Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Best Melodic Alternative Rock of 1999

SOFT-ALT 1999 CD Compilation by BLANCONADA (80 mins)

1. Mercury Rev - Holes
2. Air - Playground Love
3. Drunk - Dorothea
4. Charlatans UK - My Beautiful Friend
5. Pavement - Spit On A Stranger
6. Damien Jurado - Eyes For Windows
7. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - DRWS
8. Sigur Ros - Staralfur
9. Poe - 5 1/2 Minute Hallway
10. Coldplay - Yellow (Acoustic)
11. Mark Lanegan - Creeping Coastline Of Lights
12. Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
13. Twilight Singers - East 17th Street
14. Twilight Singers - Out Into The Street
15. Low - Starfire
16. Starlight Mints - Cracker Jack
17. Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
18. Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
19. Tripping Daisy - Sonic Bloom

Interesting details:
1. The Poe song references details from her brother Mark Z Danielewski's creepy novel House Of Leaves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
2. Mark Lanegan was the lead singer of 90s grunge-era band Screaming Trees.
3. The Twilight Singers were the side project of Greg Dulli from Afghan Whigs.
4. Tripping Daisy later incarnated into the Polyphonic Spree.

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