Other grunge/alternative songs I've been thinking of, and other maybe one or a few hit wonders that made up the rest of the vibe of the 90s

Ok, so I feel like posting a few songs that I love, and I also love how it was not only the famous grunge/alternative bands that made up that laid back vibe of the 90s, but also the memorable one hit wonders, or maybe bands with just a few hits, that still sound alternativey that I also love. I always want to stress overlooked grunge bands like Paw, Dig, Dandelion, Greta, and Sugartooth, and then I remember songs from my youth like One Week, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and I Alone. Bear with me, there are so many great bands I want people to know about, my posts might be a little long.

Sugartooth - Sold My Fortune

Cracker - Low

Beck - Loser. "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me" should be the anthem saying for the slacker generation. I love the randomness of the lyrics and video.

Dada - Dizz Knee Land.Headed west into the black, I'm going to Disneyland!

Deadeye Dick - New Age Girl

Dig - We Don't Care

Greta - Fathom. I love how the singer of Greta wears dresses. Stick it to the man! He has the coolest dresses too.

 Paw - Jessie

Paw - Couldn't Know

Dandelion - Under My Skin

Bush - Everything Zen. God I love this one, so grungy.

Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's

Blur - Song 2. One of the grungiest songs I've ever heard.

Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy

Blind Melon - No Rain. This one I always loved. it's about a girl who doesn''t stop being who she is even though she can't relate to anyone until one day she finds out she is not so alone after all. Like me discovering that I totally fit in with the 90s/generation x.

Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way. This one is so very freeing. Matilda!

Live - I Alone

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Candlebox - Simple Lessons. This one is so great. Just look at those facial expressions that the singer makes. This one made my ovaries hurt the first time I watched it. Ha. Passion is so sexy.

Puddle Of Mudd - You Don't Know. Early Puddle of Mudd is way grungier than newer Puddle of Mudd, but it all rocks.

7 Year Bitch - Hip Like Junk. I love these girls' style. I want to look like that. And L7, and Babes in Toyland etc. Good Seattle girl rock.

 L7 - Pretend We're Dead

Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand. This one is so smooth.

Tonic - Open Up Your Eyes

Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock. My favorite Smashing Pumpkins song. So creative and alternative and noisy.

I hate it when they don't let you embed, so here's the link to Cumbersome by Seven Mary Three http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjNn4bbbgSw&ob=av2e I always loved this one. Somehow it makes me flash back to my youth, like the 90s were so laid back I cherished just doing stuff like going to stores in different strip malls and looking out at the world, even though this one is set in a bar. Plus the guitarist looks a bit like Dave Grohl. I love the part when he says "There is a balance, between two worlds, one with a narrow end to cross, darkness of the balance, life has become, cumbersome". And here's December by Collective Soul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6exsatE-DUk&ob=av2e  I always loved this one too. Everyone always talks about Shine, which is great too, but I always remembered December more. I love the film type image, and the weird kaleidescope, and of course the long hair. And Breathe is worth watching too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCavdw14vWo&ob=av2e  And here's Gotta Get Away by the Offspring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jz1hewTzA&ob=av2n

Grunge Forum and Creative, passionate, organic, artsy, original, independant alternative songs

Ok, so I'll start this off by saying I found a grunge forum that has a lot of useful info about bands and stuff. http://www.grungeforum.com/ I actually found it a long time ago, but I have a tendency to find a bunch of stuff and just bookmark it and come back to it later, but now I'm on the forum. Finally I found info on Lazy Susan and Kill Sybil.

So I keep finding stuff that makes me think, man how creative, it really was better back then. I found the video for Tahitian Moon by Porno for Pyros http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kHFXElTVI and someone there who was around then told me how it really was artsy, original, and independent, so I'd like to share a few more songs that make me think of that.

Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign

The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly

Sky Cries Mary - Every Iceberg is Afire. Sky Cries Mary are a psychedelic influenced Seattle band. The first band of Scott Mercado, the drummer for Candlebox.

 Love Battery - Out of Focus. The original video is on BVMGrungeTV, but they won't let me embed it, so I found this one that just took it from there. This one is so passionate and real feeling. Psychedelic grunge band from Seattle. I love the part where they close up on the singer's face.

Pavement - Cut Your Hair

Sugar - Helpless

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away

 Butthole Surfers - Pepper

 Meat Puppets - Backwater

Clearly things were more down to earth and cool and creative back then.

