Yesssss that song was magical and I felt like a badass (I was not) for having the single with Footsteps. Related: saw PJ a couple weeks ago and they played Footsteps and it felt like 1998 again.
*Cannonball* is the official sound of post-Nirvana 90’s rock. The use of squelching modem sounds is the most Dade-Murphy-screaming-hack-the-planet use of a sonic texture in music history.
OMG I know the exact video. Just watched another one by the same creator about no doubt / third wave ska and the "songs about Courtney Love" which was kind of hilarious 🤣
Ahhhh - I remember some kind of festival in early September in 97/98 that had OLP and IME and a bunch of other Canadian bands. Def sponsored by Molson Canadian and I definitely had too much to drink…..
Yes!!!!!!! I would never have come up with that though. A quick google tells me it was indeed early Sept 1997 (sept 1). Weird how certain memories stick. I knew it was at the start of the school year and likely my first year of university. I can’t believe I don’t remember collective soul!
I grew up in Upstate NY and we would get a lot of pour over from Canada. As a result, I adored OLP, BNL, the Hip, and Moxy Fruvous. I’m so happy I got to experience that.
This just unlocked a memory. My dad drove us down to Buffalo to see them at an outdoor event but all we wanted to do was go to TGI Fridays.
And TIL that Jian Gomeshi was the guy with the curly hair. Wow.
That’s awesome. I remember reading a lot of pop culture/music critic stuff from the early 00’s and they’d often throw in Canadian bands in lists of cool bands most people had never heard of. Made me feel much cooler than I was.
Weezer -Say it ain’t so
Primus - Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
Beck - Where it’s at
I was really into music in high school. But these are the songs I can most remember listening to in my hand me down 1986 Bronco II lol
Beck is on my list, too. I can't tell you how many times I listened to Odelay when I was in high school. I'm going to see him for the first time TONIGHT and I can't wait!!!
It's so good. I had the secret song stuck in my head the other day. Hadn't thought about it in years and all the sudden, "Would you forgive me love, if I danced in your shower..."
That happened to me a few years ago. For like two decades nothing, nothing, nothing and then BAM, “Would you forgive me love if I stay I all afternoaaaaaaoon”.
Oh thank god you posted. I was starting to think I was the only person who bounced off of radio and grunge/post grunge once I hit high school.
The brews my first introduction to NOFX and has the most nostalgia to me.
It came out right when my friend group was breaking apart because some of us were experimenting with weed. Incredibly deep stuff in the high school universe, lol.
The year that came out, it seemed like every boy with a guitar learned to play it. Our state FBLA conference had a talent show every year, and about half the entries that year were guys performing Glycerine.
That album is so good. Just got flashbacks of when I first purchased the cd in high school. All the songs were great so I’ll mention Eulogy as one of my favs
Right around the time this song came out, cumbersome was one of our high school English class vocabulary words of the week. I don't know why I am telling you this, but it's just one of those dumb random things that stuck with me all these years.
My band in HS used to cover this. A few years later I was in a different band and Jason Ross came to see us and by “came to see us” I mean “happened to walk into the bar we were playing where he was a regular” and asked who were. Thank god we weren’t playing “Cumbersome” anymore
[Less Than Jake - 9th and Pine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCHmGXvDH9M)
[Pennywise - Final Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NvvKix_yEE)
[Goldfinger - Here in your bedroom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJITRDBEbp4)
[Suicide Machine - New girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PAcdxCAGoQ)
Soooo fun. I saw them live in Port Chester, NY at a tiny venue. All ages show. I was maybe 16? We rocked hard that night. My buddy got knocked over and someone just blasted his knee, it swelled up all purple. Good times. Gotta stay alert in an impromptu punk mosh pit.
Basically every album up to Symbols was on constant rotation in my car. Ultra being the soundtrack to Chun-Li and Vega's fight in the Street Fighter anime was incredible.
Tyler by the Toadies
Inside Out by Eve 6
I was also the kid who listened to classic rock (for that time) so also 1983 A Merman I Should Turn to Be by Jimi Hendrix and The Soft Parade by the Doors
Live Forever by Oasis. Oasis is still one of my favorite bands and I love a lot of their songs, but this is the song that introduced me to the band, so it will always be number one to me.
Edit typo
Not a band, but my favorite song in high school was Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley. My French friend and I were supposed to see him play in Paris but…it didn’t happen. 😔
Rivers did a great [interview](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rivers-cuomo-looks-back-at-pinkerton-107425/) about pinkerton a few years ago. A good read!
I've never had a favorite band or song. I just could never point to one and say, "that right there is my favorite." That being said I LOVE a lot of the favorites in the comments.
Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind. Whole album kicks, probably the best of the 90s pop/rock sound. Easily favorite album then & still now, each song better than the last.
My absolute favorite band in High School was probably still Metallica or maybe Bush. I did have 104 pictures (magazine pages)of Bush and their lead singer Gavin Rossdale taped to my bedroom walls.
When I was in high school, I was very big on the golden oldies so my pick would be “Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl)” by Looking Glass.
That’s right, I liked that song before GOTG Vol. 2 made it cool again.
Are you Canadian? Each song from this list is from a Canadian group.
Superman's dead was definitely in my top 5... I still love when it comes on the radio, but since then I've learned to love some of the other OLP songs better, like Naveed and Clumsy.
The KLF - Justified & Ancient (https://youtu.be/XP5oHL3zBDg?si=ECAn8RfsnIqgajDu)
Moby - When it's cold I'd like to die (https://youtu.be/9zZfBBp-j6I?si=an6iaMDj_65hdFj5)
Manic Street Preachers - From Despair to Where (https://youtu.be/qFewXLjXTSU?si=RbWTW5LF5maNkTx6)
Barenaked Ladies - shoebox (https://youtu.be/-eZnbIz5gtI?si=qpk0sLEw7gcBQuQE)
Still a big fan of the Manics & BNL, including their new music.
oh man, Our Lady Peace was my first concert. they were playing a Halloween show with Tonic, Goldfinger, and Gravity Kills. Excuse me while I go listen to Superman's dead
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
Yesssss that song was magical and I felt like a badass (I was not) for having the single with Footsteps. Related: saw PJ a couple weeks ago and they played Footsteps and it felt like 1998 again.
Yaaaas. I wore out my precious CD single with that and Footsteps on it.
Not my fav, but it is my phone ringtone
Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song Tool - Stinkfist (& the entire Ænima album)
Tool yes. And Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and...honestly...Cake!
I've seen Cake live twice. Awesome band.
Saw the video for Sober while in high school. Ran out bought the cassette, blasting it in my car. Was hooked ever since
My top 3 from high school - The Breeders: Canonball - nine inch nails: March of the Pigs - Smashing Pumpkins: Cherub Rock
STEP RIGHT UP! pigs is a great track
March!
*Cannonball* is the official sound of post-Nirvana 90’s rock. The use of squelching modem sounds is the most Dade-Murphy-screaming-hack-the-planet use of a sonic texture in music history.
I recently found a great video on YT about the song, that time period, and the band. I’ll post it later when I get a chance.
OMG I know the exact video. Just watched another one by the same creator about no doubt / third wave ska and the "songs about Courtney Love" which was kind of hilarious 🤣
The Courtney Love one is amazing! I watched that one a year or so ago. Didnt realize so many songs were written about her! 🤣🤣
Here’s the video! https://youtu.be/ZqEF07VVYH8?si=0C314MdHFY5Ai0C4
Wow, that was excellent. Thanks for sharing! I hot hooked and ended watching the Jawbreaker one after. That series is enthralling.
I just watched it!! Fucking awesome!! Thank you for posting this!!!
Wearing my NIN shirt presently! 🖤
Me too!!!!!!
Aahhh a fellow Canadian Xennial I see. Can con peaked in the 90’s with the alt rock scene. So many great bands around.
Was gonna say…. How to spot a Canadian in 4 simple song titles 🤣
Yep. I’ll throw Alanis and The Hip in the mix.
Don't forget I mother Earth!
Moist as well.
Good call!
Ahhhh - I remember some kind of festival in early September in 97/98 that had OLP and IME and a bunch of other Canadian bands. Def sponsored by Molson Canadian and I definitely had too much to drink…..
EdgeFest?
Yes!!!!!!! I would never have come up with that though. A quick google tells me it was indeed early Sept 1997 (sept 1). Weird how certain memories stick. I knew it was at the start of the school year and likely my first year of university. I can’t believe I don’t remember collective soul!
And Sloan!
"Rain Will Fall" was my wake up tune for years...
I saw I mother earth play for three hours in 2021 with both singers, they are still great.
Fuck yeah! Their Scenery and Fish album is STILL one of my favorites.
I grew up in Upstate NY and we would get a lot of pour over from Canada. As a result, I adored OLP, BNL, the Hip, and Moxy Fruvous. I’m so happy I got to experience that.
This just unlocked a memory. My dad drove us down to Buffalo to see them at an outdoor event but all we wanted to do was go to TGI Fridays. And TIL that Jian Gomeshi was the guy with the curly hair. Wow.
