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The 'adult alternative' pop music and radio format of the 1990's

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Toad the Wet Sprocket sucked.
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Wait -
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what if God was one of us? just a slob like one of us?
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philosophy is just the talk on the cereal box.
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good call. that song came out in 1989 and sort of presages t...
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This shit was king in that weird interregnum between grunge ...
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it was still big in the 00's for a while. matchbox twenty, ...
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Good call, there was that last cohort of white people who wa...
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tbh pearl jam was already kinda soy and paved the way for sh...
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Funny I don’t really like Pearl Jam but love Eddie Ved...
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His ukulele album is great too, and I hate Pearl Jam.
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They all copied his voice — Silverchair, Candlebox, ST...
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Been a while since I listened to silverchair diorama, ty
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Creed
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180!
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who will saAAAAaave your soul
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Train, Nora Jones, pretty much whatever we want.
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Our local radio station was like this I swear they played 10...
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I have so little familiarity with Gen X or even most millenn...
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I like some of those Cardigans singles but I can never remem...
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Was that “AOR”
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Album oriented rock.
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*Autoadmit oriented
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wtf does that even mean though
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I enjoyed this poast-moniker synergy FWIW
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Before AOR, artists didn't release LP albums, they just sold...
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Also back in the 60's 'hip' and 'groovy' DJ's on new-fangled...
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I thought that was “MOR” which is definitely a m...
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180 thread in movie terms, this era probably Beginnin...
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The big singles off the Singles s/t were all grunge not adul...
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Tfw no Suzanne Vega musical genius mommy gf...
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I always forget that's her but that's a great example too.
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Tyty :-)
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no; Tom's Diner was very much a young person/MTV Grind/middl...
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Now THAT's what I call the finer points of XOXOhth scholarsh...
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you could be dance and adult alternative contemporary like E...
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*soft club aestheticboi tp
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I don’t care for Suzanne Vega tbh. “Pop-folk&rdq...
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i'm not sure how well the adult alternative format 'maps' to...
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This is just a function of the glut of mid-budget middle bro...
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IN THE HOUSE OF STONE AND LIGHT
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I'm listening to 10,000 maniacs right now and its filling me...
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"and sega genesis was giving nintendo serious competiti...
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MORE THAN THIS
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This music felt like the world of tired grownups. Coffee bre...
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>manageable but joyless The aural equivalent of our cy...
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not joyless so much but a vague sense that something isn&rsq...
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of course compared to the Current Year tp
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i remember a 90's car commercial (may have been lexus) which...
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THESE ARE THE DAYS YOULL REMEMBER
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10,000 men of Autoadmit tp
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It's a band
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Tbf they only had that one song
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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:04 PM
Author: wonderful bawdyhouse

i feel like this stuff is still under-theorized as a sociocultural and marketing phenomenon. superficially, it was the music industry's pivot from the 'adult contemporary' format which was struggling after the 80's. but it grew well beyond that into a sprawling industry with some of the best-selling albums in US history, like hootie's first record.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49730628)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 10:51 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:04 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:09 PM
Author: wonderful bawdyhouse

i feel like it represented the post-cold war totalization of pop culture into a specific set of products. 'adult alternative' wasn't really a single coherent sound or category; it was a kind of catch-basin for different marketing goals. 'grunge' was too harsh for a lot of consumers, so they got grunge-'adjacent' acts like counting crows and collective soul instead.

'jam bands' were too diffuse and difficult to edit for radio, so the AA format developed DMB and blues traveler and so on.

the riot girl stuff was too unpolished, but AA could take some of those notions and fold them into sheryl crow and melissa etheridge and so forth.

'roots rock' was too niche. bring in hootie. and on and on.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49730641)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:30 PM
Author: wonderful bawdyhouse

there were also bands in other genres which saw the rise of AA and said "give me some of that." goo goo dolls, for example. they started back in the 80's as a metal-adjacent rock band. they decided at some point around 1992 that they did not want to compete with the grunge acts, and they polished their sound into smoother rock-based power-pop, eg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRbWasL1kac

this did okay for them, but they knew they could go further. and that's what they did by 1995, with their first AA mega-hit ('Name').

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49730705)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:40 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:24 PM
Author: copper charismatic home



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:24 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 11th, 2026 2:47 PM
Author: insanely creepy 180 ceo affirmative action



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:09 PM
Author: Impressive Bearded Milk

Toad the Wet Sprocket sucked.

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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

Wait -

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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:58 PM
Author: Sapphire stimulating theater stage



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:03 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:11 PM
Author: big theater place of business

what if God was one of us? just a slob like one of us?

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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:13 PM
Author: Impressive Bearded Milk

philosophy is just the talk on the cereal box.