Newer Grunge Bands

Ok, so I hate social media, reality shows, skinny and low rise jeans (so 80s), vampires, and all the other fads/clothes/music of today, and I hate that I have to use the internet and social media because my generation doesn't know any other way, but it does help find stuff. I mainly just use it for music. Facebook is where I found out that Calamity Jane, the band that toured with Nirvana in South America  back in '92 with bad results and broke up shortly thereafter, got back together. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Calamity-Jane/148181179299  and I found the Doll Squad, another all girl band from Seattle, on myspace, they're back together too. http://www.myspace.com/dollsquad   All the music people call alternative today, just sounds like what little mainstream rock there is, and they all sound like weird synthesizery emo 80's synthpop stuff, I don't know why the 80s came back, the whole point of the 90s was to get rid of the 80s, and the new bands on SubPop sound like very light indie pop bands with that weird 2000s sound.  I've found several new grunge bands on myspace and things like that. Of course, grunge never stopped or died, it just went back to being underground like it was for a decade before Nevermind came out, kind of where it should be, except that it was so cool that good music was actually played on the radio and in the mainstream in the 90s, so you have new grunge bands forming all throughout the years when it stopped being famous as well, so no one can call them New Grunge bands or anything because grunge never stopped. So the two main newer more mainstream bands I like today are Cage the Elephant, http://www.youtube.com/user/cagetheelephant?blend=1&ob=4  http://www.youtube.com/user/CageTheElephantVEVO  who sound like they totally could fit in with the 90s alternative thing, and Violent Soho, from Australia, who sound very grungy, and they were even at Lollapalooza 2010, the one that Soundgarden went to  http://www.youtube.com/user/ViolentSohoVEVO . When I discovered Violent Soho last year, I looked at their youtube videos, and people kept writing stuff like "GRUNGE IS BACK!!!", and they still do. They would be great ones to bring it all back.

Violent Soho - Muscle Junkie

Cage the Elephant - Back Against the Wall. This one always reminded me of Heart-Shaped box. The singer sort of reminds me of Kurt, especially in their video with the zombie girl, and when I first heard their music, I thought it sounded a bit like nirvana.

Pet Salad - Hollywoodland

My favorite new band though is Pet Salad. I found them on myspace. http://www.myspace.com/petsalad   http://www.youtube.com/user/PetSalad  They are a Swedish grunge band formed in '07 with an ep out. I also found out about this girl led grunge band from Portland called Sick Sick Sister. http://www.myspace.com/#!/2882731 So good to hear girl grunge again. And then there's The Chocolate http://www.myspace.com/#!/thechocolatemusic grunge from France. Sick Sick Sister and The Chocolate are on itunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/my-friend-my-enemy/id284393337  http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/chocaholic/id261414542     Paradox is an Irish grunge band. They remind me of that Days of the New style. http://www.youtube.com/user/paradoxrock  http://www.myspace.com/paradoxrock  http://www.facebook.com/paradoxrock  also on itunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/circle-of-growth/id138768888  Pissed Jeans are like the only current band on Subpop that I've found that sound rock related. http://www.subpop.com/artists/pissed_jeans They are really good, sound like grunge, sound like the Jesus Lizard.

Pissed Jeans - False Jesii Part 2

Another band is called Mosquito, from Istanbul I think http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=43519246740   Trash Queen are from Australia like Silverchair and Violent Soho   http://www.youtube.com/user/trashqueen10 Drunken Hippies make noise from Berlin  http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Drunken-Hippies/107296139343675  http://www.youtube.com/user/DrunkenHippiesMusic  There was also this band I found called The Vertical, which had a Paradox/Days of the New vibe I think, but I totally can't remember how I found out about them. Soul Pollution sound pretty good too  http://www.myspace.com/soulpollution  I have more facebooks and myspaces in my bookmarks of old grunge bands and others that I might post one day. So as you can see, grunge is still happening, all over the world., and never stopped, and never will. It's just a matter of if and when it takes over the world again.

EDIT: Check the comments for more suggestions of new grunge bands, and feel free to add your own suggestions.And I just created this new facebook page called "Spread the word of good newer grunge bands" incase you want to check it out. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spread-the-word-of-good-newer-grunge-bands/192998060774625?sk=wall    there are a lot more bands that have been posted on that.

