What my local radio station in Seattle was playing this week in 1998
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Posted by Reportersteven@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 354 comments
trainwreckhappening@reddit
Whelp, now I need to make a Spotify playlist.
Shaved_Caterpillar@reddit
I want this playlist +
Shaved_Caterpillar@reddit
I’m not sure if I needed this or needed to not see this
Important_Tennis936@reddit
Heard Flagpole Sitta this morning. I remember as a teenager, dreaming about how fun it would be to rock out to that song while dropping my own teens off at school. Love that song.
thrakkerzog@reddit
For some reason Flagpole Sitta always felt like Green Day to me.
DirtyBirdDawg@reddit
Very few songs make me think of high school, especially my senior year in 1998, more than Flagpole Sitta.
KudosOfTheFroond@reddit
My “takes me back” high school songs definitely include this, but also Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus. My leaving for college party my friends and I were all on my folks side porch so drunk, so much fun, and Teenage Dirtbag came on. Everyone started singing together at full volume, it was a moment for sure. To this day if that song plays when I with my sister, she gives me a glance as a sort of “remember when” vibe
ThatsNotVeryDerek@reddit
My 12 y/o was listening to this in the shower today.
In like 2 or 3 ways, I have been an excellent parent.
bugorama_original@reddit
God me too. Also 1998.
kathatter75@reddit
My mom called me a snob after I told her that it was my favorite song at the time because of the line “been around the world and only stupid people are breeding”. I still have it as a preset on my SiriusXM.
jbrown383@reddit
I’m not sick but I’m not weeeeeellllllll. And it’s a siiin, to live so weeeeellllll
ialsohaveadobro@reddit
I just associate it with Peep Show now, which is a very good association.
RightYouAreKen1@reddit
They cut off my legs, now I’m an amputee, god damn you!
bugorama_original@reddit
Love that line so very much!
bugorama_original@reddit
I literally listen to it while driving my teen to school! They don’t love it though. lol.
ecc_dg@reddit
Amazing song
Reportersteven@reddit (OP)
Seattle band so not surprised it was in such heavy rotation on this station.
Big_Somewhere9230@reddit
In central Indiana it was a massive song. It was just a big hit everywhere.
LoudSheepherder5391@reddit
You are correct, but..
This was before it was released as a single. It didn't get any sort of national play until a few weeks after this chart was published, and didn't reach the pop charts until later in the summer.
It was heavy rotation on this station that got the song noticed to eventually become the massive hit it became.
Big_Somewhere9230@reddit
Did not know that, I didn’t even think about the date. Very cool.
gzoont@reddit
Anecdotally, I can tell you it was also in very heavy rotation in Southern California. Man I loved that song.
decoy79@reddit
Nothing makes you feel old like hearing that in the grocery store.
PenisVanDyke@reddit
George Lucas must have been listening to this song on repeat while writing Revenge of the Sith.
Sea2Chi@reddit
I actually went to a record release party for one of their follow up albums. It was pretty good. Sad sweetheart of the rodeo that is still on my playlist.
hamburgler26@reddit
This one popped up for me last year and has been in regular rotation since. I remember liking it fine back then but hearing it now, it is a really great song.
windupshoe2020@reddit
That whole album is great!
iiooiooi@reddit
U have no rational explanation for it, but Flagpole Sittah is probably my absolute favorite song from the 90s.
bart_cart_dart_eart@reddit
There was another Marcy Playground song!?
zxroKKR@reddit
Saint Joe on the School Bus is their best track and deserved more recognition.
lostcosmonaut307@reddit
That’s a weird way to say Sherry Fraser.
zxroKKR@reddit
That's a good one too, but I don't care all that much for acoustic rock.
TrixieBastard@reddit
Deadly Handsome Man is a damn good song to
nicksk@reddit
The whole album is legit
dbwedgie@reddit
I saw 6 of those bands live. Good times.
ogami_itto@reddit
I will buy you is probably the worst song of the era
-OccultOfPersonality@reddit
Feeder! IM GOIN OUT FOR AWHILE SONI CAN GET HIGH WITH MY FRIENDS
pinkoelephant@reddit
AIM away message gold
agentmkultra666@reddit
ugh i miss the 90s so much. Still listening to all this stuff but it just hit so hard when I was a teen
VampireOnHoyt@reddit
Discovered Feeder on the Can't Hardly Wait soundtrack and have loved them ever since
lostcosmonaut307@reddit
Fellow The End listener! Those days I loved visiting my grandparents in Woodinville because I could listen to it on the little clock radio in the guest room at very low volume (since they wouldn’t have approved of me listening to it). Got a lot of developmental music from those days. Couldn’t get The End at our house, but we could pick up 94.5 KATS most of the time. Their playlist was more metal oriented than straight alternative, so more Staind and Sevendust alongside Metallica and Ozzy.
princesscorncob@reddit
Did OP say how they got this list? I made a YouTube Playlist to listen to tonight but I was wondering if there was a way to search for other dates and years for any station.
Entropy907@reddit
107.7 THE END!! Yes! Tacoma boy here. Remember End Fest? Went to it at Kitsap County Fairgrounds in 1996.
god-of_tits-and_wine@reddit
Bothell kid here, always had this on in my car...
princesscorncob@reddit
Hey former neighbor! I was in Kenmore. It was 107.7 or 93.3 Kube between my friends.
anothertomsmith2@reddit
Hell yeah! I went in 98, 99 and 2000. So many amazing bands
ThatsNotVeryDerek@reddit
Was also at 2000!
