MARCY PLAYGROUND - SEX & CANDY 7" (1998) [USA]

Marcy Playground - Sex & Candy 7"

(1998) [USA]

A 7" single release of Marcy Playground and their 'one-hit-wonder' song Sex & Candy. You used to hear this one everywhere. And still can hear it on the radio from time to time. Two non-album B-sides on this one that are kinda moodier than their big radio hit.

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BEN KWELLER - WASTED & READY CDEP (2002) [USA]

Ben Kweller - Wasted & Ready CDEP

(2002) [USA]

A CDEP release of arguably Ben Kweller's most popular song 'Wasted & Ready'.' I remember being in high school and this guy coming out around the same time as The Strokes, The Vines, The Hives, etc, and all of those retro-revival bands. Of course, he is also one of the three 'Bens' that make of the group The Bens [Ben Lee, Ben Folds & Ben Kweller].

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HARVEY DANGER - FLAGPOLE SITTA CDEP (1998) [USA]

Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta CDEP

(1998) [USA]

More that alternative 1990s rock n' roll. This time Seattle college / radio rock group Harvey Danger with their 'one-hit-wonder' song Flagpole Sitta. This one still gets me pumped. The CDEP also contains a non-album track that's also pretty cool.

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THIRD EYE BLIND - HOW'S IT GONNA BE CDEP (1997) [USA]

Third Eye Blind - How's It Gonna Be CDEP

(1997) [USA]

I don't know what it is about this band, I guess it was a time and place and one of those 'you had to be there' (i.e. being a teenager in the middle 90s). I think we all have a fondness for Third Eye Blind, and that type of alternative radio rock that has disappeared all together from mainstream. Don't get me wrong, I love rap music, and listen to it a great majority of the time -- but something is missing from popular 'mainstream' culture and that is drug addled English literature majors fronting alternative rock bands. This EP has non-album B-side and as well as a remix of 'Graduate.'

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