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

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Tamsin Archer - Sleeping Satellite.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link

Anyone from NYC know the building in which Dog's Eye View are playing in that video? Don't recognize the song at all but the whole thing was filmed right in my neighborhood at the time. That room is the only thing I can't place though the view indicates it's the same location.

early rejecter, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link

QUICHE LORRAINE

― kinder, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:29 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh my fucking god thank you so much for this! how did I never hear this???

Jennifer 8. ( (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link

i guess it wasn't getting through to you

kinder, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link

Drinking In LA is such a weird song. And by song I mean layers of radio chatter and a trickily-worded chorus. Still great.

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link

If by great you mean shit.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link

But what exactly is Todd's favorite cheese?

MarkoP, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link

five months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onjaC3A2xjk

hackshaw, Saturday, 13 June 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link

My favorite forgotten 90s hit:

Whale - Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe

I was weirdly fascinated with this for about 18 months. The video was in heavy rotation on MTV Europe in early 1994, and stood out mightily next to the rest of the playlist (Dylan's "Blood In My Eye" was also big on MTV Europe for some reason).

Later, couldn't find any Whale records in the US until We Care came out (which was shockingly good, and Xgau loved it, iirc). Saw them live in 1998 opening for Tricky, who they blew off the stage.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 13 June 2015 02:48 (nine years ago) link

God Lives Underwater - "From Your Mouth"

Nobody ever knows anything. (sleepingbag), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link

Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall In Love. This late 80's/early 90's production I used to abhor is now all I want to listen to. Gated drums and Saved By The Bell synths....mmmmmmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWd__w5UWVc

Cousin Slappy, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 01:50 (nine years ago) link

i bought that school of fish cd for a dollar in a thrift store in saugerties ny last week

adam, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link

ugh smh yall
these foolish threads are tearrrrring me apart like a dee-stroyed sweater :'/

Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link

Del Amitri--Roll To Me

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link

Forest For the Trees - Dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVMdGL0kno

Nobody ever knows anything. (sleepingbag), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link

In HS I got on air requesting this on z100

My favorite forgotten 90s hit:
Whale - Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link

I guess this wasn't a hit hit but it was on 120. Young Vitamin C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHGhYqAgwh4

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link

I miss the 90s but luckily all the young ppl are reliving it through fashion so I can just put on my headphones and pretend.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link

I look at this thread and I feel like the answer should actually be "Steal My Sunshine," but I don't know why I feel that so strongly.

Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link

That's seriously one of the greatest songs ever and probably in my top 10 and not at all in an ironic way.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link

yeah, round these parts NOBODY forgot "Steal My Sunshine"

I *did* forget "Dream", and I'm glad sleepingbag reminded me, because holy lol trip-hop crossover hits

Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link

Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are
Gin Blossoms - Allison Road
Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous

Possibly Merril Bainbridge's Mouth, I'm not sure how forgotten that one is at this point.

MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link

Holy shit, I was literally about to post the Geggy Tah and Merril Bainbridge songs. Nice work, MarkoP.

J. Sam, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link

Heard "Allison Road" recently and even posted about it here

Taking Sides: Gin Blossoms vs. Toad The Wet Sprocket

Ye Mad Puffin, Thursday, 18 June 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link

Salt - Bluster

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

los blue jeans, Thursday, 18 June 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link

Gerardo "Rico Suave"

Nearly every time I get a ticket at work and have to work on a Ricoh printer I hear that goofy chorus line to this song in my head.

"Hey Man, Nice Shot" by Filter is one that comes to mind for me on this list.

earlnash, Thursday, 18 June 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1jSrSz4wd4

Dandelion - Weird-Out

los blue jeans, Thursday, 18 June 2015 00:49 (nine years ago) link

Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are

This one is the one I was going to post.

Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 June 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link

who rememberts this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n26hAOmkmFE

WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 22 June 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link

*slowly raises hand*

Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Monday, 22 June 2015 02:41 (nine years ago) link

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

J. Sam, Monday, 22 June 2015 03:55 (nine years ago) link

Swirl 360 - Hey Now Now

MarkoP, Monday, 22 June 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link

London Beat - I've been thinking about you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixBryyQSrD8

kinder, Friday, 3 July 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link

five years pass...

Billie Myers - "Kiss The Rain"

― Jennifer 8. ( (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:01 AM bookmarkflaglink

Holy smokes, I had memory holed this song so hard that I didn't even recognize the artist or title when my friend posted it on facebook just now. Immediately upon hearing the first "hello...(hello)..." the whole of 1997 entered my body like a demonic possession.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 May 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link

The other day the song "Mean Machine" by Sugar Ray popped into my head, and I was like, "Why do I remember this song so well? This was never really hit"

MarkoP, Sunday, 16 May 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link

recently heard Smoke City - Underwater Love again, that seems to have been completely forgotten.

Siegbran, Sunday, 16 May 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link

Out of nowhere recently, I remembered the existence of "Sucked Out" by Superdrag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQmChykuZ9w

Though relistening to it, I realize I completely misremembered how the pre-chorus went

Vinnie, Monday, 17 May 2021 02:50 (three years ago) link

every time I hear "Sunshine Superman" I think of "Legend of a Cowgirl". how big a hit was that really? feel like it was on the radio all the time but my friends don't remember it

frogbs, Monday, 17 May 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link

I remember seeing Imani Coppola's name, but I can't say I've ever heard this song before.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 May 2021 02:54 (three years ago) link

Knowing that Fever's in my age range, I stuck Billie Myers Kiss the Rain into a YouTube search, despite really not recognizing the artist or song title...

... and holy smokes! had the same exact reaction.

pplains, Monday, 17 May 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link

I did too, but drew a blank.

Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Monday, 17 May 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link

What is that Alanis Morrisette/edward g. robinson singing style called anway.

pplains, Monday, 17 May 2021 03:01 (three years ago) link

Trying to figure out *why* I'm so deeply familiar with "Kiss The Rain," despite completely forgetting its existence. I was pretty far removed from listening to commercial radio around that time, so it must have been in regular rotation at grocery stores or malls or something.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 May 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link

What is that Alanis Morrisette/edward g. robinson singing style called anway.

No idea—did anyone ever name it?—but as ubiquitous as it was for several years, I never hated it as much as I hate the last decade's marble-mouthed thousandth generation Billie Holiday impressions.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 May 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link

xpost Same, and I think it was (feel like I remember hearing it piped through the halls of the student union) because I'm intimately familiar with it despite largely avoiding the radio back then.

Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 May 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link

The other day the song "Mean Machine" by Sugar Ray popped into my head, and I was like, "Why do I remember this song so well? This was never really hit"


It wasn't a Billboard hit but it got a lot of alternative radio play. In my neck of the woods, anyway.

Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 May 2021 04:11 (three years ago) link

Cibo Matto’s Viva la woman turned 25 today.

Love that one

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 17 May 2021 05:04 (three years ago) link

Fastball the way

Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Monday, 17 May 2021 06:27 (three years ago) link


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