought he was maybe an actor or just

an activist for the longest time like it until

I actually found out that he you know headed

his own band because he did a lot of you know

political I guess we're not rabble -rosing but

he was a activist you know for a lot of a lot

of political causes or his own political causes

stuff like that in the 90s you know stuff like

the Canadian Katimovic project and stuff like

that and they're again they're an alt rock band

that they were a hard slightly harder alt rock

sound that i love like they weren't all the way

like something as hard as like uh you know bush

but they they had an edge to them that i really

liked and you look at some of the stuff they

did like probably the first the first album i

ever got of theirs was underdogs and it has my

two favorite songs of theirs which was Apparitions

and Everything is Automatic and from then on

I just went back and forth like it got like the

last get it with the astronauts and then Beautiful

Midnight and Audio of Being they're probably

the second they're the second band that once

I got iTunes I bought all of their albums just

I just couldn't help myself but you look at stuff

like specifically underdogs that came out of

time, you know, I'm getting out of high school

and You know the stereotypical what do I do now

with my life? Yeah, and that was basically my

that album was part of my you know mental soundtrack

for like the next year or so like any given time

I was listening to that in my car. So Don't know

what else to really say it's just there a band

that their sound came at a time when I needed

them kind of like Bush and moist and There's

again there another band like Matchbox 20. There's

just nothing I don't like Yeah about them. It's

really hard for me to find anything with a lot

of bands that I dislike I'm just glad you put

the bush before the moist because if you put

it the other way around I was like, oh my god.

No, he wasn't gonna say a moist bush I want you

to get that boy in Kentucky. What is your number

seven? My number seven is kind of a lighter band,

the Cranberries. known for songs like Zombie,

Ode to My Family, and Linger. They were one of

my favorite female -fronted groups of the 90s.

I'm trying to remember the name of the lead singer

now, and I can't. Dolores? Isn't it Doris or

Dolores or something like that? I think it's

Doris something, I think. Look it up right now,

but she has one of my favorite voices. I think

she could just really carry a tune very well

and the band just made a lot of great singles

and good albums and I'm actually going to see

them later this year because they just reunited

for a new album after like ten years so exciting

stuff Awesome Yeah, I don't I don't really have

much else to say about them I guess yeah I mean

like for me like those songs that you mentioned

like zombie and linger and I think there was

one other one Like those are really the only

songs I knew from them during that time and I

think I think zombie was used in a bunch of stuff

though I Wouldn't be surprised. Yeah. Oh and

the girl I was talking about is Dolores I don't

know if I'm seeing this right. O 'Riordan? Yeah,

I knew that's what her first name was though.

All right, so my number seven is something that

people might not think I would listen to, but

Incubus. I heard Stellar and Pardon Me off the

Make Yourself album and absolutely love those

songs and I got the actual cd of the album and

a lot of the other songs the album like uh...

war the warmth and when it comes and uh... privilege

just really really i would say it's a cross between

electronica and like all rock i mean they kinda

like i don't think you can just can really be

defined even though i know that you know most

like itunes and so that that would probably define

them as sort of, I guess, alternative rock or

just rock in general. But one of the greatest

things about them is when they did their Monuments

to Melodies album, they did a cover of Prince's

Let's Go Crazy. And I actually prefer the Incubus

version over the original. Yeah, I think if I

was on the 80s show, I probably would have mentioned

Prince in that. Yeah, a cover of a Prince song

sounds intriguing. I haven't heard that much

incubus I know of them and I'm intrigued so I'm

gonna have to check that out as soon as the show

is done Yeah, they They also released an album

called morning view which had wish you were here

and nice to know you uh... they released uh...

crow left the murder which had uh... talk shows

on mute uh... bunch of other ones i think one

of the ones that i have to love was off their

light grenades album is a song called dig uh...

that was a really great great song as well uh...

so j t moving on to number six number six is

the bare naked ladies The Big Bang Theory band.

They are much more than just the Big Bang Theory

band. No, but I say that in praise, though, because

that was like, when the Big Bang Theory premiered,

that was like the first time I'd heard them in

10 years. No, they're the big... God, I was going

to call them the Big Bang Theory. The Bare Naked

Ladies are, again, they're like Matchbox 20.

They're a band that I love listening to because

I love their music. Left and right up and down

there. There is no Bear Naked Ladies song or

album that I don't like. And these guys are so

awesome. They've got a Ben and Jerry's ice cream

named after them. Yes, they do. If I had a million

flavors, which I have yet to find for some reason,

I can't find it at Saskatoon. But no, I mean...

Because you live in Saskatoon. Don't start my...

You can't find anything. I'll come down to Kentucky.

Yeah. I'll cross the border. At least you'll

be able to find stuff. I will hurt you. Anyway.

They've got, because the fact that they've got

like what, like a cello, and they have instruments

in their song that no other band that I'm aware

of. Really use they have a very unique sound

they have a very light even when they're doing

like More there some of their slower more down

songs There's still a bit of an energy and an

enthusiasm in all their music and performances

that I just dig I love on every level and the

fact that they Do the theme song to one of my

favorite sitcoms is pretty awesome, too I'd probably

say one of my favorite, and videos. I mean, Bear

Negley's have always had a lot of fun, really

kind of imaginative videos. Specifically, One

Week and Pinch Me. Like, One Week is in like,

you know, if you do a top 10, top 10 favorite

What the Hell videos. Oh yeah. For all the crazy

stuff that happens there. And Pinch Me, just

for the kind of sitcom -esque nature of, you

know, Having Ed Robertson work at like this hot

dog stand which is a drive -through and then

all the crazy people that come through there

It's just again. There's They're a band that

I love and I probably always will love so and

They were also performed on Dennis Larry's Christmas

special a few years ago, which was kind of awesome

Okay, I never feel bad I feel bad because you

have, like, all Canadian bands on your list,

or, like, mostly Canadian bands. I have zero

Canadian bands on my list. Davis denounced Canada,

ladies and gentlemen! If Davis not denounced

Canada, Mike, don't make this a political platform

for yourself. My number six is probably the most

obscure band on this list, My Bloody Valentine,

not to be confused with the movie, the 3D horror

film that came out a few years ago. This is a

band that really only released one album in the

entire decade of the 90s, and that was Loveless

in 1991. They had another album called Isn't

Anything before that, I think it was in 1988

-89. But this album really got me through college

immediately from the first moment I listened

to it I just fell in love with it because I had

never really heard anything like this before

and it really got me into this this weird genre

that many people have not heard of called shoegaze

music that was popular in the late 80s early

90s used a lot of effects a lot of really heavy

overdrive The actual sound of the music is really

dark and heavy almost like metal but the singing

is is very light and Kind of nice and dreamy

and almost placed underneath the guitar So it

has a very different sound to it and and it kind

of got me into music the way that music is produced

More than anything else So worth worth checking

out for probably everyone who's listening to

this who has never heard of these guys before?