"Stop throwing water bottles or no KoRn for you" -Steve the Producer
lastminutealways@reddit
Also from Tacoma but lived in Portland back then, went to Portland’s equivalent of End Fest (Big Stink) in 99. So fun!
Canadatron@reddit
PDX
Queasy_Dig_8294@reddit
94.7 NRK!!!
SixAlarmFire@reddit
I also went all three of those years! The only time living in Kingston was a perk
Entropy907@reddit
Awesome! Left WA after high school (graduated in ‘96). Ended up in Alaska because Seattle wasn’t cold and dark enough for me.
MrHorrible2048@reddit
I grew up in Bremerton, every radio I had was tuned to this station all the time in the mid-90s to the early 00's. End Fest was awesome!
mickeltee@reddit
We had 107.9 The End in NE Ohio and it was basically this same playlist.
biffmalibull@reddit
Recall the day it played REM 24 hours straight at cutover?
biffmalibull@reddit
Yea there is a documentary out there from the radio staff about it.
mickeltee@reddit
Absolutely!! I remember me and my friends were kind of freaking out that something was going to go down.
SlowGoat79@reddit
This may be the only time where it is appropriate for me to gleefully shout I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL BAND WITH YURI AND TOM FROM MXPX!
rueggy@reddit
In Bremerton?
hilogirl@reddit
I heard I should move there and go all out 😉
cracklincornbread@reddit
Christian punk lol
CrouchingDomo@reddit
It was an important stepping-stone for some of us! 😂
Thatoneguyfrom1980@reddit
I miss The End being good.
Astrazigniferi@reddit
Same. They literally played Flagpole Sitta yesterday, but the heart is gone. I know it’s been corporate for a long time, but it’s felt really obvious lately. Also, if I hear that damn Encenada song by Sublime one more time, I’m gonna scream. I keep switching over to 89.5 because my kids want to hear the K-pop Demon Hunters dance mix.
Entropy907@reddit
It doesn’t even exist anymore does it?
cagesan@reddit
It exists and it's playing smells like teen spirit right now!
Entropy907@reddit
Oh ok. I live in Alaska now and whenever I’m down I listen to KEXP.
rueggy@reddit
Deck the Hall Ball!
Cid_Darkwing@reddit
Saw the 2011(?) version w/Grouplove, Young the Giant, Cage the Elephant, Two Door Cinema Club, Death Cab for Cutie, Mumford & Sons and Foster the People. One of the two best concerts of my entire life—just six solid hours of absolute fucking bangers.
AmishDatacenter@reddit
Amusingly enough, Charlotte NC also had a similar station, 106.5 The End. They also had an End Fest for a few years in May. The one in 1998 was the first concert with my girlfriend at the time, she's now my wife.
Chancey3@reddit
PEAK SEATTLE MUSIC ERA… IYKYK
It was a MAGICAL Time in our LIVES & 107.7 Was F*N BADASS & Lives On in our Souls😎
missgiddy@reddit
My childhood station! I went to End Fest in 2001. I follow Marco Collins on Insta.
gryfter_13@reddit
The Seattle butt rock station. Talk about a time and a place. Andy Savage was kind of a dick, though.
Sugar_bytes@reddit
Savage Love!? 💕
Entropy907@reddit
KISW 99.9 was the butt rock station!
Messijoes18@reddit
My favorite was the f u line. People would call in and anonymously drop f u's (bleeped) but it always sounded so cathartic!
Also they used to play some sort of song roulette where if you could guess the next song you would win some crazy prize because they had 10's of thousands of songs and one guy guessed the correct song but it was a cover by another artist and the DJ was so astounded he couldn't give the ludicrous prize but had to give the guy something.
Awesome radio station
Harlockarcadia@reddit
Kent, WA here, Endfest 2004 was so good: Metric, Muse, Psychedelic Furs, X, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Violent Femmes, Franz Ferdinand, The Presidents, Harvey Danger!
checkoutmuhhat@reddit
I discovered so many good bands from that station
snarkerella@reddit
I got to live in the Seattle area during high school in the mid-90s and 107.7 The END was the best. End Fest was amazing.
SanSanSankyuTaiyosan@reddit
It was always a good day when The End would be have a clear signal in Vancouver.
QuieroTamales@reddit
Is there like an archive of radio playlists? I'd love to see what rock stations were playing in, say, 1981-1983.
OtherAcctWasBanned11@reddit
I still listen to a lot of these. Angsty teenage me was obsessed with Shimmer and Clumsy.
Bulky_Pop_8104@reddit
Are you Canadian? I was super surprised to see clumsy on there, but figured it was border proximity
FWIW - OLP was deservedly huge in Canada at the time
lostcosmonaut307@reddit
I don’t think it’s just proximity. OLP was pretty everywhere back then and I heard plenty of Canadian bands like Treble Charger and Econoline Crush on alternative stations back in the day. Pretty sure I first heard those last two on a Mexicali station (98.3 FM) I used to listen to when we would winter in Yuma back in those days.
