Deathless

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:25 am

1991 #3:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:33 am

First great one of '91. Will it go 3-4-5 like in '90?

Also forever props to Martha Wash
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/ma ... ut-231182/

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:34 am

I still love that song.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:15 am

poorpete wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:17 am Going back to Bryan Adams for a second...

It was probably 1993, and I was on the bus as it drove down Coon Hill Road. I had a long bus ride, a long solitary time, which I spent mostly listening to music. I had a cheepo portable audio player and was listening to the pop radio station. This song came on.

I was a very nice kid and very virtuous and innocent. Saintly. I never said a swear word. Never. Just like all saints. And I wouldn't swear for another few years.

I was also a fan of Weird Al. He sang funny parodies about food and falling down and stuff like that. Look him up, he's good! I'd sometimes make up funny lyrics of my own. I did well being an amateur lyric writer, though some would disagree, but I won't write serious stuff until high school moods set in years later. Anyways, would write funny lyrics though, like remember "Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel. I wrote a parody called "Fluoride" -- "Fluoride, it cleans your teeth, Fluoride...." that's all I remember.

Anywho, I was listening to this song and my brain, just in my brain, I went "everything I do, I do shit fuck you" -- and I panicked, worried I had committed a great sin.

This was, indeed, the end of innocence.

Wait that was Don Henley. Almost stuck the landing. Shit.

I hate it when an awesome post winds up being the last one on a page. This is a great story.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:05 pm

1991 #4:

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:34 pm

Oh I was in the car today when I heard Straight up, by our girl Paula, and I started singing it and I was like Stannnnnnnn! That's a damn hard song to sing by the way, especially when you're a tenor.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:50 pm

1991 #5:

This was one of those where I had no clue what it was based on artist and song title, but recognized it as soon as it started playing.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:59 pm

Wait! We can't just gloss over Point Break/Bogus Journey era Keanu standing in for James Dean in that Paula Abdul video. That was odd.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:02 pm

1991 #6:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:47 pm

Okay so 3,4,5, didn't happen, but maybe 3,6,9!

Alternative Rock + Dance + HipHop + Cowbell = yes please

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:18 pm

1991 #7:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:56 pm

Wedding song of the decade.

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:22 pm

The absolute best Monster Ballad. "It's Awesome!"

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:42 pm

1991 #8:

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:01 pm

Tahlvin wrote:This was one of those where I had no clue what it was based on artist and song title, but recognized it as soon as it started playing.

I have never heard this in my life. I'm not sure I have heard any of these songs. I was on another planet in the early 90s. I was listening to ska and jazz and hardcore and Ike and Tina and pretty much anything but this stuff. It is absolutely bizarre to me that I have no knowledge of 90's pop music! I really thought I had a pretty broad knowledge of the pop music! How can there be so many well known songs I have never heard even once?

And when I play them I'm like, what is this s***? Very get these kids off my lawn. It's good I missed it. The key seems to be not having a local radio or local radio station, not having a car in which to listen to the radio... None of that was happening and this was before the days when you could get your music through the internet.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:34 pm

1991 #9:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:53 pm

I agree, not much to say about this, but to not comment means we can't move on to the next one. So. Uh. It's good. With those glasses and hair looks a bit like Brittany Howard

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:46 am

1991 #10:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:32 am

It good. Has bit of a Bonnie Raitt sound, which eventually becomes the Sheryl Crow sound. Also Sam Cooke's first secular song was You Send Me and this gives off similar harmless love vibes.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:46 am

Best hair in the business.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:44 am

1991 #11:

Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:58 pm

Look at em! They're children!

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:08 pm

Doin a little east coast swing!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:30 pm

1991 #12:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:00 pm

Top 3 to beat
Motownphilly
Unbelievable
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

More than Words a close 4.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:30 pm

1991 #13:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:40 pm

Solid song made me forget I was about to be hit with the whistle register!

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:24 pm

Mike wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:58 pm Look at em! They're children!

Well I mean it says Boyz

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:53 pm

1991 #14:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:56 pm

Forgettable verses weird video but memorable chorus, let's call it even

Phoebe wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:24 pm
Mike wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:58 pm Look at em! They're children!
Well I mean it says Boyz

Hot take: they are not quite children, but not quite adults. They seem to be in a kind of transitional phase between the II.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:28 pm

poorpete wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:56 pm
Phoebe wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:24 pm
Mike wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:58 pm Look at em! They're children!
Well I mean it says Boyz
Hot take: they are not quite children, but not quite adults. They seem to be in a kind of transitional phase between the II.

Pete for the win!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:06 am

1991 #15:

Post by **Mike** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:01 am

Beautiful? Probably. But I am left cold.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:09 am

1991 #16:

Post by **Mike** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:34 am

Mike wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:01 am Beautiful? Probably. But I am left cold.

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:31 am

1991 and the sax solo is still a thing!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:23 am

1991 #17:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:31 am

Ooof. I loved this song for a hot second, then got the album and hated both the song and the band. It was the kind of generic "important" music that would just grind my gears. "Right Now" by Van Halen (while similarly titled) is another one that I can't stand for this same reason.

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:34 am

Still kinda fun for me. Cool to see these british dance rock bands who incorporate hiphop beats and sampling (and hats?) succeed. Surprised they did so well. That genre will soon be drowned out by grunge and pop punk, but it'll be back in a decade or so...

But agree too, there are so many "this is important" songs that age poorly.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:45 am

1991 #18:

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:09 am

Mike wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:28 pm
poorpete wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:56 pm
Phoebe wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:24 pm
Mike wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:58 pm Look at em! They're children!
Well I mean it says Boyz
Hot take: they are not quite children, but not quite adults. They seem to be in a kind of transitional phase between the II.
Pete for the win!

Insert banana here!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:54 am

1991 #19:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:57 pm

I love love love the black and white aesthetic Janet used in the Rhythm Nation days.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:00 pm

1990 #20:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 3:46 am

Ugh. I know this is objectively a terrible song. But such a banger.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 5:02 am

1991 #21:

Post by **Mike** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 6:45 am

Just not enough there.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 6:55 am

1991 #22:

Post by **Mike** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:07 am

Does she have to hit that note in every song?

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:27 am

1991 #23: