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

(sorry)

-- Mike O. (mikeohh...), April 6th, 2005."

WHY?!

xxx-post

This is from the 80s, isn't it?

Hello Cruel World - E
Lay it Down - Magnapop
Going South - Wolfgang Press

Speaking of Dionne Farris disappearing, isn't it about time for another D'Angelo album?

Oh ZING you FUCKER.

Polaris or Polara or something like that.

Dionne Farris - I Know
Gabrielle - Dreams
Des'ree - You Gotta Be

Which also brings to mind Me'Shell NdegéOcello - If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night).

Dreams can come true
Look at me babe I'm with you
You know you gotta have hope
You know you gotta be strong

(Well, I must have heard it in Magnolia, but didn't remember it at all.)

esp if you watched Beavis & Butt-head..

-- A / F#m / Bm / D (pau...), April 6th, 2005.

Tracy Bonham - "Mother Mother"

And I don't recognize the Gabrielle song either. I dimly remember hearing her name, but I must not have been listening to pop radio or watching MTv when it came out.

Under a rock, obviously.

Also, totally time for another D'Angelo tour...I've heard nothing but stellar reviews from his Voodoo tour.

"New Age Girl", Deadeye Dick. Funny, this was going through my head shortly before bed a few nights ago. And I couldn't for the life of me figure out why, 'cause I haven't heard it since it was a hit.

xpost: Gabrielle's "Dreams" owns.

what is this thread for exactly? aren't there many "forgotten hits" threads like this floating around? maybe seahorse has something specific in mind?

John Mellencamp - Wild Night (on that NdegéOcello tip)
Robert Palmer - Mercy Mercy Me
Elton John - The Last Song
Bryan Adams - The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You (shudder)

Whoever did that song "Mr. Personality"...and then some other alternative radio staple that sounded very dated at the time (it sounded like something they'd play for the intro of E!'s Talk Soup or something...very 80's, sounding a bit like Momus' "I Was a Maoist Intellectual" at higher BPM) and I think it repeated something like "ex-junkie born again didn't have a clue" a hundred times over.

Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever

― gspm (gspm), Wednesday, April 6, 2005 6:57 PM (9 years ago)

I've rekindled a long term relationship with this one today.

Title of this thread is basically why I listened to all the NOWs of the 90s a while back. Got some real forgotten gems on there. And by 'gems' I mean songs that were awful but somehow I can identify it within 3 seconds and know every word.

Sophie B. Hawkins - "As I Lay Me Down"

Shawn Mullins - "Lullaby"

Jennifer Paige - Crush

It is TOTALLY time for another D'Angelo album. Been about 7 years since the last one, so he's due.

Also, totally time for another D'Angelo tour...I've heard nothing but stellar reviews from his Voodoo tour.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, April 6, 2005 2:09 PM (9 years ago)

Heheheh

A while ago I was at the supermarket and I heard a song that I consider a candidate for the most generic 90's one hit wonder possible, at least in terms of North American hits. A song that I definitely recognized, but was completely unable to place the identity of the band and had to Shazam it, and still didn't recognize the band name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maz6jFdvn2Q

Liquido - Narcotic

Robert Miles - Children

Poe - Hello

Babylon Zoo - Spaceman

Jimmy Ray - Are You Jimmy Ray?

Chumbawamba - Amnesia

James - I Know What I'm Here For

Lightning Seeds - You Showed Me

Sneaker Pimps - 6 underground

Jann Arden - Insensitive

Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze

(I thought this was pretty popular but whenever it appears on my bar's playlist people ask me what song it is)

Phew.... well and I don't know. I have all this laying around on a 90's playlist and they were all on the billboard top 10 but I very rarely hear them anymore out there:

Texas - Say What You Want
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks
Butthole Surfers - Pepper
James - She's A Star
Masterboy - Land Of Dreaming
Queen - Heaven For Everyone
Passengers - Miss Sarajevo
Edwyn Collins - Girl Like You
Bon Jovi - Something for the Pain
Shaggy - In the Summertime
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A.
All Saints - Never Ever
Blur - Country House
Cardigans - Carnival
Lighthouse Family - High
Yossou N Dour - 7 seconds
Wes Madiko - Alane
Dario G - Sunchyme
Cure - Mint Car
Roxette - Wish I Could Fly
Everything But The Girl - Wrong
George Michael - Fastlove
Bryan Adams - The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You
Paul McCartney - Young Boy
U2 - Staring At The Sun
Jon Bon Jovi - Midnight In Chelsea
Janet Jackson - Got til its gone
INXS - Everything
Duran Duran - Out Of My Mind
Monaco - What do you want from me?

