Before “Today,” The Smashing Pumpkins was an ambitious shoegaze and prog-rock-inspired underground band looking for a way into the mainstream. After “Today” was released, Billy Corgan had one of the greatest songs of the 1990s under his belt, and his band was…
Top 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time (In My Opinion)
August 30, 2025
The greatest drummers of all time are musicians blessed with impeccable timing who are diligently studied by those who want to play like them. Still, I suppose that if you go by Spinal Tap standards, they’re the folks in whose biographies bizarre gardening accidents…
Green Day was the band that made rock fun and positive again after the barrage of self-hate inflicted by grunge, right? Well, not if you judge the group based on “When I Come Around,” one of the greatest alternative-rock songs of the ’90s, but also a tender…
Radiohead was always set for art-rock immortality, right? Well, for a while, it looked like the English group was set for one-hit-wonder status instead. “Just,” one of the greatest rock singles of the ’90s and the songs from “The Bends” changed…
The Song Story and Meaning of the Lyrics of “Interstate Love Song” by Stone Temple Pilots
August 22, 2025
“Interstate Love Song” by Stone Temple Pilots is one of the truly great alternative rock songs of the ’90s. It was one of the first songs that the Scott Weiland-fronted band managed to deliver that was nearly universally liked.
Why were people so suspicious of…
New Radicals, in many ways, predicted the future of indie pop. The group even possessed the collective ability to make itself wildly successful. Still, in the end, it is “You Get What You Give,” one of the greatest alternative rock songs of the ’90s, that…
Just when it was supposed to be over, when heavy metal couldn’t get any louder and wasn’t able to shock anyone anymore, Korn released its debut record. Forget about nu-metal for a second. Sure, “Blind,” one of the greatest alternative rock songs of…
What a cult band Soundgarden could’ve been? And that precisely where the group was headed by 1994, while its Seattle contemporaries were selling millions. Singles like “Spoonman,” one of the greatest alternative rock songs of the 1990s, put an end to that.
Pearl Jam turned the deeply emotional grunge music of the 1990s into arena rock. And why not? I felt that their songs were life-affirming, and so did millions of others, even when the songs were inspired by personal anguish and bizarre fiction about troubled families.