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

i feel like this stuff is still under-theorized as a sociocu...
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i feel like it represented the post-cold war totalization of...
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Floppy Associate Ape
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Toad the Wet Sprocket sucked.
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Wait -
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Maroon arrogant giraffe
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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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Lmao
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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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Lmao, I’d forgotten it’s a statue sitting at a t...
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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...
Cracking stain
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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
disturbing kitty cat boistinker
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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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https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843779&mc=...
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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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Okay, I lol'd
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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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one of their biggest hits was literally called 'trouble me.'...
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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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Isn’t that song literally about how great everything i...
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10,000 men of Autoadmit tp
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It's a band
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(Tp)
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Tbf they only had that one song
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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:04 PM
Author: glassy native alpha

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=2ГѓЖ’#49730628)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 10:51 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:04 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:09 PM
Author: glassy native alpha

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=2ГѓЖ’#49730641)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:30 PM
Author: glassy native alpha

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=2ГѓЖ’#49730705)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:40 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:24 PM
Author: Cracking stain



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:24 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 11th, 2026 2:47 PM
Author: Floppy Associate Ape



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:09 PM
Author: filthy indigo jap

Toad the Wet Sprocket sucked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49730640)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

Wait -

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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:58 PM
Author: supple filthpig



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:03 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:11 PM
Author: Claret misunderstood people who are hurt

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: filthy indigo jap

philosophy is just the talk on the cereal box.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49730658)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:24 PM
Author: Claret misunderstood people who are hurt

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=2ГѓЖ’#49730693)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:39 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:30 PM
Author: 180 cheese-eating hospital



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:32 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:21 PM
Author: Cracking stain

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=2ГѓЖ’#49730688)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:39 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

180

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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:40 PM
Author: Galvanic tanning salon scourge upon the earth

Lmao

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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:51 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:43 PM
Author: glassy native alpha

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=2ГѓЖ’#49730748)



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Date: March 9th, 2026 9:51 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 10th, 2026 11:55 AM
Author: Cracking stain

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=2ГѓЖ’#49731645)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 12:21 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 10th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: coral station



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:03 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 10th, 2026 12:07 PM
Author: magical exhilarant locale

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=2ГѓЖ’#49731680)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:21 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

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=2ГѓЖ’#49731903)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:28 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

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=2ГѓЖ’#49731922)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 11:58 AM
Author: Drab trip whorehouse

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

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:26 PM
Author: Cracking stain

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=2ГѓЖ’#49731920)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:29 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

Been a while since I listened to silverchair diorama, ty

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: magical exhilarant locale

Creed

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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:13 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

180!

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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:20 PM
Author: Cracking stain



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 10th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: coral station

who will saAAAAaave your soul

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Date: March 10th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

18000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: provocative orange marketing idea

Train, Nora Jones, pretty much whatever we want.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49731891)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 1:19 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:05 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732069)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:06 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732072)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:23 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe

180

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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:07 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:19 PM
Author: curious yellow tank

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=2ГѓЖ’#49733504)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:20 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5843757&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49733513)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:11 PM
Author: sapphire useless pit

Was that “AOR”

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:51 PM
Author: provocative orange marketing idea

Album oriented rock.

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:07 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

*Autoadmit oriented

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:21 PM
Author: Insanely Creepy Fat Ankles

wtf does that even mean though

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:23 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

I enjoyed this poast-moniker synergy FWIW

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



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Date: March 11th, 2026 11:06 AM
Author: provocative orange marketing idea

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=2ГѓЖ’#49734447)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 11:08 AM
Author: filthy indigo jap

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=2ГѓЖ’#49734449)



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Date: March 11th, 2026 11:13 AM
Author: sapphire useless pit

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=2ГѓЖ’#49734467)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 2:23 PM
Author: Bespoke brass hell

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732117)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 3:11 PM
Author: filthy indigo jap

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732286)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

Tfw no Suzanne Vega musical genius mommy gf...

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732764)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:15 PM
Author: filthy indigo jap

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

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:20 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

Tyty :-)

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:29 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Macaca Hunting Ground

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=2ГѓЖ’#49733543)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:33 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

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

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:34 PM
Author: filthy indigo jap

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=2ГѓЖ’#49733557)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:49 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

<3<3<3

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:49 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

*soft club aestheticboi tp

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



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Date: March 11th, 2026 12:07 PM
Author: sapphire useless pit

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=2ГѓЖ’#49734563)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:11 PM
Author: glassy native alpha

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732779)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:13 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: magical exhilarant locale

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732795)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:16 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 3:01 PM
Author: 180 cheese-eating hospital

IN THE HOUSE OF STONE AND LIGHT

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

Okay, I lol'd

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:29 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:30 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:15 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732804)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:16 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

"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=2ГѓЖ’#49732811)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:18 PM
Author: glassy native alpha

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

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:19 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:21 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe

MORE THAN THIS

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:23 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

180

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:25 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732848)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:29 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

>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=2ГѓЖ’#49732863)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:26 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: Cracking stain

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732881)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:32 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:32 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

of course compared to the Current Year tp

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:34 PM
Author: Cracking stain



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:35 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:36 PM
Author: glassy native alpha

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=2ГѓЖ’#49732909)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:47 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:16 PM
Author: 180 cheese-eating hospital



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:20 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:21 PM
Author: Cracking stain



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:23 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:24 PM
Author: coral station

THESE ARE THE DAYS YOULL REMEMBER

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:24 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:25 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 6:29 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:22 PM
Author: Insanely Creepy Fat Ankles

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

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



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Date: March 10th, 2026 10:24 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

10,000 men of Autoadmit tp

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



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Date: March 11th, 2026 2:56 AM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe

It's a band

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



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Date: March 11th, 2026 10:54 AM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker

(Tp)

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



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Date: March 11th, 2026 2:38 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant giraffe

180

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



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Date: March 11th, 2026 2:41 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 11th, 2026 11:13 AM
Author: sapphire useless pit

Tbf they only had that one song

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



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Date: March 11th, 2026 2:58 PM
Author: Floppy Associate Ape

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=2ГѓЖ’#49735049)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: fuchsia sanctuary therapy

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=2ГѓЖ’#49733172)



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Date: March 10th, 2026 8:16 PM
Author: disturbing kitty cat boistinker



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



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Date: March 11th, 2026 3:12 PM
Author: sticky depressive

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=2ГѓЖ’#49735078)