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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:24 PM
Author: big theater place of business

good call. that song came out in 1989 and sort of presages the format OP talks about by 5 or 6 years.

i love 'What I Am', though. it's of a higher quality than 'Dishwalla' and the AC stuff that came in the 90s.

one of the few guitar-based top-40 songs of the era that was not a 'hard rock'/Alt rock crossover, just straight pop rock. it gives you a sense of what 80s/90s top 40 would have sounded like if it had never been 'Urbanized.' if the cultural currents that produced 70s 'soft rock' had persisted.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49730693)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:39 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:30 PM
Author: Canary exhilarant fat ankles



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:32 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:21 PM
Author: copper charismatic home

This shit was king in that weird interregnum between grunge and nu metal. It was like “we can’t go from Pearl Jam to Limp Bizkit right away, so here’s some Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49730688)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:39 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

180

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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:40 PM
Author: abusive sticky den chad

Lmao

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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:51 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:43 PM
Author: wonderful bawdyhouse

it was still big in the 00's for a while. matchbox twenty, for example. in fact, i'd say that coldplay was the last huge AA act. those guys eventually got edged out by pop-rap and other genres.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49730748)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:51 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 10th, 2026 11:55 AM
Author: copper charismatic home

Good call, there was that last cohort of white people who wanted new rock but was turned off by the Scumminess of nu metal. So the AA genre limped along a few more years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49731645)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 12:21 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 10th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: high-end awkward trailer park boltzmann



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:03 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 10th, 2026 12:07 PM
Author: marvelous deer antler

tbh pearl jam was already kinda soy and paved the way for shittier post-grunge bands

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49731680)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:21 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

Funny I don’t really like Pearl Jam but love Eddie Vedder’s 2? Solo acoustic albums (into the wild and the one with the album cover at the bottom of the ocean)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49731903)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:28 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

Lmao, I’d forgotten it’s a statue sitting at a typewriter underwater, highly ZOZO-coded tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49731922)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 11:58 AM
Author: bat shit crazy aggressive whorehouse prole

His ukulele album is great too, and I hate Pearl Jam.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49734551)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:26 PM
Author: copper charismatic home

They all copied his voice — Silverchair, Candlebox, STP, Collective Soul, Bush etc.

I don’t care for PJ but Eddie Vedder was the most influential / ripped-off rock vocalist since like Robert Plant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49731920)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:29 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

Been a while since I listened to silverchair diorama, ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49731925)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: marvelous deer antler

Creed

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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:13 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

180!

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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:20 PM
Author: copper charismatic home



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 10th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: high-end awkward trailer park boltzmann

who will saAAAAaave your soul

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Date: March 10th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

18000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: Wild indigo philosopher-king set

Train, Nora Jones, pretty much whatever we want.

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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:19 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:05 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat

Our local radio station was like this I swear they played 10,000 Maniacs and the Cardigans every hour for about 7 years. Made me fantasize about doing pogroms on gen x

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732069)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:06 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

I have so little familiarity with Gen X or even most millennial music for better or worse that I keep having to check that artist names ITT are real and not X(O) parody, lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732072)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:23 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat

180

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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:07 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:19 PM
Author: spectacular purple hairy legs

I like some of those Cardigans singles but I can never remember the name of the band. I always get them confused with The Cranberries and then I'm like, no, that's not it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733504)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:20 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:11 PM
Author: crimson histrionic halford

Was that “AOR”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732084)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:51 PM
Author: Wild indigo philosopher-king set

Album oriented rock.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732229)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:07 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

*Autoadmit oriented

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732758)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:21 PM
Author: Unhinged patrolman school cafeteria

wtf does that even mean though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733518)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:23 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

I enjoyed this poast-moniker synergy FWIW

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733523)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 11:06 AM
Author: Wild indigo philosopher-king set

Before AOR, artists didn't release LP albums, they just sold singles and EPs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49734447)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 11:08 AM
Author: Impressive Bearded Milk

Also back in the 60's 'hip' and 'groovy' DJ's on new-fangled 'FM' stations would actually play full albums a lot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49734449)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 11:13 AM
Author: crimson histrionic halford

I thought that was “MOR” which is definitely a music “genre” as well.

What a fraud industry lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49734467)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:23 PM
Author: filthy mad cow disease sound barrier

180 thread

in movie terms, this era probably

Beginning - Singles / Slackers

Zenith- Reality Bites / Kicking and Screaming

End - High Fidelity or Garden State?

maybe I'm just describing Gen X generally

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732117)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 3:11 PM
Author: Impressive Bearded Milk

The big singles off the Singles s/t were all grunge not adult alternative contemporary.

