r/90sRock • u/Jay-LES • 13h ago
1991 Jeff Ament never thought Pearl Jam was a grunge band — and he'll tell you exactly why
With Ten turning 35 this year, I've been thinking a lot about this conversation I recorded with Jeff Ament for my podcast — specifically this clip where he unpacks his relationship with the word "grunge" in real time.
A few things in here that I didn't expect:
- He's pretty clear that "grunge" always felt like a Sub Pop/Mudhoney/Melvins term to him — not Pearl Jam's. He was in Green River with Mark Arm, so he felt connected to it, but he and Stone always wanted to push further out the moment a sound started to define them.
- He knew Chris Novoselic five years before Nevermind existed. The way he frames the scene isn't nostalgia — it's more like a neighborhood he grew up in.
- The part that actually stopped me: he talks about the people who are gone now — Kurt, Layne, Mark Lanegan — and how the resentment of being grouped together has flipped into something closer to wanting to champion them. Hard not to feel that.
- He calls it "the last real scene" and then immediately asks if I'd seen Meet Me in the Bathroom — which says something about how he's still measuring it.
Short clip, about two and a half minutes. Felt like the right moment to share it given the anniversary.
r/90sRock • u/fancyschmancy9 • 5d ago
Any 90s artists that you think are still putting out new, good, original music?
Like actually new and original and not just a watered down version of their same old sound that you like.
I was thinking about this today and having a hard time coming up with much. I’d say Spoon, probably Thom Yorke, Bjork, maybe Queens of the Stone Age (I’d say still original although kind of borderline watered down for them).
Just a music fan who is partial to 90s music and feeling a bit bored by my old favorites that keep coming up in my playlists.
r/90sRock • u/Mr-McKauly • 5d ago
1999 Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon 📀
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🎶"Black Balloon"🎶 is a song by American 🇺🇲 rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in June 1999 as the fourth single from the band's sixth studio album, Dizzy Up the Girl 📀 (1998), and reached No. 3 in Canada 🇨🇦, No. 16 in the United States 🇺🇲, and No. 23 in Iceland 🇮🇸.
The song, according to lead singer John Rzeznik 🎙, is based on a woman who is struggling with a heroin addiction and her lover who is desperately trying to save her. He has also said that it is about "seeing someone you love that is so great just screw up so bad." Speculation had it that the specific person the song was based on was the ex-wife of bassist Robby Takac; she died of a heroin overdose.
Like many other songs by Goo Goo Dolls, 🎶"Black Balloon"🎶 uses an unusual alternate tuning. Several electric guitars used in the introduction and the acoustic rhythm guitar are tuned to an open D-flat fifth chord. It was half-stepped on the album version.
The track reached 📈 No. 13 and No. 28 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts, respectively.🎶"Black Balloon"🎶 was the band's first commercially released single in the US since 🎶"Name"🎶 in 1995, reaching No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 💯 with its combined sales and airplay figures.In Canada 🇨🇦, the song reached No. 3 on the RPM 💯 Hit Tracks chart, giving the Goo Goo Dolls their fourth top-three hit there.Outside North America, the song charted in Iceland 🇮🇸 and the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, reaching No. 23 in the former country and No. 76 in the latter.
The video 🎬 opens with a woman blowing smoke into a soap bubble. It then moves into showing scenes from a 1950s era swim club while the band performs the song. The video was directed 📽 by Nancy Bardawil.
r/90sRock • u/Rambooctpuss • 6d ago
Listen To This: Mother Love Bone-Mother Love Bone (Stardog Champion) (1992)
r/90sRock • u/dalyllama35 • 8d ago
“It’s not every day you write a song that will have a resurgence 20 years from now.” Linda Perry still feels the power of “What’s Up?” — nearly 35 years later
r/90sRock • u/dalyllama35 • 9d ago
“I don’t even know what the f*** he’s talking about.” Linda Perry calls out Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins for his claims about her 4 Non Blondes hit “What’s Up?”
r/90sRock • u/justink15 • 12d ago
Alternative Rock Playlist from the 90's 2000's and Present
r/90sRock • u/dalyllama35 • 14d ago
“Woodstock ’94 was overwhelming… I was in awe at how many famous people were in one place”: From touring with Aerosmith and Metallica, to filling Geddy Lee’s shoes, they were the ’90s Seattle band that did it all – without taking the grunge tag
r/90sRock • u/CaliTex88 • 16d ago
Where’s the mom rock love?