I don't know if it's because I heard of the movie,

but I remember hearing about them specifically

at a couple times, but I don't think I've ever

heard anything from them. For me, as far as number

six goes, is A rock and roll band that's been

around since the 70s but I only really found

them in the 90s and it's all Wayne's World's

fault. Aerosmith. I thought you were going to

say Queen. Aerosmith. Steven Tyler, Joe Perry,

Tom Hamilton, and I forget the other two guys'

names off the top of my head. just amazing amazing

rock band you want to talk about guys that put

on good videos these guys put on amazing videos

and I think they're touring again now as well

yes it's actually a funny story I don't remember

if we talked about Aerosmith in the actual 90s

discussion episode but they are from I think

we mentioned them, but I don't think I've told

this story. I know I've told it before, but I

don't think I've told it in podcast form. They

are from Boston. Actually, at one point, Joe

Perry was living near Marshfield, Massachusetts,

where at the time my mom's boyfriend's dry cleaners.

was there and he would, Joe Perry would come

to his dry cleaners to have his dry cleaning

done. Wow. So I'm like literally a step and a

half away from knowing Joe Perry personally.

Less than six degrees of separation away from

Joe Perry's dry cleaning service. Yes, exactly.

Congratulations, Mike. but no i mean you know

songs like crazy and crying and ragdoll and love

in an elevator and jenny's got a gun you know

just amazing amazing songs you know dream on

which is again if anyone did like a top ten or

top twenty list of songs of you know even if

someone did a top twenty best song list of all

time or top one hundred best song list of all

time dream on has to be on there somewhere at

the top Yeah, I think you know actually have

the Rolling Stone top 500 songs on my computer

I think dream on somewhere in the top 200 if

not the top 100. Yeah Yeah, I probably would

have if I made a list for the 70s I probably

would have included Aerosmith and that maybe

the 80s didn't really like them I didn't really

find out about them until the Big Ones compilation

Greatest Hits album came out. So that's why I

put them here in the 90s. Even in the 90s going

into the 2000s, they released... Oh, God. I think

the album is called Just Push Play. They released

that album with Jaded and the title track of

Just Push Play and all that. They consistently

do good music. That can't be said that they haven't

ever done something good. I didn't really discover

them until I discovered Run DMC, which was probably

the first remix. Was just like what does that

guy look like a lady? And I'm not making that

up to be funny. No, that's that was actually

I remember that very clearly that was the first

like dudes got woman lips, you know But Steven

Tyler one of the greatest voices in rock and

roll. Yeah, I was watching He can still sing.

Oh, yes. Yeah. Sorry. Go ahead. Just recently

They did a like a candid special on 60 minutes

It was like a couple weeks ago, about a month

or so ago. And Stephen said something about,

dude looks like a lady wasn't the original song

title and lyric. It was something else. It was

something probably more creepy. And yeah, so

that's very interesting. But Aerosmith has always

been an awesome rock and roll band. They're a

band who can hit those hard riffs. Really rock

your ass off and they're also a band that can

touch your heart with stuff like I don't want

to miss a thing From the Armageddon soundtrack,

so very very awesome. Oh, yeah What is your number

five? Number five is going south of the 49th

parallel the Foo Fighters Yes, just barely south

into into Seattle Just below the border. Yeah,

just below the belt. But no, the Foo Fighters,

obviously Dave Grohl's star, his big star was

in Nirvana as the drummer. And he's in one of

my all -time favorite drummers because he's just

got that manic energy. He's going to beat these

skins with an inch of their life. And then I

found out later that he went on, he started Foo

Fighters. I didn't really discover Foo Fighters

until I think the second album. the color and

the shape in 97. Because the first song I ever

heard from them was Monkey Wrench. And just after

hearing that song, I was hooked. Like this is

a band, because again, they have this, not unlike

the Bare Naked Ladies, they have a very manic

energy to them. But they also like to tell stories

through music through songs like My Hero, Everlong,

stuff like that. Probably one of my favorite

videos is again. They're a band that likes to

have fun when they shoot videos. They've got

Specifically growl. I would say it has a very

dark sense of humor some days Yes, he does Well,

yeah, I mean he played the devil in the tenacious

D movie and that was kind of awesome But my favorite

video there is and also one of my favorite songs

is learn to fly Yeah, where it's basically talking

about the you know this random 747 flight and

they all play like a dozen different characters

throughout the video and there's one scene where

the I can't remember who the backup guitarist

I think I think it was Nate Mendel is Nate Mendel

I'm not sure it came into the video and Dave

Grohl and Taylor Hawkins are dressed up as these

two huge fat ladies And they start looking around

at all the different passengers, specifically

like the Foo Fighters themselves, because they're

also on this flight. Yeah. And it just, and it

just, they start like, they turn everyone's heads

turning into hamburgers and eventually it becomes

like airplane where the Foo Fighters have to

land the plane. Like I'm surprised they didn't

get Leslie Nielsen to do a cameo. Do they have

Clarence Clarence? Yeah. Do you like movies about

gladiators, Joey? But no, again, they're a band.

They campaign for a lot of different political

causes. They're activists. They try to do something

with their music beyond just playing music. They

try to get people involved, and they try to inform

and educate people. That alone is one of the

main reasons why I like the band. But again,

they're just a great rock band. They do great

songs, great shows. I would love to see them

in this lifetime. Yeah, so Yeah, I mean Oh, what

were you gonna say Dave? I was just gonna say

I'm kind of glad you mentioned Dave Grohl because

there's a band I forgot to mention in my honorable

mentions Another band that that has Dave Grohl

in it, and I'm not actually talking about Nirvana

I'm talking about Queens of the Stone Age. I

completely forgot to bring them up and they're

They're another one of my bands just kind of

going off side track He wasn't with them though

through their whole run, but he was a member

at one point Yeah, that's what kind of made me

think of them for me the Foo Fighters have to

Like I like their songs, but it's not They're

not a band. I can listen to their entire catalog.

