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This week's important poll

"Send Me on My Way"

1 votes

"King of New Orleans"

1 votes

"Counting Blue Cars"

1 votes

"Selling the Drama"

2 votes

Johnny Dickshot Apr 04 2007 10:28 AM

We're examining post-grunge hits of the Early 90s today. Give us your winner and a litte explanation: A. Rusted Root: "Send Me on My Way" B. Better Than Ezra "King of New Orleans" C. Dishwalla: "Counting Blue Cars" (not actual video) D. Live: "Selling the Drama"

Edgy MD Apr 04 2007 10:43 AM

I thought Friday was Imprtrant Poll Day. I was expecting Psychedelic Furs, Missing Persons, or another band witout an article.

seawolf17 Apr 04 2007 10:48 AM

Weird selection, JD. Rusted Root's just not in the same genre as the rest of these. "Send Me On My Way" is an old fraternity party classic; it's part of the soundtrack of my college years, on the same mixtape as "Ants Marching" and "Hooked On A Feeling." ("Ants Marching" would win this vote hands-down, by the way.) "Selling The Drama" is more of a college radio staple for me. It's one of those songs -- like Beck's "Loser" -- that actually brings back the olfactory memory of the way our studio smelled. Not the best song on the album, though. "Counting Blue Cars" is a great little pop song; loved it also, haven't heard it in a long time, but doesn't resonate like the other two. BTE is one of the great underappreciated bands of that era. Everything they write is gold; "King" isn't even in their top five songs. That said, I'd be tempted to give them my vote, more because of their oeuvre than because of that specific song. On a song-by-song basis, though, nothing makes me bounce like "Send Me On My Way." That's getting my vote.

Johnny Dickshot Apr 04 2007 10:57 AM

Friday can be Important Poll day if you want, I was just disgusted with the lack of activity here and tried to stir stuff up. (I may run a VIP on Friday anyway... and don't let me stop you from posting one...) The sweep of illegally posted videos complicated this particular poll, and I agree with the odd selection comment (although I'm pretty sure these songs all came out within the same period). Many contenders including the first two candidates (Sugar, Toadies) knocked out due to unavailable videos.

Johnny Dickshot Apr 04 2007 11:07 AM

Rusted Root should do better, it is a fun little song, but their singer is awful and I never found their whole birkenstocky, suburban-white-kids-with-dreadlocks image particularly authentic. "King of New Orleans" was a replacement when all the videos for "Good" had disabled embedding. I think "King" is a very cool song, kinda sad, but loud. If you asked me in 1994 who'd be the next huge band I might have predicted Dishwalla who had a handsome singer, a nice debut single and a certain distance from grunge. I have no idea why they weren't bigger (could it be they actually sucked?) but I think they're stiill out there being exactly what I thought they wouldn't be. "Selling the Drama" sounds awfully dated today, no?

cooby May 06 2007 04:36 PM

Counting Blue Cars. Def.