90s mope/angst rock thread

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Soul Asylum - Somebody to Shove
I'm waiting by the phone, waiting for somebody to call me up and tell me I'm not alone...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrrE5bCA5lg[/youtube]

stone roses - I wanna be adored
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2qcbu26gs[/youtube]

More of throwing a fit than angsty, but classic.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglVqACd1C8[/youtube]

technically this one if from 1989 but i think it fits the theme:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ycl_ayPHU0[/youtube]

anyone remember these guys? they were big here in canada in the mid-late 90s.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-AKI951poE[/youtube]

"Black Hole Sun" is a great song, the video kind of ruins it though. For some reason it always manages to make me feel kind of depressed though, mainly because it's very nostalgic sounding. It reminds me of the youngest years of my childhood, in the 1990s. I'm listening to the album version at the moment.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMAFDeVErxs[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdpTcvSn8HQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnXjISlKLuE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xi8NvSetZc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2yy141q8HQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6r-k9Bk6o[/youtube]

And the Linkin Park.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yw1Tgj9-VU[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2BPP49GgI[/youtube]

Life of Agony - My Mind is Dangerous. I just love the vocals on this. Sounds like a song sung by a person living a life of agony.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue2rpU_Mk44[/youtube]

My 90s mope/angst centered largely around Manic Street Preachers. As did my political and cultural education of that time.

Here's a small selection of their very good songs.

From Despair To Where, 1993. Ah, James' ability to switch from soft whisper to wounded-yet-mighty roar.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF3VRIcYkAU[/youtube]
"There's nothing nice in my head/The adult world took it all away"

Little Baby Nothing, 1992. Like a critique of Blurred Lines, 20 years before it happened. Which is kind of (the wrong kind of) depressing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM3N54avEQc[/youtube]
"No-one likes looking at you/Your lack of ego offends male mentality"

A live version of 1992's Motorcycle Emptiness, from 1997. I had this on cassette, recorded live off a radio broadcast.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kMUp-bIrBk[/youtube]
"Walk away and it's the same/Everywhere death row, everyone's a victim"

Enola/Alone, 1996, live.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ACf1GyKFE[/youtube]
"All I wanna do is live/no matter how miserable it is"

Tsunami, live, 1999

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euvWC8GhAhs[/youtube]
"Can't speak, can't think, won't talk, won't walk"

Faster, 1994

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2Jv4dzFqg[/youtube]
"I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer/I spat out Plath and Plinter"

Yes, 1994 (contains swearing)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mtwZaRObP8[/youtube]

"Don't hurt, just obey, lie down, do as they say/May as well be heaven this hell smells the same/These sunless afternoons I can't find myself"

Longpigs - Lost Myself

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fdbblQ2HMc[/youtube]

The Smashing Pumkins - Tonight Tonight from the wonderfully titled ablum - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

I can't believe how dated this looks now. What was it with all the gold moons and suns and stars around this period? I remember them being all over the place.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOG3eus4ZSo[/youtube]

Mansun - I can only disappoint u

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEWFigyE8R0[/youtube]

Man, I was such a stereotypical generation x-er. I love this mopey dark stuff. Here's Freestate by Depeche Mode from the Ultra album. I used to have this album on cassette and played it to death.

I can hear your soul crying
Listen to your spirit sighing
I can feel your desperation
Emotional deprivation

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEmqOFQIlVE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpnSvkKrhTg[/youtube]

Not sure if anyone outside of Canada will remember this one, from 1994/1995, but if you don't know it, you should!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG4KnYSaLZw[/youtube]

Another one from Canada.