Our Lady Peace
“Clumsy”

I downloaded this 10 disc torrent of 90s alt rock. The Buzz Box, of course. That’s what it would be called. I’m going through it, and there’s a lot of stuff. A lot of duplicates, but a lot of stuff, you know? Some of the best.

• Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy”
• Seven Mary Three! “Cumbersome!”
• Collective Soul’s “December,” and
• Counting Crows’s “Long December”
• Dishwalla’s “Counting Blue Cars”
• The not great Hole songs
• Eve 6’s “Inside Out”
• a bunch of songs by Filter!
• “Mother Mother”
• Nada Surf’s one popular song
• Butthole Surfers’s one palatable song

And so on.

But I was thinking about it, and for you know ineluctable reasons, it seems to me that Our Lady Peace’s “Clumsy” is the most 90s song. From the way it sounds to its instrumentation. The way the guy sings. What the song is about. And it was really popular, I think. It seems like the 90s. My 90s. Maybe your 90s, as well?

I don’t know. Thinking more on it, it’s possible Verve Pipe’s “Freshman” was the alt rock song of the 90s.