I mean, it's not like me where I can go through

all of theory of a dead man's catalog or 12 stones

catalog or you know whatever but i love when

their songs show up in movies like my hero showed

up in varsity blues um you know i i mean i love

when that kind of stuff happens i love the fact

that i think was it was the last record of the

record before the last one where they recorded

it all on like tape They actually went back to

using, like, I don't know if it was 8 -track,

but they actually went back to using a non -digital

means of recording their album at one point.

Wow, cool. I did not know that. The White Stripes

did that with a few of their albums, I think,

too. Yeah. What were you going to say, JT? I

was going to say they also pitted the foo on

Robot Chicken. Have you ever seen that? If you've

ever seen that sketch where you know, they put

mr. T through a wall The Foo Fighters put mr.

T through a wall. That's not even cool That's

awesome Yeah, all right, so moving on Where the

hell are we I lost my place damn it Dave now

okay yeah Dave what do you got for number five

I think it is yeah cuz I already said number

six okay is they might be Giants another kind

of an obscure band but they had a few songs that

people kind of know them for most notably Istanbul

Particle Man a lot of songs off of their flood

album from 1990 actually which is one of the

main reasons why i put them on this list they

might be giants is just has their own special

kind of weird like their songs not only make

sense or they not only don't make sense but they

don't make sense in the best way possible if

that's that's the only way i can really describe

them That makes so much sense. I know. And one

of the best uses of accordion in a band. Yes.

Briefly, not to take away from Dave's pick here,

but going back to the Foo Fighters, Wasting Light,

the 2010 album, was recorded in Dave Grohl's

garage using only analog equipment. Okay, cool.

Awesome. Yeah They might be giants. I think I've

only heard maybe two songs from them I think

Yeah, birdhouse and your soul is another one.

A lot of people know Anna Ing maybe They've done

a lot of songs for like soundtracks and like

theme songs of different shows Yeah, I think

the Daily Show theme song was done by them In

the second Austin Powers movie, the Dr. Evil

theme was done by them. And then most notably,

probably the song most people know them for that

I almost forgot, the Malcolm in the Middle theme.

Oh, yeah. The boss of me was They Might Be Giants.

I think if you don't know them for anything else,

if you've seen even one episode of Malcolm in

the Middle, you know that song and that's them.

And they have that signature kind of whiny voice

that gets kind of annoying but it's kind of I

like it at the same time because it's unique

so I think I get them and the mighty mighty boss

tones confused sometimes because I always whenever

someone says to me they might be Giants the first

thing I go to is the mighty mighty boss tone

song of the impression that I get but I know

it's boss tones and not they might be Giants

They're different enough that you shouldn't have

that but that's just but they are very they're

both very kind of like light -hearted bands So

I can understand that it's not like you're getting

them and like Bush mixed up or something Yeah,

so that's true because if you got a bush mixed

up with them Wow Yeah, no, I know bush did not

do the impression that I get So my number five

is the second crossover and why I didn't talk

about them a lot earlier is U2. I would say Angelina

Jolie as Lara Croft kind of you know relaunched

U2 into a new light with elevation and all the

Tomb Raider music that they did. uh... but no

like dave said earlier and and you know i have

so i love uh... mysterious ways simply because

it was in the uh... pilot for which played and

it's basically got nancy butler looking hot as

hell on a motorcycle uh... but no i love that

song i love uh... a lot of other songs you know

i love the fact that uh... adam clinton larry

mullen did the theme song for the first mission

possible uh... movie that was awesome Actually,

something kind of weird was the band members

actually split off, and you already said Adam

Clayton and Larry Mullen did Mission Impossible,

but then Bono and The Edge wrote the theme song

for GoldenEye that Tina Turner performed. Yes.

Very obscure. Which is probably my favorite.

It's probably my favorite Bon song. Yeah, oh,

yeah, my favorite bond song is the Duran Duran

song for a view to a kill kill Yeah, that song

is awesome. I could see that But no, I mean,

you know you two they've been around forever

and you know, you can say that you know at some

point when they you know when you hear about

Bono and you two at this point nowadays it's

like oh Bono's doing more charity work and I

think that they've kind of let the music take

a backseat to doing the charity work and not

that there's anything against you know doing

the charity work but if you're an artist and

you want people to listen to your stuff you have

to make stuff yeah make albums you have to create

songs i mean it's fine if they want to you know

turn into a band that that writes songs for others

that's you know all well and good i just don't

think that Your charity work should take a front

seat to your music Yeah, I think they've they've

gotten to the point now where they release an

album every like five years or so Yeah, but at

the same time these the band members are what

like in their 50s. So The Rolling Stones are

like in their hundreds. I mean, they're still

out Yeah, I'm okay with them slowing down a little

bit at this point compared to like the 80s where

they had an album coming out every one or two

years, you know Yeah, one thing I just want to

mention you to the the edge did me and Mike did

they did the podcast but the Batman cartoon last

week and the edge did the first and best version

of that theme song If you haven't seen it It

was creepy, but it was like a decent, you know

I don't want to say funky in that sense, but

it had like Was perfect for the cartoon and then

they're like, hey, let's make it better. Yes

So JT, what is your number four? My number four

is a band that Mike tried to attribute a song

of theirs to one of my earlier in the list is

the Crash Test Dummies. Oh, yes. Going back to

Canada. Now, they're honestly like as much as

they are an alternative rock band, they're much

more closely like they're even though they're

labeled that they sound much more like a folk

rock band, which in that sense is pretty much

the only folk rock that I listen to. Well on

their but unlike the first three albums two or

three albums they did But one of the things I

like about crash test dummies is they're constantly

reinventing their sound Yeah, so there's really

no two crash test dummies albums that sound exactly

alike And I think that's really cool where they're

constantly the same We're reinventing our sound

and it sense like sounds like the same old thing.

No, that's the great one of the many things I

love about the man. Also the fact that Well,

I just love the name First of all, that's it.