TwilightStranger@reddit
OLP was getting some regular radio airplay on the NYC modern rock station around 93/94 along with I Mother Earth's Not Quite Sonic.
kathatter75@reddit
Houston was the first city in the US to play OLP. I saw them just over a month ago, and it was so good!
WarlockAgent@reddit
They were very popular around Pittsburgh at that time as well. My first modern concert was them, Eve 6, and Third Eye Blind. It was amazing.
mechapoitier@reddit
I’m in Florida and OLP was everywhere for a couple years. They must have toured with 3EB a lot.
canuck_in_wa@reddit
Yeah same - was surprised to see OLP in the top 10.
Tornadoboy156@reddit
This song was huge at the time, it certainly was everywhere. Went online to find more Canadian awesomeness like I Mother Earth, The Tea Party and Economine Crush that wasn’t getting any play in the US at all.
Badger1505@reddit
Dang, I hadn't heard Clumsy in years.... Searched it up and I immediately feel like I'm back in my dorm freshman year. Crazy how music can hit sometimes.
DefMerlot@reddit
Add in Black Lab and I’m right there with you. Been listening to that a ton lately and was surprised to see it on the list.
ericwbolin@reddit
Non-angsty 42-year-old me remains obsessed with Shimmer and Clumsy.
maroonfalcon@reddit
Same
VampireOnHoyt@reddit
These are staples of my karaoke repertoire
Vincitus@reddit
POE got on the radio?!
BigFatBlackCat@reddit
I remember a couple Poe songs being on mainstream radio, but I do NOT remember Today being on the radio. So I’m pretty surprised to see this. Happily surprised.
agentmkultra666@reddit
I got Poe’s first album when it came out and nearly wore that CD out. It still holds up, what a fantastic album all the way through!
xyzzyzyzzyx@reddit
Absolutely!
imatumahimatumah@reddit
I wanna kill you.. I wanna blow you…. Away
TrixieBastard@reddit
Angry Johnny got plenty of airplay in Minneapolis
CalamityClambake@reddit
In Seattle? Fuck yeah.
Reportersteven@reddit (OP)
Loved Hey Pretty.
LooseAlbatross@reddit
The version with the novel excerpts being read was the best
begcafbg@reddit
Loved Trigger Happy Jack
TJLook@reddit
Angry Johnny
aero25@reddit
I only remember hearing Hello on the radio.
EBMille4@reddit
Zoot Suit fuckin Riot
Sam81818@reddit
What about the Squirrel Nut Zippers?
ProfessorOfLies@reddit
In the after life...
_gonesurfing_@reddit
You could be headed for some serious strife?
ialsohaveadobro@reddit
Now you make the scene all day
OzimanidasJones@reddit
But tomorrow there’ll be Hell to pay.
doompines@reddit
The video for 'The Ghost of Stephen Foster' is one of my favorites of all-time. 👻
cloudshaper@reddit
I first saw that video at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation!
meenie@reddit
"Hell" was the only song that made it to the charts/radio for them and it peaked in 1997. Perennial Favorites was my favorite album and not because the CD came with perennial flower seeds. Okay, that may have had something to do with it lol.
Bulky_Pop_8104@reddit
Am I hard of seeing? They aren’t on here right?
Sam81818@reddit
No, just another one that popped in my head.
Bulky_Pop_8104@reddit
All good, I thought they were a couple of years earlier, but mostly was worried about my eyesight haha
brakeb@reddit
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
phillyrat@reddit
“Cherry poppin daddies” somehow sounds different in 2026
MegaRadCoolDad@reddit
Could maybe say the same about Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy"
penmoid@reddit
It seemed gross at the time, but looking back on it now it’s wild that they just went with that name.
Thatoneguyfrom1980@reddit
They actually changed their name and are now just “the daddies”. I’m not sure if that’s better or worse.
MikelandSalamand@reddit
I think they only go by "The Daddies" for certain shows, like family-friendly festivals and stuff. They released an album a couple months ago and it still has the "Cherry Poppin'" on it.
phillyrat@reddit
Less cringe
EBMille4@reddit
Yeah I’m really cringing at half of these bands/songs not gonna lie
EatsCrackers@reddit
Oh god, I didn’t even think of that until you said it! Yikes!
PunkyBrewster1980@reddit
So am I the only one who was obsessed with learning Swing Dancing for like a year? Swing clubs were a thing. So weird.
umlaut@reddit
There was a short-lived ska-only radio station in Seattle in 1998, too, funny enough.
supergirlsudz@reddit
Riot!
IceSmiley@reddit
Kids now are so lucky they didn't have to listen to the dog shit the record companies decided we should listen to. This is RIGHT before Napster and it couldn't have come a second sooner!
remberrr@reddit
omg MONO. No one I know has heard of them & I don't get it??? We're the same age!
chromix@reddit
My wife and I started dating in 04 and she put this song on a mix tape for me, and I was impressed because I loved it and I'd never heard it before. I literally was today years old when I realized this was a radio hit.
remberrr@reddit
I betcha me & your wife both know it from the 1997 soundtrack to Great Expectations. A movie I have actually never seen, but have on a list to watch. I was in the 7th grade when Life in Mono came out & my twin sister & I ordered the CD from Colombia House along with The Wallflowers & Blues Traveler & Jewel & other such wonderful time capsule bands. Your wife sounds dope, we probably would have been friends
BoredMamajamma@reddit
Yeah, I listened to Life in Mono just today but have never ever heard it on the radio.
anhydrousslim@reddit
God Lives Underwater into Stabbing Westward into…Ben Folds. What a station!
agentmkultra666@reddit
I have many mix tapes I recorded off my local station that had nearly all of these songs. What a year for music!
