TEENAGE FANCLUB The King 1991

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Tracklist

Heavy Metal 6	1:26
Mudhoney	6:03
Interstellar Overdrive	3:21
Robot Love	2:08
Like A Virgin	4:21
The King	2:17
Opal Inquest	5:30
The Ballad Of Bow Evil (Slow And Fast)	5:21
Heavy Metal 9	1:24

 

 

 

IDAHO This Way Out 1994

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Tracklist 

1	Drop Off	2:41
2	Drive It	3:46
3	Weird Wood	3:51
4	Fuel	3:28
5	Still	2:45
6	Sweep	3:51
7	Glow	3:30
8	Taken	4:40
9	Crawling Out	2:01
10	Zabo	2:02
11	Forever	6:07

MERRY CHRISTMAS / HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM I HATE THE 90s

Thank you all for reading my blog, your great comments, and all the contributors who help make I Hate the 90s so much better. I appreciate all of you!

And guess what? I got my very first visit to the blog from someone in Cuba!



Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays!

xoxo

Michelle

PAPAS FRITAS Papas Fritas 1995

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Papas Fritas Biography by Gregory McIntosh

Formed in 1992, pop combo Papas Fritas began as a power trio when two high-school friends from Delaware, guitarist Tony Goddess and drummer Shivika Asthana, met up with bassist Keith Gendel while attending Tufts University in Massachusetts. The three recorded and released four-track albums for fun and performed at parties on and around campus, but never took the group seriously until a tape fell onto the desk of small record label Sunday Driver Records and the label approached Papas Fritas with plans to release a 7" of the group's work. The band consented and released Friday Night with the label in February of 1994. For the first time in their history, the members of Papas Fritas promoted their music and found more interest in their work from another small indie, though notably larger than Sunday Driver, Minty Fresh. Through Minty Fresh, Papas Fritas found a home to allow some growth. They tossed aside the four-track, built a more functional studio in their basement, and recorded their first effort for Minty Fresh, another 7" titled Passion Play/Lame to Be, in 1995. Both songs on the single served as the cornerstones to their first full-length, Papas Fritas, released later that same year.

The group set out on tour for a great deal of 1995 and part of 1996, including a European jaunt with the Flaming Lips, but still found time to record their second full-length, Helioself, which saw release in 1997. Papas Fritas continued to gather steam, touring even more throughout 1997 with the likes of the Cardigans (while that group was enjoying major chart success), the Eels, Blur, and others. They fell somewhat quiet during 1998 and 1999, touring little, but commenced work on their third album, Buildings and Grounds, and released it in 2000 to favorable reviews. Another massive tour followed, but just before they hit the road, the trio decided to add two members, keyboardist Donna Coppola and guitarist Chris Colthart (both members of the Faraway Places), to their lineup. Again Papas Fritas went quiet until Pop Has Freed Us, a compilation bearing nine unreleased tracks alongside four videos and eight tracks collected from their catalog, was released in 2003.

 

 

Tracklist 

1	Guys Don't Lie	2:39
2	Holiday	2:47
3	Wild Life	3:15
4	Passion Play	3:02
5	TV Movies	3:57
6	My Revolution	2:42
7	Kids Don't Mind	0:51
8	Smash This World	2:47
9	Lame To Be	2:46
10	Possibilities	2:17
11	My Own Girlfriend	1:57
12	Explain	3:39
13	Afterall	3:07

 

PAPAS FRITAS Helioself 1997

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Papas Fritas Biography by Gregory McIntosh

Formed in 1992, pop combo Papas Fritas began as a power trio when two high-school friends from Delaware, guitarist Tony Goddess and drummer Shivika Asthana, met up with bassist Keith Gendel while attending Tufts University in Massachusetts. The three recorded and released four-track albums for fun and performed at parties on and around campus, but never took the group seriously until a tape fell onto the desk of small record label Sunday Driver Records and the label approached Papas Fritas with plans to release a 7" of the group's work. The band consented and released Friday Night with the label in February of 1994. For the first time in their history, the members of Papas Fritas promoted their music and found more interest in their work from another small indie, though notably larger than Sunday Driver, Minty Fresh. Through Minty Fresh, Papas Fritas found a home to allow some growth. They tossed aside the four-track, built a more functional studio in their basement, and recorded their first effort for Minty Fresh, another 7" titled Passion Play/Lame to Be, in 1995. Both songs on the single served as the cornerstones to their first full-length, Papas Fritas, released later that same year.

