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Foo Fighters
Bush
Better Than Ezra
Third Eye Blind
Counting Crows
Letters to Cleo

Out of all those bands I only ever heard two songs by Foo Fighters

I like Glycerine by Bush and Jumper by Third Eye Blind

not a fan of most of those. never heard of the last one tho.

I have 11 Foo Fighters songs downloaded on my phone, 3 Bush songs, and nothing from those other bands

I like The Pretender but not so much now because I've heard it for more than a decade now.

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6-8
1
5
1
Who?

None

All

best song for each:

exhausted
comedown
in the blood
never let you go
anna begins
awake

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Foo Fighters

Maybe, like 4 or 5.

Bush

None that I know of.

Better Than Ezra

I don't even know who this is.

Third Eye Blind

1

Counting Crows

2

Letters to Cleo

Don't know this one.

poppy 90s alt rock is the new dad rock and i love it

Never heard of any of those bands before now aside for Foo Fighters, and I don't know if I've ever heard any of their songs either.

How old are yall when you havent even heard the names third eye blind or counting crows?

I know

Foo Fighters - "My Hero"
Bush - "Machinehead"
Counting Crows - "Mr. Jones"

Those songs are catchy.

too many 2 count

I'm now listening to the entire Better than Ezra - Deluxe album (the title of the album is Deluxe)

there first major album, but i had the mix tapes and demo tapes back in the day (which include the song Ezra Pound, the reference in their name even tho they lie about it now)

yes i know a lot about better than ezra and i saw them live once at LSU in 2003

I feel like if weird obsessive stan culture existed in the 90s to the degree it has in the social media age a group like letters to cleo would probably be in a similar stature to paramore, they just came too early

Robot2600 posted...

I'm now listening to the entire Better than Ezra - Deluxe album (the title of the album is Deluxe)

there first major album, but i had the mix tapes and demo tapes back in the day (which include the song Ezra Pound, the reference in their name even tho they lie about it now)

yes i know a lot about better than ezra and i saw them live once at LSU in 2003

theyre my absolute favorite group in the list and were my first show back in 1995! sadly misunderstood band

never heard the pre-major label stuff until they re-released surprise a few years back which really shocked me with how good it was

i got it all off of Napster back in the day, except one of the EP that I also somehow had a cassette of. i must have found it in a thrift shop or garage sale in baton rouge around 2000. i honestly have no idea how i got that casette. also had a casette of deluxe but got the cd eventually.

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How old are yall when you havent even heard the names third eye blind or counting crows?

These are 90's alt-rock bands? I was never into alt-rock.

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Counting Crows

this one for sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKU7PfQtwcE

i also like a few by 3ib and ff is overrated, the others idc about or don't know of

A few but not that many

Zero across the board

Foo Fighters-7
Bush-3
Third Eye Blind-4
Counting Crows-5

I don't know any Better Than Ezra songs and have never even heard of Letters to Cleo.

Semi-Charmed Life is a good song, but it's the only one I can think of

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Foo Fighters - Most of the first 2 albums

Bush - 0 (Liked them a bit when they first came out but they very quickly got overplayed)

Better Than Ezra -0 (But I saw them live back in the day and they were fantastic)

Third Eye Blind - 0

Counting Crows - 0 (But I also saw them live opening for The Who and they were also fantastic)

Letters to Cleo - 0 (Didn't see them live but the singer was a special guest at a Local H show a while back. Also hilarious when Violent J from I.C.P. was obsessed with her and actively had juggalos trying to convince her to go out with him.)

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...have never even heard of Letters to Cleo.

You ever watch Parks and Recreation? They were Ben's favorite band and I think they made an appearance in the show.

I think I have Counting Crows' first album somewhere in my tub of CDs. It's not too shabby.

jdb78 posted...

You ever watch Parks and Recreation? They were Ben's favorite band and I think they made an appearance in the show.

Never watched it. I don't watch alot of comedies to be honest.