DoucheyMcBagBag@reddit
Yeah, pour one out for God Lives Underwater.
They had a brief window where they maybe could have made it big before one of the two members got cancer. I think if they had a better, less nasal, singer they could have really made a name for themselves in the post-The Downward Spiral years when industrial rock was getting airplay. Their first EP and their first LP are so good and so different, with shred guitar mixed with techno-industrial synths and really well programmed drums. What could have been!
Johnykbr@reddit
When i was in 6th grade, my brother's buddy was good friends with Fuel so I got to eat at a Denny's with them all twice before they struck it big. I felt so cool.
The drummer asked me to pass the ketchup once. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
ZeMole@reddit
Superdrag!
Better-Emu7264@reddit
Do the Vampire… holy shit I haven’t heard that in awhile! Think I have an MP3 stashed on my old PC; I should look that up…
blackcurrents78@reddit
Late 90’s was the beginning of the end.
YakiVegas@reddit
Ahhh, the Church of Lazlo!
elmoosh@reddit
Every time I see the band Garbage mentioned I feel compelled to mention the time my friend and I were driving around Los Angeles one afternoon and we saw Shirley Manson on the sidewalk and my friend rolled down the window and yelled “HELLO SHIRLEY MANSON” and without missing a beat she yelled back “HELLO STRANGE BOY”
Money_Magnet24@reddit
She’s still here in L.A.
Saw her walking with friends 3 years ago in Los Feliz/Hollywood area. She either lives here or was visiting a friend.
YakiVegas@reddit
Lies! Nobody walks in LA
1upjohn@reddit
That's so cool! LOL
meenie@reddit
I hope she said it with a massive Scottish accent as well lol. I really liked her in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. She made a very convincing terminator.
CrowWarrior@reddit
The End sucked after Viacom bought it. I missed Marco Collins.
mikec231027@reddit
Oi .. take me back.
mr_weathervane@reddit
Deep-Ad4351@reddit
I will be singing Jump Right In all night now
LonerPallin@reddit
I just went to a show of theirs a month ago. Still the same high energy. It was amazing. It made me feel 25 years younger.
imatumahimatumah@reddit
It is such a damn good song. Turn it up, put the windows down, summer time drives with friends.
Tornadoboy156@reddit
I was literally listening to it on the bus yesterday morning haha. That whole album fucking ruled.
nevertoolate1983@reddit
Haha, that Nick Hexum hook is super catchy
tugonhiswinkie@reddit
Do you remember the lyrics? Isn't it about using condoms? That's what I always thought anyway - "I fought the urge to jump right in"
MemoryHot@reddit
Yasss Our Lady Peace ✌🏽🇨🇦
tim8104@reddit
I just saw them a few weeks ago on the 30th anniversary tour. They still sound great.
MemoryHot@reddit
Raine Maida is still hot too 😍
hamburgler26@reddit
Hell yeah, I was really big into them. I remember when Spiritual Machines came out being excited and listening to it over and over.
MemoryHot@reddit
I went to go listen to this album, apparently they made a Part 2 of this album in 2022… they even had a song featuring Pussy Riot… How come I didn’t know about this?!?!?!?!
MemoryHot@reddit
Oh man, that album was based on a novel by Ray Kurzweil that was a commentary on AI taking over the world
hamburgler26@reddit
Definitely very on topic these days, I hadn't heard it in years and listened to it last year, still really great.
83murph42@reddit
Clumsy tour was my first concert! Bought the best of double LP a couple years ago - the songs are in chronological order which makes it so you can really see the evolution of the music.
strippersandcocaine@reddit
Why do I always forget about Our Lady Peace these days!? Gonna go put them on and get all up in my feels.
SixAlarmFire@reddit
They were still touring a few years ago!
JaredUnzipped@reddit
Loved Fuel then and I love Fuel now. This brings back memories.
30rec@reddit
Sunburn is great, kind of meh after that.
aero25@reddit
I liked their radio play songs. Then,I saw them open for Aerosmith in the mid-2ks. It was one of the worst live performances I've ever seen. The audience was so restless waiting for them to get off stage.
JaredUnzipped@reddit
I've heard previously that they were hit or miss during live performances. I know Brett Scallions has had a tenuous relationship with the band over the years, as he has often felt the rest of the group wasn't pulling their weight. I get it, I really do.
