Obscure songs from the '90s that you love to share with people

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Blastproof, Mar 3, 2018.

  1. Bob Lamonta

    Bob Lamonta Forum Resident

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    Another Nashville favorite, David Mead, who had the gorgeous tenor, the perfectly crafted pop songs, and enough good looks to beg the question why he never made it bigger. Most of his albums were in the 00s, but his debut was '98 or '99, and it's filled to the brim with memorable melodies and arrangements.

    DAVID MEAD - WORLD OF A KING (which apparently was on the soundtrack to a terrible movie)
     
  2. Bob Lamonta

    Bob Lamonta Forum Resident

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    David Garza has had brushes with fame - and certainly famous friends and supporters - but he never broke thru despite a terrific debut and wall-to-wall TV placement in those Best Buy "you don't know me, but you will" ads they used to run for artists in the late 90s. This song still smokes.

    DAVID GARZA - GLOW IN THE DARK
     
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  3. tim_neely

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    From a similar thread
    Forgotten Gems of the 90's

    This was a fairly big hit in England and mainland Europe in 1995 or so; it made it to a volume of the UK version of Now That's What I Call Music! But it didn't make any national chart in the U.S., even though the group was from North Carolina and had four previous hits on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

    I never heard this song in the 1990s; in fact, the first tine I ever heard it was in early 2016, on a local college radio station.

    Here's " '74-'75 " by the Connells:

     
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  4. polchik

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  5. Sordel

    Sordel Forum Resident

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    Genuinely fantastic songwriting. Delighted to find them getting a mention in this thread. :righton:
     
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  6. Sordel

    Sordel Forum Resident

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    Much of my favourite music came out in the 80s: Prince, Marc Almond, Peter Gabriel, The Police, U2, Kate Bush ... just to start a very long list. You're welcome to your opinion but writing off an entire decade is an opinion I could never respect and which, frankly, I don't think that you could in the least substantiate.
     
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  7. carlwm

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    Best band of the Nineties? Well, certainly up there, anyway.They should have been huge. Great live too.
     
  8. Imperious Leader

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  9. Imperious Leader

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    It was an even worse decade for movies
     
  10. BroJB

    BroJB Large Marge sent me.

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    Awesome power pop from Sweden, 1990:

     
  11. pinkrudy

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    love how it melts into the majestic song
     
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  12. BroJB

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    If you dug the below the surface, there was plenty of good stuff. Minutemen, Husker Du, Replacements, Joy Division, etc. etc. But yeah, the stuff that sold was mostly garbage.
     
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  13. Safeway 1

    Safeway 1 "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"

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    Classic rocking 90's

     
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  14. audiotom

    audiotom I can not hear a single sound as you scream

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    Liz Phair

    What Makes You Happy
     
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  15. audiotom

    audiotom I can not hear a single sound as you scream

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    Veruca Salt

    All Hail Me





    Young ladies, crunchy guitars, irreverent
     
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  17. wiseblood

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    Save your tomatoes, but I can't agree with you on that. For as much as I hate 80s music, I somehow LOVE 80s movies.
     
  18. c-eling

    c-eling They're made of light,We never would have guessed

    Miss B Haven-Nobody's Angel, 1990
     
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  19. c-eling

    c-eling They're made of light,We never would have guessed

    Can't go wrong with a guy named Bill in a band :laugh:
    Great album-
    Treble Charger-Maybe It's Me, 1997 (Produced by Lou Giordano)
    Fade-
     
  20. Blastproof

    Blastproof Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother

     
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  21. drbryant

    drbryant Senior Member

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    I’ve posted this on two other threads - saddest song and another one. But it’s worth posting again, it’s so amazing. What a voice.

    “Dido's Lament" from the opera Dido and Aeneas. As rendered live (and luckily recorded by some fan) by Jeff Buckley.

    When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create
    No trouble, no trouble in thy breast;
    Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
    Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.


     
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  22. Dopey

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  23. stefane

    stefane Forum Resident

    Terry Lee Hale - Backroads

    Singer/songwriter and alternative country artist from Seattle/Washington.
    Perhaps, he is best known for his song "Dead Is Dead" which was included on the seminal 1988 "Sub Pop 200" compilation, the only singer/songwriter there.
    "Backroads" is a song from his 1994 album "Frontier Model", released on the German Glitterhouse label. Produced by The Walkabouts' Chris Eckman, and engineered by the ubiquitous Seattle studio wizard Kevin Suggs.

    Terry Lee is residing in France since nearly 20 years, and is touring Europe quite frequently. Perhaps, he may be better known here in Europe than in the States.

    ""But it makes me mad", I said
    Ain't got no cash
    But Ginny says she got a plan
    We're just gonna have to take a chance
    That' s all
    Be nice and easy

    She knows a little store
    Not too far from here
    An old man alone
    Ain't nothing to fear
    Then we'll go
    And leave by the backroads"


     
  24. 86mets

    86mets Counting Crows #1 Fan

    From the awesome "Destination Universe"...
     
  25. DPK

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    Dogs on Ice- "On a String"



    One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands from my beloved hometown of Tampa, Florida.
     

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