Top 10 Songs by Eels
May 15, 2025
Eels and the band’s initial early success could’ve only occurred during the adventurous 90s alternative music scene. Mark Oliver Everett’s group was as wildly eclectic as The Beastie Boys, as melodically pleasing as Beck, and as dark as Sparklehorse. Eels…
Top 10 Songs by Blondie
May 13, 2025
Blondie was, in an era where bands were either hard rocking or pure pop confections, the cleverly designed cross between the two. Emerging out of New York’s punk boom and equipped with some of the best hooks any group ever possessed, Blondie is one of the most…
Top 10 Songs by The Hives
May 12, 2025
The Hives were one of the many retro-themed groups produced by 1990s Scandinavia, and soon the undisputed heroes of garage rock. Cartoonish, fashionable, and bucket loads of fun, these Swedes earned a reputation through outstanding live shows and sturdy albums. The Hives are…
Top 10 Songs by Placebo
May 11, 2025
Placebo was, out of all the bands that followed Nirvana’s three-chord grunge attack, the most glammed-up and the most single-friendly. Brian Molko, the group’s singer, may have been a fashion icon. But it was Placebo’s numerous memorable songs that make it…
Pearl Jam achieved something most musicians can only dream of – near instant success. But this meant that, early on, the band faced accusations of riding grunge music and, more specifically, Nirvana’s coattails. When “Jeremy” was released as a single…
Top 10 Songs by Big Star
May 9, 2025
Big Star, much like the Velvet Underground, were fated to own the future and struggle in the present. The power-pop group from Memphis was beloved by critics, ignored by record buyers, and struggled to make three records during its original run. Their influence, however, is…
The Cranberries specialised in shimmering guitar sounds and poetic lyrics. But the band echoed the Irish Troubles with “Zombie” and delivered one of the eeriest-sounding and most surprising mega hits of the 1990s.
Just who was the zombie, and what was Delores…
“Closer” by Nine Inch Nails is the kind of sex song that you’d expect a serial killer to write to a potential victim. Everyone, movie directors in particular, thinks that. And if so, that’s fine by Trent Reznor, the man who orchestrated the…
Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo introduced the band to the world as lovable geeks who loved grunge guitars and power-pop hooks. But this was far from a naive attempt at winning friends. This was a carefully orchestrated plan. And it was “Buddy Holly” that cemented…