Styles and Vibes

Ok, so even though I hate shallowness and people actually caring how they look, I love the anti-fashion grunge/alternative/90s styles. Stuff like flannel shirts, general loose fitting over-sized clothing, band shirts, old worn out high-waisted kind of baggy ripped up jeans, shorts with long johns, doc martens and other boots, converse, knitted stocking caps, backwards caps, guys with long messy dirty hair and goatees, tattoos, piercings, crazy colored alternative hair, cool 90s grunge dresses with the little flowers all over them, patchwork dresses, other alternative dresses, and other indie bohemian cool 90s clothes that seem really unique and individual just have this total laidback, let your hair down, down to earth, don't care what other people think, real, raw vibe to them, and I love it. The whole point was to not care how you look, but it ended up looking cool anyway. Of course you don't have to wear any of that stuff, but personally, I think everyone should have that style, not just grunge rockers. It just makes life seem more real, and less materialistic, if you wear thrift store clothing and hold on to your worn out clothes for just a bit longer. I also like those cool sunglasses that I keep seeing in the 90s everywhere that Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley would wear. I also remember seeing those short shirts and knee socks. And I love the kinderwhore/riot grrrl style too, like I mentioned before, I found out about that by watching the Bruise Violet video by Babes in Toyland. Stuff like babydoll dresses, smeared red lipstick, ripped up black tights, messy hair with little girl clips all over, big black boots or mary-jane's, I guess a lot of riot grrrls would wear it, and I always thought it looked cool, and it really seemed to convey that thing that us females feel when we are in our teens and 20s and sometimes want guys to look at us in that way, and other times don't and feel creeped out by it, and just wish we could go back to being 5 again when life wasn't so complicated. Now that I've re-discovered the 90's, I've flashed back at actually remembering this stuff, I remember the laid-back down to earth vibe of the 90's, and I thought life would always be like that and had always been like that, and then it started changing around '98-'00, and at first I thought it was just a glitch and life would go back to normal, but in 2000 it was bigger than ever, everything all glossy and people actually caring how they look, so I realized this decade was going to suck, but I assumed it would have changed back by now, so I'm still waiting. I remember every movie I saw when I was little that came out in the mid 90s, there was a teenage girl in a flannel shirt, and I thought of them as the cool girls, and I wanted to look like that, and I remember a few times, seeing a guy with long hair and a flannel shirt and looking up at them and thinking that looked so amazing, and wanting to look like that, and wondering why no one else looked that way, because it would have been more towards the late 90s, and those are my most precious memories, for some reason, they made my life at that time, and now as I remember them. I remember all sorts of cool alternative and maybe goth looks, like Marilyn Manson, and this one time when I saw a punk couple, and I loved it, and I liked the big neon green hair spikes, but I hated how it was only in the middle, for some reason mohawks always bugged me. And I saw lots of piercings and tattoos in the 90s, and I always loved that stuff, I loved it when I was 5, and when I was 6 in '98, I saw even more stuff like that, and there was this commercial with this alternative girl, and she had piercings, and I couldn't take it anymore, I officially said I would get lots of piercings and tattoos when I got older, and I will, but I'm still waiting. So like I mentioned before, When I saw Kool Thing by Sonic Youth, I thought Kim Gordon had mad style, and their other videos have cool styles too. Sugar Kane actually has the Marc Jacobs grunge line from either '92 or '93.

Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane

Sonic Youth - 100%

Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots

And I once found this picture, so thanks to whoever is in it, I love this style/vibe. I don't know if this was in the 90s or not though.

 Babes in Toyland at Lollapalooza 1993. You can see the sunglasses here too. I love the 90s Lollapalooza crowds, I feel like I saw an interview on youtube of Perry Farrell at Lolla '91 talking about the alternative nation, and they spanned the crowd, and all I could think was, wow these are my kind of people.

Speaking of Jane's Addiction, I always loved the styles in the Stop videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwI02OHtZTg&ob=av2e, especially the crazy colored hair women by the pool, and Mountain Song is probably the most alternativey video ever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kAIMlISHhU&ob=av2n

 Local H - Cynic. And I love Scott's clothes here, great song and band by the way

 Dig - I'll Stay High. And this one just vibes of that too. Way too many good bands that didn't get enough attention.

I love the 90s-tattoos and piercings

Veruca Salt - Seether. I always loved Veruca Salt's dresses in this video.

Days of the New - Touch Peel and Stand. And this one just totally vibes. I love that dirty guy sitting in the chair.

Alice in Chains - Man in the Box. And I love Alice in Chains' clothes and Layne's hair in this vid

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit. But most importantly, the Smells Like Teen Spirit video is the main one for the vibe/look of grunge. I always loved how they had dirt-like smoke floating around to give it that orange-brown-yellow grunge look.

Kurt Cobain's crazy colored kool aid hair

Jane's Addiction Stop video woman with purple colored hair, the woman to her left I think has red colored hair

Eddie has my second favorite flannel, right after one that Kurt had, and I love his tattered shorts in this video as well.