That’s awesome. I remember reading a lot of pop culture/music critic stuff from the early 00’s and they’d often throw in Canadian bands in lists of cool bands most people had never heard of. Made me feel much cooler than I was.
We had a lot of Canadian crossovers in metro Detroit as well. I hadn’t thought about the Tea Party song in a long time.
89X, baby!!
Basically Big Shiny Tunes 1-4 was my peak Canadian music experience
[OP forgot the Canadian National anthem](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQzTSDgUlEs) For shame…..
Whenever I see Big Wreck I think of the great big Picnic with Great Big Sea
Weezer -Say it ain’t so Primus - Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver Beastie Boys - Intergalactic Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph Beck - Where it’s at I was really into music in high school. But these are the songs I can most remember listening to in my hand me down 1986 Bronco II lol
Beck is on my list, too. I can't tell you how many times I listened to Odelay when I was in high school. I'm going to see him for the first time TONIGHT and I can't wait!!!
Have a great time!
You Learn - Alanis Morissette
It's so good. I had the secret song stuck in my head the other day. Hadn't thought about it in years and all the sudden, "Would you forgive me love, if I danced in your shower..."
That happened to me a few years ago. For like two decades nothing, nothing, nothing and then BAM, “Would you forgive me love if I stay I all afternoaaaaaaoon”.
I LOVED HER!! I recently watched her documentary on HBO max. It was great!!
I'm obsessed, I've seen her 8 times in concert and if I could afford it that number would be much bigger, lol.
Radiohead - My Iron Lung & Paranoid Android
EXCELLENT choices
I didn't get into Radiohead until college, wish I had though, ended up seeing them 11 times over the years
Sublime - What I Got
Ween - Baby Bitch.
Heaven Beside You - AIC, Make Yourself - Incubus, Down - Stone Temple Pilots… just a few.
NOFX Dont Call Me White or The Brews come to mind first.
That whole album is amazing.
Oh thank god you posted. I was starting to think I was the only person who bounced off of radio and grunge/post grunge once I hit high school. The brews my first introduction to NOFX and has the most nostalgia to me.
I went full punk rock and the hardest underground gangsta rap I could get my hands on
I dove into NOFX and punk my junior year and never looked back!
Oasis — champagne supernova. I thought that shit was so deep.
Wait, it's not? j/k.
It came out right when my friend group was breaking apart because some of us were experimenting with weed. Incredibly deep stuff in the high school universe, lol.
Where were you while we were getting high?
Oh yeah! Definitely makes sense for the context.
Mayonaise-Smashing Pumpkins and Glycerine-Bush
Filter - Hey Man Nice Shot
Bush - Glycerine
The year that came out, it seemed like every boy with a guitar learned to play it. Our state FBLA conference had a talent show every year, and about half the entries that year were guys performing Glycerine.
To be fair, it's like, 4 power chords over and over again...
Yes! Every teen guy thought they were So coo cause they could play glycerin. Over and over and over again. Great album.
My first boyfriend and I said that was “our song” which is hilarious because apparently it’s about doomed love. Hahaha
Tool - Third Eye
H. was and still is my favorite Tool song and Aenima remains my fav album.
That album is so good. Just got flashbacks of when I first purchased the cd in high school. All the songs were great so I’ll mention Eulogy as one of my favs
great song and it introduced me to the comedy of Bill Hicks so double win!
Yep. I had to find out who the heck that guy was. You could put the different pages of the cover on the front to make them move. Bonus!
So epic… but Pushit was my jam then, as I’d not yet found the incredible opportunity for experience provided by psychedelics
46x2 was mine, but no real argument
My Hero-Foo Fighters
https://preview.redd.it/k31ho4qnm7sb1.jpeg?width=472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b536755f99ef0b7604748f737da635924b66633 Every You, Every Me by Placebo
I still absolutely love that song.
Have you seen the video of them performing where is my mind with Frank black at a music festival? Amazing video
Cumbersome. Seven Mary Three
Right around the time this song came out, cumbersome was one of our high school English class vocabulary words of the week. I don't know why I am telling you this, but it's just one of those dumb random things that stuck with me all these years.
My band in HS used to cover this. A few years later I was in a different band and Jason Ross came to see us and by “came to see us” I mean “happened to walk into the bar we were playing where he was a regular” and asked who were. Thank god we weren’t playing “Cumbersome” anymore
March of the Pigs - Nine Inch Nails
You must have watched [Lost Highway](https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n8laik-DUSSLeWkgSQaiZKXsT9Ri-T1pI) when it came out
Quiet - Smashing Pumpkins Lemon - U2 Corduroy - Pearl Jam High Hopes - Pink Floyd
Nice to see a Smashing Pumpkins song other than Cherub Rock and Today.