The real start of adult alternative contemporary was 'Luka' by Suzanne Vega.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732286)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

Tfw no Suzanne Vega musical genius mommy gf...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732762)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843779&mc=26&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732764)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:15 PM
Author: Impressive Bearded Milk

I always forget that's her but that's a great example too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733491)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:20 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

Tyty :-)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733515)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:29 PM
Author: Vibrant poppy dilemma

no; Tom's Diner was very much a young person/MTV Grind/middle school dance oriented song from that era. it was not in the Adult Contemporary vein.

her other material was more AC, though, a la Natalie Merchant etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733543)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:33 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

Now THAT's what I call the finer points of XOXOhth scholarship, tyft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733555)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:34 PM
Author: Impressive Bearded Milk

you could be dance and adult alternative contemporary like Everything but The Girl 'Missing'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733557)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:49 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

<3<3<3

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733620)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:49 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

*soft club aestheticboi tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733622)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 12:07 PM
Author: crimson histrionic halford

I don’t care for Suzanne Vega tbh. “Pop-folk” stuff like hers is just for girls too homely to be legit pop stars, which - much as it pains to admit - they would have much preferred to be

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49734563)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:11 PM
Author: wonderful bawdyhouse

i'm not sure how well the adult alternative format 'maps' to films, since movies were sort of the last 90's stronghold of the big 80's adult contemporary power ballad (the bodyguard, titanic, armageddon, etc.).

aesthetically, it reminds me of early-90's films which were set almost inexplicably in seattle (since it had become trendy by then) but made no reference to grunge or music which had given the city its trendy reputation. sleepless in seattle and disclosure in particular.

disclosure was marketed as a 'techno-thriller' to help ride the cyberpunk trend, but the tech elements were muted, and it was actually a romantic drama. not exactly a bait-and-switch, but you can see the marketing goals.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732779)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:13 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732785)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: marvelous deer antler

This is just a function of the glut of mid-budget middle brow 90s movies. They all used the city as a "character". Shit was filmed in New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, etc. and had a very strong sense of place.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732795)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:16 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732809)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732880)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732883)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 3:01 PM
Author: Canary exhilarant fat ankles

IN THE HOUSE OF STONE AND LIGHT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732253)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

Okay, I lol'd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732763)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:29 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732865)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:30 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732869)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:15 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat

I'm listening to 10,000 maniacs right now and its filling me with that same dreadful feeling from childhood like the songs are so dour and made to feel so serious and weighty meanwhile these faggots had the most prosperous peaceful still white country imaginable and college cost like $2000 per year and sega genesis was giving nintendo serious competition

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732804)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:16 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

"and sega genesis was giving nintendo serious competition"

Wasn't expecting this last part, tyvmft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732811)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:18 PM
Author: wonderful bawdyhouse

one of their biggest hits was literally called 'trouble me.'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732817)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:19 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732822)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:21 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat

MORE THAN THIS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732830)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:23 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732835)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:25 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat

This music felt like the world of tired grownups. Coffee breath, cloudy afternoons, divorce, waiting rooms, Volvos, chain bookstores, office park sadness. An aural reminder that your future is manageable but joyless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732848)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:29 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

>manageable but joyless

The aural equivalent of our cybermonastic life without rachmiel since he went out for cigs tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732863)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732877)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:26 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733533)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: copper charismatic home

not joyless so much but a vague sense that something isn’t right, there’s some dot I’m not connecting

of course compared to the Current Year it seems ridiculous but who could have known that then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732881)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:32 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732884)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:32 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

of course compared to the Current Year tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732886)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:34 PM
Author: copper charismatic home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732896)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:35 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732901)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:36 PM
Author: wonderful bawdyhouse

i remember a 90's car commercial (may have been lexus) which was set at night with a troubled-looking middle-aged guy pacing around and seeming vexed until he looked at his car payment and discovered that it was 'only' $395 a month (or something similar). at which point he smiled and seemed relieved. i found it kind of horrifying at the time for reasons i couldn't possibly have explained back then.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732909)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:47 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732970)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:16 PM
Author: Canary exhilarant fat ankles



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733495)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:20 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733511)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:21 PM
Author: copper charismatic home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732827)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:23 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732836)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:24 PM
Author: high-end awkward trailer park boltzmann

THESE ARE THE DAYS YOULL REMEMBER

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732842)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:24 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732845)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:25 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732851)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:29 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49732867)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:22 PM
Author: Unhinged patrolman school cafeteria

Isn’t that song literally about how great everything is at that moment?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733520)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:24 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building

10,000 men of Autoadmit tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733528)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 2:56 AM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat

It's a band

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733964)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 10:54 AM
Author: contagious sienna church building

(Tp)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49734399)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 2:38 PM
Author: Beady-eyed jade address kitty cat

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49734979)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 2:41 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49734987)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 11:13 AM
Author: crimson histrionic halford

Tbf they only had that one song

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49734470)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 2:58 PM
Author: insanely creepy 180 ceo affirmative action

I had such a crush on natalie merchant. I imagine she had a hairy bush

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49735049)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: very tactful free-loading space factory reset button

I view this as an MTV vs VH1 war, where MTV was for kids looking for the latest cutting edge music (whether that be Nirvana or Britney Spears or KORN) vs VH1 which was for music someone over the age of 16 could listen to.

The VH1 market no longer exists because adults can instantly stream any music from the youth at any time - so you don't need bands like Matchbox 20 / Train / Third Eye Blind who appeal to 25-50 year olds.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733172)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 8:16 PM
Author: contagious sienna church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49733246)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 3:12 PM
Author: Lemon locus

i really like 10,000 maniacs and feel like they are getting trashed itt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2Reputation#49735078)