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I was in grade school for most of the '90s, so I know basically jack shit about the bands and albums that were big with all those crunchy hipsters. I'm trying to make a playlist for when I'm at work, so any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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What, no one has any idea? Someone here must be older than me. :lol
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alternative-90s-Various-Artists/dp/B00006GF8A

Is that the right kinda stuff? I was expecting to see Neutral Milk Hotel in there, for starters.
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You want to get some classic 90's Brit pop on there. There's bound to be a Brit pop playlist on Spotify.

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I grew up through the 90's, but I simply have no idea what 'Portland Style 90's coffee shop' playlist means whatsoever!  :lol
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Like indie music. I just happen to know there was a time when "the dream of the '90s were alive in Portland" (yes, I know that's from the show, but what-fuckin-ever). And it was the coffee shop scene, poet-guitarists coming and singing about shit to hipster-y teens who want to save the whales, etc.
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Songs like Mr. Jones?

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Songs like Mr. Jones?

Bingo. I imagine there'd probably also be some early Death Cab in there, along with NMH as I said, Smashing Pumpkins, probably Apples in Stereo...the problem is I don't really know what else. I just know there's a certain collection of artists and genres that make up this category of '90s hipster-y stuff.
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Re: Trying to make a Portland-style "90s coffee shop" playlist. Any suggestions?
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2016, 05:09:56 AM »
I assume you're going for popular tunes and not just rock/metal? Here's some candidates.

Radiohead - Street Spirit
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You (Theme from Friends)
The Connels - '74 - '75
Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down

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« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2016, 05:39:26 AM »
Ah, I got heaps of random 90's tunes for ya;

Fuel - Shimmer
Semisonic - Closing Time
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
Blur - Coffee and TV
The Cardigans - Lovefool
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
Pulp - Disco 2000, Common People
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Watchmen - Stero
Blind Melon - No Rain
Cake - The Distance
Beck - Where It's At
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
Everclear - Santa Monica
Bush - Glycerine
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Re: Trying to make a Portland-style "90s coffee shop" playlist. Any suggestions?
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2016, 05:44:57 AM »
I have a couple playlists with 90´s stuff on spotify. But you can also find a lot of playlists on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=90+%CC%81s+alternative+rock+playlist

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« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2016, 06:04:36 AM »
Thanks all! :tup

I have a couple playlists with 90´s stuff on spotify. But you can also find a lot of playlists on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=90+%CC%81s+alternative+rock+playlist

I tried a bunch of YouTube playlists, I just didn't feel like they quite got what I was going for. However, I will check out your link. Thank you.
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Re: Trying to make a Portland-style "90s coffee shop" playlist. Any suggestions?
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2016, 06:08:16 AM »
I don't know why but this thread has made me want to listen to 90's alternative all day :lol

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Re: Trying to make a Portland-style "90s coffee shop" playlist. Any suggestions?
« Reply #15 on: September 12, 2016, 06:23:16 AM »
Yeah, this thread is bringing back heaps of good memories for me.  Here's some more;

New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Supergrass - Caught By the Fuzz
REM - Losing My Religion
Underworld - Born Slippy
Prodigy - Breathe
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Everclear - Santa Monica
The Wallflowers - One Headlight
Everything But the Girl - Missing
Nada Surf - Popular
Reel Big Fish - Sellout
Reef - Place Your Hands
Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

Might make my own nostalgic 90's playlist at this rate haha.
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Re: Trying to make a Portland-style "90s coffee shop" playlist. Any suggestions?
« Reply #16 on: September 12, 2016, 07:07:01 AM »
SD, you looking for more acoustic style of rocking style?
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« Reply #17 on: September 12, 2016, 07:08:27 AM »
Throw some Alanis Morrisette in there for good measure too. She was huge in the mid 90s.
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Re: Trying to make a Portland-style "90s coffee shop" playlist. Any suggestions?
« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2016, 08:37:11 AM »
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Walk On The Ocean
Toad The Wet Sprocket - All I Want
4 Non Blondes - What's up
Collective Soul - Shine
Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle (cover)
Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You
Gin Blossoms - Til I Hear It From You
The Wallflowers - One Headlight
The Wallflowers - 6th Avenue Heartache
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
Candlebox - Far Behind
Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home


let me know if you need more.  There were about a million of these in the 90s.
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Re: Trying to make a Portland-style "90s coffee shop" playlist. Any suggestions?
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2016, 08:50:10 AM »
Most of the songs listed are ones I didn't even like when they were out.

Toad is pretty good, and I liked Everclear and Gin Blossoms.  Also, that Runaway Train album from Soul Asylum is killer.
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Re: Trying to make a Portland-style "90s coffee shop" playlist. Any suggestions?
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2016, 09:24:25 AM »
Yeah, this thread is bringing back heaps of good memories for me.

geez, you aren't kidding.  I'm having serious flashbacks to college/university here.  :lol
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Re: Trying to make a Portland-style "90s coffee shop" playlist. Any suggestions?
« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2016, 10:00:18 AM »
New Radicals - You Get What You Give

This song reminds me of my last year in school so bad!!

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« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2016, 10:13:12 AM »
Sponge-Plowed

My fave "90's" track.
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Re: Trying to make a Portland-style "90s coffee shop" playlist. Any suggestions?
« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2016, 11:59:00 AM »
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Bon Jovi - Always

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« Reply #24 on: September 12, 2016, 12:36:12 PM »
The Cardigans - Lovefool
Blind Melon - No Rain
Cake - The Distance

Kade..the Cardigans??? Actually I LOVE that song! ;D
As much as No Rain is awesome, I bought that album and I thought it blew.
And that Cake tune is awesome!!

