This one's for Alfred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZ3QV_IJXc
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
on your knees, boy
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ
― Josefa, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
I'm down with post-'80s freestyle too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox85dGD79K0
― Josefa, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
crystal waters/gypsy woman/lock thread
― mookieproof, Saturday, December 1, 2018
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
Every banger should include 'she's homeless' somewhere in the chorus.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
this song feels like achtung baby without sounding like achtung baby if that makes sensehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNTWeLUB5OI
thanks to tim f for putting me onto it years n years ago
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
im probably also being influenced by the post soviet euro vibe of the video but whats more achtung baby than a reliance on visuals
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
INXS tried out the Achtung Baby thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuBZRBMOYqM
― omar little, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
Albums: Use Your Illusion.
Song: Two Princes.
― Mule, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
Upon reflection Two Princes wasn’t released as a single until early ‘93, although the album was out in ‘91, so it arguably misses the mark
― Mule, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
Presto-Roll The Bones Rush
Yes, also Journeyman-era Clapton, Manic Nirvana-era Robert Plant, Pump-era Aerosmith. I remember all these as huge on mainstream rock/AOR radio.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?sns=&v=F-nyeiKk35M
― omar little, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
― Mule, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:06 (thirty-two minutes ago) link
This feels off to me ... I def remember two princes as like a eight or nine year old kid which would have been before 93... no way that song hadn’t hit the world before that
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
I was 9-13 from 88-92 and rock radio playlists from that time are permanently etched into a lobe. An interesting period around 1990-1991 when even I could tell hair metal had largely run its course. Radio stations were messing around with a mix of mellowed-out warhorses, rootsier bands like the Black Crowes and art-metal stuff like FNM/King's X and whatever Queensryche was; the first radio singles of Alice in Chains and Soundgarden (pushed as kind of a return to Black Sabbath iirc). xps
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
"Two Princes" video released Feb 92, apparently
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
Ah, that makes more sense. Let’s count it in then.
― Mule, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
Transition from Metallica's "One" (the video for which was announced as a major event for days leading up to its release on MuchMusic) to the monster that was the black album seems key.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
Hell yeah, D-40!!! K-Klass “Let Me Show You” felt like the best song ever to me at the time. (Achtung Baby was not involved)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 12 December 2019 06:16 (four years ago) link
Twin Peaks soundtrack, Chris Isaak, Divinyls, Mazzy Star
― beard papa, Thursday, 12 December 2019 07:34 (four years ago) link
sorry.. was a little drunk and felt compelled to belch that post out while on a train.
― beard papa, Thursday, 12 December 2019 08:41 (four years ago) link
Here's my 1991 list, peak PBI.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 December 2019 11:22 (four years ago) link
1991-1992 was notable for a brief spasm of post-Native Tongues alternative hip-hop that got played on the local alternative rock station. It was in and out in a little over a year, culminating in Digable Planets and Arrested Development with Cantaloup by Us3 following in 1993, after which I think the station ceased playing rap, other than maybe Beck. See also, PM Dawn from Alfred's list.
MC 900 Foot Jesushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KB54p8_wh8
Basehead - 2000 BChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxWzzGpmBEA
Rise Robots Rise - All Sewn Uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecs5IQfdahw
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky4uYnsF3kc
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 12 December 2019 11:59 (four years ago) link
I will second "Winds of Change" as an iconic PBI song, especially given its overt political nature.
It was released as the album's third single in January 1991 and became a worldwide hit, just after the failed coup that would eventually lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The song topped the charts in Germany and across Europe and peaked at number four in the United States on August 31, 1991 and number two in the United Kingdom.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Thursday, 12 December 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
It would be a shame if we overlooked PBI-era songs containing actual Poppy Bush samples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imqvLToWH7k
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
"Language of Violence" was the Hiphoprisy single that really stuck with me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J_qadIwM60
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Thursday, 12 December 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
The actual Native Tongues groups were a huuuuge deal at my high school, probably more than any other music.
