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I have it on good word that Daniel Johnston's Speeding Motorcycle was something of an "indie" hit.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

bart simpson - "do the bartman"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

enigma - "sadeness pt 1"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

What was that group that was really just one dude and had a horrendously long name or maybe the song title was huge or something. It was a really bland, pedestrian "trip-hop" song with a sample of some old blues singer. Primitive something or other.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

WHOOP DERR IT IS

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

How about that "I'm drowin' . . I'm burnin' . . I'm bleeding to death . EVERYTHING'S FINE!!!". Who on earth did that song? Sort of an Alanis Morrisette-style thing.

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"the star spangled banner" - whitney houston

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

In Canada, Lucas had a chart-topper with Lucas With His Lid-Off, but given the nature of Canada Council regulations and government support, I don't know if it could truly be called a hit, just forgotten.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Primitive Radio Gods.

xxx-post

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"that's just the way it is baby" - the rembrandts

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Sophie B. Hawkins "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

(that lucas video still owns, btw. gondry's first great clip.)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Amy Grant "Baby"

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"hazard" - richard marx

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I still like "Lucas With The Lid Off"! I wish they had released "Born" off that album as a single though, that song was WAY better. One of my favorite ubermellow stoner hip-hop songs to this date.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

gregory abbott - "shake you down"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Candyman - Knockin Boots

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Dionne Farris "I Know"

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

aren't "my favorite" and "stoner" redundant, nick?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

oooooh good call with the dionne farris.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

jennifer paige - "crush"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Spacehog In The Meantime

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i hate crush ever since the D-plan cover. Oooh so silly to cover it.

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

white town - "your woman"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

verve pipe - "the freshman"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

gregory abbott - "shake you down"

This is from the 80s, isn't it?

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Heavy D And The Boyz "Now That We Found Love"

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

This Dionne Farris song is pretty accurate! I never knew who made it...

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"Pearl" by Chapterhouse

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a sick amount of love for "The Freshman."

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

As for the Dionne Farris song, just wow. I'm sort of stumped as to why she disappeared altogether.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Ugly Kid Joe - whatever it was

Hello Cruel World - E
Lay it Down - Magnapop
Going South - Wolfgang Press

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

the theme song to Pete and Pete killed, who was it?

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

xxpost

Speaking of Dionne Farris disappearing, isn't it about time for another D'Angelo album?

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

aren't "my favorite" and "stoner" redundant, nick?

Oh ZING you FUCKER.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

"Groovy Train" by the Farm

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

the theme song to Pete and Pete killed, who was it?

Polaris or Polara or something like that.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually just downloaded that Groovy Train song a couple of months ago. It sat in my mp3 folder, occasionally popping up in a shuffle and shaming me.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

okay I'm stuck on this Dionne Farris thing, but here's the trifecta of the "original neo-soul" movement, please say thank you Alicia and Norah:

Dionne Farris - I Know
Gabrielle - Dreams
Des'ree - You Gotta Be

Which also brings to mind Me'Shell NdegéOcello - If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night).

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

How is it that I don't recognize that Gabrielle song? Maybe I've heard it and didn't know who it was.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Sponge...the song with the chorus "a world of human wreckage"

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

matt2, excellent choices, I could not fro the life of me remember that des'ree track and Gabrielle rules.

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha! Sponge.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Johnny Fever, unless you are joking, the Gabrielle song is the one from Magnolia that Quizkid Donnie whatever is always listening to in his car.

Dreams can come true
Look at me babe I'm with you
You know you gotta have hope
You know you gotta be strong

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm gonna have to d/l it, because I seriously can't place it at all.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Found it, listened to it... I've never heard this song ever.

(Well, I must have heard it in Magnolia, but didn't remember it at all.)

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

onyx - slam

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Where do you live Johnny Fever? It was huge in the US.

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Archers of Loaf - Web In Front
Dream Warriors - Wash Your Face In My Sink
The Soup Dragons - I'm Free
Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now
Bootsuace - Scratching The Whole
Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Good lord,
help me, I've Got Birdhouse In Your Soul stuck in my head.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

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Ditto Brownstone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UtwGz50dWk

― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link

Living on My Own was everywhere then I didn't hear it for decades. Super nostalgic! Eat your lettuce!
― kinder

It's a good remix yes - produced by Serge Ramaekers who did a million things, including T-Spoon and New Beat pop stars The Confetti's.

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link

2 Brothers On The 4th Floor featuring Da Smooth Baron MC Can't Help Myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r3Oh48Rvys

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link

which was always paired in my memory with:

Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood I Can't Stand It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dm0yyint6k

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link

I heard this song at a local supermarket a few months back and was surprised to learn that not only did The Rembrandts have another hit prior to the theme to Friends, but that this one actually managed to chart a little bit higher.

Rembrandts - Just the Way it Is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6KfhOpq2n8

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link

quite a few of the recent postings are still regularly played on the radio in my area

― dyl, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 04:29 (three years ago) link

Smile - Staring at the Sun

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 04:52 (three years ago) link

I heard Martin Page's "House of Stone and Light" in Safeway a while back and I was sent. Stayed in the store until it finished.

― Sarah Jessica Parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 11:28 (three years ago) link

lol I remember that one

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link

it was a decent try at replicating the vibe of "In Your Eyes" - vaguely spiritual lyric, layered "ethnic" percussion, long vampy section with not-quite-comprehensible words, a bass player wearing a trenchcoat

― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link

Nikki French's 90s dancey cover of "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link

Here’s a relic
Kyper - Tic Tac Toe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kREQJCEfGIY

― Kim, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link

I think Martin Page's "In the House of Stone and Light" is the dave matthews band urtext. At 3:16 in the song (on Spotify anyway), he makes a sound I had heretofore believed could ONLY emanate from Dave Matthews. And he seems to have done it first.

― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link

he also had the lesser "hit" (or was it even a hit?) "Keeper of the Flame", which sounds like Sting taking a shit

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link

dave matthews does sound a bit like Sting taking a shit

― NFT of snare on "The King of Wishful Thinking" (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link

This day in music history

January 9, 1967: a young Gordon Sumner, on holiday with his family, visits South Africa and takes a shit in a Johannesburg railway station. The resultant log grows into David John Matthews.

1982: Sumner (now going by "Sting") writes a song whose early demo is titled "every dump you take."

1985: Matthews moves to Virginia and starts a band, named after himself.

1990: The two musicians pass one another, unknowingly, in the Charlotte, NC airport. But both get a strange frisson at the back of their necks in recognition of their shared connection.

Synchronicity.

― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 May 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link

Stinkronicity?

― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 21 May 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link

heh

BTW that album was originally supposed to be straight-ahead one-drop reggae, with the title being Skankronicity.

The label suits (all of whom were Carl Jung superfans) made them change it to Synchronicity.

like/follow for more fun facts

― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 May 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link

Ephraim Lewis - 'Drowning in Your Eyes'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEQp6KkmegU

― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

Nelson - After the Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmywdJby43w

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 7 August 2021 04:44 (two years ago) link

paperboy - ditty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VockXSe2c-g

― dyl, Saturday, 7 August 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link

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