Veruca Salt 'Forsythia' on MTV 120 Minutes 1994 live in studio performance

[@VenusAxe]

I believe Louise is an underrated guitarist. Her skills are vicious!

[@ALK-le6pv]

Several of Louise's best solos never made it from demo/b side to album. Maybe she was afraid of showing off too much? Anyway, this one from the 1993 demo titled 'Halloween Day' was my favorite: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWK8gKSCg6eJnZI

[@Corn_Pone_Flicks]

What is she rated as a guitarist?

[@ginafeldman1652]

She's unbelievable

[@Palliatus]

A total gem. Nina at the peak of her songwriting and performing skills.

[@HaveCommonSense76]

This band is the definition of the 90’s!!!!!

[@thomaskossnar356]

This is like a '60's song. Great band. I'm from Chicago and they were part of a big alt/grunge scene then. Exciting and fun times!

[@drumzRfun1]

90s chicks are so way more awesome.

[@VenusAxe]

I prefer this live version over the album version. So quirky and sweet!

[@blakes5827]

Louise with that All Hail Me hairdo. I can't. I am going to explode.

[@CS-sf1rz]

IKR

[@brich2929]

She was delicious

[@mloftin6472]

@@CS-sf1rz Oh yes!

[@denisefreitas6727]

Love Veruca Salt! Great band!

[@Markysar]

When Mtv still was about music....

[@wakegary]

and not DJ Paulie D T-Shirt Time NFTs

[@daltondogger]

Veruca Salt Rocks

[@blakes5827]

Pure bliss walking back through my memories of college and watching 120 minutes with roommates. Matt Pinhead's interviews. That 90s vibe is perfectly captured in this video.

[@CS-sf1rz]

He knew his shit tho

[@mloftin6472]

@@CS-sf1rz yep

[@fhumperdink8897]

God I loved 1994 thru 1996 so damn much

[@thescribbler495]

Bill Goat I was a very small child at that time.

[@CS-sf1rz]

🙏🙏🙏👌👌👌🤘🤘🤘🤘high school was a bummer... but still great you know !

[@lfh1973]

My last two years of college at Columbia College in Chicago. Music business major. Got to load in for them when they went on tour on their first album. My labs were at my professors, studio, Chicago Dress Rehearsal studio. She said we would he loading out for a National act. We saw all the boxes stenciled with “Veruca Salt” on them. We freaked out (well the three of us they were way into them! ). Then they let us go up to northern with them and give them a hand. Ate dinner with Steve Lack. Couldn’t have been a nicer guy. Such great times!

[@mrnatelygrisse]

Middle school for me, gems of the Super Nintendo, AOL was hardly being "online", I concur Your Excellency!

[@HaveCommonSense76]

I was looking at the date and I had just graduated from High School 1994. These were the best days of my life!!!

[@TheEarlymtv]

20 years ago. I was 21... man, where did the time go..

[@ECpian05]

Hey man at least you got to experience a good music scene when you were younger. That really can't be said for me:(

[@adolpholiverbush2]

TheEarlymtv Goddamn, I feel ya. 20 years ago, I was 22, and things were great.

[@notsure6187]

25 now. 😅

[@Mark-OutWest]

Sadly it only flies by even faster as you get older. This album was awesome when it came out. That was still a good time for rock. Lester Bangs was wrong.

[@moralcompass3252]

I hear you.

[@comawhite821]

My favorite Veruca Salt song❤

[@twiguydk]

Forsythia just now in bloom... Here in my neck o the woods

[@davidhagadorn3733]

23 years ago wow!! seems like yesterday...one of my top 10 coolest bands!!

[@ibookboyuk]

Yeah. Lovely. I really enjoyed that. Good performance.

[@middleearthgirl1449]

I'm so happy they are back :)

[@stevenaaus]

Hmmm - i love Louise and Nina, but their reunion is - meh

[@ALK-le6pv]

@@stevenaaus Agreed. Other than Triage, Ghost Notes was very mom rock. And Louise's solos were greatly missed. Louise entered the studio last month to record her own material as VS is currently inactive; hopefully she gets back to being the hard rock part of the duo, and maybe some day reminds the band of their roots on another record.

[@briw3385]

Look at Nina and Louise shred! Phenomenal band

[@mloftin6472]

The song has such a good raw groove in this performance vs the album version. And Steve's bass is very prominent. Love it!

[@notsure6187]

This was March 25, 1995 on MTV 120 Minutes

[@boohoo1385]

brilliantly crafted tune

[@estoesesto4]

Perfect Song! 👍👍👍

[@estoesesto4]

Fantastic song! Great Duo Nina Gordon&Louise Post.

[@Midnightriding]

Sick solo

[@luisfernando299]

Very grunge i like it

[@rothsuede]

Super high Quality is what I like it.