Also, I somehow got sent on a field trip to see PM Dawn around that time.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 12 December 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
More transitional rock stuff, that I was hearing on MuchMusic only:
Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up! SuckerWarrior Soul - Losers
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Thursday, 12 December 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
We didn't have a commercial alternative station until the mid-90s so I remember that the campus stations would sometimes play relatively popular singles (not that I knew anyone who listened to them) by e.g. Cure or Morrissey or NIN during general music programs, in between shows devoted to music in Hindi or discussions of eco-feminism or John Cage tributes. Within a few years, DJs would have probably thought it ludicrous for someone to request those things.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Thursday, 12 December 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
I somehow got sent on a field trip to see PM Dawn around that time.
we took an 8th grade class trip in 1990 to see laser Depeche Mode
― unobtrusive ambient poll participant, Thursday, 12 December 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
For your reference and edification, I present a complete list of SNL musical guests from Bush I's term of office:
Anita BakerJohn HiattLuther VandrossCowboy JunkiesGipsy KingsElvis Costello (x2)Living ColourDolly PartonJohn Cougar MellencampFine Young CannibalsTom Petty & the Heartbreakers (x2)Neil Young (x2)Rickie Lee JonesBilly JoelDon HenleyEurythmicsDavid Byrnek.d. langLinda Ronstadt/Aaron NevilleTracy ChapmanHarry Connick, Jr.Bonnie Raitt (x2)Tevin Campbell/Kool Moe Dee/Big Daddy KaneAerosmithTechnotronicThe PoguesEric ClaptonThe SmithereensThe B-52'sJulee Cruise/Spanic BoysThe Notting HillbilliesSinéad O'Connor (x2)Hothouse FlowersMorris Day & The TimeMariah Carey (x2)World PartyPaul SimonFaith No MoreEdie Brickell & New BohemiansThe Neville BrothersVanilla IceStingINXSDeee-LiteWhitney HoustonThe Black Crowes (x2)FishboneR.E.M.Michael BoltonChris IsaakPublic EnemyColor Me BaddSkid RowTin MachineMC HammerJames TaylorNirvanaRobbie Robertson/Bruce Hornsby & the RangeC&C Music FactoryTeenage FanclubRed Hot Chili PeppersGarth BrooksEn VoguePearl JamAnnie LennoxBruce SpringsteenVanessa WilliamsBobby BrownThe Spin DoctorsArrested Development10,000 ManiacsMorrisseySadeBon JoviMadonna
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
Lol, what schools did you go to? We did go to see Phantom of the Opera. xp
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Thursday, 12 December 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
"Language of Violence" was the Hiphoprisy single that really stuck with me.
Yeah, I was a fan of the whole album, but didn't even know that Language of Violence was a single!
And Winds of Change is definitely one of those songs that I heard a million times back then and I think about all the time, but never hear on the radio or anything.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 12 December 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
I feel like there had to have been 'can you even believe this mindblowing era we're living through?' songs from more than just Jesus Jones and the Scorpions released back then but I'm drawing a blank rn.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
Rush had one, but it sucks
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 12 December 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
We Didn't Start the Fire is kinda of that ilk.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it's kinda in the ballpark, but then it's also kinda just a recitation of a history text without any coherent aim.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
There was also this type of thing, kind of metaphorically optimistic somewhat 1960s conscious vibe that somehow also felt new
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zg-MhEXb4c
― Josefa, Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
that SNL is amazing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
xxp: yeha, it was more accidentally relevant
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
yeah
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
1991-1992 was notable for a brief spasm of post-Native Tongues alternative hip-hop that got played on the local alternative rock station. It was in and out in a little over a year, culminating in Digable Planets and Arrested Development with Cantaloup by Us3 following in 1993, after which I think the station ceased playing rap, other than maybe Beck
This stuff dovetailed and blended with the acid jazz scene, but then I've seldom heard the term acid jazz spoken since around '96 (maybe it's different in UK)
― Josefa, Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM (seventeen minutes ago)
What's incoherent about trying to dodge an arson charge?
― rob, Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
It's called 'protesting just a little too much', Billy. I mean you reek of gasoline.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
(Now I'm imagining his attorney plaintively intoning the verses from the song in his closing statement to the jury, and it's a funny thing to imagine.)
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
I tried defining it.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:58 (two weeks ago) link