I guess it depends where you live in. I don't know if any of these are still played in your country home. Maybe they were never popular in your country in the first place. I know 'Drinking in LA' was pretty big everywhere except the US, per example.

K, hopefully you'll find something in there that you had forgotten about. I have a massive 90's list on my computer, these are a few that I remembered. There's probably more. Some of them are awful I know.

Oh ok, just realized that the original post is 9 years old, so it's probably useless by now.

Almost tempted to turn this thread into a Spotify playlist but it would feel like a skid mark next to my other lists that have music I actually love to listen to, not just for reminiscing.

Anybody out there braver than me?

There's also the Bryan Adams song he had with Melanie C... baby when you're gone? is that it?

Eve 6 - Leech

Citizen King - Better Days

Jade - "Don't Walk Away"

Huh? I thought this one was pretty popular but Spotify plays tell me otherwise:

Moloko - Fun For Me

Lit - My Own Worst Enemy

Also these apparently:

Collective Soul - Why pt. 2

and to lesser extent, their biggest hit:

Collective Soul - Shine

Tonic - You Wanted More

Lit - My Own Worst Enemy

― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans)

this one is still pretty popular... 9M plays in Spotify. I'm taking as 'not so popular anymore' songs arounds 1M plays.

or less.

Lit had another song, though. Pamela Anderson on the video I think. That one has been years since I last heard it.

Crazy Town - Revolving Door

New Found Glory - Hit or Miss (was this 99 or 00?)

Hum - Stars

Save Ferris - Come on Eileen

Ok, that's it. I'll stop now the invasion on this thread! Hahaha sorry.

the pam anderson one was the first one I looked up but I had no memory of it. Thanks, I didn't think to check spotify plays for a popularity gauge

The Firm "Phone Tap"
SWV "Right Here Human Nature"
Real McCoy "Another Night"
Tom Petty "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
Bizarre Inc "I'm Gonna Get You"
Keith Sweat "Nobody"

or ya know there's always this thing
Ladies and Gentlemen...The 40 Most OMGWTFLOL(ROFFLE) Songs Of The 90s.

a while ago i started putting together a playlist of uk streetsoul non-hits from the early 90s. i never got to finish the job, so this is a rough draft of sorts.

McKoy - Family
Maxeen - Last Time
Opaz - When We're Makin Love
Mica Paris - I Should've Known Better
Tammy Payne - Free
Maureen - Thinking of You
Chanelle - One Man
Trichelle - Let's Make It Gentle
Naisha - One Step At a Time
Julianne - Keep It Comin
Melissa Bell - If It's Love
Mary Rose - Love & Devotion
Sarah Winton - Tell Me How
Marie Krystal - Everlasting Love
The Bygraves - Set Me Free
Nu Colours - Unlimited
Jhelisa - Baby God
Wayne Marshall - Slow Grind (Rare Groove Remix)
Secret Society - Soul Trader
The Sindecut - Tell Me Why

Jimmy Ray - Are You Jimmy Ray?

― Moka, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 12:52 AM (1 hour ago)

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo, I HATE YOU. NOW IT IS IN MY HEAD.

Black Lab "Wash It Away"
Rolling Stones "Anybody Seen My Baby"
The Flys "Got You Where I Want You"
Days of the New "Shelf In The Room"
Oleander "Why I'm Here"
Rush "Stick It Out"
Toad The Wet Sprocket "Fall Down"

Yeah, what was that Jimmy Ray thing for? An 'introducing' record then no follow up?

A bit like 'Return of the mac' where we didn't know he'd been here before.

I guess this is the Pick a band that is known for a few well known hits and then pick one of the others.

Yesterday was doing some 'list my cd collection for putting on discogs' and found "Room on the 3rd floor" McFly.

So, that one.

Not nineties, but hey.

Ok, "Dark Therapy" Echobelly, one of the others I found.

Billie Myers - "Kiss The Rain"

QUICHE LORRAINE

My favorite forgotten 90s hit:

Whale - Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe

Tamsin Archer - Sleeping Satellite.

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.

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???

i guess it wasn't getting through to you

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

If by great you mean shit.

But what exactly is Todd's favorite cheese?

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

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.

God Lives Underwater - "From Your Mouth"

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

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

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

Del Amitri--Roll To Me

one of my favourite songs is that song that goes ♫it's the rhythm of the niight♫

Forest For the Trees - Dream

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

In HS I got on air requesting this on z100

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Taking Sides: Gin Blossoms vs. Toad The Wet Sprocket

Salt - Bluster

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

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.

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

Dandelion - Weird-Out

fyi: 50 Memorable Songs Of The Late 1990s That Apparently Only You Remember, Even Though They Were Totally On The Radio And Stuff

Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are

This one is the one I was going to post.

who rememberts this

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

*slowly raises hand*

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

Swirl 360 - Hey Now Now

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

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.

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"

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

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

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

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

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.

I did too, but drew a blank.

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

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.

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.

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.

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"

Cibo Matto’s Viva la woman turned 25 today.

Love that one

Fastball the way

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.

Peach Union (Or simply Peach as they were known in the UK) - On My Own

Another one I just remembered, from the same era as the Vertical Horizon song: Evan and Jaron, "Crazy For This Girl"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdll9uAGfoc

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

Specifically the intro of Vertical Horizon's "Everything You Want"

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

start of this thread is ridiculous, lots of very memorable hits.

here is one for Britishers, this duo had FIVE top 20 hits in 97/98, this is the only one I can remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2X2fnRuss

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNK-cOtxSs

I just want to add to the "'Kiss The Rain'? I have never heard of this before OH THIS IS THAT SONG" reactions

ah the 90s, when everyone subscribed to the Linda Perry School of Constipated Singing

Stakka Bo was absolutely everywhere - I found it really irritating and I only listened to commercial radio and it was always on
Kiss 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.

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.

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!

I put 'Scream' on the first mixtape for my now husband back in the day. I didn't even know she had other singles!

Goodnight Moon was in a Tarantino film iirc? It was on my ipod in the 2000s.

https://i.imgur.com/VmcaSla.jpg

brought back so many memories, great post

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.

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

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

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

Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby

Another rain-themed one - Wendy Moten - Come In Out Of The Rain

Tina Arena - Chains
Lutricia McNeal - Ain't That Just The Way

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.

At least "follow you down" and "till I hear it from you" were successful singles iirc.

Inbreds - Any Sense of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQNaA8LEAc

Trashcan Sinatras - Hayfever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYXRDAsL7o

the trash can sinatras album that comes from is amazing

<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.

I remember that Inbreds song… didn’t they have some unique instrumentation setup? Just bass & drums

Yeah, just two guys.

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.

Rockell - In a Dream

^^^ 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

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.

At least "follow you down" and "till I hear it from you" were successful singles iirc.

― ✖✖✖ (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

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")

Not much absolute trash Eurodance ITT so here is Anticapella - Move Your Body

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXrk35khv_0

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.

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

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

This was huge at the time. A super-catchy posthumous Eurodance remix of a 1985 Freddie Mercury solo song, 'Living On My Own'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTdd8QxifbY

Amanda Marshall - 'Birmingham'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzMcCNAmp4

Boy Krazy - 'That's What Love Can Do'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlRnnd9xeMI

Captain Hollywood Project - 'More and More'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-rS174AUT0

Darden Smith - 'Loving Arms'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHj7Y-feyK8

Exposé - 'In Walked Love'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00OMUFSbjb0

For Squirrels - 'Mighty K.C.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBbl3RpgNN4

Go West - 'Faithful'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0oAyDMHOjg

The Heights - 'How Do You Talk to an Angel'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csATriX8Ed0

