A post about grunge and dope-slapping

[slipjig3]

Last week, as many of you know, my on-again-off-again 90's "mainstream" alternative rock obsession switched back to "on-again," resulting in my seeking to expand my mega-super-ultra-giganto-holybugnutso-sized Alt90's mix from four to six discs. I did not receive the severe dope-slapping I should have received at the time.

After much begging, borrowing, stealing, and anal-retentive rearrangement of the existing and new material from the ground up, I succeeded in padding out the tracks to an even 120, 20 per disc, each to within 45 seconds of capacity. play order was established, discs were burned, labels were laid out and printed, and I took the whole lot in the car with me while running errands yesterday afternoon before work. All went well until around halfway through disc one, when I thought, "Y'know, this project would be a whole lot better if I redid it in chronological order...."

I arrived home and promptly asked rafaela to dope-slap me. Hard.

Wasn't hard enough: upon realizing that I had left out Cake, Hole, Michael Penn and Pete Droge, I began assembly of disc seven. I yearn for the release that death will bring.

Anyroad, a few people wanted to see the final track listings, which I hereby place behind the following cut in the interest of world peace:


Insert Pop Culture Reference Here: An Overstuffed 90's Alternative Sampler (official track listing)

Disc A
1) "Photograph," R.E.M. & Natalie Merchant
2) "Plowed," Sponge
3) "She Don't Use Jelly," The Flaming Lips
4) "Last Goodbye," Jeff Buckley
5) "6 Underground," Sneaker Pimps
6) "Tomorrow," Silverchair
7) "Low," Cracker
8) "Blood Makes Noise," Suzanne Vega
9) "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong," Spin Doctors
10) "Caught A Lite Sneeze," Tori Amos
11) "Beercan," Beck
12) "Big Bang Baby," Stone Temple Pilots
13) "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon," Urge Overkill
14) "Would?" Alice In Chains
15) "Cantaloop," Us3
16) "Shine," Collective Soul
17) "Nearly Lost You," Screaming Trees
18) "Sour Times," Portishead
19) "Your Woman," White Town
20) "Counting Blue Cars," Dishwalla

Disc B
1) "Loser," Beck
2) "Missing," Everything But The Girl
3) "California," Wax
4) "Mother, Mother," Tracy Bonham
5) "Constant Craving," k. d. lang
6) "Longview," Green Day
7) "The Freshman," The Verve Pipe
8) "Spoonman," Soundgarden
9) "You Suck," The Murmurs
10) "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe," Whale
11) "Girlfriend," Matthew Sweet
12) "Drive," R.E.M.
13) "Dizz Knee Land," Dada
14) "Pepper," Butthole Surfers
15) "If That's Your Boyfriend," Me'shell Ndegeocello
16) "Hold On," Sarah McLachlan
17) "Connection," Elastica
18) "Breakfast at Tiffany's," Deep Blue Something
19) "You Oughta Know," Alanis Morissette
20) "What's Up," Four Non Blondes

Disc C
1) "Sure Shot," The Beastie Boys
2) "Disarm," Smashing Pumpkins
3) "Popular," Nada Surf
4) "Stay (I Missed You)," Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
5) "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm," Crash Test Dummies
6) "Seether," Veruca Salt
7) "Big Me," Foo Fighters
8) "Pets," Porno for Pyros
9) "Feed the Tree," Belly
10) "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand," Primitive Radio Gods
11) "Here & Now," Letters To Cleo
12) "Bittersweet Symphony," The Verve
13) "Something's Always Wrong," Toad The Wet Sprocket
14) "There She Goes," The La's
15) "One of Us," Joan Osborne
16) "The Old Apartment," Barenaked Ladies
17) "If I Had Only a Brain," MC 900 Ft Jesus
18) "Liar," Henry Rollins
19) "Selling the Drama," Live
20) "Give It Away," Red Hot Chili Peppers

Disc D
1) "Laid," James
2) "Evenflow," Pearl Jam
3) "Hello," Poe
4) "Cut Your Hair," Pavement
5) "Send Me on My Way," Rusted Root
6) "Sucked Out," Superdrag
7) "Insane In The Membrane," Cypress Hill
8) "You," Candlebox
9) "Natural One," Folk Implosion
10) "Cannonball," The Breeders
11) "Radiation Vibe," Fountains of Wayne
12) "Birdhouse In Your Soul," They Might Be Giants
13) "Mrs. Robinson," The Lemonheads
14) "Hey Man Nice Shot," Filter
15) "I Know," Dionne Farris
16) "Brimful of Asha," Cornershop
17) "Cumbersome," Seven Mary Three
18) "Stars," Hum
19) "Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago," Soul Coughing
20) "Hunger Strike," Temple of the Dog

Disc E
1) "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," The Proclaimers
2) "Ready to Go," Republica
3) "Stupid Girl," Garbage
4) "In Bloom," Nirvana
5) "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover," Sophie B. Hawkins
6) "Pretend We're Dead," L7
7) "Hook," Blues Traveller
8) "Whip-Smart," Liz Phair
9) "Bizarre Love Triangle," Frente!
10) "Found Out About You," Gin Blossoms
11) "I Kissed a Girl," Jill Sobule
12) "High And Dry," Radiohead
13) "Frontier Psychiatrist," The Avalanches
14) "Glycerine," Bush
15) "Hell," Squirrel Nut Zippers
16) "Zombie," The Cranberries
17) "A Girl Like You," Edwyn Collins
18) "Spin the Bottle," The Juliana Hatfield Three
19) "Anna Begins," Counting Crows
20) "Good," Better Than Ezra

Disc F
1) "Jump Around," House of Pain
2) "Voodoo Lady," Ween
3) "Wynonna's Big Brown Beaver," Primus
4) "Dyslexic Heart," Paul Westerberg
5) "Head Like A Hole," Nine Inch Nails
6) "Rush," Big Audio Dynamite II
7) "Wonderwall," Oasis
8) "Come Out and Play," The Offspring
9) "Runaway Train," Soul Asylum
10) "Fade into You," Mazzy Star
11) "Down By The Water," PJ Harvey
12) "Right Here Right Now," Jesus Jones
13) "El Scorcho," Weezer
14) "Everybody Knows," Concrete Blonde
15) "I'm Not Afraid," Fleming & John
16) "novocaine for the soul," Eels
17) "Happier," Jennifer Trynin
18) "The Gentleman Who Fell," Milla
19) "Unbelievable," EMF
20) "Closing Time," Semisonic


I was mostly able to avoid artist repetition; the only repeats were R.E.M. (one of whose tracks was their collaboration with Natalie Merchant, which I fudgingly considered a "different artist") and Beck (because I was torn between "Beercan," the track of his that's guaranteed to nostalgia-whack my brain back to 1994, and "Loser," which I couldn't in good conscience leave out). Also, be aware that these tracks include a bunch of songs that I'm not terribly keen on, but which I included in the interest of completeness. You can probably guess which ones they are.

Oh, and yes, this is the absolutely last time I'm going to mention this mix. I swear.

Comments

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

I waffled for quite a while on the Nirvana track. The main issue is that this mix was originally intended as my own personal nostalgia bait, and while "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is certainly more iconic—arguably the most iconic song of the last 20 years—it's so omnipresent even now that it no longer belongs to "that time" for me. I had to go with something that received airplay at the time, but less so since then. (See also my choice for Live.)

[mick-hale.livejournal.com]

I can respect that Live choice.