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You know what sucks? The 90s confines of this thread means we're about four months out of including "Absolutely (The Story of a Girl)" by Nine Days

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

And coming from the dawn of AAA radio in '91, a hit from the late and wonderful Kirsty MacColl with special guest Johnny Marr and some of the worst rapping this side of Roll the Bones...

Kirsty MacColl - Walking Down Madison - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtYh3h6XLVk

― Navin R Johnson (navin), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

actually just having viewed the video for the first time in 15 years the rapping perhaps wasn't as bad as I remember...

― Navin R Johnson (navin), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Portishead - Sour Times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PDJAn31mBs&search=portishead

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

Meshell Ndegeocello w/ John Mellencamp, "Wild Night"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIQsJfM8WiI

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Peter Gabriel "Digging In The Dirt"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9A5D9k3SUo

― turkey (turkey), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 06:07 (seventeen years ago) link

The Ocean Blue

"Drifting Falling"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyQv6gKse40

"Between Something And Nothing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGQGIMnSeC0&mode=related&search=

"Ballerina Out Of Control"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5xW4KmJgYw&mode=related&search=

"Mercury"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8BP6nfpM5Q

"Sublime"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnEspyEpfLg

"Don't Believe Everything You Hear"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZFdeBbdgaQ

― turkey (turkey), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Crowded House

"It's Only Natural"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkbiMcpIk6g

"Fall At Your Feet"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82JZh3VyE2M

"Weather With You"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HbEYwWh2kc&mode=related&search=

"Four Seasons In One Day"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9sem05RHnM

"Locked Out"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq645z7qfp8

"Distant Sun"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1pyvnw9Sko

Here's a little bonus: a live cut of "Fall At Your Feet" recorded in Auckland for the Seven Worlds Collide performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L9sBj5r_Ho

― turkey (turkey), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Shawn Colvin:

"Sunny Came Home" (1st vid)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT2jRWkfSoY

"Sunny Came Home" (2nd vid)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IXOXrzFpu4

ODB stagecrashing her at the Grammies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy8zlq4y6cU

I'm saddened by the lack of "Get Out of This House" on youtube.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Video results for 'wild colonials spark'
No Videos found for 'wild colonials spark'

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

how does this thread exist without 4 Non Blondes?

What's Up

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The song that spawned a catchphrase, by The Murmurs

You Suck

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

The Refreshments-Down Together

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxniF0sF8c8

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Artificial Joy Club-Sick & Beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRTWHzQ3M4E

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Eagle-Eye Cherry terrorizes your romantic memories of dorm living

Save Tonight

Falling In Love Again

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

three letters ... R.E.M.

three words ... Shiny Happy People

and as a bonus - Radio Song

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Hootie-Let Her Cry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6sUZo6ecV0

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

More Hootie: Only Want To be With You (live @The MTV Awards in '95)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AgqUEMy8aI

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

because I love Anna Waronker more than Spike Jonze ...

that dog - Old Timer

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

first there were the Lightning Seeds, then the Magnetic Fields, it all inevitably led to:

White Town - Your Woman

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL @ "Radio Song"

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Candlebox - Far Behind

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 26 October 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

The Ocean Blue are head and shoulders above everything else in this thread

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 26 October 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Garbage:

Milk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfsQEpQyxvA

You Look So Fine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Quog_jaXU

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ACHTUNG BABY!

"The Fly"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAR1yphMJa4

"Mysterious Ways"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8o7s7GlB20

"One"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4JakHBpeU

and "One"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou0wEIOGTlk

and, uh, "One"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jag_CtwE-v8

"Even Better Than The Real Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auNBl2tTHRw

"Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lfWSpS5ij4

"Even Better Than The Real Thing" (STARRING PLASTIC JESUS!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOSCxjVoci8&=

― turkey (turkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

"We'll be singing...
when we're winning..."

CHUMBAWAMBA "Tubthumping"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfbneDm4miY

― turkey (turkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Beth Orton

"She Cries Your Name"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_6CEKvcdQo&

"Central Reservation"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJM93u_zi-4

― turkey (turkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

White Town "Undressed"
I had no idea this was even a single. Always loved the song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eojNszZM_M&

― turkey (turkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Everything But The Girl "Missing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEJVIDmmzGg

― turkey (turkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm obviously strung out on this shit.

Adam Ant "Wonderful"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6pzzMNZQQE

― turkey (turkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Adult Alternative TECHNO
Sneaker Pimps, "6 Underground"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnzMT0O5Kqo

next up: the Moby song that samples a woman singing gospel or blues

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 27 October 2006 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Pornos For Pyros "Pets"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2xA4xrry8

― turkey (turkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 06:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, last one and then I'll let this thread fade back into the archives.

More Adult Alternative TECHNO

Robert Miles "Children"

― turkey (turkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

U2-Numb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lbiS1fris

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Lou Reed-What's Good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH1cfuMBgG8

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Concrete Blonde:

Joey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwQFHTIiHgQ

Bloodletting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFMhexHGfBc&mode=related&search=

Everybody Knows (live on 120 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XY84hBVzVA&mode=related&search=

Ghost of A Texas Ladies Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9OY0SxLdYE&mode=related&search=

I never really thought about it before, but Evanescence owe pretty much everything to Johnette & Co.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit, this thread just reminded me of Scapegoat Wax's existence!

― lookin' in my mirror, not a Jagger in sight (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Ben Harper-Steal My Kisses (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeN23ioEhT8

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

XTC-Books Are Burning (live on TV)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCjvd_BwP0E

Sadly no sign of the Peter Pumpkinhead video (a take-off on JFK) other than a cover band's version.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Bare Naked Ladies - One Week

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5fGTzEuk6-8

311 - Come Original

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BceO0QAaYvA

Bush - Machinehead
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fft3IKabnCg

Counting Crowes- Mr. Jones
http://youtube.com/watch?v=47mOon9QzuQ

― Period period period (Period period period), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

More U2:

Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1mzAXQi_44

Discothèque

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVP1tkuV-EY

Staring At The Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co09R_l6hGA&mode=related&search=

Last Night On Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubbl_Hps94

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Saturday, 28 October 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Sundays-Summertime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcN5Vaqd9sg

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Saturday, 28 October 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Jayhawks-Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aP8Jao0b-0

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Saturday, 28 October 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Wilco-Can't Stand It (live on Later)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq3ekeAQ_pA

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Saturday, 28 October 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The Divinyls-I Touch Myself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg7yh4GqOn8

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

MUST. REVIVE because Transister - Look Who's Perfect Now has been uploaded. I don't anyone anywhere listened to this song between '98 and the upload last week.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 20 July 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link

A couple more things I cloudn't find earlier

Shawn Colvin-Get Out Of This House

XTC - The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead

― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 20 July 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Wow. This thread is some type of achievement!

― roxymuzak, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Dog's Eye View - Everything Falls Apart
, 1995

― roxymuzak, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Psychedelic Furs - Until She Comes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjJQVnpFLRE

Kitchens Of Distinctions - Quick As Rainbows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YONJ-yp8Xi0

I wanted Drive That Fast, but it isn't available at the moment.

― Display Name, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link

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