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

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Seriously. No SNOW or macarena or anything like that, something more subtle (but was a hit).

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

How Bizarre

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

"Stay" - Shakespeare's Sister

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

flagpole sitter

― brilliant young and angsty (thatguy), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

counting blue cars

(sorry)

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I did forget about that.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I dunno, something by Ned's Automic Dustbin? I remember hearing Jawbreaker's "Fireman" a lot on the one alternative radio station I could get in Northern British Columbia...

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

jbr hit me with the dishwalla reference a few months back and I still haven't forgiven her, really.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

That Gandharvas song Downtime.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Bittersweet (hit?)
What Do I have to Do?

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Kula Shaker's "Tattva"?

― ffirehorse, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Gerardo "Rico Suave"
2 Unlimited "Get Ready For This"
Right Said Fred "I'm Too Sexy"

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Cotton-Eyed Joe

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

"Runaway Train" .. Soul Asylum

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

"Cotton-Eyed Joe

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

WHY?!

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Montell Jordan "This Is How We Do It"

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

"No Diggity" (was that Blackstreet?)

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

you guys are nuts. half of these songs were never forgotten, "no diggity" being a perfect example.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Ugggh! You're unbelievabul!
Da-na-na-naNa-naNa-na-na-na-na-naNA-naNana

― EMFno1fan, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

these selections aren't rhombus enough.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Bizarre Love Triangle by Frente

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Better than Ezra, "Desperately Wanting". I think that's the title. Its a killer song. It was my "indie rock" as a grade schooler.

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Something by Matthew Sweet?

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I remember running through the wet grass
Falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Scatman John's self-titled lil' ditty.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

shanice - "i love your smile"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

How the hell are we supposed to know what seahorsegenius's idea of subtlety is?

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

or what is considered "forgotten" on that matter?

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

timmy t. - "one more try"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I have it on good word that Daniel Johnston's Speeding Motorcycle was something of an "indie" hit.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

bart simpson - "do the bartman"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

enigma - "sadeness pt 1"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

What was that group that was really just one dude and had a horrendously long name or maybe the song title was huge or something. It was a really bland, pedestrian "trip-hop" song with a sample of some old blues singer. Primitive something or other.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

WHOOP DERR IT IS

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

How about that "I'm drowin' . . I'm burnin' . . I'm bleeding to death . EVERYTHING'S FINE!!!". Who on earth did that song? Sort of an Alanis Morrisette-style thing.

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

"the star spangled banner" - whitney houston

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

In Canada, Lucas had a chart-topper with Lucas With His Lid-Off, but given the nature of Canada Council regulations and government support, I don't know if it could truly be called a hit, just forgotten.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Primitive Radio Gods.

xxx-post

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

"that's just the way it is baby" - the rembrandts

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Sophie B. Hawkins "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

(that lucas video still owns, btw. gondry's first great clip.)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Amy Grant "Baby"

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

"hazard" - richard marx

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I still like "Lucas With The Lid Off"! I wish they had released "Born" off that album as a single though, that song was WAY better. One of my favorite ubermellow stoner hip-hop songs to this date.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

gregory abbott - "shake you down"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Candyman - Knockin Boots

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Dionne Farris "I Know"

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

aren't "my favorite" and "stoner" redundant, nick?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

oooooh good call with the dionne farris.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

jennifer paige - "crush"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

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Darden Smith - 'Loving Arms'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:14 (four years ago)

Exposé - 'In Walked Love'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:17 (four years ago)

For Squirrels - 'Mighty K.C.'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:18 (four years ago)

Go West - 'Faithful'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:20 (four years ago)

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

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:21 (four years ago)

Imperial Drag - 'Boy or a Girl'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:22 (four years ago)

Jeremy Jordan - 'The Right Kind of Love'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:24 (four years ago)

K7 - 'Come Baby Come'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:25 (four years ago)

Little Texas - 'What Might Have Been'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:27 (four years ago)

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

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:28 (four years ago)

Nixons - 'Sister'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:29 (four years ago)

Oleta Adams - 'Get Here'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:32 (four years ago)

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:35 (four years ago)

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:35 (four years ago)

Quicksand - 'Dine Alone'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:36 (four years ago)

Restless Heart - 'When She Cries'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:38 (four years ago)

Shai - 'If I Ever Fall in Love'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:40 (four years ago)

Tara Kemp - 'Hold You Tight'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:42 (four years ago)

UB40 - 'Can't Help Falling in Love'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:43 (four years ago)

Vince Neil - 'Sister of Pain'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:44 (four years ago)

Wynona Judd - 'No One Else on Earth'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:46 (four years ago)

Xscape - 'Just Kickin' It'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:47 (four years ago)

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

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:48 (four years ago)

Zhané - 'Groove Thang'

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:50 (four years ago)

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

― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:51 (four years ago)

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

― kinder, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 13:05 (four years ago)

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

― Kim, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:18 (four years ago)

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

― Kim, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:25 (four years ago)

I never see people talk about 702 anymore:

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

― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:30 (four years ago)

Ditto Brownstone:

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

― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:32 (four years ago)

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.

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:49 (four years ago)

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

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

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:56 (four years ago)

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

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:04 (four years ago)

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

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:08 (four years ago)

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

― dyl, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 04:29 (four years ago)

Smile - Staring at the Sun

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 04:52 (four years ago)

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.

― Sarah Jessica Parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 11:28 (four years ago)

lol I remember that one

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:10 (four years ago)

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

― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:36 (four years ago)

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

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:38 (four years ago)

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

― Kim, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:40 (four years ago)

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.

― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:02 (four years ago)

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

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:05 (four years ago)

dave matthews does sound a bit like Sting taking a shit

― NFT of snare on "The King of Wishful Thinking" (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:28 (four years ago)

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.

― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 May 2021 19:41 (four years ago)

Stinkronicity?

― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 21 May 2021 19:45 (four years ago)

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.

like/follow for more fun facts

― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 May 2021 19:50 (four years ago)

Ephraim Lewis - 'Drowning in Your Eyes'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEQp6KkmegU

― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 12:45 (four years ago)

two months pass...

Nelson - After the Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmywdJby43w

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 7 August 2021 04:44 (four years ago)

paperboy - ditty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VockXSe2c-g

― dyl, Saturday, 7 August 2021 20:11 (four years ago)

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