You have found my blind spot. I didn't like what was happening in the mainstream of alt rock during the '90s (grunge and everything inspired by it) so I completely avoided listening to the radio. I was following lofi indie stuff (Pavement, Liz Phair, Gorky's), power pop (Posies, Material Issue, Matthew Sweet), and every bit of mid-80s Champaign-Urbana music I could find in Berkeley.

I still don't know what's on the radio in the rest of the world, because WPGU here is non-stop Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Mountain Goats, Lorenzo Goetz, Elvis Costello, Flaming Lips, Interpol ... basically they went Weird Indie in a big way. I am really happy with the state of music in my tiny little world now.

But it means you'll lay waste to my soul in any game of '90s rock trivia. Waaaahhh!