I guess I could say that I came of age in the 1990's and the music of that decade is part of me. So I've decided to start a new feature here called "It Came From The Nineties" that will feature the songs I grew up with in the 90's including the good, the bad, the obscure, and the ugly. The main stipulation for all the tracks here are that they were (generally speaking) major or minor hits and they also wouldn't appear on my iPod in any other context. For example, I could certainly include a My Bloody Valentine song here, but because Loveless is on my iPod, you won't find anything. Not that I'm only including one hit wonders, but this could easily get out of hand. Rather than the soundtrack to my teenage years, these songs were like the wallpaper. Always there and infiltrating my ears, but never really necessarily my favorites. I've got something like 300 songs in mind, so this will be ongoing. Enjoy.
MP3 | 10'000 Maniacs - These Are Days
MP3 | Inspiral Carpets - This Is How It Feels
MP3 | Beck - Where Its At
MP3 | Weezer - Buddy Holly
MP3 | Adina Howard - Freak Like Me
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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inspiral carpets not on your ipod, shame, manchester legends, good tunes too, happily nestling on my ipod between the impossibles and interpol
A.J
I don't understand. Why spend time on "the wallpaper" of your life instead of talking about the songs that you really cared about?
Ok. I'll admit that part of the prompting to compile this list of songs is an ongoing discussion between me and a few of my coworkers about the top songs of the 1990's. We agreed that the songs needed to be know by more than just niche groups of people. For example, neither of them would know Jawbreaker, Fugazi, or Braid if they smacked 'em in the face. Hence the "wallpaper" comment. Ya dig?
Weezer aren't usually on my iPod, but 'Buddy Holly' is always great as an emergancy party anthem.
Damn...I think I could sing all of these songs right now. At least that isn't as embarrassing as one of my friends, who can rap "Ice, Ice Baby" in its entirety while pretty drunk.
anonymous- if you read "can you see the sunset" on a regular basis, you'd know that eric DOES talk about the bands/songs that he really cares about. for every nineties post up, there will be ten more of the music he really DOES love. i think it's great that he likes to change it up a bit and throw some random stuff in there that most of us have some sort of memory of, whether it was something we listened to or not. i don't think he'd be as respected as he is if he didn't talk about the "filler" music in his life as well.
that's just my two cents and i'm not hiding behind an anonymous comment either.
blogging mama-bear. rawr!
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