90s Rock: Best Songs (Part 4)

And finally, continuing on from last week, here are my last group of favorite 90s songs.  There really are too many songs that are awesome.  My list is probably hobo excrement.  Oh well, it has been fun anyway. 

16) "Photograph" by The Verve Pipe

I went through a phase where I listened to TONS of The Verve Pipe.  They are an excellent band.  They are not in my Top 10 favorite bands of all time, or anything, but they have an underrated catalog.  Much like this song.  "Photograph" was the first song I ever remember hearing by them.  Of course, they later found more notoriety with "The Freshmen" but the sick organ track that underpins this song is not to be denied.  Give it a listen if you don't recall this song. 

"Cup Of Tea" is also another underrated song by The Verve Pipe.



17) "Lakini's Juice" by Live

There is no arguing that "Throwing Copper" is Live's best record. However, my favorite overall song by Live is "Lakini's Juice." If you can't tell by now, I am a huge fan of dirty, deep guitar riffs. The distorted bass creeps into your ears like a burrowing earwig. It also uses excellent subtle placement of string arrangements. You can't go wrong here.



18) "Still Remains" by Stone Temple Pilots

The only band with two songs on the list. I just couldn't leave this one off. It makes the list with the following line alone: "Take a bath, I'll drink the water that you leave." It's pretty gross, twisted love song- and I love it.



19) "Little Things" by Bush

My band in high school used to rock the shit out of this song in our garages. One of our favorites to cover, "Little Things" is simple yet rocking. Why Bush didn't take the music industry by the throat and skull-fuck it, I'll never understand. "Sixteen Stone" is amazing. The rest of their catalog... just ok. This song deserves a spot on the list though.

What's that? You want shirtless Gavin Rossdale from Woodstock '99? Ok!



20) "Tomorrow" by Silverchair

Silverchair deserves a spot on the list. This is their first hit single in the US and probably their catchiest song (at least from their early catalog.) This song is most impressive given that it was written, performed and recorded by 14/15 year olds. Daniel Johns sings like a 40 year old. It is a solid song to round out the Top 20.



And so ends my Top 20. I should do this again in 3 months and I bet I'd get a different list. Enjoy all the Game 5's coming up, they should be fairly entertaining.

90s Rock: Miscellaneous

We all know there are plenty of bands from the 90s that may deserve a mention, but probably do not deserve an entire post written about them.  The Toadies are one such band (even though I did write a post about them awhile back on my other, less anonymous blog.)  So here are some solid tunes from the bands that did not make it to the upper echelon of 90s bands that I enjoy (Nirvana, STP, Pearl Jam, Oasis, AIC, Smashing Pumpkins, etc.) 

Tonic - "Casual Affair"

Tonic comes close to getting their own post, and I'm not saying I'll never flesh out their catalog a bit further, but this song deserves extra special mention because it fucking RAWKS!  Seriously.  The intro is a dirty blues-based hammer and pull on the E string riff that I never get sick of.  If you don't like this, you don't like 90s rock!



Dishwalla - "Counting Blue Cars"

I think most people recognize and enjoy this song. Minor key verse with a soaring chorus. Standard songwriting that will get the job done a majority of the time. I very much enjoy the rest of the "Pet Your Friends" record, but this is the song that really put Dishwalla on the map.



Verve Pipe - "Photograph"

I know everyone knows them from the remixed version of "The Freshman" that wasn't even on the original "Villians" album, but how great is this song?! It was the first single off "Villians" and the organ and bass really shine on this track to create quite the catchy tune. (Apparently not that popular as this was one of the most difficult times I've had finding a decent version of the song on YouTube.)



K's Choice - "Not An Addict"

Just because I jam with the drummer that originally recorded this song, does not make me bias!!! I actually saw them open for Tonic and Verve Pipe in Chicago at the Vic when I was in high school. I bought the CD shortly after and it's quite good. I don't always enjoy women singers, but when I do, I prefer K's Choice.



Lit - "Miserable"

And because you deserve a video featuring Pam Anderson from the 90s, here is Lit's "Miserable." That's a huge bitch! I always preferred this song over "My Own Worst Enemy," but both are pretty good songs to rock out to.



That's it for me today. I hope you enjoyed these great songs from moderately popular 90s bands.