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by Trammapoline on Nov. 21 2006
And let us not forget King Of Pop, Dave Graney! Rock & Roll Is Where I Hide was large. Feelin' Kinda Sporty, You're Just Too Hip, Baby, Rackin' Up Some Zeds, The Stars, Baby, The Stars, & I'm Gonna Release Your Soul (& others, probably) also got quite a bit of airplay, but only on the indie stations.
Elliott Smith: Waltz No. 2 & Baby Britain. Gorgeous musics, and hooky, and quite (rightly) popular.
And if we're talking gorgeous musics, we cannot omit Jeff Buckley! Grace: look no further, but no, do: look at the whole album. Last Goodbye & So Real were also big. Then, posthumously, Vancouver, Witches' Rave, Nightmares by the Sea & Everybody Here Wants You. Seriously. Do yourself a favour.
Frente came back briefly (without the exclamation mark) with Sit on My Hands and Goodbye Good Guy.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Under The Bridge & a bunch of others, but not sure when each album/song came out. The were consistently popular, though, & they do hook. Rage Against the Machine hook, too. But maybe that comes too close to hip-hop for you, Bob.
Radiohead! Paranoid Android, No Surprises, Karma Police, and earlier, Creep. Much airplay. Also awesome.
Placebo: Every You, Every Me, You Don't Care About Us, Pure Morning (although the letter was hooky as hell, I didn't like it); eveything else is way cool, though.
Eels!: Beautiful Freak appeared in 1996, I think, delighting the ticklish airwaves with Novacain for the Soul and Susan's House. But perhaps they didn't get much commercial air until Mr E's Beautiful Blues?
Showing my deep uncoolness now, I also raise the spectre of Genesis. They managed to impress at least one friend of mine who is pretty much with the non-mainstream with I Can't Dance & Jesus He Knows Me. For mine, that album was OK, but still doesn't come up to the standard they had from 1970-77.
Speaking of vintage bands, Pink Floyd released The Division Bell during that decade, too, but without a lot of impact, as far as I know. Keep Talking got a little bit of airplay, but wasn't really a high-impact song.
Back to more modern things: Björk, Nirvana, Crowded House (& Neil Finn solo), Tori Amos, Pearl Jam (pub rock staple), Nick Cave (incl. with that Minogue chick), Silverchair, Prince (when he was a symbol), Live (Lightning Crashes), The Tea Party (Temptation & Gyroscope), Alanis Morrisette, U2 (Achtung Baby & Zooropa albums made them more electricky) & wasn't Nine Inch Nails' Closer a 90's song? Blah blah de blah. There's heaps of stuff that was popular, & it wasn't even all bad!
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