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[–] SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Let's see, we got

spoiler

  1. Boom box Man
  2. PITT
  3. Notefield
  4. Childslave
  5. Gourd Gore
  6. 20Brick
  7. Beans on Toast
  8. Coffee
  9. Angry Oaks

Pretty sure that plank is just a red herring

[–] BobbyGasoline@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You know you are getting old when you hear Beans on toast at the hardware store.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Wakeup call: Damn this grocery store radio station is LIT. ohh fuck, did my brain just do that?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 6 days ago

This wasn't headlined with wrong answers only.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Smashing pumpkins

Alice In Chains

Screaming trees

Radiohead

Soundgarden

9 in nails

Match box 20

Pearl Jam

Hole

I’m old AF I love Alice and chains and soundgarden

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fucking Perl Jam... I could not decipher peanut butter and drug sandwhich :)

Thanks

[–] TrumpetX@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What jam bottle has a handle? But then after you know, it's the lid on it's side.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I was thinking beer and marmite, like is this some obscure Australian band I don't know about?

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

All 9

Tap for spoiler

  1. Radiohead
  2. Alice in Chains
  3. Hole
  4. Soundgarden
  5. Screaming Trees
  6. Nine Inch Nails
  7. Smashing Pumpkins
  8. Pearl Jam
  9. Matchbox 20
[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Dang, I only got like 6 or 7 of these, even though I know all the bands.

Was thinking that they could have easily done counting crows too

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Wait screaming trees is actually the name of a band?

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It feels like there is a non zero chance that this graphic was made by a member of the Screaming Trees, because nobody k ows who that is, certainly not at the level of the other 8. Like, Stone Temple Pilots would be a good actual 9th. Maybe Garbage.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Screaming Trees were a big name in grunge (not part of tge big 5, but in the same scene) in the 90's and have collaborated with several of the other bands in this image. Mark Lanegan (rip) has gone solo and done a bunch of stuff with Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, and Eddie Vedder since then.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

He also sang some of Queens of the Stone Age's best songs.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think I heard more than one song by Garbage until they did that Bond theme song.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I guess I was in a different music loop, I liked Garbage (the album) and Version 2.0. V2.0 in particular is one of my favorite albums from High School.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Guess so! I was mostly exposed to country and oldies at the time.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hell yeah 😆 i first heard them on the Singles soundtrack https://youtu.be/rWoG7jShUck

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Huh well I cant say I remember them or the song but they certainly sound very 90s.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I think Josh Homme from Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age was in the band for a period of time.

[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Am I the only one trying count hands and also wondering why "hands from the 90s"...

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

What's on the table between the matchbox and the jar, and why does the jar have a handle?

[–] ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a jar with the lid leaning against it. The jar is full of jam, and a butter knife is spreading the jam on bread. The jam also has pearls in it.

Pearl Jam

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Oh! I see it, thank you and the others replied, I see it now.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago

That's the lid leaning up against it.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

That's a lid, not a handle, and it's a butter knife spreading the substance in the jar on a piece of toast. I couldn't tell what that was on the table either

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Even though I lived through the 90s and was into most of those bands, I have never even heard of Matchbox 20. So that was the only one I couldn't guess.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

I've heard the name Screming Trees so many times, but I couldn't place any of their songs. I just went to poked around, This is the only one i've ever heard that I can recall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE5f561Y1x4

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I mean the notes in the garden there could be the beat farmers but I don't think they ever went main stream.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 days ago

Oh, I thought the pearl jam was a jar full of jawbreakers at first. Pearl jam makes more sense with the bread.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I got 6 I think

Radiohead.
Alice in chains.
Smashing pumpkins.
Nine Inch Nails.
Matchbox 20.
Pearl jam.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Lol I thought Pearl jam was black eyed peas and I was a little confused about the theme

[–] gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (13 children)

The other three are:

Hole (Courtney Love’s band) Screaming Trees Soundgarden

I thought soundgarden was a puddle of mud for some reason

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I thought hole might have been one, and screaming trees was totally just something random I said in my head.

Can't believe I missed Soundgarden

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I missed Screaming Trees, never heard of them, and didn't think long enough about Pearl Jam.

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