I absolutely adore their album Natural Selection. It's one of those albums I just let play from start to finish, with These Things being my most favorite song of their entire discography... and they produced a lot of great tracks.
rqny@reddit
Didn’t realize Our Lady Peace was popular in the US.
frenchinhalerbought@reddit
Superman's Dead was huge
TrixieBastard@reddit
Starseed got some attention on my local station
SixAlarmFire@reddit
Clumsy was, at least in Seattle. And Superman's dead. I can hear it now.
dsp_pepsi@reddit
If anyone’s interested, here’s a playlist I made that was inspired by songs I heard on WRRV in Hudson Valley NY during my high school years 1997-2001. Let me know if there’s anything I should add.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0KGM0ygR6ANfMTERYDEsec?si=l6YbzGCuR5urHlbl1mvuag&pi=EGbDITjUSUiLH
frenchinhalerbought@reddit
Stabbing Westward!
yamahowzer@reddit
I was a KISW kid by 1998, but the end was for sure the soundtrack of Junior high
iggly_wiggly@reddit
I love that the Specials are on the list
shed1@reddit
"Well, Ben Folds Five probably won't be here, but let me che...whoa!"
LettuceD@reddit
Right? And something other than 'Brick'!
officialdougjudy@reddit
Damn, my band used to cover 5 of these songs. Great list.
gonzagylot00@reddit
I bet your average 25 year old would know none of those songs.
cloudshaper@reddit
The End was such an awesome station!
Armageddon-666@reddit
Pretty sure every station was playing that list.
rjsonlyone@reddit
Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit
Push it, make the beats go harder
WankAaron69@reddit
Moved to Seattle from the east coast in 95. No friends as a 16 year old. The Ms magical run and 107.7 were my lifelines that first year. I was especially fond of The End’s Resurrection Jukebox on Sunday mornings!
Sinistas@reddit
So glad to see Tori on there. Choirgirl is a *fantastic* album.
bugorama_original@reddit
So good. It really take me back to my senior year and the joy I had of driving my car around and feeling almost free!
Drinkdrankdonk@reddit
KNDD. Was the best station in town in the early 90s.
bugorama_original@reddit
I’m a Seattle person too and graduated in 1998. This list takes me BACK! Especially Spark by Tori Amos and Flagpole Sitta. I still listen to both of those.
Bill-Braskey@reddit
Looks like I Listening to Stabbing Westward today. Totally forgot about that band
MN_311_Excitable@reddit
I just saw 311 last month in Vegas, and I'll be seeing them again in about a month and a half. Still incredible live!
brakeb@reddit
I was in Biloxi, MS and then Monterey, CA... Only thing missing form the list is some "Better than Ezra"
I think I have every album on that list
Beetso@reddit
Are you a fellow DLI alarm, by any chance?
brakeb@reddit
Nope, stationed at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center for 2 years, lived at NPS barracks
FuzzyTunaTaco21@reddit
Oohhhuuuhhhhoohhhh! and its good good good
NewKojak@reddit
That had to be the only station on Earth playing God Lives Underwater.
neslynch@reddit
WAAF 107.3 in the Boston area played em.
zxroKKR@reddit
Marco Collins, the music director of that station, was responsible for a lot of bands getting their mainstream break, at least in the PNW. He even had a late night techno show called Ultrasound that was playing stuff like Prodigy, Future Sound of London, Fatboy Slim, Aphex Twin, etc. Man I miss the 90s.
NewKojak@reddit
It was the only time I think in radio history that program directors had that kind of influence on the biggest radio stations and were explicitly told to find new music.
zxroKKR@reddit
Another reason why the 90s was the peak, at least for America. It's been downhill ever since.
cecil021@reddit
Right before nu metal started dominating the rock world. Good stuff.
Rtrnofdmax@reddit
So same stuff today?
_TalkingIsHard_@reddit
Out of My Head > The Way but it just didn't get the airplay it deserved.
acamann@reddit
Hearing Out of my head on the radio got me into songwriting because I remember being amazed at what can be done in 2 mins 30 seconds.
A couple minutes of a great song can change the songwriter's life forever, and can change a listener's life forever
Dry-Broccoli3096@reddit
I like ‘em both despite maybe not appreciating them back in the day because I was fully immersed in the Midwest emo scene. When Out of My Head made it onto the Ted Lasso soundtrack, I was pretty obsessed with it (and Bad Things by Camila Cabello and MGK had been a recent guilty pleasure for me too)
chriscbr500r@reddit
Didn't someone just ask for songs for a playlist in this sub recently? Those songs are all great! Going to add some of those to my Spotify right now.
Oh how I wish I could go back to that time
acamann@reddit
Wow good station, surprised to see song for the dumped in the month-long mix with all of these
HollowVoices@reddit
Paranoia Paranoia - Everybody's coming to get me!
snarkerella@reddit
I think they played that song for the flick Disturbing Behavior, right? I just remember all the WB and other teen stars in it.
Meggos1022@reddit
Yep! It was the song in the trailer for Disturbing Behavior.
MegaRadCoolDad@reddit
Marcy Playground had more than just 1 song?
ilrosewood@reddit
Goo goo dolls iris … shit. That means sometime this week in 1998 I had my first kiss with my first girlfriend.
acr1119@reddit
Do people actually argue that music wasn’t better in the 90s than the music that is out today?
Wreckingshops@reddit
KCMU/KEXP all the way!
Visible-Disaster@reddit
That’s a 90s font/logo if there ever was one.
Lambo1206@reddit
I bought that Marcy Playground album as a teen just because of the “Sex and Candy” song and it turned out to be a solid album all the way through.
AlienDelarge@reddit
I could occasionally get that station where I grew up when I could use mom's stereo connected to the big aerial. Otherwise it was KUFO out of Portland.
CalamityClambake@reddit
I loved KUFO!