It's part commercials. Don't lie No music Mike

For me, it makes me think of the Crash Test Dummies

toys that came out in the 90s. Does anyone remember

those? Where you press the button and all the

pieces fly off? They stopped making them because

I think they were like a choking hazard, but

those things were awesome and I miss them. But

no, the Crash Test Dummies, again, they're a

band that I just love, top to bottom, like the

Bare Naked Ladies. Because they just have this

very unique sound like you like Dave said they

Excuse me. They reinvent themselves with every

album, but I'll maintain that integrity that

I guess their personal dedication to their craft

because they're one of the bands that there isn't

Like there's nothing I've ever listened to theirs

that it sounds bad or it sounds this isn't as

good as the previous album Like they always maintain

that high -level of professionalism almost without

sounding like so much product. Now, one of the

first songs I ever listened or heard of them

was the aforementioned mm -mm. I just don't understand.

I listen to that song and I just, I don't get

it. It's a weird song lyrically, yeah. And then

there's stuff like... like the lead track of

what they think there's a second or third album

was the Afternoons and Coffee Spoons, which is

a very poppy light -hearted song and there's

stuff like the Ballad of Peter Pan. Probably

my all -time favorite song which came out prior

to it actually happening comic books was the

Superman song which talked about you know Superman

dying and you watch the music video and they

got Green Arrow and The Flash and Wonder Woman,

but all the costumes were tweaked just so Warner

Bros. didn't sue the hell out of them. But it's

just basically like it was a great song and it

came out like it was very serendipitous because

it came out at the same time as the comic books

more or less and just kind of making me a fan

for life. So I think probably of all the songs,

sorry Dave. I think the first time I heard them

was the ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead from the

Dumb and Dumber soundtrack and then from then

I was like, these guys are cool and I went and

got all their albums and I actually just recently

listened to every single one of their albums

in order, like in chronological order and it

never got boring, like I never wanted to stop

listening to them. So I think that's a testament

to them as a band. Oh, yeah. Because I mean,

just like you said, like afternoons, coffee spoons,

it's just them singing about having a great day,

basically. And I love songs like that from bands

that I love where they just basically a slice

of life. Yeah. Sort of song. So. Oh, yeah. Yeah,

stuff like that's always good. Dave, what is

your number four? My number four is Blur, probably

one of the most prominent Britpop bands of the

90s. And saying a lot of songs about Britain,

even though I don't know that much about the

country, I just think their music is great. Mostly

known for the song, Song Two, I think it was

on the... the Batman and Robin or Batman Forever

soundtrack or something. The one where it's just

the guy going, wahoo. Yeah, that's like the main

thing people know Blurr for. But I mean, they've

got a lot of really great albums that came out

before that that didn't have as many hit singles

on them, but just very fun band to listen to

and very entertaining. And I've always been a

man. His name is Damon Albert the guy who was

their lead singer Who also happens to be the

guy who started gorillas in the early 2000s?

So another band that I really like Yeah Crazy

Canadian stuff My number four is the goo -goo

dolls now. I know this is gonna show up on JT's

list at some point Because JT has confessed to

me before that he's a huge goo -goo dolls fan,

but I absolutely love these guys because of What

they've done with their own sound like they're

they're an alt rock band but They don't really...

They're more of an alternative ballad band, honestly.

I mean, it's kind of like, you know, the hair

metal ballads of the 80s, but you take out the

metal part of it and you get the Goo Goo Dolls.

And they have a really... That's actually a very

good way to describe them. Yeah. Yeah. I just

call them just a rock band because, I mean, they've

played in... You know, they've been an alt rock

band. They've been a post grunge rock band They've

been a pop rock band. They were punk rock in

their early career They're just a rock band because

I mean if once you cross into more than two or

three Sub -genres of rock you're just a rock

band Yes, not to take anything away from them.

So right, right I think the first song I ever

heard from them was name. I didn't even know

who they were and then in 1998 iris hit And the

Dizzy Up the Girl album was just super, super

popular because of that, because of Iris being

on the City of Angels soundtrack. And they're

a band that, as JT said, can rock out, but can

also, as I said, can also do a ballad like Iris.

And I just, I love listening to their songs.

Yeah, no, it's, the Goo Goo Dolls do show up

in my list, so I will... Refrain from comment.

Yes this time What is your number three? My number

three actually isn't the goo -goo dolls. It's

mr. Lenny Kravitz Yes Probably the former husband

of Lisa Bonet. Yeah, I'm not gonna hold that

against him Hey somebody had to marry Denise

at some point Yeah, she was Denise. Come on now.

I know I Honestly, I was more attracted to the

older sister Sondra yeah, I don't think I was

ever attracted to any of the Cosby kids seconds

Okay, we're erasing the last 30 seconds. No,

we're not. Yeah, no, Lenny Kravitz, probably

the first and only like singular, you know, artist

on my top 10 favorites list here. Because again,

kind of like the blue doodles, like he plays,

he plays like a dozen different instruments.

He plays in like set six different genres. He's

a singer, he's a songwriter, he's a composer,

a lyricist, producer, stranger, actor. Apparently

also an interior and clothes designer. This guy

is like the living breathing version of the comic

book character Mr. Terrific. He can do pretty

much any damn thing he wants. My first introduction

to Lenny Kravitz was just hearing the single

Are You Gonna Go My Way in the mid -90s and really

didn't get into him until what was the one that

came out? Was it like circa 95? What was the

name of the circus? Yeah, that's it. No album

five in 98 with fly away. Yeah, you know if you

can't say no I belong to you, but he's a guy

he just has a very soulful sound he has a Great

he can has both an aggressive and ace. It's very

Awesome. This is a guy he can play any genre

he can play any Type he can play any instrument.

This guy is the Swiss Army knife of musicians

Yes. And it just, seriously, the guy, he grew

up knowing like the greats like Aretha Franklin,

James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Gladys Knight,

like this guy was, there was no, nothing else

going for him except music. Yeah. So. I would

say an I don't know if I'm gonna get hate mail

for this or if I'm gonna get people commenting

on this episode post on geekcastradio .com saying

you're fucking wrong. I would say that Lenny

Kravitz is to the 90s as Jimi Hendrix was to

the 60s. I mean, he's that diverse and he's that

much of a rocker. I could see it, yeah. I don't

know if I would put him on that pedestal, but...

But I can see the comparison. No, I'm not. I

need to clarify. I'm not saying Lenny Kravitz

is as good as what Jimi Hendrix was. I'm saying

their styles and the two different decades that

they performed their music in, they are similar

to each other in those retrospect. Yeah, definitely.

Yeah. In that respect. And there's definitely

a Jimi Hendrix influence on Lenny Kravitz's music.

