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
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"
― 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
Specifically the intro of Vertical Horizon's "Everything You Want"
I knew the chorus was in my head somewhere it's unlikely to ever leave, but I had a deeply Prousty moment when those first celluloid-flickery notes called to me from a restaurant patio.
― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 May 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
Peach Union (Or simply Peach as they were known in the UK) - On My Own
― MarkoP, Monday, 17 May 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
Another one I just remembered, from the same era as the Vertical Horizon song: Evan and Jaron, "Crazy For This Girl"
― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdll9uAGfoc
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
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, May 17, 2021 12:11 AM bookmarkflaglink
"Mean Machine" got radio play here too. which is why it was hilarious when "Fly" came out
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
totally agreed w/ this, altho that song didn't rly enter the stratosphere until 2000 (i certainly hadn't heard it until then)
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
it had a kind of a medium-rotation presence on both top 40 radio and mtv. certainly some folks who were otherwise relatively plugged in might have missed it
― dyl, Monday, 17 May 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
start of this thread is ridiculous, lots of very memorable hits.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 17 May 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
here is one for Britishers, this duo had FIVE top 20 hits in 97/98, this is the only one I can rememberhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2X2fnRuss
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 17 May 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
xp "Legend of a Cowgirl" chorus immediately tripped a switch in my 90s-top-40-listener brain, didn't remember the artist or any of the rapping bits though
― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 May 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNK-cOtxSs
― Maresn3st, Monday, 17 May 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
I just want to add to the "'Kiss The Rain'? I have never heard of this before OH THIS IS THAT SONG" reactions
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 17 May 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
ah the 90s, when everyone subscribed to the Linda Perry School of Constipated Singing
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 17 May 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
Stakka Bo was absolutely everywhere - I found it really irritating and I only listened to commercial radio and it was always onKiss the Rain was also everywhere.Never heard that Peach one yet it sounds exactly like if you mixed up half the stuff in the charts at that time.Alisha's Attic were also pretty big? Without googling, they also did Alisha Rules the World, er... and many many more (Indestructible! That's it. The Incidental things! In my mind these are categorised as Corrs songs...). They never pop up on those Remember the 90s shows though, so yeah I'm surprised if many people remember them.Just seen that they also covered 'Still Life' for that Childline album, which I'd never heard despite Suede + covers being my wheelhouse.
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
Since 'Legend of a Cowgirl' is being evoked itt today, this would be a good time to note that Imani Coppola has made a lot of really good music and a lot of really odd music (often simultaneously) in the intervening years.
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
Goodnight Moon by Shivaree is one that came into my head a couple of years ago. I'd forgotten all about that one. I feel like it was used on some TV show in the very early 2000s or something.
Also, they weren't quite hits but a friend reminded me of the singer Nut who put out a couple of great singles in 96/7. I hadn't thought about her in such a long time but somehow I knew her singles Brains and Crazy so well. She must have got a decent amount of radio play at the time. Probably some buzz on the ITV Chart Show!
― kitchen person, Monday, 17 May 2021 22:36 (three years ago) link
I put 'Scream' on the first mixtape for my now husband back in the day. I didn't even know she had other singles!
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:01 (three years ago) link
Goodnight Moon was in a Tarantino film iirc? It was on my ipod in the 2000s.
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VmcaSla.jpg
brought back so many memories, great post
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 17 May 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
xpost Looks like it was Kill Bill for Goodnight Moon. Just looking the song up, I'm shocked to see it only got to number 63. In my mind that was a top 10 single.
Nut ended up releasing an album that did nothing. Her three singles were all solid.
― kitchen person, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
Can't see what that video is :(
Yeke Yeke by Mory Kante popped up on my playlist the other day, that was nostalgic af if you went to terrible clubs in the mid 90s
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure I only knew Goodnight Moon because Mark & Lard played it on the Radio 1 breakfast show for like a week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z193UHZnhB4
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:27 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rW8dg7drXA
This and the last one were on all the time iirc, I don't particularly like them but they are very nostalgic
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:36 (three years ago) link
Another rain-themed one - Wendy Moten - Come In Out Of The Rain
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:42 (three years ago) link
Tina Arena - ChainsLutricia McNeal - Ain't That Just The Way
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:45 (three years ago) link
I feel like Gin Blossoms were sort of pretty popular in the 90's but I haven't heard them anywhere in the past 20 years.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
At least "follow you down" and "till I hear it from you" were successful singles iirc.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:15 (three years ago) link
Inbreds - Any Sense of Timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQNaA8LEAc
Trashcan Sinatras - Hayfeverhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYXRDAsL7o
― Kim, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:23 (three years ago) link
the trash can sinatras album that comes from is amazing
― brimstead, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
<i>I feel like Gin Blossoms were sort of pretty popular in the 90's but I haven't heard them anywhere in the past 20 years.</i>
You're just not in the right place. Still huge in drug and department stores.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:42 (three years ago) link
I remember that Inbreds song… didn’t they have some unique instrumentation setup? Just bass & drums
― Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah, just two guys.
― Kim, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:53 (three years ago) link
I'm definitely hearing proper electric guitar on some of the other songs on the album, but bass & drums seems to be the core of what they do.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
Rockell - In a Dream
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 04:07 (three years ago) link
^^^ there was some video meme (tiktok or perhaps even vine?) at some pt in the past several years w/ rockell "in a dream" as the music. warms my heart slightly
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, May 17, 2021 8:15 PM (three hours ago)
at least around where i live (and presumably elsewhere in the states) i would say "hey jealousy" may be their most enduring hit, even tho it was a lesser chart presence at the time of release
― dyl, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 06:54 (three years ago) link
if we're bringing up rockell we should definitely bring up this other great freestyle single from around that time that didn't quite cross all the way over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVipDwHE8Ho(jocelyn enriquez "do you miss me")
― dyl, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 07:00 (three years ago) link
Not much absolute trash Eurodance ITT so here is Anticapella - Move Your Body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXrk35khv_0
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 07:27 (three years ago) link
I was going to post Capella! U Got 2 Let the Music was part of a nutritious diet of Urban Cookie Collective, Culture Beat etc.
― kinder, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 08:07 (three years ago) link
I'm not a big fan of that Jon Secada tune, but it does give me very specific "coming home from karate class at 8pm on a Friday night c1992" vibes
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 09:55 (three years ago) link
Lucas With The Lid Off was probably a bit more prominent in the US and Aus than the UK, but I still get it stuck in my head fairly regularly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY5zaDZq0sc
Makes up an important part of the "Sunny D 98" canon: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xGgyNUisgkVLUj6C0vZqI?si=deb25eaf8511455c
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 10:00 (three years ago) link