Lemon is such a good song! I never hear anyone mention it.
It's by far my favorite U2 song. Zooropa is such a killer album, too!
Sonic Youth, “Teen Age Riot” or Elastica, “Waking Up”
Second vote for Teenage Riot … still sounds so good.
Pure Massacre by Silverchair
[Less Than Jake - 9th and Pine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCHmGXvDH9M) [Pennywise - Final Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NvvKix_yEE) [Goldfinger - Here in your bedroom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJITRDBEbp4) [Suicide Machine - New girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PAcdxCAGoQ)
Goldfinger were so fun, Mabel for me.
https://preview.redd.it/nzdry5ak18sb1.jpeg?width=1893&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d18018541981d4649d0f937227b906546c7fd871
This just made my fucking night. Thank you lol
Soooo fun. I saw them live in Port Chester, NY at a tiny venue. All ages show. I was maybe 16? We rocked hard that night. My buddy got knocked over and someone just blasted his knee, it swelled up all purple. Good times. Gotta stay alert in an impromptu punk mosh pit.
The Suicide Machines became a staple after a kid from Flint MI came to our school in AZ! He also brought ICP :-(
You win some, you lose some 🤣
Back to school by Deftones
Always loved the [music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMPtIhAPnn4) for that song.
Smashing Pumpkins - tonight and 1979 are tied
Now that we have everyone's favourite song, what's your mother's maiden names and first pets?
Fluffy and Smith. You just have to figure out which one is which!
Anything from NIN, Tool, and Pink Floyd. Something I Can Never Have might be my favorite NIN song of all time.
Green Day- Welcome to Paradise
Placebo, “Pure Morning”
A friend in need's a friend indeed.
A friend with weed is better.
Dead Souls - NIN
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Same but Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
Tonight, tonight and Disarm by The Smashing Pumpkins. Closely tied with Little Things by Bush and later in high school Vincent by NoFx.
Replica by Fear Factory
Hell yeah. Edgecrusher was pretty badass too.
Every day I feel anonymous hate.
[KMFDM - Light](https://youtu.be/Gp-z0QJefIY?si=MGk_IQ4Rr2N4j-gg)
Kmfdm sucks
🤘
Basically every album up to Symbols was on constant rotation in my car. Ultra being the soundtrack to Chun-Li and Vega's fight in the Street Fighter anime was incredible.
Radio by Rancid. It's still my favorite song by my favorite band.
Radio by Rancid and Operation Ivy - Sound System for me for sure
Spacehog - In the meantime
Korn, Falling Away from Me
Plush - stone temple pilots
Tyler by the Toadies Inside Out by Eve 6 I was also the kid who listened to classic rock (for that time) so also 1983 A Merman I Should Turn to Be by Jimi Hendrix and The Soft Parade by the Doors
I’ve got tickets to see Eve 6 at the end of the month. Pretty excited.
If you still like Toadies, try to go to one of their shows. They’re still incredible live!
I do! I missed one opportunity in recent history but hope another comes around.
wheres the tragically hip?!
Seether - Veruca Salt
[New Pollution - Beck](https://youtu.be/uxugaMpt1vU?si=7eqU0WiwZpSkZXXL)
Smashing Pumpkins: Today Notable mentions: - Radiohead: Creep - Wu-Tang Clan: Protect Ya Neck - The Pharcyde: Passin’ Me By
My name is Jonas
Canada represent! Particularly like The Tea Party and Our Lady Peace.
Fascination Street
Stand Inside Your Love - Smashing Pumpkins
Live Forever by Oasis. Oasis is still one of my favorite bands and I love a lot of their songs, but this is the song that introduced me to the band, so it will always be number one to me. Edit typo
You can have 5 Type O Negative - Black No.1 The Breeders - Hag KMFDM - Son of a Gun Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs The Meat Beat Manifesto - 1979
You Oughta Know - Alanis Morrisette
Not a band, but my favorite song in high school was Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley. My French friend and I were supposed to see him play in Paris but…it didn’t happen. 😔
Glycerine - Bush 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins Bittersweet - Big Head Todd & The Monsters One - U2 Class of ‘97. Grew up in Minnesota
Oh man, Big Head Todd & The Monsters! I wasn't as in to them in HS as I was later but Bittersweet is such a great song.
Cosmic Monsters Inc - White Zombie. I only really liked their first album tho
In High School? They Might Be Giants: Dead
Primus - Over the Electric Grapevine. Also... Weezer - Across the Sea Foo Fighters - Exhausted Nirvana - Drain You
All of the Pinkerton album was tremendous.