Oh, yes. Well, even in his style, you know, especially

on five. Oh, yes. Yeah. I mean, Fly Away could

essentially be the 90s version of Purple Haze.

I mean, it just could. Yeah. He doesn't have

all along the watchtower, but I'm sure it's coming.

Right. On a random side note, this has nothing

to do with Lenny Kravitz's music, but The Hunger

Games came out like a week before we recorded

this episode and he's actually in that movie.

He actually plays a character in it. Just randomly

throwing that out there. He's actually started

to act more and he's not a half bad actor. Plus

he gave birth to Zoe Kravitz and I think she's

hot. And I raise my glass to him on that note.

Yes Where the hell are we now? I believe it's

me. Yeah Three three. Yeah I actually have three

B artists like artists that have names that start

with B In a row and this is the second one and

it's Bjork Really kind of has a weird style one

of my favorite female singers We already mentioned

the chick from the cranberries earlier. I think

I probably like Bjork even more than I like her

Someone I just kind of got into recently I always

I always kind of lumped Bjork into this like

pop rock singer category and never really gave

her the respect she deserved but Once I really

started to listen to her, I realized how much

of a brilliant songwriter she is and how diverse

all of her music is. Some of it's leaning towards

pop, some of it's borderline heavy metal, some

of it's got a dance influence. She's all over

the map and there's really something for everyone.

And her best work was in the early 90s when She

released like debut and post with Army of Me

and like Hyper Ballad and Hyper Ballad, Beautiful

Sensuality, Human Behavior and Violently Happy

are all the ones that I know. You know, now that

you say that though, Dave, that she's very versatile

and does almost anything and everything with

her music, I would say that Lady Gaga is a Bjork

copycat. yeah issues lady gaga is pretty much

Madonna and Bjork like put together me on a Madonna

Bjork and Miranda Lambert cuz I'm sorry there

is one song there's a song called you and I by

Lady Gaga where I swear to god it sounds like

she's a country artist well she's no I mean Bjork

I I've I liked her like growing up in the 90s.

I loved her music videos because they're always

like really Mindfuck when it comes to music videos

watch her stuff Yeah, a lot of a lot of them

are actually directed by Michelle gondry who

directed eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

so Yeah, it's and Yeah, no as she just has like

that really ex unique extreme style that you

can't look away Yeah, no you can't. It's just

impossible to look away from it, yes. But she's

got that sound, like a lot of her songs start

off like very quiet, like not quietly but very

sedately, very soft and the next thing you know

she goes from being like this almost songstress

to like, you know almost scatterwalling in a

way to some of her stuff, but it's not that I

dislike her, it's just I do dig some of her stuff.

It's just not me So yeah, yeah, that's that's

fine. I mean, you know, it's not gonna be for

everybody Yeah It's actually funny. I I think

this is true. I mean, I just heard it I listened

to as of this recording. I just listened to the

Nerdist podcast with Chris Hardwick where he

had Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulson on on the

same episode. So fucking hilarious having the

two of them on together. But at the end of the

episode, Chris Hardwick started doing a Bjork

impression. He said, oh yeah, true story. I almost

hit on her in a club one time and then this one

guy just kind of jumped in front of me and Bjork

cock blocked me. pretty much but uh... no it

was so hilarious that that that i was listening

to that and then we were bringing this up um...

my number three is savage garden you know say

what you want to about those two guys but for

two guys from australia who sing like they live

in america um they were awesome the sad thing

is they only made two albums but both of their

albums i love almost every single song off of

both of their self -titled album and their affirmation

album um you know i want you was huge to the

moon and back was huge truly madly deeply was

people's love song for years in the 90s i mean

as soon as truly madly deeply hit it was like

oh my god people just absolutely love that song

so and it's sad that they only had two albums

and then they just kind of moved on they broke

up and and went on to do other things I don't

know if that's entirely a bad thing I don't know

if their style would have fit into the 2000s

well their style I would say I would say it's

a little bit like, a little bit like, and of

course JT's probably gonna jump through my monitor

for saying this, it's a little bit of the softer

version of Vertical Horizon. It's not totally,

the two bands aren't similar hardly at all, but

I see a little bit of that, and I think they

could have made at least maybe one more album

into the 2000s. Yeah, I don't see them sticking

around for 10 years. but uh... i mean honestly

after after the self -titled album came out i

was like okay awesome and i loved all the songs

off that and then i was in of all places i was

at the time which they these don't exist anymore

if anyone has one of these in their town email

and let me know because at the time i was in

a sam goodie well I bet JT can't find anything

in the town he lives in except a Sam Goody. No,

we've got H &V, we don't got no CD Plus, and

all the Rogers and Blockbusters are closed now.

Yeah, but I was in a Sam Goody, and you know

how they have, this is not where you can go up

and put headphones on and listen to tracks, but

they'll have intercom music going on in the store.

Um and I heard the the animal song is what it's

called off of the Affirmation album and I'm like

wait. Is there a new Savage Garden album coming

out? They're like, yeah, it's coming out next

week. I'm like, oh awesome and I left the store

It was like a week away so But yeah, but yeah

Savage Garden would be my number three JT your

number two Uh, my number two is the goo goo dolls.

Ooh, why would you put them at number two? Because

Mike, I have the best joke. What? No, I love

the doodles. I started listening to them here

and there through friends in high school. Like,

you know, we would trade. Cassettes or whatever

for like a week to listen to and make copies

of you know back when pirating wasn't such a

bad thing Back when stuff like sofa wasn't even

thought of yeah, but no the first who who dolls

ever listened to was superstar car wash which

was The the album that kind of bridged their

punk rock roots and it was basically they're

transitioning towards the pop rock sound that

a lot of people were introducing on A Boy Named

Goo, which my favorite album of theirs is A Boy

Named Goo. Now they're a band like, they've just

got an energy and especially Johnny Reznik, he's

got a talent with lyrics that they always, almost

all of their songs end up having that really

catchy, they have really catchy lyrics and very

radio -friendly, although I don't think that's

specifically what he's going for with that. It's

just they have a sound that I love, because it's

one of those things that, not unlike a lot of

hair metal stuff that came in the 80s, they just

have that unique sound that just hooks me right

in the heart like that, just right to the core.

