The List

Because it came up a bunch, I figured I'd post it. Feel free to steal it.

Alice In Chains- Would
Alice In Chains- Man in the Box
Beastie Boys- Intergalactic
Beastie Boys- No Sleep Til Brooklyn
Beck- Loser
Blind Melon- No Rain
Blues Traveler- All For You
Blur- Song 2
Candlebox- Far Behind
Cold- No One
Cold- End of the World
Counting Crows- Mr. Jones
Counting Crows- Round Here
Dave Matthews Band- Ants Marching
Days of the New- Touch, Peel, and Stand
Deftones- My Own Summer
Deftones- Be Quiet and Drive
Dishwalla- Counting Blue Cars
The Distillers- City of Angels
Econoline Crush- Home
Eve 6- Inside Out
Everclear- Santa Monica
Faith No More- Epic
The Flys- Got You Where I Want You
Foo Fighters- Everlong
Foo Fighters- I'll Stick Around
Fuel- Shimmer
Garbage- Stupid Girl
Gin Blossoms- Til I Hear it From You
Godsmack- Awake
Goo Goo Dolls- Slide
Green Day- Longview
Green Day- Nice Guys Finish Last
Harvey Danger- Flagpole Sitta
Hole- Doll Parts
Incubus- Pardon Me
Incubus- New Skin
Jerry Cantrell- Leave Me Alone
Korn- No Place to Hide
Less Than Jake- Sugar in Your Gas Tank
Limp Bizkit- Counterfeit
Lit- My Own Worst Enemy
Local H- Bound For the Floor
Marilyn Manson- Beautiful People
Marcy Playground- Sex and Candy
Matchbox 20- 3 AM
Meat Puppets- Backwater
Metallica- Enter Sandman
Metallica- Hero of the Day
Mighty Mighty Bosstones- Rascal King
Mighty Mighty Bosstones- Impression That I Get
Monster Magnet- Space Lord
Mudhoney- Touch Me I'm Sick
Nada Surf- Popular
Nine Inch Nails- We're In This Together Now
Nirvana= Lithium
Nirvana- Molly's Lips
Nirvana- About a Girl
Nirvana- Frances Farmer
No Doubt- I'm Just a Girl
Oasis- Don't Look Back in Anger
Offspring- Keep Em Separated
Orgy- Stitches
Our Lady Peace- Clumsy
Pearl Jam- Even Flow
Pearl Jam- Jeremy
Pearl Jam- Yellow Ledbetter
Radiohead- Paranoid Android
Radiohead- Karma Police
Rage Against the Machine- Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine- Killing in the Name of
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Suck My Kiss
Screaming Trees- All I Know
Screaming Trees- Nearly Lost you
Seven Mary Three- Cumbersome
Smashing Pumpkins- Cherub Rock
Smashing Pumpkins- Zero
Soundgarden- Blackhole Sun
Soundgarden- Outshined
Spacehog- In the Meantime
Stabbing Westward- Shame
Stabbing Westward- What Do I Have to Do
Stone Temple Pilots- Plush
Stone Temple Pilots- Vaseline
Stone Temple Pilots- Sex Type Thing
Sublime- Santeria
Sublime- What I Got
Sugar Ray- Fly
Temple of the Dog- Hunger Strike
Third Eye Blind- Semi Charmed Life
Toadies- Possum Kingdom
Tonic- If You Could Only See
Tool- 46 and 2
Veruca Salt- Volcano Girls
Verve Pipe- Freshmen
The Wallflowers- One Headlight
Weezer- Buddy Holly
Weezer- Say It Ain't So
311- Beautiful Disaster
311- All Mixed Up

I love the 90's.....rock.

Turns out being stuck in horrendous Miami traffic is a great place to collect some thoughts and really let your mind wander. Yesterday I was listening to a pretty solid 90's rock play list I came up with, and I immediately tried to rank two things: best songs of the genre/era (genera?) and best one hit wonders, which for me includes bands that I otherwise despise.

One Hit Wonders:
5. Marcy Playground- Sex and Candy
Needs no explanation as far as I'm concerned.
4. Cherry Poppin Daddies- Zoot Suit Riot
Remember the brief swing come back?
3. Everclear- Santa Monica
When this song came out I thought I was really going to like Everclear. Then they ripped off this riff in a half dozen other songs they put out, and basically sucked in general. I feel better if I pretend that nothing else they did exists.
2. Harvey Danger- Flagpole Sitta
It was in possibly the greatest teen movie of my generation, American Pie. Why they left it off the official soundtrack I'll never know. With the addition of Harvey Danger, among others left off, it might have rivaled the greatest movie soundtrack of my generation: Can't Hardly Wait.
1. The Toadies- Possum Kingdom
I know they had other music too, but nothing was even close to this good or even this popular. It's just a great song and a great example of rock of the decade.

Honorable mentions to Freshman by Verve Pipe, The Way by Fastball, and Fly by Sugar Ray (which might have been on the list, but they had one other huge hit and another smaller hit or two. Just no one remembers them.).

The Real List:
I can't and won't justify why I picked these. It was kind of a bitch to come up with just five. The list kept changing, and, in the end, I really couldn't settle on five anyway.
5. City of Angels- The Distillers
4. My Own Summer (Shove It)- The Deftones
3. Creep- Radiohead
2. Yellow Ledbetter- Pearl Jam
1. Lithium- Nirvana
This was the hardest to pick, and the result came from the heretofore unprecedented list within a list:
5. Serve the Servants
4. Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge
3. Molly's Lips
2. Heart Shaped Box
1. Lithium