Letters to Cleo has an okay cover of Dangerous Type I guess

Foo Fighters are one of my favourite bands and seen them live several times. Enjoy most of their songs.
Bush - Couldn't name a single song but do recall enjoying one of two of theirs.
Better than Ezra - Never heard of them, but likely listened to a song or three.
Third Eye Blind - Recall liking a few songs of theirs, but couldn't name a single song.
Counting Crows - Okay, were never something I really listened to.
Letters to Cleo - Never heard of them, but likely listened to a song or three.

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Don't really care for the genre so I'm assuming not many

Letters to Cleo? Didn't they do the theme song for Melrose Place or something similiar?

My memory of them was seeing them at a small show in St. Louis and much more excited by the band Seed that opened for them.

More fun facts about Better than Ezra:

the song "Good" (and probably "The Killer Inside" and "Rosalia") are about Selma Hayek. Lead singer and her lived together for a while before Deluxe came out. She was the girl from their "Rosalia" video, but I actually think the song was written about her too).

When I saw them in concert in 2003, the lead singer looked me directly in the eyes and tossed me his sweaty towel from off stage, but the girl i was with didnt know i was bi so i just gave the towel to some other girl who was freaking out xD

The "Untitled" track on Deluxe is actually 20 years ahead of it's time (or 5 years too late, however you want to look at it). It's a druggy synthwave mix that sounded really strange back in the day, but if you listen to it now you'd swear it was the Hotline Miami soundtrack.

https://youtu.be/Q1yijVVPD_c

The other main theme from Deluxe is dealing with abusive parents, or one abusive parent, in a rough household, probably something that he and Hayek had in common.

I'm trying to find the track listing for their first album, Surprise, which they self-produced. Some of those songs are on Deluxe and it helps to separate the new songs from the old ones.

@Robot2600 theres a track list here for Surprise https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/better-than-ezra/surprise/

LOVE the towel anecdote too. Thats the sorta thing I wouldve done while still in the closet lol, especially given its from Kevin

3EB used to be my favorite band. I like dozens of their songs.

Better than Ezras third album is really good.

Bush was my favorite band as a kid. I like 7ish songs of theirs.

Niiiice, thanks for the Surprise listing. They made up some other shit about their band name over the years, but I think it's just something along the lines of

"We are better than Ezra Pound, the most difficult and respected poet writing in English" ... remember this was 1989.

In the intervening years, I'm sure they found out that Pound was a crazy fascists and didn't want to make the connection to him public. The name still stands, they are, in fact, better than Ezra Pound.

They were also from Baton Rouge growing up, but dropped out of LSU to move to New Orleans where they did Surprise and probably songs from Deluxe, got signed, moved to LA. Growing up in Baton Rouge you would hear stories about your friend's older brother who used to live next to the garage that BtE practiced in or w/e. Stuff like that xD

Some other stuff:

the song "A Lifetime" is from all accounts, actually a true story (their friend died and they took the urn from the funeral and drove to the beach to scatter the ashes).

the song "Rosalia" really, really sounds like something from The Adventures of Pete & Pete

the song "Good" was featured in the trailer for the Babysitters' Club movie in the '90s. I really really wanted to see that movie but I was a boy so i couldn't!

I like a few songs from Bush's Sixteen Stone album.

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Foo Fighters
Bush
Better Than Ezra
Third Eye Blind
Counting Crows
Letters to Cleo

Food Fighters: "Everlong"
Bush: none, lol
Better than Ezra: none
Third Eye Blind: none
Counting Crows: basically any of the songs on the radio. guilty pleasure.
Letters to Cleo: who?

also I don't like Foo Fighters at all, I like every song by Bush and 3rd Eye Blind, 85% of the first 4 counting crows albums, and ive never heard of letters to cleo

Robot2600 posted...

the song "Rosalia" really, really sounds like something from The Adventures of Pete & Pete

one of the best compliments you could ever give a song

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