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[ElyrionX]

Recently, I've been into the whole vintage rock scene and I have an overwhelming urge to check out some rock tunes from that late 80s or early 90s era. I'm talking about bands like Guns N' Roses, Mr Big, Stone Temple Pilots, REM, U2, etc.....

Anyone help me out here?

 

[AniHawk]

Nevermind.

 

[Raxel]

The Scream - Extremely cool blues rock, imagine Van Halen + GnR + a bit of neo funk. You can download their albums (legally) from http://www.racerxband.com/scream.htm. Check out "Tell me why" from their first album!
Bad English - Keyboardy rock, featuring ex journey members
Hardline - great hard rock

 

[ElyrionX]

Well I only know the big hits...

Thanks! Actually, I only want the big hits. Those are the only ones I remember and those are probably the ones that will elicit the nostalgic reaction from me......

 

[AniHawk]

Thanks! Actually, I only want the big hits. Those are the only ones I remember and those are probably the ones that will elicit the nostalgic reaction from me......

Oh, well did you get my list then, or do you want me to retype it?

 

[Guzim]

The Pixies.

 

[evil ways]

Guns 'N' Roses- "You could be mine", "Sweer child 'o mine", "November rain"

U2- "Until the end of the world", "The Fly", "One"

Stone Temple Pilots- "Interstate love song", "Big empty", "Plush"

 

[ElyrionX]

Oh, well did you get my list then, or do you want me to retype it?

Yeah I did. Thanks again!

 

[IgeL]

Do you want "big hits" or also "great songs that should've been big hits"? I'm a huge 80s lover so I can give both but it's easier if I know what you're looking for.

Here's something to get you started:

TNT - 10,000 lovers, Intuition, many others...
Europe - Ready or not, Rock the night (ok, ok, The final countdown)
Fair Warning - Save me, Angel of heaven
Vixen - Cryin', Edge of a broken heart

 

[6.8]

The Pixies.

.


And Sonic Youth, though they are still active today.

 

[Matlock]

10,000 Maniacs

 

[Guileless]

"Rusty Cage" by Soundgarden.

 

[Diablos]

The albums "Goo" and "Dirty" by Sonic Youth.

 

[tt_deeb]

Alice In Chains- Would, Man In The Box, Down In A Hole, Heaven Beside You

Days Of The New- Shelf In The Room, Down

Soundgarden- Outshined, Jesus Christ Pose

Tool- Sober

Pearl Jam- Alive, Evenflow, Jeremy, Black

Radiohead- Creep, Just, High And Dry

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Mother Love Bone

 

[Raxel]

Do you want "big hits" or also "great songs that should've been big hits"? I'm a huge 80s lover so I can give both but it's easier if I know what you're looking for.

Here's something to get you started:

TNT - 10,000 lovers, Intuition, many others...
Europe - Ready or not, Rock the night (ok, ok, The final countdown)
Fair Warning - Save me, Angel of heaven
Vixen - Cryin', Edge of a broken heart

You sir have good taste Have you heard TNT's My Religion yet?

 

[Boogie9IGN]

I love Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

Faith No More - A Small Victory, Malpractice, Crack Hitler, Epic, Falling to Pieces, The Real Thing.

 

[Semjaza Azazel]

I'd do the Pixies as well. They're mostly an early 90s band and you can toss in the late 80s stuff too anyway.

 

[BlackMage]

rock was so good back then.

 

[nitewulf]

late 80's/early 90's is vintage? im old...
big hits you say?

temple of the dog - hunger strike/say hello to heaven
meat puppets - backwater
better than ezra - good
blues traveller - runaround
bush - everything zen
cranberries - zombie
deep blue something - breakfast at tiffany's
faith no more - epic
gin blossoms - hey jealousy (where are they now?)
jayhawks - waiting for the sun
live - i alone
REM - imitation of life/one i love (losing my religion would be the big hit i guess)
RHCP - under the bridge
spin doctors - two princess
candlebox - you
toad the wet sproket - all i want

mostly 90s stuff there, also excluded what most others already recommended. for 80's...van halen, GnR, Dokken and Scropions i'd say.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Guns N' Roses - Live and Let Die
Nirvana - Drain You
Nirvana - Sappy
The Beatles - Free As A Bird
Pearl Jam - Animal
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter

 

[BlackMage]

Silverchair - Tomorrow, Pure Massacre, Israeli's Son

 

[SlickWilly223]

Stone Temple Pilots - Crackerman
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
Stone Temple Pilots - Dead and Bloated
Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Cup
Stone Temple Pilots - Down
Stone Temple Pilots - Glide

 

[way more]

The Pixies.

And uh, Better then Ezra?

