Hello, neglected music bloggy thing.
Today I come bearing 1990s Top 40 adult contemporary pop/rock! Anyone who knows me knows that I am in love with 80s music, but I also profess a deep fondness for this stuff, being as this was what I grew up with. Really, I am in love with nostalgia. And who knows, maybe you haven't heard this in years, and the memories will warm the cockles of your crispy, blackened, jaded 20-something hearts. :)
(All else aside, I am bored, and this is mostly an excuse to dig out my Spice Girls CD.)
I was lazy and didn't bother with album art, sorry.
Ready? Okay!
01. Hootie & the Blowfish
I don't understand the eyerolling that usually follows a mention of Hootie. I like Hootie.
Fronted by Gregg Alexander, who later went on to write "The Game Of Love," performed by Santana and Michelle Branch. It won a Grammy! Also, he is cute.
- Mother We Just Can't Get Enough [rcsa]
- You Get What You Give [rcsa]
(According to Wikipedia: In a Time Magazine interview, U2 lead guitarist The Edge is quoted saying "You Get What You Give" is the song he is most "jealous of." "I really would love to have written that," he stated.)
Look, it was catchy, and I was 14, and while I was drawing smiley faces and peace signs on everything, I totally bought into the GIRL POWER! thing.
04. Fastball
My favorite band when I was 15. Had such a crush on the drummer, him and his awful haircut.
05. Dare I? ...Yes.
HANSON. Oh, how long did I spend trying to draw that logo...
06. The Verve
07. The Verve Pipe
Not to be confused with #06.
(By this point I am getting lazy.)
08. The Presidents of the United States of America
I STILL love Ace of Base. I'm not ashamed. Most of what I have is remixes, but they're pretty good anyway.
10. Harvey Danger
- Flagpole Sitta [rcsa]
When I was 14, my then-best friend and I went to Gettysburg College for my brother's soccer tournament, and it was HOT HOT OH MY GOD HOT and we just wandered around aimlessly and all we had to entertain us was a mini-cassette player on which I had taped this song and a few others and we just played this over and over at high speeds so it sounded like a chipmunk.
12. Marvelous 3
13. Primitive Radio Gods
14. Savage Garden
HAHA, I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THIS BAND.
- I Want You [rcsa]
...like a chicka-cherry cola! Oh My God.
16. Soul Coughing
17. The Wallflowers
18. Gin Blossoms
What an awesome band.
ETA: Sugar Ray, Wallflowers, and OH YEAH, Gin Blossoms.
Your mandatory disclaimer: These are for sampling/nostalgia purposes only, go out and buy the music, la la la.
Hello, poor neglected Vox thing! This will be a lazy post today because I've already got all the mp3s uploaded and ready for listening/download in this helpful Box.net folder. (If you should, in the future, decide to sign up for a Box.net thingy, please use lunarcurtain@comcast.net as a referral and I think I get...something. Maybe? I think so, I'm not sure, but I thought I'd mention it just in case, hah.)
Anyway, this week's month's selection is a lot of The Mountain Goats. I first heard these dudes 5+ years ago when Napster was still huge and free and they were a featured artist. "Family Happiness" was the song, and it was so raw and visceral that I don't know why I stopped at that one.
Then a month ago my brother told me about this awesome song he heard: "Southwood Plantation Road" by The Mountain Goats! I remembered they were pretty rad five years ago, and now I present you with the aforementioned folder.
Track list:
- Cold Milk Bottle
- Cotton
- Dance Music
- Family Happiness
- Going to Georgia (Live)
- Going to Georgia
- Jenny
- Love Cuts the Strings
- Southwood Plantation Road
- The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
- The Black Ice Cream Song
- There Will Be No Divorce
- This Year
- You Or Your Memory
ALSO! Of Montreal's new album, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? is due out on Jan. 23, and because they are AWESOME, they've put up a full preview here, and also a download of "Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse," which I guess is the first single. I love them, oh.
