Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1995

oh you are in for a TREAT

lolll oh holy shit this really does touch all the bases doesn't it

I mean I think I made it clear upthread; my defense of Alanis itt pretty much ends at "You Oughta Know"

I will concede that she is, for me, behind a certain Rawlsian veil of teenagerdom where I can't ever sit down and be objective and say "All I Really Want is kind of not a very good song" because I know every word and just love singing along and always will.

I know we were not the only people to do something like this but my wife and I retitled "Ironic" to "A Bitch" to make the lyrics more accurate

'Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me'... which was probably the last time I heard a U2 that made me go: "hey, I usually loathe this band, but that wasn't too bad..."

The thing with "All I Really Want" is how it starts mysterioso and ominous before transforming into the sound of a baby gargoyle stuffed in a blender.

*track

Also, language experts, how, pray, did she come up with "and ah'm CONSUMED by the CHEEL of SOLitaree..."?

I know we were not the only people to do something like this but my wife and I retitled "Ironic" to "A Bitch" to make the lyrics more accurate

IRL lols

just watched the first 1:30 of the "Isn't It Ironic" video

erase the fucking 90s imo

Alanis: 'Why are you so petrified of silence... here, can you handle this?' *silence*

Me: "ah, relief".

Alanis: 'Did you think about your...'

Me: "ARGH! ARGHHHH!"

see I love the 90s because to me that means this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5yRipYVr7U

oh no I know, the 90s wasn't exactly hard times for good metal either, but to me Alanis:"the 90s"::Depeche Mode:"the 80s"

when i think about the 90s, i think about adina howard

actually i just think about adina howard all the time

("yo pardon, that bitch been on my mind all week", as ghostface said of her)

don't it make you sad to know that life
is more than who we are

I'm ironic, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm etc

(Just seein if it worked the other way around)

when i think about the 90s, i think about adina howard

"Freak Like Me" was my #2 that year, behind "Be Happy."

one of the guys that produced "Freak Like Me" is from Baltimore! i saw the platinum plaque in his basement studio

when i think about the 90s, i think about paying five bucks to see pavement play at the bar across the street from the record store where i worked.

lots of these Alanis songs actually have pretty nice backing tracks...

when i think about the 90's i think about my little blue fm radio tuning in to richard marx and bryan adams on 99.5 WGAY

okay come on now, no way was that the station's call sign

totally was!

AND it was soft rock

/ easy listening

WGAY AM 1050 and FM 99.5: radio stations in Silver Spring, Maryland that later became WFED and WIHT, respectively

this is still my favorite radio station of all time:

http://www.ontheradio.net/KLIT

they pronounced it "K-lite"

just watched the first 1:30 of the "Isn't It Ironic" video
erase the fucking 90s imo
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:52 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

there are embarrassing things from every decade so maybe we should just erase all of human history

Fucking love "J.A.R.". I'm looking forward to this period when my blog project gets up to '95.

lol mine just got to '96: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2012/05/1996-reconsidered.html

http://thealternativetowhat.wordpress.com/

Mine is a little more focused, tracking all of the songs on the Billboard Modern Rock Top 10 between January of 1990 and December of 1999. Just getting started though.

Which is everybody's favorite Alanis from the Ironic video? I think I'd rank mine:

2nd crazy Alanis (you are an extrovert and a little wild, probably very fun on a road trip)
Raver Alanis (you have braids and maybe...drugs?)
Ski Hat Alanis (you have a sweet hoopty, I guess)
1st crazy Alanis (you were an extra in Jacob's Ladder)

Mine is a little more focused, tracking all of the songs on the Billboard Modern Rock Top 10 between January of 1990 and December of 1999. Just getting started though.

nice! Your "House" entry is terrific, btw.

Thanks! I really enjoyed putting that one together.

You may be on to something re its forebear status.

Man, I dont think I will ever not love the video fro "No Myth"

but 6/10 for "Roam"? ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UG9PQDth28

"Hand in my Pocket" still resonates a little bit. I'm an Ottawa kid, so Alanis was unavoidable in 1995.

Remember when she made the front page of the Citizen for wearing dark makeup?

Singing this at karaoke once got me laid, although according to the girl my dancing had more to do with it but I still have a soft spot for the song.

A little off-topic, but this and your mention of Liz Phair remind me of the time I got my ass grabbed after karaoke-ing "Fuck And Run". Which I was really excited to see on the playlist, but whose lyrics I didn't really think about until I'd already started my performance. And although I'm not gay, you probably would've had a hard time convincing that particular barful of gay men of that fact after I'd just spent four minutes singing about wanting a boyfriend. But no one can question my commitment to the performance when it's showtime.

If this doesn't explain the levels of vitriol for the Alanis song then I don't know what will:

I thought about making a youtube poop for 'You Oughta Know' where I'd repeat the you you you you you you you to emphasize the broken record effect that Alanis excels at. I'd probably play about 30 seconds of that. Then I would take the OUGHTA KNOwOHngh! and repeat that a few times so that you can hear the powerful, heartfelt release of EMO desperation that really kills any kind of mood that the listener might have.

Have you ever heard that noise of someone about to cry? - that ungh-ungh-ungh sound. The you-you-you in all of its EMOness sort of reminds me of that.

OK, I'm done

rip rev 105

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

oh the humanity

sucks

only one of these songs mentions a placenta iirc

You oughta be ashamed.