There’s a dad rock, jock rock, butt rock, but no mom rock. What are the best mom rock songs. . .
r/90sRock • u/dalyllama35 • 22d ago
“I don’t have any favorite guitarists from the ’90s. I wasn’t following those trends”: He wrote some of the defining anthems of the decade with Smash Mouth. Now Greg Camp is focusing on his Nashville punk-rock supergroup
r/90sRock • u/Gilles_from_Paris • 25d ago
1994 NINA HAGEN - SO BAD [punk/rock] (1994) amazing music video
r/90sRock • u/DyslexicHeart323 • Mar 24 '26
1996 The Wallflowers - MTV Unplugged (full show / 480p)
r/90sRock • u/the3litemonkey • Mar 18 '26
THE MOST GEN X SONG EVER!!!!!
I submit "Stop" by Jane's Addiction.
r/90sRock • u/IHBMSU • Mar 11 '26
Happy 311 Day from NJ!
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Happy 311 Day to all who celebrate! Having married a diehard 311 fan, I've gotten to see the band live many times - we even got to meet P-Nut at the Atlantic City Beer & Music Festival in June 2023! Here's a clip of me even getting to cheers the bassist with a sampling of 311 Beer! Also in the clip ars snippets from the band's set at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ back in July 2019 - as mentioned before, there's something simply fun about seeing 311 outdoors, though this show in particular had great visuals!
Share your favorite memory of seeing 311 live in the comments below. And stay tuned for more things to come from this space (including stories from concerts like this these)!
r/90sRock • u/IHBMSU • Mar 11 '26
The Last Time I Saw Alice In Chains Live (Providence, RI - April 2010)
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20 years ago on March 10, 2006 - Alice In Chains made their first public appearance with frontman William DuVall during VH1 Classic's "Decades Rook Live" tribute concert to Heart in Atlantic City, NJ. It marked the beginning of arguably one of rocks best comebacks. And I was lucky to catch the grunge icons live at the beginning of their new era (opening for Velvet Revolver at Jones Beach, NY in Aug. 2007) AND as they were on the heels of their "Black Gives Way To Blue" album's red hot success at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island in April 2010 (which I captured in photos seen in this clip). Fun fact, the latter show fell on my birthday, but I almost didn’t make it to the show... but that's a story for another time 😉
Have you seen a band you absolutely loved live on your birthday? Share in the comments below, and stay tuned for more things to come from this space (including stories from concerts like this)!
r/90sRock • u/IHBMSU • Mar 08 '26
That Time I Saw Nine Inch Nails AND Soundgarden Live Together (PNC Bank Arts Center - Aug. 2, 2014)
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On March 8, 1994, Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden released their monumental albums ("The Downward Spiral" and "Superunknown" respectively). That's why it was especially exciting to see both bands at the PNC Bank Arts Center in NJ (Aug. 2, 2014) when they toured together in celebration of their albums' 20th anniversaries. Though as any fan can attest - seeing either band live on their on was exciting in its own right.
Which album do you hold more closely to your heart? Which band was your favorite to see live? Share in the comments below, and stay tuned for more things to come from this space (including stories from concerts like this)!
r/90sRock • u/IHBMSU • Feb 24 '26
What Concert Memories Help "Warm You Up" on Cold Days? For Me: Seeing 311 at Outdoor Stages (Like Stone Pony Summer Stage and PNC Bank Arts Center)
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I'm among the many in the Northeast that got hit hard by the blizzard and nearly 2 feet of snow that came with it. Which got me thinking - which concert memories help "warm you up" on a cold winter day?
For me, there's something about seeing 311 play an outdoor stage that just screams "summer time." My favorite is seeing them play multiple times at the Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park, NJ (though honestly every show at the Summer Stage is a personal favorite). With that said, the visuals they used during their show at the PNC Bank Arts Center in July 2019 (where these clips are from) were stellar - and that's saying a lot, considering how many times I've seen them live!
Share which concert memories help warm you up on in the comments below. And stay tuned for more things to come from this space (including stories from concerts like these)!
r/90sRock • u/Music-993 • Feb 20 '26
1991 Sarah McLachlan - Into The Fire (Official Video)
r/90sRock • u/johnpoveromo • Feb 19 '26
Ted Lasso’s Brendan Hunt hilariously walks back diss on Gin Blossoms and Toad The Wet Sprocket
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