Every Billboard Modern Rock Chart #1 through 2005, listed in order of preference.
May 8-22, 1992



Bitter from years attempting the musically esoteric and deconstructive or what-the-fuck-ever, David Lowery succeeded in selling out (it was in an ad before being a college-rock band in ads was cool) by celebrating booze and loose women over monochromatic bar rock, admittedly with irony, sardonicism and plaid.
Cause what the world needs now
is a new kind of tension
Cause the old one just bores me to death
Cause what the world needs now
is another folk singer
like I need a hole in my head