AlienDelarge@reddit
It's technically back from the dead on 102.9 but while the music is largely the same, the DJs were a big part of the experience.
CalamityClambake@reddit
Yes. If they're just going to play music from an algorithm, I might as well listen to Spotify.
SeptemberSignal@reddit
I was stationed at Ft. Lewis at this time. I would have been listening to that too! Loved that station.
Ok-Brick6831@reddit
Love this! I still listen to Jodie, but she’s on the old person radio now…
CalamityClambake@reddit
What station?
Ok-Brick6831@reddit
95.7 in the mornings.
Redonkulator@reddit
Hell yeah! My fave teenage radio station (after KCMU) in the year I graduated from highschool. Great memories.
Too bad 107.7 fell off so hard.
East_Nobody_7345@reddit
Take me back😆
JeffBeckwasthebest@reddit
People used to make good music back then, unlike today.
dorky2@reddit
Man. This week in 1998 was when I got my first boyfriend. (Late bloomer, was nearly 17 before boys wanted to date me.) This really takes me back, thanks.
TrixieBastard@reddit
holy shit, I had forgotten about Black Lab!
Striking-Access-236@reddit
That's the oldies Classic Rock station's playlist of today!
LasagnahogXRP@reddit
That was a cool fucking station.
chonky__chonker@reddit
Ahhh I spy the zuit suit riot
CokBlockinWinger@reddit
Damn, I’ve seen most of these bands live.
CalamityClambake@reddit
Sometimes I find myself wondering what happened to DJ Noname.
ubuggme@reddit
I assure you they were not playing most of these songs mon-fri.
CalamityClambake@reddit
Yes they were.
Ok_Ball_788@reddit
I looked up the station just now, and after the ads, the first song was Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams. They are still playing Green Day. I hate the group because I lived in a downstairs apartment, and the kid upstairs was playing Drum Hero or something, which was fucking annoying, and he only played Green Day songs all day and night.
CalamityClambake@reddit
Yeah, they kind of got stuck in a time vortex in like 2009. Every time I turn on the radio, it's the same stuff.
They are a shadow of their former glory. They hardly ever have DJs now and they don't break local bands or do events. The station to listen to in Seattle now is KEXP, which still has human DJs and show runners
PapaTua@reddit
I'm facebook friends with Macro Collins. 😎
CalamityClambake@reddit
Tell him we miss him!
SixAlarmFire@reddit
I miss hearing his voice. He was on kexp for a while but then quit to dj on a new alternative station that is already folded.
His last week on air at The End he cursed a bunch of times live and I thought it was so hilarious.
seymourscagnetti420@reddit
The music in the first half of the decade was as good as it gets, but I feel like a lot of the music in the late ‘90s was pretty bad.
soundboy64@reddit
I’m wondering if you’re thinking of the early 2000’s. I feel like 94-99 was some of the best music ever
midlifeShorty@reddit
Not everyone agrees with that. I liked grunge, but after that, I hated 90s music. I dislike almost every song on this list. To my ears it is all very basic and whiny with way too much repetition, but then I don't really like pop music at all. I got into metal in the end of 98 and never listened to the radio again.
I actually don't even know what early 2000s music even was other than the most popular songs I would here in stores.
macrocosm93@reddit
The 2000s were bad for mainstream music on the radio and MTV but it was also when we got Napster so we didn't have to listen to that shit anymore.
seymourscagnetti420@reddit
Also, I certainly wasn’t including years like ‘93 and ‘94 and ‘95 and ‘96 as “late 90s”.
seymourscagnetti420@reddit
I’m not saying there wasn’t still some really good stuff, I’m saying that there was also a lot of really bad music in the late 90s as well. All depends on what genre we’re talking about too. I was just talking about popular music of the era generally.
hamburgler26@reddit
There was a lot of trash and pop stuff that wasn't as cool as what was really big on the radio in the mid 90s, but still lots of great stuff. Even early 2000s you've got Kid A dropping, The White Stripes, Interpol and all of that post punk revival stuff was in high gear.
macrocosm93@reddit
Yeah honestly this list looks pretty shit to me lol. Was never a fan of this era of post-grunge Top 40 radio rock.
macrocosm93@reddit
There's one or two good songs on here, but honestly I didn't like this most of these songs. Especially flag pole sitta which is one of my most hated songs of all time. That wra was a major downgrade compared to the early-mid 90s.
midlifeShorty@reddit
Glad I am not the only one who doesn't like these song. Late 90s rock was so whiny and boring. Songs like these are why as soon as I discovered mp3s in college, I turned off the radio forever. I seriously haven't listened to the radio for music since August of 98.
Schmitty300@reddit
I lived on Vancouver Island and this was one of my go-to stations!
Tornadoboy156@reddit
I was born too late to fully embrace grunge and nu-metal wasn’t a thing yet. This playlist is 15 year-old me. Our Lady Peace and 311 were my favorite bands
Illustrious_Cry1028@reddit
Wow. I'm going to make and listen to this playlist in the morning.
soopirV@reddit
I feel like I’m back in the bike shop
R4Z0RF1SH@reddit
Bellingham, represent.
Swimming-Squash-3573@reddit
Plot twist: Goo goo dolls’ Iris seems to be playing in every reel I open this week in 2026
justinlarson@reddit
What a fucking great list of songs!