Hole - Celebrity Skin
 
Never got Celebrity Skin, but Live Through This is a phenomenal album.

Throw some Alanis Morrisette in there for good measure too. She was huge in the mid 90s.
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« Reply #25 on: September 12, 2016, 01:26:47 PM »
As much as No Rain is awesome, I bought that album and I thought it blew.
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« Reply #26 on: September 12, 2016, 03:01:36 PM »
The Cardigans - Lovefool
Blind Melon - No Rain
Cake - The Distance

Kade..the Cardigans??? Actually I LOVE that song! ;D
As much as No Rain is awesome, I bought that album and I thought it blew.
And that Cake tune is awesome!!

Hole - Celebrity Skin
 
Never got Celebrity Skin, but Live Through This is a phenomenal album.

Throw some Alanis Morrisette in there for good measure too. She was huge in the mid 90s.
I wore out Jagged Little Pill. True story.

lol, wasn't a big fan of that Cardigans song, it was huge over here and just one that popped in my head for some reason.  Only knew the hits from Hole, but they were all pretty solid.  Malibu was another cracker.

The Cake is indeed awesome, the other cool one from them was Short Skirt Long Jacket, and their cover of I Will Survive was pretty nice too.
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« Reply #27 on: September 13, 2016, 12:43:41 PM »
SD, you looking for more acoustic style of rocking style?

I'm veering toward acoustic. All I know is post-grunge like Third Eye Blind or Hives falls outside of the taxonomy I'm trying to learn more about.

Oh, I probably should've mentioned that to everyone earlier: this is as much for listening pleasure as it is me trying to educate myself about a certain musical scene in the post-Nirvana (but pre-Britney Spears) '90s. Thanks all for your contributions so far!
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« Reply #28 on: September 13, 2016, 01:36:53 PM »
The Rembrandts -- Waiting To Be Opened
Ben Folds Five -- Brick
Dada -- Star You Are
Counting Crows -- All My Friends And Lovers
CPR -- That House
Guster -- Barrel Of A Gun
Jackson Browne -- I'll Do Anything
Jars Of Clay -- Flood
Jeffrey Gaines -- Headmasters Of The Mind (Studio version)
Marc Cohn -- Walking In Memphis
Melissa Etheridge -- Bring Me Some Water
Neil Finn -- Sinner
Sarah McLachlan -- Ice Cream
Sheryl Crow -- Home
Sting -- Fields Of Gold
Toad The Wet Sprocket -- The Nightingale Song

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« Reply #29 on: September 13, 2016, 02:54:55 PM »
Like indie music. I just happen to know there was a time when "the dream of the '90s were alive in Portland" (yes, I know that's from the show, but what-fuckin-ever). And it was the coffee shop scene, poet-guitarists coming and singing about shit to hipster-y teens who want to save the whales, etc.

No offense, it's purely my taste and my taste alone, but I can't think of a playlist I'd rather not listen to more than that. 

I have mental pictures of Michael Imperioli on the Sopranos smashing a guitar over some hipster's head and calling him "Paul Fucking McCartney!"

Haha, having said that, I do dig many of the songs in this thread (though I don't think all of them apply to the OP). 

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« Reply #30 on: September 13, 2016, 07:29:50 PM »
Like indie music. I just happen to know there was a time when "the dream of the '90s were alive in Portland" (yes, I know that's from the show, but what-fuckin-ever). And it was the coffee shop scene, poet-guitarists coming and singing about shit to hipster-y teens who want to save the whales, etc.

No offense, it's purely my taste and my taste alone, but I can't think of a playlist I'd rather not listen to more than that.

Well that's what I'm going into this to find out: whether I enjoy it or not. And, like I said, regardless of whether I enjoy it or not, I do also see this as an educational opportunity.
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« Reply #31 on: September 14, 2016, 08:02:25 AM »
Like indie music. I just happen to know there was a time when "the dream of the '90s were alive in Portland" (yes, I know that's from the show, but what-fuckin-ever). And it was the coffee shop scene, poet-guitarists coming and singing about shit to hipster-y teens who want to save the whales, etc.

No offense, it's purely my taste and my taste alone, but I can't think of a playlist I'd rather not listen to more than that.

Well that's what I'm going into this to find out: whether I enjoy it or not. And, like I said, regardless of whether I enjoy it or not, I do also see this as an educational opportunity.

And you have no idea how much I respect that.  I've had this conversation with my 15-year-old daughter.   I think there is value and merit in knowing music you don't like.   I was never a huge Hendrix fan at all, I can't usually get past the vocals and I'm not a "noise" guy, but I had the "Essential Jimi Hendrix" for "Little Wing".   About three years ago, I decided to give it a serious listen, and then I had an opportunity to get the three original studio albums in bulk, and I went through them with some detail.    I was blown away, not in how good they were (though they were) but how INFLUENTIAL they were.   Almost every track I heard something that came later.   "Oh, that's Steve Vai!", "Oh, that's Judas Priest!", "Oh, that's Uli Roth!"   I would never even consider Hendrix in my top 15 guitarists before, then I heard that and again, even though he's not my favorite, he is UNDENIABLY in the top five, if not top three, just because of how many people he has directly influenced. 

I made a CD of 20 songs each from Zeppelin, Beatles, Floyd, Elton John, and Genesis for my daughter just to listen to once, so she had a basis to evaluate bands like One Direction, Taylor Swift, etc.