10 Great, Forgotten Songs of the 90's:

[RandomKoolzip]

Songs that ruled, but no one seems to have ever 'eard them or they just don't remember:


1. "Uncle Phranc" by Team Dresch
2. "The New Marcus Aurelius" by The Multiple Cat
3. "Suspended in Air" by New Kingdom
4. "The New Timmy" by Lotion
5. "The World Revolves around You" by Ginger
6. "They Call it Accident" by The Mommyheads
7. "Miss Dandys" by Bleach
8. "I Suck" by The New Bad Things
9. "Grey-Eyed Athena" by Senator Flux
10. "(She's a) Full-Blooded Sicilan" by Zumpano

[elshiva]

1. I have to hear "Uncle Phranc!"

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Everyone seems to have fogotten about Team Dresch....

..but back around '96 they were THE SHIT. The first time I heard "uncle Phranc," I got goosepimples when they hit the line "And that's emotional BLACKMAIL!" Searing stuff.

[elshiva]

3. But is it about Phranc, the folksinger?

[RandomKoolzip]

4. Yes.

Team Dresch were an all-lesbian Punk band....the song is half-tribute to Phranc, half fiery denunciation of conservative parenting. Basically, they contrast how nurturing and accepting Phranc was to their scene with how their mothers treated them, and Phranc wins....but the delivery, the melody, the headlong velocity of their playing makes it alot more than just that.

Probaby one of the most exciting songs I've ever encountered.

[elshiva]

5. Thanks! Actually I heard of Team Dresch cos I am lesbian.

Sadly I can't find their records. Phranc is hard to find, too, but I have a record called: "Folksinger" by Phranc. She is wonderful!

[RandomKoolzip]

6. I'm sure Amazon.com has some Team Dresch CDs.....

I'll go investigate and report back.

[Kire]

7. you have to hear of something before you can forget it

where was I between the ages of 15 and 25, obviously not listening to the radio enough

[Floogeldy]

8. Thank you

I was paying very close attention to music during the nineties, and older than you.

I've never heard of any of that shit.

B-)

[RandomKoolzip]

9. None of these songs were ever on commercial radio....

College radio was even pretty iffy on them.

I only mention them because the collective indie hipsters' memory usually only stretches back four or five years; I think these were great tunes that were/are unjustly ignored.

[Floogeldy]

16. Sorry, but . . .

. . . the jury is still out as to whether they were ever great, or remembered enough to be forgotten.

B-)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. Either I'm getting REAL old, or

you're making all those up.

Honestly, I've never heard of ANY of them. Damn.

[RandomKoolzip]

11. Google 'em...get some sound clips.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000219R/ref=m_art_li_2/104-0462725-1368749?v=glance&s=music

Here's where you can get a soundclip of "uncle Phranc" by Team Dresch.

[Hardrada]

12. How about eBay?

Would they have these on eBay??

[RandomKoolzip]

13. May-B. Amazon's got some of them.

[SmileyBoy]

14. I'm sorry, I was an alternative radio freak in the 90's...

And I have never heard of any of those songs, or the corresponding bands. And I listened to a lot of indie-rock at that time too.

[RandomKoolzip]

15. Like I said, they got forgotten....

(sigh)..Search out for soundclips....these were all really good songs.


I'm NOT making these up!