Very few bands I can say that about. yeah i mean

you know stuff like you know off of the dizzy

up the girl album you know the song dizzy slide

which was huge for them obviously iris as i said

before but like black balloon black balloon exploded

along with iris and uh you know even stuff they've

done since then there was uh stay with you off

of the gutter flower album uh there was um they

actually did a cover of give a little bit yeah

and you know goo goo dolls is a band just like

incubus is a band that i don't mind doing covers

because they make the covers sound not better

but just as good as the originals yeah i love

when bands like established bands can do that

and it sounds awesome at the same time it's like

you know oh hey this is um i'm david mathews

and here's my david mathews cover band and it's

like oh my god you people suck Yeah, it's like

we're not the we're the undave Matthews band

is like oh my god and all as they do is covers

and it's like oh Some cover bands absolutely

suck and there's some established bands as I

said that can really pull it off Yeah, no, it's

the Cuckoo Dolls. I said they did they have this

sound that I love and I Wouldn't go into too

many details, but Iris is my all -time favorite

song from them for some really personal reasons.

Suffice to say, I still love her. Even though

she tore my heart to crap. It's one of those

things, yes. Yeah, so it's... I like listening

to it but at the same time at the back of my

mind I'm like why are you listening to this this

fool you she hurt us I mean that's I mean that

you know I don't have I don't have that connection

with the song but yeah you know another band

on my 80s my actually my number one band in the

80s countdown Hall and Oates I have that connection

with that band and those artists because of my

aunt rose and i had a hat that's what we bonded

over was hall and oaks songs and i can't listen

to stuff like you know say it isn't so and you

know i can't listen to some some hall and oaks

songs because i just end up sitting here in tears

thinking you know oh my god i miss my aunt rose

because she's not here with us no and i mean

another another artist that uh... at least if

i had been if i was on the eighty top ten eighties

would have been brian adams and When I say I

lump them together with Brian Adams, the Goo

Goo Dolls, it's not in any negative reason. It's

just there and that Brian Adams liked the Goo

Goo Dolls when they started. They had a very,

they had a growl in them. They had a very noticeable

edge in the sound of their music, which over

the years has softened and become this very...

Poppy, you know adult top 40 sort of rock sound

which I still love both the goo -goo dolls and

Bryan Adams to this day, you know the current

sound because I love them and the other thing

I just want to mention quick before we move on

is Johnny Resnick did the song I'm still here

for the Disney movie Treasure Planet Yeah, which

I love that movie and I also love that song so

Very underrated movie. Yeah It is. Well, who

doesn't love a cyborg pirate? I mean, I tell

ya. You know, if you cross that with, you know,

someone who has a police box and then a zombie,

I bet Mike Dodd would be all over that. Well,

that's a comic book waiting to happen right now.

Seriously, I mean, they've had pirates on Doctor

Who, but why have they not had cyborg pirates?

It's only a matter of time give it a few more

seasons. Yes. Yeah my number two Is and again,

you know the whole thing of the shit joke For

me the 80s and the night the early the late 80s

early 90s blended together because from nine

Late 1992 going into February of 93. I was going

through family issues Essentially what happened

was and I don't mind revealing this because it's

what happened. My mom had a nervous breakdown

Come to find out the boyfriend that she was living

with since 1984 In fact was married and had two

stepdaughters already. So we have no idea how

he was leading this secret life with us but new

kids on the block Absolutely love them number

one because I'm also from Boston just as they

are And, you know, even though they had only

a certain amount of, you know, huge popularity

from 93. I mean, it was everywhere. You know,

uh, and, you know, they are, I credit them with

really kicking off the nineties boy band craze,

uh, is, is, is new kids, stuff like hanging tough

and the right stuff and even some of their other

stuff that they've done. They did come back and

do another album. Recently they had a reunion

a couple years ago. There's only one song off

the album that I actually like, which is called

Summertime, which still has that same 90s New

Kids flair for it. But I don't know, I just absolutely

love them as a kid. I will admit that I was I

know I've poked fun with other friends before

but I was a bit of a fan like I love singing

groups you know bday boy bands or r &b groups

like boys to men stuff like that and I did dig

a lot of their bigger hits you know yeah uh once

they kind of towards the end of their initial

fandom their initial fame where they went to

nkotb and I was kind of like yeah that was like

not so much Yeah, especially like when Donnie

came out like a WrestleMania in the early 90s

and oh god. Yes I mean he was starting to see

starting to sport the scruff and looking kind

of how he looks nowadays on blue bloods, but

It's there. I like them. I love their stuff.

So all of those guys have gone on to do other

stuff Jordan and Jonathan Knight the twins have

gone on to do their own musical stuff Joey McIntyre

has done his own solo stuff He was in Boston

Public, which was a very awesome Fox drama show.

I tripped out when he came on Exactly, you know

Donnie Wohlberg uh... yeah i was done in there

well you know it's not yet donnie walberg and

danny danny uh... danny wood yeah uh... donnie

walberg uh... you know he's gone on to do several

movies huh he killed bruce willis in the sixth

sense i'm just saying i when i found out that

was in the the skinny mental patient that kills

bruce willis in the sixth sense that was donnie

walberg yeah wow i didn't know that Yeah, he's

gone on to do a bunch of stuff. One thing I remembered

as a kid, but I didn't remember until I was doing

research for other stuff. I cannot believe that

this band had an animated series. Oh, yeah, oh

I can Like like when I oh, I know what it was

I was researching because we interviewed We interviewed

Lauren Lester who is the voice of Dick Grayson

Robin from Batman the animated series? And he

was the voice of Jordan Knight in new kids on

the block the animated series and I was like,

oh my god, holy crap I completely forgot about

that cartoon so Yeah, no, it's New kids like

I said, they're I mean you it proves the strength

of Probably the core of any boy band is like

their boy band. Yes, but they're also You know

singers and artists and yeah. Oh, yeah, clearly

people remember them more for the songs then

You know Donnie being the badass back in the

day and is now so Yes What about you Dave? What

is your number two? My number two is I would

almost equate him as the male version of Bjork

and that's Beck Hansen or simply known as Beck

on his albums It's very hard to like decipher

his lyrics, but I've always just dug his stuff

I love how eclectic Beck is that he can combine

country and hip -hop and rock not just on the

same album, but into the same song and actually

make it work. I think that's amazing. Not only

make it work, but make a sound unto himself that

is almost unclassifiable. Yeah, you know a Beck

song because it's a Beck song. There's really

nothing else that sounds like it. Yeah, it's

not alt rock. It's not pop. It's not new wave.

