Seeing how their 1992 debut had sounded suspiciously similar to a certain yaaarghling band who'll remain nameless here (plus STP were clearly phonies because Long Beach isn't really San Diego), cool kids hoped they'd whiff bigtime like the Seattle Pilots they weren't. Spawning three big rock hits and a couple smaller ones, topping the Billboard 200, and selling six million or so, Purple served as sweet vindication for fake grunge's most archetypal ensemble. The best moment is 'Freedom Rock,' a biting yet loving song about an alterna-dude that's worthy of Randy Newman: 'My name is Chip and I'm different/I don't conform/I wear a different uniform,' Francis sings, before adding what might be a maxim for the album's freewheeling spirit: 'Nobody owns the pleasure of tones.' Jon Dolan The 22-song double-album Teenager of the Year produced a minor hit in 'Headache,' and Pere Ubu keyboardist Eric Drew Feldman helped Black get a spacey sound that incorporates everything from ska to vintage rock & roll to surf-pop to punk. rocker with a wry view of the alt-rock scene he'd helped invent. 'People get bent out of shape when someone that isn't country tries to do country, or someone that's country tries to do rock.' After the Pixies broke up, the former Black Francis reinvented himself as an eclectic L.A. 'I'm into just doing all kinds of things,' Frank Black told an interviewer who'd asked a question about the 'sprawling' sound of second solo album Teenager of the Year.

Various Artists, ‘Reality Bites: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack’.Deliverance B-side 'Big Problems' made it onto the Clerks soundtrack and the interlude 'Mano de Mono' and opening track 'Heaven's Not Overflowing' got placement in Robert De Niro and Michele Pfeiffer movies, respectively. The album's non-metal legacy stretched a lot farther than the band, whose popularity petered out after releasing the more metal-focused follow-up Wiseblood in 1996. Sure, the record as a whole was a big toke of stoner metal, but thanks to frontman Pepper Keenan's Muppet-like snarl and a singles with radio-friendly guitar lines that sounded like Stone Temple Pilots in reverse ('Clean My Wounds') or Pearl Jam on 'ludes ('Albatross'), the group finally broke. Image Credit: Courtesy of Reprise RecordsĬorrosion of Conformity have always been scene-hoppers, starting life as a hardcore band in 1983, becoming a groove-minded Sabbath-gone-thrash hybrid by 1991's Blind, and riding the crest of alternative to commercial success for 1994's Deliverance. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, ‘Sleeps With Angels’.

'Everybody thinks it's hilarious that my favorite band is the Toadies,' fellow Texan Kelly Clarkson told MTV.

In that era there was always a part of town that people didn't want to go, and that's where bands would get together to drink beer and play.' Due to label drama that left an entire second album stashed in the Interscope vaults, Rubberneck was the first and last commercial gasp from the band - but you can see their legacy in other place. 'I roamed around all sort of places in Fort Worth actively trying to get murdered and it never happened,' lead singer Todd Lewis told Austin Monthly with a laugh. Not really punk, not really pop, not really metal, their hit, 'Possum Kingdom' rode an errant bar of 2/4 years before 'Hey Ya' - but with lyrics about a lake murder.

Emerging from the alt-rock desert of Fort Worth, Texas, the Toadies scored a gold record via some weirdo Southern gothic doom-choogle that existed somewhere between Kiss, the Blasters, ZZ Top and the Pixies.

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