The group set out on tour for a great deal of 1995 and part of 1996, including a European jaunt with the Flaming Lips, but still found time to record their second full-length, Helioself, which saw release in 1997. Papas Fritas continued to gather steam, touring even more throughout 1997 with the likes of the Cardigans (while that group was enjoying major chart success), the Eels, Blur, and others. They fell somewhat quiet during 1998 and 1999, touring little, but commenced work on their third album, Buildings and Grounds, and released it in 2000 to favorable reviews. Another massive tour followed, but just before they hit the road, the trio decided to add two members, keyboardist Donna Coppola and guitarist Chris Colthart (both members of the Faraway Places), to their lineup. Again Papas Fritas went quiet until Pop Has Freed Us, a compilation bearing nine unreleased tracks alongside four videos and eight tracks collected from their catalog, was released in 2003.

Tracklist

Hey Hey You Say
We've Got All Night
Say Goodbye
Small Rooms
Rolling In The Sand
Live By The Water
Words To Sing
Sing About Me
Just To See You
Captain Of The City
Weight
Starting To Be It

THE MARSHES self titled 1995

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1	I Am Providence
2	Summer Fun
3	Brüt Zone
4	Cave
5	Whatever You Want
6	Beneath
7	Portcullis
8	Drowning Man
9	Tombstone
10	[Untitled]

COAX Haberdashery 1996

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Artist Biography by Stewart Mason

The Dentists called it a day when guitarist Bob Collins left the Medway, Kent-based Brit-pop band in 1996 following the band's disappointing final album, Deep Six. Singer/guitarist Mick Murphy, bassist Mark Matthews, and drummer Rob Grigg regrouped with new guitarist Chris Flack to form Coax. After giving their new band an equally bad but far less memorable name than The Dentists, the quartet released Fear of Standing Still in early 1998. Although the album is a resounding return to form after the too-noisy and underwritten Deep Six, and is for all intents and purposes simply a Dentists album under a different name, Fear of Standing Still was virtually ignored in both the U.S. and the U.K. and Coax split before recording a follow-up. 

Tracklist

1	Orchestra	3:23
2	All Brand New	2:49
3	Colors From The Side Show	3:37
4	Screaming Reality	3:00
5	Warm Day In The August Sun	2:39

GUSTER Goldfly 1997

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Artist Biography by Andrew Leahey

 

Although they evolved into a full-fledged pop band, Guster began their career as a quirky acoustic trio. The band, whose three co-founders met during freshmen year at Tufts University, spent most of the 1990s touring the college circuit and releasing independent albums, all of which featured hand percussion in lieu of a traditional drum set. Released in 1999, Lost and Gone Forever widened the band’s sound considerably, and the follow-up album found percussionist Brian Rosenworcel playing a drum set on several songs. Multi-instrumentalist Joe Pisapia joined the lineup in 2003, allowing Guster more freedom to explore a combination of folk, pop, and rock.

Guster formed in 1991, when Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner, and Brian Rosenworcel first crossed paths at college orientation. Originally called Gus, the trio played local shows around the Boston area before releasing an independent album, Parachute, in 1994. By 1996, they’d elongated their name to Guster and recorded a second album, Goldfly, which netted the band a contract with Sire Records. Sire reissued Goldfly in 1998, and the bandmates decamped to a recording studio later that year to work with producer Steve Lillywhite. Released in 1999, Long and Gone Forever became the band’s unofficial breakthrough album, cracking the lower reaches of the Billboard charts and spinning off a hit single, “Fa Fa,” which peaked at number 26 on the Adult Top 40.