It's just that's Beck. Yeah, I think if I We

compared Lenny Kravitz to like the 90s Jimi Hendrix

earlier I think I would almost call Beck the

90s Bob Dylan in a sense I can see that actually.

Yeah, you can see that. It's kind of like how

Lenny Kravitz was, you know Jimmy Then yeah,

that's like the he's like the anti folk artist

basically. Yeah He like takes standard folk music

and then kind of spins it on his head and a lot

of his best stuff like Loser, Where It's At,

Jackass, The New Pollution, a lot of really great

songs all came out in the 90s so that's why I

included him on this list. He was easily one

of the most prolific artists of that time and

one of the hardest to nail down stylistically.

just oh yeah changing on every every album yeah

so yeah i think i'll always love beck probably

till he dies despite how weird he is and the

fact that he's a scientologist and well you know

see it's like i still yeah you know everybody's

like oh oh my god we have to pay attention to

what our favorite artists or bands are doing

in their personal lives i don't care as long

as you give me a nice good awesome catchy song

i mean outside of you know either being a child

molester or a murderer i don't care what these

people do in their personal time as long as they

keep giving me great music You know I mean, it's

you know people you know same thing if you said

about Tom And I know we're going off on a tangent

here, but same thing can be said about Tom Cruise

I don't give a shit if he's a goddamn Scientologist

as long as he keeps pumping out Mission Impossible

movies I Don't care if you're a Scientologist

as long as you keep your religion to yourself

Just saying wait, maybe they want to lose their

religion but a bump lame epic fail and now our

number one choices so jt what is your number

one favorite artist or band of the 90s um going

back to canada again it's our lady peace oh yeah

now those boys who seem to think they are so

innocent I don't think they think that like They're

a bad one of their song titles you moron. I know

I know Now they're killed Superman damn it No,

that was DC Comics and actually it was his marriage

that killed him, but I'll tell you about that

later No, our lady piece of all the artists on

my list they are the ones that I think almost

completely deserve the title of artist. Like,

everything from their early alt -rock and the

post -grunge to, you know, the even art rock,

which I didn't even know was a genre, and kind

of coming back again to their alt -rock roots

in recent years is they always, they're a very

artistic band, like everything from their album

covers to their album titles to their song titles

to their lyrics. They're just a band like this

bit led by rain model. Like this is a band first

song ever heard was Superman's dead You know,

and they're a band again kind of like the Foo

Fighters that they came up some really Interesting

and very intense visuals and saw a lot of their

videos And all these some really is spent and

also like Bush and really dark stuff too at times

but That wasn't necessarily the videos were never

necessarily reflection of their music. It's just

Here's the song but we're gonna go, you know

Superman's dead So instead of doing something

like the Superman song from crash test dummies.

They came up with like this kind of surreal Tim

Burton esque nightmare sequence of like kind

of a zombified Superman Yeah, and it's just they're

a band that I love everything they've done. You

know, it's especially Honestly, Naveed, I think

it was Naveed or was it Starseed, I forget which

was the actual album. It's just that was the

first one I ever got of theirs, that was my own.

Like my brother had a couple, he had Clumsy and

Happy and this is a fish you can't, you can catch.

It's just, there's like, they tell stories that

you might not necessarily get right away, but

you understand at the same time. It's just, I...

Yes, I love these guys. There's just so much

I want to say, but I would be here for an hour.

And I will say I also slightly hate Reign Mata

because he's married to Chantal Kreviacic and

one day she will be mine. Yeah, right, dude.

Keep dreaming. Hey, a man can dream. Keep dreaming.

Yeah, no our lady piece. I you know I loved all

their stuff. They actually have a new album coming

out on April 17th Called curve yeah Looking forward

to it. I'm gonna get that in iTunes as soon as

I can yeah And it was funny, I think they just

released a single for it I got an iTunes notification

that they released a single for something recently

um but no yeah they were always a really really

great band um what about you dave what is your

number one favorite band or artist from the 90s

uh my number one favorite band from the 90s is

radio head a band that's gotten me through pretty

much any time I'm feeling down, I could just

listen to a Radiohead song and it's like they

understand exactly what I'm going through. I

think it was Rolling Stone magazine that actually

said that in a time, in like the late 90s, early

2000s, in a time when most artists really care

as much about their music, a lot of them were

holdovers from the early 90s. or they were artists

that were just sort of coming out but weren't

really putting out anything good yet. Radiohead

was like the one artist that really popped to

the top of the heap during that time period and

were known for putting out music that was as

good as some of the best music that was coming

out back in like the 60s and 70s that they put

that much thought into it. Not only lyrically

but musically and even the way that their songs

are mixed together and the songs that are chosen

for the album. I don't know, everything about

Radiohead I think is absolutely brilliant. They're

just one of those artists I will never tire of.

And I think if I was on a desert island and I

had to pick one band that I could only listen

to them for the rest of my life, it would probably

be these guys. And definitely looking forward

to future Radiohead albums in coming out in the

future since they're still putting out great

stuff uh... in rainbows came out in two thousand

seven was one of their best album so so you're

looking forward to the future yeah yes i think

the only song i've ever heard from them is uh...

creep it was a good song it was a good song but

it's so funny to me that Three bands and artists

have in the 90s all Have a song named creeps.

Don't double pilots have one radio head and TLC

Yeah, except TL wasn't TLC is called creep creep

Well, that was a little bit in the song. It's

like creep creep. Yeah, that's just in the song.

That's not okay That is that is pretty funny

though, but yeah, yeah I would say to anyone

to go back and listen to their OkCupid album

from, or OkCupid, that's the website named after

the album, their Ok Computer album from 1997,

probably one of the best albums of the late 90s,

if the entire decade of the 90s. Yeah. So, if

you haven't had a chance, listen to that. I got

to see one thing about Radiohead, well... Again,

kind of like Björk, not that I disliked their

sound, some of their stuff I really loved, I

absolutely loved their videos. I'm a guy, I love

comics, cartoons. I like something with a visual

texture to it, something that you can notice

a lot of things. Radiohead always had really

inventive and entertaining music videos. So yeah

for sure the their music video for street spirit

fadeout is probably my favorite music video ever

made So really I will definitely agree with you

on that one. Yes. It's one of every now and again

you watch him was in your head while you were

listening to the song and That's how I feel about

that video. Yeah, I think probably I haven't

seen for a while, was it the video for Airbag?

