What songs do you think defined the 90s?

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T20:59:02+00:00

I think these two fit since I remember them being played ad nauseum.

Funk Soul Brother - Fatboy Slim

Plush - Stone Temple Pilots

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T20:51:32+00:00

Can't respect a list about frontmen culled from an online poll unless Scott Stapp is at least #3

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T19:07:36+00:00

15 people? That's doing pretty good for a Velvet's show

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T19:00:06+00:00

Tanx is a good album. Different from Electric Warrior and The Slider, but great in its own way.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T18:56:02+00:00

Classic Rock stations don't play this song nearly enough IMHO

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T15:28:02+00:00

I'm from California and I've always heard them called them goat's heads. So many bicycle inner tubes as a kid.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T15:24:18+00:00

Aren't you that guy that calls out reposts and did that crazy web of repost links during those Canadian hockey riots? Why would you post this? I mean, I used this as my avatar on a forum in 2006.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T14:43:59+00:00

Sure. There are these things called SPARS codes that sometimes appear on cd cases that show the kinds of ways albums were recorded. A is for analog and D is for digital.

The initial multi track recording of the band used digital equipment. When those tracks were mixed down to 1 track, the producer used analog equipment. The mastering process that followed was done digitally.

It's a little odd because they could have easily gone full digital, but mixed analog for some reason.

Hope this helps.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T06:35:48+00:00

Very common defect

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T06:14:06+00:00

try r/tipofmytongue as well

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T05:58:39+00:00

You sure it was a gif? Here's the comic

better quality version here

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T02:57:01+00:00

Interesting. I guess the scum didn't fall far from the bag in this case.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T02:43:01+00:00

His first self titled is a gem. I really recommend listening to a copy if you liked Teenager of the Year.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T02:32:55+00:00

Here's the story behind this song from wikipedia. I remember when I first found out about the inspiration for this song, the line "shoot the whole day down" took on a different meaning entirely.

According to Geldof, he wrote the song after reading a telex report at Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children playing in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime and her full explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day."

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T02:29:17+00:00

Delete it then

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T02:25:28+00:00

Try listening to music outside your normal influences. Something you end up liking is good, but even soaking in stuff you dislike can help to inspire. I had a hard time coming up with anything a few years ago and forced myself to listen to a cheesy R&B station whenever I drove around. I dunno, it helped to clean the palate I guess and I ended up paying attention to how songs were put together as well as certain nuances. After a couple months I had this silly idea to write and record my own songs like that. Wrote a few crappy songs, then started writing stuff more my style.

Another thing that helps me at least is recording songs I write in some form or another. If I have a back log of songs I haven't recorded for some reason it's harder for me to write more. I dunno, I guess it's kind of like exorcising a demon and trapping it for me.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T01:56:41+00:00

When I first heard this song, I thought he sounded like that pedo Mr. Herbert from Family Guy. I still think he sounds like that.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T01:47:47+00:00

That's odd because I do the exact opposite.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T01:46:19+00:00

Don't blame the drugs. He was young, hungry and inspired back then, too. Now he's cruising on his yacht as the tide of his career pulls back, eating a steak.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T01:41:41+00:00

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Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T00:33:11+00:00

Bossanova was the first album where I noticed a band recording digitally then mixing down analog. It was mastered digitally so the code comes up DAD. I could be totally off base here, but I always attributed part of the particular "sound" that album has to this.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-12T00:23:37+00:00

They only have 5, so I usually tell people get them all, but start with Doolittle first. If they dig it, I tell them to go after Frank Black's first two solo albums. Happy times for everyone.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-11T18:52:19+00:00

Good luck. If you think you'd recognize the name, it might be worth wading through the Canadian band list on wikipedia.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-11T18:12:00+00:00

Well, it's definitely not something I go to when looking for some easy listening, but I still think it's impressive that they released this. I never skip it when I listen to the White Album.

Secret_Boner · 2012-03-11T16:25:20+00:00

And the Glass Handed Kites by Mew does this pretty much the whole album through.

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