Compared to Guster's early albums, Long and Gone Forever was downright lush, with strings and horn sections beefing up the band's standard mix of bongos, vocal harmonies, and folk-pop songwriting. Guster went even further with their follow-up effort, Keep It Together, which featured drum kit percussion and contributions from a talented multi-instrumentalist named Joe Pisapia. The album was released during the summer of 2003, where it cracked the Top 40. Meanwhile, the band also released a “fake” version of the record, The Meowstro Sings -- Guster's Keep It Together, in which Guster’s vocal tracks were replaced with simulated cat meows. The so-called “meow mixes” were released online in an attempt to battle illegal file sharing.

Several months after Keep It Together’s release, Pisapia joined the group permanently. He made his official debut on the 2004 concert album Guster on Ice, which found the guys playing selections from all of their albums. Now a four-piece outfit, Guster returned in 2006 with their richest-sounding album to date, Ganging Up on the Sun. The group's sixth studio album, Easy Wonderful, which was partially recorded in Pisapia's Middletree Studios in Nashville, was released in October of 2010. Right around that time Pisapia announced he wouldn't be touring with the band any longer, choosing instead to play with k.d. lang full-time. He was replaced in the touring lineup by guitarist Luke Reynolds, a former member of the band Blue Merle.

Tracklist

1	Great Escape
2	Demons
3	Perfect
4	Airport Song
5	Medicine
6	X-Ray Eyes
7	Grin
8	Getting Even
9	Bury Me
10	Rocketship

SLEEPYHEAD Late Night Thinkin' 1997

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Tracklist

1	Wake Up Call
2	Boys Don't Lie
3	Gamblers Don't Gamble
4	The Good Ship
5	Late Night Thinkin'
6	Teenager

LIZARD TRAIN Everything Moves 1995

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An indie rock group who formed in Adelaide, South Australia at the start of 1985. By the time the band's last release came out in May 1995 ('Inertia'), The Lizard Train had relocated to Melbourne and evolved into The Dumb Earth (feat. Chris Willard and David Creese from Lizard Train). 

 

Tracklist

1	Severed Place	7:03
2	It All Came From Nothing	4:43
3	I Love My Demons	7:52
4	Got The Fear	4:08
5	Kiss Me Quick	5:59
6	Smoulder	4:13
7	Sheets Of Iron	5:45
8	My Soul	5:52
9	Sucker	6:26
10	Bible Covered Walls	7:07

TIZZY Befriend Us 1996

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Tracklist

1	D Is 4 Daddy
2	Hey Mr. Cool Guy
3	Miss America
4	Sugarcoat
5	Lava Surfer
6	A-4
7	William Shatner

 

 

 

 

SUGARPOP Give Up Your Sister 1997

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Review by Andy Hinds

Helmed by singer/songwriter/guitarist Jason Taylor, the little-known Sugarpop produce a surprisingly consistent batch of power pop tunes on their 1997 release Give Up Your Sister. Many of the material uncannily recalls the offbeat yet poppy sensibilities of Kurt Cobain's best work. But don't be misled -- this is not another "Nirvana-be" band -- Taylor's ideas are unique enough to warrant serious attention. Plus, the stylistic scope of Sugarpop is broader than that of most alternative rock bands of the nineties; encompassing punk, power pop, electronic drum loops, occasional country twang and other esoterica, they offer just enough variety to keep you guessing. Give Up Your Sister made a dent in the American college radio world in 1998, charting in CMJ's Top 200 briefly, but was otherwise overlooked. 

Tracklist

1. Heavy Duty Jones
2. Dashboard Hula Girl
3. Cigarette
4. Sister
5. Sad Day
6. Downtown
7. Did I Wait
8. Wendy Sinker
9. Cool Ade
10. Everarda Girl