For some reason that's coming to my mind. Is

that the one where he's driving in his car? I

think that's the one. Oh no, that's Karma Police.

I don't know if I've seen the one for Airbag.

No, Karma Police, that's the one I was thinking

of where he's, I thought, you know, Airbag driving.

No, it's just, it's something about, like they're

kinda... like they're artists on every level

like their lyrics their performances their music

videos it just all seeps through to every facet

of their of their deal and i love like i said

i wasn't a huge fan of a lot of their music i

love some of it but it was their videos were

just visually like they were beautiful so Yeah,

they definitely have a very uncompromising style

But I will say that you can't you have to be

in the right mood to listen to radiohead. They're

very dark and Depressing I guess and it is very

melancholy Yeah, that's a good word to use Yes,

and my number one is the only solo artist on

my list, which is Edwin McCain most people will

know him for the song i'll be off of the misguided

roses album uh... he also did uh... i could not

ask for more off the messenger album honestly

one of the reasons why i like him so much is

but his may his nineteen ninety nine messenger

album from track one to track twelve minus the

fact that there's an acoustic version of all

beyond on that album uh... it was just great

great songs it was awesomely written songs, great

sounding songs. He's someone who approaches it

from a songwriter's standpoint versus, you know,

a band like say Nickelback that may have gotten

too polished and too radio friendly or whatever

else. And, you know, he's someone who approaches

it because he loves doing music, not because

he's really I mean, the guy's only released a

handful of albums his entire career. uh... and

you know his songs have gotten major radio play

but it's not like he's releasing music every

two years uh... but i just i don't know specifically

the the messenger album is an album i can listen

to on repeat all the time and just absolutely

love it was just great so there you go that's

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ready. top ten artists or bands, favorite artists

or bands in the 90s, that's gonna do it. I think

all of our lists were very eclectic, to say the

least. There was only like, I think, two overlaps

in, no, three overlaps. Bush, U2, and Goo Goo

Dolls were the three overlaps, but the rest of

it was all unique choices to each of us. I know

None of us picked Green Day. None of us picked

Nirvana. None of us picked The Smashing Pumpkins

or Metallica. The way that I've set up the the

music spotlight is we'll talk about certain like

in the 90s episode we talked about Metallica,

Pearl Jam, Nirvana. So I felt at least in making

my own list because it like I listen to those

bands, but I didn't listen to them all the time.

These are the bands on my list that I listened

to all the time from 1990 to 1999. So yeah, I've

kind of done that kind of separation. JT, any

final thoughts for the countdown? I'd say, you

know, obviously I listened to nothing, almost

nothing, but rock music in the 90s. I mean, I

certainly listened to other things. Like I had

a lot of soundtracks in the 90s which exposed

me to a wide much wider variety of Genres than

just rock. Oh, yeah, if I listen to anything

else besides rock in the 90s It would have been

a lot of you know when I got into like hip -hop

R &B like I like something with a good beat Yeah,

you know rap really I'm really choosy about what

I like to listen to and rap and all that. So

But no, it's just the 90s. There was It's like

something you said before is like whereas the

80s were really expressive and inventive with

new sounds the 90s was like the decade of almost

the decade of product and in especially in the

late 90s once the companies really started churning

out a lot of things because there were like so

many what singles I loved listening to in the

90s that you almost never hear from those bands

again yeah and it was almost all soundtrack stuff

too so yeah I mean, soundtracks for me, and I'm

sure at some point we may, I haven't added it

to the schedule yet, but we may have a soundtrack

and scores episode where we just talk about soundtrack

music and like, you know, scoring stuff like,

you know, Hans Zimmer and Trevor Rabe and stuff

like that. But soundtracks to me are a buffer.

Like the one specific I know of is Daredevil.

Nickelback had learned the hard way. on the uh...

on the on the daredevil soundtrack and that was

like three or four months before their album

came out in two thousand three you know soundtracks

for me are like oh hey this band is coming out

with new music that's that's awesome now i mean

specifically soundtracks were better in the eighties

and early nineties when you know ninety percent

of music was actually in a movie but you know

Well, nowadays it's music from and an emphasis

on inspired by, which means we paid a lot of

money to put it here. Oh yes. It's like, we license

these fuckers, we're paying them money, so it

has to be inspired by. That or it's like artists

that are on the record label owned by the company

that produced the movie and they want to make

more money. Like when Sony puts out a Spider

-Man movie, they'll get people who are on Sony

Records to be on the album. and they make more

money I mean specifically I can think of one

band more so for the 2000s than for the 90s but

since you brought that up about you know the

companies putting licensed people that the company

has rights to Lincoln Park sold their souls to

Michael Baynes and Paramount Pictures with their

Transformers soundtrack songs Well, we don't

know that for sure, Mike. I mean, Michael Bay

could have backed like a couple of tanker trucks

up to their respective houses and just dumped

it on the front lawn. And if that happens, can

you really be accused of selling your soul or

just, you know? Hey, if you sign the contract

to sell your soul, that's selling your soul.

I'm sure there's contracts involved. Oh, God,

can you imagine a Linkin Park Turtles theme song?

Oh god. Mike, I'm gonna hurt you. Teenage Alien

Ninja Turtles. It taint the real thing. Alright,

so Dave, any final thoughts on these countdowns?

First off, I just hate Linkin Park in general.

I'm just throwing that out there. But anyways,

I think just the fact that all of our lists barely

coincided. like he said there's like three bands

that we had doubles of there was not a single

band that appeared on all three of our lists

and I think that's just the testament to the

diversity of the 90s that you had and it was

all most of it was the music too especially in

the early 90s there was a lot of good there was

not only good rock but there was good pop and

good hip -hop and and good techno music and all

this stuff Was kind of reaching its heyday all

at once and it's I would consider it one of the

best eras for music. Oh Yeah, no doubt no doubt

it was which again is is a band we didn't even

talk about which is no doubt and tragic kingdom

and all that stuff and Which I'm surprised no

one picks. No doubt is one of their lists considering

We talked about Bush and Gavin Rosedale and seeing

as how he and Gwen Stefani either I think they

used to be or still are married to each other.

I don't remember. Anyways. I don't really follow

Gwen Stefani's personal life, so. Yeah. Who'd

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