Imperial Drag - 'Boy or a Girl'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kuk9hnp234

Jeremy Jordan - 'The Right Kind of Love'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV05oji5doc

K7 - 'Come Baby Come'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8CUfVtrAT8

Little Texas - 'What Might Have Been'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEE3ycDH9_8

Martin Page - 'In the House of Stone and Light'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEE3ycDH9_8

Nixons - 'Sister'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wEok7dFgBs

Oleta Adams - 'Get Here'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS-INaPNJw

Patty Smyth (w/Don Henley) - 'Well, Yeah' 'Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdzbjUWu2VU

Quicksand - 'Dine Alone'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egzF66hDkFs

Restless Heart - 'When She Cries'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSN4ybN0jzg

Shai - 'If I Ever Fall in Love'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caNRc1ER8p4

Tara Kemp - 'Hold You Tight'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZ3QV_IJXc

UB40 - 'Can't Help Falling in Love'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajp0Uaw4rqo

Vince Neil - 'Sister of Pain'

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

Wynona Judd - 'No One Else on Earth'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl0pdZozVd0

Xscape - 'Just Kickin' It'

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

Yo-Yo (w/Ice Cube) - 'You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ-UEn11aDs

Zhané - 'Groove Thang'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVszYWFdvc

Wasn't sure I'd be able to make it through the entire alphabet. But you're welcome.

Living on My Own was everywhere then I didn't hear it for decades. Super nostalgic! Eat your lettuce!

Jellyfish - New Mistake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIcgEsjYs14

There never was a lot of love for these guys, but this video was a high point
Moist - Underground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNyCiWislk4

I never see people talk about 702 anymore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lO5eGEnyRA

Ditto Brownstone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UtwGz50dWk

Living on My Own was everywhere then I didn't hear it for decades. Super nostalgic! Eat your lettuce!

― kinder

It's a good remix yes - produced by Serge Ramaekers who did a million things, including T-Spoon and New Beat pop stars The Confetti's.

2 Brothers On The 4th Floor featuring Da Smooth Baron MC Can't Help Myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r3Oh48Rvys

which was always paired in my memory with:

Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood I Can't Stand It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dm0yyint6k

I heard this song at a local supermarket a few months back and was surprised to learn that not only did The Rembrandts have another hit prior to the theme to Friends, but that this one actually managed to chart a little bit higher.

Rembrandts - Just the Way it Is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6KfhOpq2n8

quite a few of the recent postings are still regularly played on the radio in my area

Smile - Staring at the Sun

I heard Martin Page's "House of Stone and Light" in Safeway a while back and I was sent. Stayed in the store until it finished.

lol I remember that one

it was a decent try at replicating the vibe of "In Your Eyes" - vaguely spiritual lyric, layered "ethnic" percussion, long vampy section with not-quite-comprehensible words, a bass player wearing a trenchcoat

Nikki French's 90s dancey cover of "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

Here’s a relic
Kyper - Tic Tac Toe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kREQJCEfGIY

I think Martin Page's "In the House of Stone and Light" is the dave matthews band urtext. At 3:16 in the song (on Spotify anyway), he makes a sound I had heretofore believed could ONLY emanate from Dave Matthews. And he seems to have done it first.

he also had the lesser "hit" (or was it even a hit?) "Keeper of the Flame", which sounds like Sting taking a shit

dave matthews does sound a bit like Sting taking a shit

This day in music history

January 9, 1967: a young Gordon Sumner, on holiday with his family, visits South Africa and takes a shit in a Johannesburg railway station. The resultant log grows into David John Matthews.

1982: Sumner (now going by "Sting") writes a song whose early demo is titled "every dump you take."

1985: Matthews moves to Virginia and starts a band, named after himself.

1990: The two musicians pass one another, unknowingly, in the Charlotte, NC airport. But both get a strange frisson at the back of their necks in recognition of their shared connection.

Synchronicity.

Stinkronicity?

heh

BTW that album was originally supposed to be straight-ahead one-drop reggae, with the title being Skankronicity.

The label suits (all of whom were Carl Jung superfans) made them change it to Synchronicity.

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