"Battle of Who Could Care Less," Ben Folds Five."21st Century Digital Boy," Bad Religion.Be that as it may, the task is inherently subjective and this was my party: Arguably, I violated the terms of the arrangement with the Nirvana selections, and it's been put to me that Pavement was sufficiently mainstream to merit inclusion. songs and "Buddy Holly" represents the Blue Album since it was the monster hit. on the grounds that it's the "most nineites" of R.E.M. Hence, "What's the Frequency Kenneth?" represents R.E.M. One also gets points for iconicness and the elusive quality of ninetiesness. Hence, no hip-hop, no Spice Girls, and no then-obscure indie bands etc. This is an effort to recreate the experience of listening to your average "modern rock" radio station during the decade in question. Most important of all, before looking at the list you need to understand what it is and what it is not. For one thing, this is just the songs in alphabetical order at the party itself, the Party Shuffle was in effect. Tracks 14 and 16 from "Singing In My Sleep" U.K.By popular demand, you'll find the playlist for the Nineties Alt-Rock Party below. CD single - MCA Records MCSTD 40221, 1999 Tracks 1-12 released as MCA Records MCAD 11733, 1998
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We've got the full tracklisting and ordering links below.įeeling Strangely Fine: 20th Anniversary Edition (Geffen/UMe, 2018)ĬD: Amazon U.S. If you are interested in revisiting Semisonic's biggest hit album, it is available tomorrow on CD, while the 2-LP incarnation follows on November 30. This new release also features liner notes from the band. Note that there are several other edits and B-sides from the era which are not included.
Three are B-sides from various international singles: "Long Way From Home," "I'm A Liar" and "Makin' A Plan." The fourth bonus track, "Beautiful Regret" originally popped up on a demo disc in 1994. The new 20th anniversary edition of Feeling Strangely Fine adds four bonus tracks to the original album. They have not recorded any more studio material, however, since 2001. The group has reunited occasionally over the years with the most recent time being a pair of concerts in 2017. They continued for to tour for a time after that but eventually went their separate ways. Semisonic released one more album in 2001, All About Chemistry. Feeling Strangely Fine itself would end up certified Platinum in the United States. The group bounced back with the third and final single from the album in 1999, "Secret Smile," which peaked at No. The next single, "Singing In My Sleep," was released in November and did not fare quite as well, its best charting position being No. 11 on the Hot 100 and hit the peak of the Modern Rock chart. The song, using the closing of a bar as a metaphor for birth, would climb to No. The first single, "Closing Time," preceded the album's release by two weeks and would become the group's biggest hit. The final, twelve-track album was then released in March, 1998. The group recorded twenty songs from between April and August 1997. John Munson composed one of the tracks ("She Spreads Her Wing"). Dan Wilson wrote all but one of the songs with some contributions from Slichter. Some of his credits included work with Kate Bush and Talking Heads and he would go on to work with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Four singles were released, but the effort didn't light up the charts.įor their next album, Feeling Strangely Fine, Nick Launay was brought in to produce. The band then hopped over to MCA and their debut album, Great Divide, in 1996. They were then signed to Elektra, but dropped when the label switched presidents. The trio recorded an EP, Pleasure, released on an indie label. When that group broke up, the joined with drummer Jacob Slichter in 1995 to form Semisonic. Hailing from Minnesota, Dan Wilson and John Munson were members of the band Trip Shakespeare. Out today is a new 20th anniversary edition of Semisonic's breakthrough album Feeling Strangely Fine from UMe/Geffen Records which adds four bonus tracks to the original tracklisting.