Soul Asylum - 99% & Sonic Youth - 100% .. any relation?

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99% being from Grave Dancer's Union and 100% being from Dirty. Both were released in 1992. Both have similar names, and they both have a similar lumbering riff heavy format with copious amounts of feedback and noise added at the right moments.
Was one band referencing or poking fun at the other?

I have to say that 100% makes me feel a lot cooler when it comes through the speakers, so in this case the numbers do win out.

― kezrick, Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

Err. Don't forget Jane's Addiction's "1%." Perhaps it is the missing link, like those weird hobbit skeletons they keep finding.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Thursday, 10 November 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Meat Beat Manifesto's 99% was released in 1990...

:-o

OMG!

― (plurplurplur) ^_- DJ 'O' Nut -_^ (rulprulprulp) (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I remember I bought those albums around the same time and noticed that too! I'd be surprised if there was a connection, though.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 10 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

eighteen years pass...

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 03:52 (one year ago)

Also released in 1992: Suzanne Vega's 99.9F°

― jaymc, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 17:29 (one year ago)

Soul Asylum "99%" chorus : "I love you 99% of the time"

Sonic Youth "I Love Her All The Time" chorus: "I Love Her All The Time*"

*"(except when I'm cheating on her with Jim O'Rourke's girlfriend)"

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 17:41 (one year ago)

Ice Cube: You ask if I'm a 5%er, well...

― President Keyes, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 17:49 (one year ago)

Oh weird, I knew the Soul Asylum song long before I ever heard the Sonic Youth song, and when I first heard "100%" I was like ohhhh, that Soul Asylum song was a parody/pastiche of this. But apparently the Soul Asylum album was recorded a month or two before Dirty and the "100%" single came out.

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:59 (one year ago)

“Tumble in the Rough” by Stone Temple Pilots, on the other hand…

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 03:39 (one year ago)

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