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.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:05 pm
by Tahlvin
1991 #4:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:34 pm
by Phoebe
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.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:50 pm
by Tahlvin
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.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:59 pm
by Mike
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.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:02 pm
by Tahlvin
1991 #6:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:47 pm
by poorpete
Okay so 3,4,5, didn't happen, but maybe 3,6,9!
Alternative Rock + Dance + HipHop + Cowbell = yes please
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:18 pm
by Tahlvin
1991 #7:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:56 pm
by Kyle
Wedding song of the decade.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:22 pm
by poorpete
The absolute best Monster Ballad. "It's Awesome!"
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:42 pm
by Tahlvin
1991 #8:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:01 pm
by Phoebe
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.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:34 pm
by Tahlvin
1991 #9:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:53 pm
by poorpete
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
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:46 am
by Tahlvin
1991 #10:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:32 am
by poorpete
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.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:46 am
by Kyle
Best hair in the business.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:44 am
by Tahlvin
1991 #11:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:58 pm
by Mike
Look at em! They're children!
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:08 pm
by Kyle
Doin a little east coast swing!
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:30 pm
by Tahlvin
1991 #12:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:00 pm
by poorpete
Top 3 to beat
Motownphilly
Unbelievable
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
More than Words a close 4.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:30 pm
by Tahlvin
1991 #13:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:40 pm
by poorpete
Solid song made me forget I was about to be hit with the whistle register!
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:24 pm
by Phoebe
Mike wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:58 pm
Look at em! They're children!
Well I mean it says Boyz
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:53 pm
by Tahlvin
1991 #14:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:56 pm
by poorpete
Forgettable verses weird video but memorable chorus, let's call it even
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!
Re: Deathless
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:06 am
by Tahlvin
1991 #15:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:01 am
by Mike
Beautiful? Probably. But I am left cold.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:09 am
by Tahlvin
1991 #16:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:34 am
by Mike
Mike wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:01 am
Beautiful? Probably. But I am left cold.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:31 am
by poorpete
1991 and the sax solo is still a thing!
Re: Deathless
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:23 am
by Tahlvin
1991 #17:
Re: Deathless
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:31 am
by Kyle
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.
Re: Deathless
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:34 am
by poorpete
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.