[@wolfgang6442]

This was from 3 decades ago and yet it still feels like It dropped not to long ago

[@Rod1712]

this band became immortal by composing a song to a plant species! 🌼 No one else has done it... Is there anything more alternative than that? ❤

[@mor4725]

They topped it by doing a song about a certain brand of blinds.

[@Rod1712]

@@mor4725 Hello troll

[@jeans5658]

I have known this song for 20 years and never paid attention to the lyrics until now. Recorded it off university radio programming on a cassette tape. English is not my first langauge so it is easy for me to only notice the music at first and only the music. I have always liked that music in this song. Now that I am paying attention and that I get better understanding of lyrics, sometimes I see the encryption and I think this one is about Love/hate relationship with a drug (Forsythia)

[@areilosaar4845]

❤

[@3025RONI1]

Cerca de la revolución.

[@elisabetdebora5889]

Je pense lo mismo

[@camdenroad44]

90s women the best )

[@boohoo1385]

I love this song *wink*

[@jamesblakey7672]

This song is never not great. And it's great for all occasions. Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, dental visits, vaccinations of domesticated rabbits...

[@blakes5827]

At the moment I am writing a psychological report late at night while listening to it. I am proving your point.

[@jamesblakey7672]

Pruning the hedges of many small villages.

[@estoesesto4]

Perfect song of the best Rock!

[@runeterjesen3353]

Best performance Nina made in my opinion(as I’ve seen anyways)... usually I do prefer Louise, but Nina nails this one... pure energy and clumsy “off key singing” at times(but on purpose)... obviously... amazing performance, feeling rules all the way...

[@ribbonsandrainbowsribbonsa2529]

Born 1969 to 1960

[@startervisions]

sounds like The Breeders and Elastica

[@thescribbler495]

03/25/1995 actually. The day I turned 1

[@Microtonal.Metal.Master]

Man, I want some of what she's on.

[@CS-sf1rz]

90s (you had to be there lol)

[@otaviodias7435]

show

[@JLAMorrison3]

es el riff de charly garcia "cerca de la revolucion"

[@gS0yeUE0udz7d]

Genial

[@360MIX]

360MIX was here.

[@sigalfamily4771]

Listening to this again under lockdown. VS kind of a frustrating band -- a few great songs and some underdeveloped ideas. Classic case of too much too soon. Would have liked to see them last and head in some weirder directions, i.e. this and All hail Me...

[@alekferna6760]

What happened to them? They split in the second album?

[@blakes5827]

They put out an LP, then an EP, then an LP. Then they split, and Louise did a few (pretty good) albums under the Veruca Salt name. Then they reunited about 14 years later and put out an LP. Now we are waiting for something else to get released.

[@mloftin6472]

@@blakes5827 Still waiting...

[@fabi57iamracer]

good song bad audio

[@blakes5827]

Vintage MTV 120 minutes though. A time capsule.

[@wolfgang6442]

I think the audio is fine

[@ZarZar57]

The audio is amazing

[@discardmyfriends]

Lol what makes you think she's on something

[@ignatiusreilly2998]

This is a plagiarism to the Argentine musician Charly Garcia in his song "Cerca De La Revolucion" recorded in 1983

[@vall6510]

Stfu

[@DP-ux1kz]

Shut up delusional fuck face

[@joejones9520]

that is a trip, i just listened to it, the main riff is the same pattern but is in E whereas VS is G. Hard to imagine pre-internet VS wouldve ever heard Garcia tho. The rest of the song is not really similar tho, no vocal melodies are the same in either song. Thanks, I love comments, always learning something new.

[@softbatch1]

Wow. That solo was hilarious. Nice try.

[@adamwood87]

yeah, that's Louise for you. outside of the studio recordings she always struggled with the solos, and i'm saying this as a fan. she could write some great riffs, but she is no lead player.

[@joejones9520]

@@adamwood87 I play these songs on guitar, trust me she is a badass lead player, these are complex leads, each lead she creates seems to follow a lead pattern that no one has discovered before and she never does any of the typical rock bend and pull-off licks and every note is exactly the perfect one for the song, the Seether lead, for example, blows my mind every time I play it. No one could have created a more fitting lead for that song.

[@adamwood87]

@@joejones9520 yeah, if you notice what i actually said, i'm talking about her live performance, whereas you are talking about the composition. you're defending a point i never made.

[@joejones9520]

@@adamwood87 you said riffs, riffs are not lead, speak accurately and you wont be misinterpreted.

[@adamwood87]

@@joejones9520 yes, i said she rights great riffs. The crux of my position is that she struggles playing lead in a live setting. That was what I wrote, it was unequivocal.

[@bungmonkey2295]

I love this song but oof they sound like a garage band here way to rehearse guys 😑

[@HaveCommonSense76]

I was looking at the date and I had just graduated from High School 1994. These were the best days of my life!!!