Chalupa_Dad@reddit
My exact era
NoBoss8479@reddit
Don't Drink The Water, weird buried memory. Heard that song like 2x and never again. I thought it was kinda interesting as a kid.
creepygurl83@reddit
Holy shit, I listened to that station too. Now I listen to KEXP. :)
RyRyThatScienceGuy@reddit
Moved to the Puget Sound just a couple months before this. The End was the soundtrack to so much of my teen years. Endfest 1998 was headlined by Green Day and broadcast live on the radio. I can't imagine what the FCC fine was because Billie Joe dropped a F bomb like every other word.
This list brought back so many memories and so many things I still listen to that I had to make a playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6mThMK4tL6P94pHlNAA9Uy?si=8w_E0MOoTPi0frHry7FlRw&pi=JfJ1Z8L7T06Ci
SixAlarmFire@reddit
That was my first concert !
PapaTua@reddit
I had mostly absconded into the Rave scene by 1998 and was listening to progressive trance music in warehouses almost exclusively, so I only recognize a few of these.
I had my ears GLUED to KNDD 1990 through 1996 though.
Fresh_Salamander707@reddit
Loved this radio station in Victoria BC! They had a pretty cool edit of NIN’e “Closer”. And also it was from this station that I heard that Cobain was dead. I listened to it a ton in high school/uni.
NW_Forester@reddit
1 year later The Funky Monkey 104.9 started and it became my go to station for a few years.
SixAlarmFire@reddit
Omg I forgot funky monkey! Wild.
Caliastanfor@reddit
Flagpole Sitta still goes hard. Surprised younger generations haven't brought that one back.
According-Property64@reddit
Cherry poppin daddies and Fastball 😚👌
PointBlankCheck@reddit
Losing a Whole Year is such a jam
porcelainvacation@reddit
I saw 3EB at Edgefield 2 years ago and they’re still great.
DookieMcDookface@reddit
ManateeNipples@reddit
Our best station in Cleveland was 107.9 The End, they played similar stuff 🥹
khumprp@reddit
I grew up in Youngstown and on clear nights I could pick up The End. Loved that station.
Were they the ones that when they went off air they played It's the End of the World as We Know It on repeat?
ManateeNipples@reddit
Hell yeah that's the one, they did it on day 1 and on the last day, I was sad af both times lol I loved power 108 that ended when they took over, and then when I woke up and heard it playing on repeat again I was sad because I knew that meant The End was over 😭
grunkle_dan78@reddit
ah yes, when the Endd was still good
firstworkthenbreak@reddit
Just reading this made me a little emotional.. Going to make this a Spotify playlist for sure
No_Flamingo9331@reddit
Our Lady Peace! Nice
xxxjessicann00xxx@reddit
The lyrics to Song for the Dumped just came out of some hidden part of my brain
LooseAlbatross@reddit
Aaaaand don’t forget [furious piano solo] to give me back my black T shirt!
Good-Bodybuilder-985@reddit
Yes exactly!
LarryGoldwater@reddit
The white folk used to call this baby making music
DBPanterA@reddit
Stabbing Westward - Save Yourself.
That song to me is the quintessential 90’s rock song. It encompasses the energy and the feelings of the 90’s.
SeanOTG@reddit
I forgot about GLU and Stabbing Westward
Grandpa87@reddit
The stabbing westward guy put out a song in 2021 I think called "I'm just a ghost". Dude can sing
Cute_Marzipan_4116@reddit
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta 👨🍳😗
thepatientwaiting@reddit
Thank you you reminding me God Lives Underwater exists. Gonna put on that album and see if it still slaps.
IrememberXenogears@reddit
I saw Harvey Danger get booed off the stage.
zxroKKR@reddit
I saw them play in the back of a laundromat. I don't think they played a single song off of Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone, which is a total bummer because Carlotta Valdez and Private Helicopter are bangers!
windupshoe2020@reddit
And it's never good when it goes bad; No one likes to feel like they've been had; And it may be ok; But you won't wear our t-shirts now… anymore
FoofaFighters@reddit
And what the hell was wrong with Joe 🎶
mathiustus@reddit
The best era of music.
Sugar_bytes@reddit
End fest was the best.
No_Fun_7068@reddit
Man I miss the 90s. 😢
zxroKKR@reddit
Marco Collins era, that guy was responsible for so much of my high school music taste.
TheREALBaldRider@reddit
Time to make a new playlist
That-Jeweler-Girl@reddit
Wow, looks like all the songs I would record off the radio
bubbijezzigo@reddit
Been around the world found that only stupid people are breeding
RealTurbulentMoose@reddit
Now I’m an amputee God damn you.
chris84126@reddit
This makes me want to burn a cd.
euclid0472@reddit
Poe will always have a special place for me. She got boned by her label and never got the chance she deserved.
donttrustthecorn@reddit
Was that the same year real world was on 107.7?
DirtyBirdDawg@reddit
I think that was the year before. I feel like Seattle was '96-'97. From what I can remember Hawaii was the '98 year.
Tiny-Reading5982@reddit
Seattle was released in 98 but most likely filmed in 97
guerrillaman84@reddit
Shimmer and Flagpole Sitter were always played next to each other.
