The Hang Ups - He's After Me

A few weeks ago I was watching Chasing Amy. I'd seen it before, but never paid attention to the music I guess. In the Holden and Alyssa hanging out montage scene, there's a song called "Jump Start" playing. It's so perfectly 90's, and it's a great mood setter. I had to get the album. This one was pretty expensive for an old used cd. Like $7 I think. That's not a lot of money or anything, but usually when I buy used cds they're in the $0-$3 range. I'd describe these guys as early 90's power-pop rock. The album opener, "Waiting", is really good, and got me excited for the rest of the cd. However, there's only about 4 songs that I find myself listening to if I'm not popping the cd in to listen to the whole thing. If you like 90's music, you'll love some of these songs though.

RIYL: 90's music, Deep Blue Something, Supertramp...sort of
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Helicopter Helicopter - By Starlight

I first heard these guys (and girl) on the cartoon Clone High (which is possibly the greatest not-for-kids cartoon ever created...watch it NOW). Their song "By Starlight" was on the unofficial soundtrack I downloaded, and it's an awesome song. After a lot of searching, I ended up buying it. Unfortunately, like most things I buy and post on this blog, the one song I had previously heard was the best. The other songs aren't bad, but nothing else stood out after one or two listens. I'll have to listen to it more. It's sort of like early 2000's alternative rock/power-pop with 90's emo influences. Something about them, particularly the title track, reminds me of newer Saves The Day.

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RIYL: Rainer Maria, newer Saves The Day, The Replacements

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Custom - Fast

According to Wikipedia..."Custom (also known as Duane Lavold) is a Canadian-born, New York-based rock musician best known for his song "Hey Mister"." I remember listening to Hey Mister when it was new. And awesome. It's no longer new, but it's still awesome. The video for it was banned from MTV because they thought it was pedophilic and offensive to women even though the chick in the video was 22. Custom is sort of like a grittier Beck, I guess. Alternative rock with some hip-hoppish elements thrown in every once in a while. Lots of sexual lyrics, drug lyrics, and bad lyrics. The only copy of this I can find on a blog is something like 96 kbps, so here's a better version.

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RIYL: Beck, early 2000's, and according to last.fm: Edwin, Treble Charger

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Everything - Super Natural

I've got a thing for 90's music, so I had to check out this cd. I had heard the song Hooch by these guys (and you probably have too, even if you don't realize it...it was on the radio, and Water Boy, and Scrubs), and figured their other stuff probably had to be good too. And it is. But nothing else on this cd is as good as Hooch, or very similar to it. These guys sound like a younger, hipper, late-nineties Dave Matthews Band. They're sort of jammy and have a sax in a lot of the songs. I don't even really like Dave Matthews Band, but I enjoyed this album. I haven't listened to it enough to write much else about the songs on it, but it turned out really good for being pretty much a blind purchase.

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RIYL: Dave Matthews Band, 90's bands, groovin

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These Enzymes - The Henry E.P. (UPDATE)

UPDATE: NO LONGER SHITTY BITRATE AND REMIX PARTS. I bought a copy and ripped it in VBR. This new version also has all the different separate parts/solo instruments/vox of the song Goodnight For Bad Guy so you can make your own remixes.

This hardcore group consists of Mike Kennerty and Chris Gaylor of All American Rejects, a guy named Andrew Palmer (who apparently played in bands called Burnpile, The Lunchbunch, and Zildo), and former Sons of Abraham/Irony of Lightfoot frontman Neil Rubenstein. I first heard of these guys because Matt Taylor, the bass player for Motion City Soundtrack played with them for a little while or something. I don't remember. But there's a connection between the two bands, so I checked them out. I could only really find one song from them called "Song 1 (AKA Goodnight Bad Guy)", but I really liked it. Eventually through some very sneaky sneaky method, I obtained the other four tracks. Unfortunately they aren't the best quality. 96kbps, but surprisingly listenable. If anyone has a better quality version of this, let me know. Leave a comment. Actually, if you like anything you see on this site, leave a comment so I know if anyone actually uses this site.

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RIYL: Converge, Dillinger Escape Plan

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