Show me a 90's hit that is somewhere in my head but I just don't know it.

lol I remember that one

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

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

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

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.

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

dave matthews does sound a bit like Sting taking a shit

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.

Stinkronicity?

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.

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Ephraim Lewis - 'Drowning in Your Eyes'

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

Nelson - After the Rain

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

paperboy - ditty

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