FormidableMistress@reddit
Man it's the soundtrack to the last time I was carefree. Shit really started to go south right about now.
RattusNikkus@reddit
Resurrection Flashback Sunday, baybee!
MikeyBillions@reddit
My gosh, what a strange time for music. I had no cassette player in my car back then, so I listened to the radio A LOT in 1997 and 1998. As a huge music fan who came up as a teen with 120 Minutes and the Sonic Youth/Nirvana/Dinosaur Jr./Fugazi era of '92 or so, I remember clocking in real time that the late '90s were already a Whole Different Thing from the early/mid '90s. But it also looks so innocent and naive in a way, compared to the Nu Metal onslaught to come haha.
Zealousideal_Iron713@reddit
Did you ever go to any of the End Fest concerts they put on? My dad took my best friend and I the year Korn was headlining. It was awesome for country bumpkin me 😆
smoothobfuscator@reddit
Adding these to the kids’ playlists- they love my “high school music”
Carcosa504@reddit
Fuck man. Had no idea Redundant cracked the top 25.
pieinthesky12@reddit
That’s interesting in the New Orleans area we had a 106.7 The End and an End Fest as well, got destroyed in Katrina. Remember evacuating for Katrina and listening to that channel and whatever DJ seemed to be going a little stir crazy, and was playing like Biggie and other random things, even though it was a rock station. Kinda weird it was literally some of the last broadcasts of that station. 😢
Chance-Ant-452@reddit
Was anyone else at the little show Harvey Danger played down in Auburn around that time? I think it was at a place called Gradys on Main Street.
borkbork234@reddit
Superdrag! No idea they played anything on the radio after sucked out.
teslaeffects@reddit
And now this all plays on 102.5 classic rock and makes me feel a kind of way
sassyfontaine@reddit
Hey hey I loved that station
pm_me_your_lub@reddit
Thank you. This is going to be my playlist at the cafe tomorrow 🤘
dc1999@reddit
My kids watch a show on Nickelodeon called Henry Danger and I always ask them if they’re watching Harvey Danger.
adamroadmusic@reddit
At the time I was super into Jamiroquai, Ben Folds Five, Goo Goo Dolls. The next couple years I'd start listening to Lit, Eminem, Coldplay, Radiohead. And the Beatles.
cloudydays2021@reddit
Love this. I’m in NYC and regularly stream The End (and KEXP)
UnrecoveredSatellite@reddit
OLP Clumsy is such an epic 90s jam.
Daemon213@reddit
I can hear every one of these songs in my head.
Electronic_Biscotti@reddit
If you haven't watched The Glamour and the Squalor, it's a great doc about Marco Collins - https://youtu.be/RWpDfQfXd8g?si=YXSywOWAe06s9-nH
Electronic_Biscotti@reddit
Also I hate that Wishlist was the single off of Yield - one of the weaker songs on (imo) their best album!
friendlyfire31@reddit
Clumsy is legitimately a masterpiece. So underrated.
adamroadmusic@reddit
And I'm not sick, but I'm not well
RepresentativeNo2187@reddit
Same year as The Real World: Seattle. Those kids...
brakeb@reddit
It was beginning of the end of TV... The "scripted reality" drama
noonesaidityet@reddit
God Lives Underwater always got lost in the muck. Some pretty great stuff in that discography.
makgeolliandsoju@reddit
Fun fact: I grew up with Sean Nelson (friends with his brother Andy of Belle Meade Bourbon, and man, did I hear that song a lot pre release.
Stryker406@reddit
I listened to about 6 of those songs today
palmateer@reddit
I had a beer with the lead singer of Harvey Danger when they opened for Semisonic at Joyous Lake back in the day. I want to say it was in `98 just after I graduated high school because my buddy snuck us in through the kitchen since we were underage. Great times!
jlab23@reddit
I’m kind of surprised it isn’t just Fastball’s The Way over and over… but maybe that was just my local station in 1998…
Fast-Blacksmith9534@reddit
Woah. Wasn't expecting the Urge to make it all the way to Tacoma!
VoidOmatic@reddit
Love seeing The Urge on that list. Fantastic album.
Mudcreek47@reddit
classics ...
RJRoyalRules@reddit
What month was this? I'm guessing it was sometime before "What's It's Like" by Everlast was released, my local station played that like every five songs
Reportersteven@reddit (OP)
This week. So April 1998.
RJRoyalRules@reddit
Oh duh, I am dumb. Sorry for the stupid question!!
CarlSpackler22@reddit
Woof
snwbrdngtr@reddit
My brain is broken over a couple of these songs coexisting at the same time…
mattinglys-moustache@reddit
What a time to be alive
usernames_suck_ok@reddit
You only had one local station? /s
lakebistcho@reddit
107.7 The End is the Seattle station that's keeping the dream of the 90s alive
lastminutealways@reddit
I still listen to it at times
lakebistcho@reddit
Me too
TryTwiceAsHard@reddit
My senior year! Miss those days.
writersontop@reddit
No skips
lakebistcho@reddit
KNDD
AmishDatacenter@reddit
Back then, I was just finishing up my freshman year in college. Great memories of music back then. The rock station in town was trash so I used those playlists from stations in bigger markets to figure out what new MP3s to download.
trollinhard2@reddit
Takes me right back to high school. The band I was in played most of these songs.