1) The first band I think you should know about is Nine Days, a group of guys from Long Island who are most well known for their hit in the summer of 2000, "Absolutely (Story Of A Girl)," from their debut cd, "The Madding Crowd." The band has two lead vocalists, and they write (generally) sunny pop-rock songs with crunchy riffs and harmony background vocals galore.
The song I'm posting is from their 2002 CD, "So Happily Unsatisfied". It's called "Good Friend", and it was also featured in the 2002 geek-gone-hero movie "The New Guy". Basically slick, modern radio pop-rock at its finest.
Nine Days - "Good Friend"
2) The 2nd song is from an old alternative band from Montreal, the Doughboys. Again, I didn't find much about them on Google, but I can tell you they wrote some pretty damn catchy rock on their 1993 CD, "Crush".
Initially the Doughboys put out what was then called melodic hardcore, but after alternative rock exploded in the early 90's, there were A&R guys everywhere, signing band after band to cash in. The Doughboys weren't immune -- a major label bidding war ensued, and they signed with A&M. The sound got watered-down, the hooks were ratcheted up, and A&M soon had a gold record on their hand, led by the single, "Shine"
Funny, as with many of the bands I'm going to post here, "Crush" seems to be pretty cheap on Half.com -- I saw it on there for 75 cents - which is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying their songs on some music site for 99 cents each! It's worth checking out for songs like "Shine", "Fix Me", and "Melt".
Doughboys - "Shine"
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