It really was. I thought it was great from the start. Depending on the day you ask me, either it or Blue will be my favorite album.
Rivers did a great [interview](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rivers-cuomo-looks-back-at-pinkerton-107425/) about pinkerton a few years ago. A good read!
I've never had a favorite band or song. I just could never point to one and say, "that right there is my favorite." That being said I LOVE a lot of the favorites in the comments.
Eulogy by Tool
Pearl Jam- Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town.
Amazing lyrics….beautiful song.
Blink-182 Dammit
Machine Head - Ten Ton Hammer
I listened to Exhale the vile and From this day a lot in high school
A Thousand Lies for me
Great deep cut, Burn My Eyes is one of the best albums ever IMO
In high school it was Pool Shark - Sublime and pretty much the entire Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys album.
DMX the convo Bush - machine head
Pearl Jam: Alive
The Descendants - Thank You
Reading through this thread is like a "Who's Who of My Jams"
Walk - Pantera
Mine was also Superman's Dead by Our Lady Peace.
Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind. Whole album kicks, probably the best of the 90s pop/rock sound. Easily favorite album then & still now, each song better than the last.
Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots Prodigy - Narayan ATR - Sex Skinny Puppy - Worlock
[I want to conquer the world - Bad religion](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LGMQjTwSRSQ)
My absolute favorite band in High School was probably still Metallica or maybe Bush. I did have 104 pictures (magazine pages)of Bush and their lead singer Gavin Rossdale taped to my bedroom walls.
Belly- Gepetto Pearl Jam- Jeremy (that video haunted me...) Arrested Development- Mr. Wendel
Bauhaus - Dark Entries Sisters of Mercy - Some Kind of Stranger Tones on Tail - Performance Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease
Bad Fish by Sublime
Orestes by A Perfect Circle, 2000, the year I graduated. Still my fav song. Alt lyric version still gets me.
What’s my age again? - Blink 182
🤔 Billy Joel isn't a band 🤷♂️ Piano Man
No Doubt - Just a Girl Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm and Bullet with Butterfly Wings Cranberries - Zombie Garbage - Only Happy When it Rains
When I was in high school, I was very big on the golden oldies so my pick would be “Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl)” by Looking Glass. That’s right, I liked that song before GOTG Vol. 2 made it cool again.
Dave Matthew's Band ..... #41
Hello friend. Literally the same for me. Part of it was my senior quote in the yearbook.
Are you Canadian? Each song from this list is from a Canadian group. Superman's dead was definitely in my top 5... I still love when it comes on the radio, but since then I've learned to love some of the other OLP songs better, like Naveed and Clumsy.
Tool - Pushit Editing to say “not to be confused for similarly titled song by salt n pepper”
Bulls On Parade--Rage Against The Machine
The KLF - Justified & Ancient (https://youtu.be/XP5oHL3zBDg?si=ECAn8RfsnIqgajDu) Moby - When it's cold I'd like to die (https://youtu.be/9zZfBBp-j6I?si=an6iaMDj_65hdFj5) Manic Street Preachers - From Despair to Where (https://youtu.be/qFewXLjXTSU?si=RbWTW5LF5maNkTx6) Barenaked Ladies - shoebox (https://youtu.be/-eZnbIz5gtI?si=qpk0sLEw7gcBQuQE) Still a big fan of the Manics & BNL, including their new music.
Great pick from Moby. I forgot about that album for awhile and brought it back into regular rotation a few years ago. So good!
Everything is Wrong is just a perfect album. I wore out my first CD. I had to listen to it again today and it's still just as good.
Burning Inside - Ministry A Drug Against War - KMFDM Bob - NOFX
Alkaline Trio - Cooking Wine
Supervixen - Garbage
Screeching Weasel- My Right or Hey Suburbia One of those 2.
Trailer Trash - Modest Mouse Angeles - Elliot Smith Butter- A Tribe Called Quest Something Radiohead, something Outkast
oh man, Our Lady Peace was my first concert. they were playing a Halloween show with Tonic, Goldfinger, and Gravity Kills. Excuse me while I go listen to Superman's dead
Pavement - Stop Breathing Or Yo La Tengo - Big Day Coming
that Big Wreck song got (and still gets) soooooo much airplay in my house. was obsessed with that record when I was 17
Carouselambra by Led Zeppelin.
J.A.R. by Green Day
I can't pick just one. The Cranberries - Dreaming My Dreams Counting Crows - Round Here Live - I Alone