Rediscovery playlist (or, I think I miss the 90s)

So in between working today I’ve been loading CDs onto my iTunes. Since I bought a ridiculous amount of music when I was in college, a lot of my CDs are from the 90s. I really miss that decade. Musically it was a really exciting time for me, as being a DJ at my college station really opened my eyes to a lot of music I would have never heard of otherwise, and of course joining my first band also helped increase my knowledge of underground (or what we then called “alternative”) music even further.

Back then, you weren’t inundated with a new band every five minutes. If you were interested in music that wasn’t played on top-40 radio, then you had to seek it out. But if you were willing to stay up late on a Sunday night, you’d have your own personal 2-hour alternative music lesson right in your living (or dorm) room, thanks to MTV’s “120 Minutes.”

By the end of the 90s Kurt Cobain was dead, alternative had become mainstream, MTV was much more concerned with where to film the 120th season of The Real World than they were with finding the next buzz band, and not only was everyone making music, but everyone was putting out a CD.

Now instead of planning an east coast tour for my band I’m planning a wedding. So it’s with a hint of nostalgia and pride that I put together this playlist, which I call Rediscovery.

REDISCOVERY PLAYLIST 08.18.07
1. Versus – Blade of Grass
2. Sugar – Panama City Hotel
3. Luna – Beautiful View
4. Rodeo Boy – Another Chorus Comes
5. Son Volt – Drown
6. Pavement – Cut Your Hair
7. Zen Frisbee – Crazy Steven (mp3)
8. Archers of Loaf – Vocal Shrapnel
9. Mary’s Danish – My Dear Heretic
10. Dinosaur Jr. – The Lung
11. Antenna – Don’t Be Late
12. Wheat – Don’t I Hold You
13. Meat Puppets – Never to Be Found
14. Beulah – Sunday Under Glass
15. Madder Rose – My Star
16. Liz Phair – Supernova
17. Buffalo Tom – I’m Allowed
18. The Posies – Solar Sister
19. Blake Babies – Cesspool
20. The Lemonheads – It’s About Time