90s songs that were OK the first time, but gave you cancer after they were played nonstop for months

pharmakos

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No, I'm saying it was played a lot in the US.

I'm a new englander.
Oh lol.

I was only 10 years old when it came out, but I don't remember it at all being on American radio or on MTV. Despite remembering when I was a kid hearing pretty much 98% of the songs in this thread. Maybe it just didn't catch my attention, not much of a hook to it, the main appeal is the lyrics.
 

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Yes, was very much not a fan. It’s only recently that I’ve been able to appreciate some of their stuff.

This is a derail kinda since it is early 2000s but... Totally agree with this on Linkin Park. Really didn't like them at first with Hybrid Theory, but now I think Meteora is pretty great. Even the previously unreleased stuff from Meteora recently put out is better than most current day stuff.

 

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Lol scatman. I went to a private school and had a religion class each day. We had an assignment to pick a song and present a speech about why it was important to you and had a religious message. This song is what I picked and I could just see the professor seething while it played because it was hilarious and everyone was snickering. I made up some bs about how like Mr. Scatman's lyrics, God is unknowable or something. Just enough that he couldn't fail me for the assignment.
 
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pharmakos

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The title track wasn't a radio single, was it? (Also, btw, rad riff in 15/8 in the first couple verses! And slick change from 4/4 to 7/8 later in the song. Wouldn't even know it was odd time unless you counted it out. Tool, eat your heart out)

"Drive," great as it is, was definitely overplayed.
 

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the one drawback of this thread is i have completely ruined my recommended list on youtube. i keep seeing 90s songs that i fucking hated pop up as well as songs i forgotten about about but loved.
i remember hating this song because the radio killed it, but i think its pretty good now. stupid name for a band.

damn its not a 90s song. sorry
 
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Also hey, how many times collectively do you guys think we've heard Stone Temple Pilots' "Interstate Love Song," "Plush," "Wicked Garden," "Creep," "Vasoline," "Dead & Bloated," "Big Empty," "Sex Type Thing," or "Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart"? And not single one of us grumpy old fucks has seen fit to complain about any of them yet?

RIP Scott Weiland.
Core is great, but I listened the shit out of Purple. Interstate Love Song was my favorite song period for quite a few years.
 
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Core is great, but I listened the shit out of Purple. Interstate Love Song was my favorite song period for quite a few years.
Interstate Love Song is still top 10 of all time for me. Under The Bridge is on that list too.
 
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