 

[Eminem]

this is mid-90s, but Butthole Surfers - Pepper

 

[GDGF]

This whole thread reads like my MP3 playlist.

 

[etiolate]

Other than what's been mentioned:

Sponge - Plowed, Molly. I just picked up Rotting Pinata yesterday. Rock.

Catherine Wheel - Wish I could remember a song title, but they rock

Corrosion of Conformity - Ditto as above.

 

[nitewulf]

god i loved sponge, rotting pinata got me through HS.

 

[Error Macro]

Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song, Vaseline, Wicked Garden
Soundgarden - The Day I Tried To Live, My Wave, Black Hole Sun
Nirvana - Serve The Servants, Dumb, Drain You
Foo Fighters - Oh George, This Is A Call, Alone + Easy Target
Guns 'N Roses - You Could Be Mine, Welcome To The Jungle, Paradise City
Metallica - Enter Sandman, The Unforgiven, Sad But True

 

[AniHawk]

Error Macro's avatar just reminded me:

Blind Melon:

No Rain

 

[Error Macro]

 

[Diablos]

ElyrionX: Did you get anything from Sonic Youth's Dirty yet?
If not... get Swimsuit Issue, Theresa's Soundworld and Youth Against Fascism. Then try to tell me it isn't early 90's vintage rock. Quite simply, these songs are teh pwn.

 

[Mason]

Pixies. They're all you need for early 90's rock.


(BTW, there's no "The")

 

[CajoleJuice]

Geez I'm only 18, and I don't think early 90s as vintage. It's what I listened to growing up. My dad was awesome and bought STP - Purple, Bush - Sixteen Stone, Pearl Jam - Vs., Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Suger Sex Magik, and U2 - The Joshua Tree. I love him for that.

Alice In Chains - Man In The Box, Down In A Hole, Rooster, I Stay Away, Again, Grind, Would?, Heaven Beside You
Bush - Everything Zen, Machinehead, Comedown, Glycerine, Swallowed
Collective Soul - Shine
Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
Faith No More - Epic
Foo Fighters - My Hero, Monkey Wrench
Green Day - Longview, Basket Case, When I Come Around
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O'Mine, Live and Let Die
Live - I Alone, Lightning Crashes
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
Metallica - The Unforgiven, Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit, All Apologies, Lake of Fire and The Man WHo Sold The World (Unplugged), Come As You Are, Heart-Shaped Box
Oasis - Wonderwall, Champange Supernova
The Offspring - Come Out and Play, Self-Esteem
Pearl Jam - Evenflow, Alive, Black, Jeremy, Go, Animal, Daughter, Rearviewmirror
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts, Losing My Religion, Man Oo The Moon
Radiohead - Creep
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Power of Equality, Breaking The Girl, Give It Away, Under The Bridge
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock, Disarm, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, 1979, Tonight, Tonight, Zero
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun, Jesus Christ Pose, Outshined, The Day I Tried to Live, Superunknown, Rusty Cage, Burden In My Hand, 4th of July, Fresh Tendrils
Stone Temple Pilots - Dead And Bloated, Sex Type Thing, Wicked Garden, Creep, Plush, Meatplow, Vasoline, Loungefly, Interstate Love Song, Big Empty
Temple of the Dog - Say Hello to Heaven, Hunger Strike, Pushin Forward Back
Tool - Sober
U2 - One, Mysterious Ways, Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, With or Without You, Bullet the Blue Sky
Van Halen - Right Now
The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen
Weezer - Buddy Holly

And its Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart

 

[Lambtron]

this is mid-90s, but Butthole Surfers - Pepper

If you're goiung to listen to Butthole Surfers, something older than this is going to be way better. Get "Who Was In My Room Last Night?" That's a fuckin' song. All their 80s output is pretty much gold, too.

 

[LakeEarth]

Stone Temple Pilots - Crackerman
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
Stone Temple Pilots - Dead and Bloated
Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Cup
Stone Temple Pilots - Down
Stone Temple Pilots - Glide

All of Core is good.

 

[fart]

vintage rock... early 90s...

 

[BlackMage]

this has become basically a "recommend me some grunge music" thread.

 

[Mason]

this has become basically a "recommend me some grunge music" thread.

Apparently you don't know much about rock music in the early 90s.

 

[Scalemail Ted]

wow...i'm feeling old when I see vintage and 90's in the same sentence.

 

[bjork]

This thread lacks love for Body Count.

 

[BlackMage]

Apparently you don't know much about rock music in the early 90s.

lesee most people recommending: alice in chains, soundgarden, nirvana, stone temple pilots, pearl jam etc... is that not grunge? what exactly dont i know? I'm not knocking early 90s music because that's what i grew up on, i just wouldnt call it "vintage rock."

also you are an asshole.