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5-10-15-20 "Music of Our Lives" Draft - Round 14 (1 Viewer)

The mid-late 90's was a blind spot for me musically until recently.  I got married and started a new career, so my attention drifted away.  There was an album I know I listened to a lot, but I'll save that for tomorrow.  A lot of R&B/Hip-hop that I listen to now came out at the time, so even though it released in 1990, I'll put this one out there.  It's got a great funky beat and humorous lyrics.

25 Year Old Song:  The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground

 
lakerstan said:
The mid-late 90's was a blind spot for me musically until recently.  I got married and started a new career, so my attention drifted away.  There was an album I know I listened to a lot, but I'll save that for tomorrow.  A lot of R&B/Hip-hop that I listen to now came out at the time, so even though it released in 1990, I'll put this one out there.  It's got a great funky beat and humorous lyrics.

25 Year Old Song:  The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
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i'm old. if i gave this song all the love it deserved, i'd be out. one of the great dance tunes of all time

 
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lakerstan said:
The mid-late 90's was a blind spot for me musically until recently.  I got married and started a new career, so my attention drifted away. 
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This for me too.  Hard to narrow down one song that I was into.  Pop music sucked **** in the mid 90s.

But if I have to pick a song from 94/95

25 year old song:

Ben Folds Five - Philosophy

Huge Folds fan and this song probably started it.  Was an adult (at least chronologically) and this seemed like "Adult" music.

 
Northern Voice said:
I used song lyrics from this song in my MSN messenger screen name/status for a while. As you did at the time.
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Funny you say this, I used to use lyrics from Modest Mouse's "Float On" as my AIM away message for a long time.  Every once in awhile I'd post it on Facebook as a status, or still nowadays as a tweet. 

I backed my car into a cop car the other day.
He just drove off.....sometimes life's okay

 
20 year album

Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits Volume II

Dylan became a staple around this time. I was going to take highway 61, but others have been taking greatest hits so I thought I'd take this. Some cool previously unreleased stuff, live stuff. Maybe my favorite collection of songs ever.  I still play it all the time.

 
wikkidpissah said:
25yo Song - Take Me To The River, Talking Heads

Time to settle some biz left over from mr timmy's perfectly-awful New Wave countdown. My own Top 5 were Frankie Relax, this, Cars, It's My Life, and Tattooed Love Boys, NOT ONE of which made it into the HUNDRED, - not to mention Town Called Malice, 1999, More Than This, One Thing Leads to Another and dozens more songs better than what made it into tim's pufffy costume drama of fey mediocrity. i quit!

Back to the song, which i consider the beginning of the New Wave. I've already written the experiential part of it, (from last June 22, the "Talking Heads Favorite Song" thread):

Now, Heads were punks last i left em, but what was this?! Granted they were established early as better players than most of the CBGBers and some of the Londoners, but they were taking this sensibility and fusing it with the kind of music one would think they'd be least likely to know, nm elevate. For my money, it was the first song i ever heard that had umami and, oh mommy, i couldnt wait for the next & next op for it to googly up my insides. it's like riding a New Wave!!
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that was the first talking heads song I heard. tbh- as a young kid, I didn't get it. took me a few years to get to HS for it to sink in more... and more and more as I got older. 

love the rest of the picks- especially the talk talk and pretenders (who have a couple pretty great, throw-back sounding songs out this year)

 
20 Year Old - Album - Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

The 2006-2008 years are chock full of some great albums in my book.  There's one album in particular that I'm suspecting will get drafted by someone in here, and while it's a great album, I wasn't really into it until probably 2-3 years after it came out.  There's another fantastic album that I'd love to pick but same thing, I didn't really discover them until 2010 or so, even though it's now an all-timer for me.

But for Vampire Weekend, I was in on this one since day one.  The unique sound was unlike anything I'd heard before other than an occasional Paul Simon song.  The combo of pop hooks, afro/worldbeat, combined with the bizarre prep school rich kid lyrical motif, satisfied everything I was looking for in music at the time.  Just weird enough to be fantastic, while being musically about as tight as you can get.  It's still probably a top-10 all-time album for me.

"Oxford Comma" / "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" / "A-Punk"

 
Well this is smack dab in the middle of the four years I WASN'T a bachelor.  Wife, kids, base housing, suburban MD.  So I wasn't getting out much, most of what I heard new was on the radio,  good old WHFS primarily

This was the first year I had internet.  Two years later I would get divorced, leave the military and get a job in sys admin.  A year after that I'd be on footballguys!  But it was '97 I downloaded my first handful of songs off the web, here are couple I remember.  


The Last Hard Men - Sleep <- this was Kelley Deal, Sebastian Bach and the dude from the Frogs.  And Jimmy Chamberlin.  I can't even find this studio cut on youtube now.  Lost to the ages.


Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow <- IIRC this was the first leaked release of a new album I was fortunate enough :mellow:  to get my mitts on.  Figured out the zips and stuff, got it going in winamp, the rest is history
I'll take this though, one of my faves back then, it still takes me back to Rockenbach Rd

Ben Harper - Faded



 
JZilla said:
Well this is smack dab in the middle of the four years I WASN'T a bachelor.  Wife, kids, base housing, suburban MD.  So I wasn't getting out much, most of what I heard new was on the radio,  good old WHFS primarily

This was the first year I had internet.  Two years later I would get divorced, leave the military and get a job in sys admin.  A year after that I'd be on footballguys!  But it was '97 I downloaded my first handful of songs off the web, here are couple I remember.  
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I'm not sure if we've had this conversation before, but I'm also from the MD suburbs, albeit from inside the Beltway, and listened to WHFS as well.  I was even HS classmates with one of the DJs--Dave Issing.  Didn't really know him but we were in the same grade and everything.

 
25 song: Alice in Chains - "Down In A Hole"

Wasn't in the best place back in 1993/94 (until the NY Rangers won the Cup, that is) and was on a bit of an Alice in Chains kick - probably due to their own morose sound. They had just released Jar of Flies and I was exploring all their material back then. This song just resonated with me - heartbreaking but beautifully written.

 
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Charlie Steiner said:
I'm not sure if we've had this conversation before, but I'm also from the MD suburbs, albeit from inside the Beltway, and listened to WHFS as well.  I was even HS classmates with one of the DJs--Dave Issing.  Didn't really know him but we were in the same grade and everything.
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I was stationed at Ft Meade in '95.. stayed in the area until just a couple years ago

 
wikkidpissah said:
25yo Song - Take Me To The River, Talking Heads
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first, great group of songs - just listened to "It's My Life" twice in a row (love No Doubt's cover as well - just a great song)

you know how certain songs immediately bring you back to a time and place?  "Take Me To The River" captured me immediately ...loved it.  I had just recently ran into a hot, older "woman" at the "She", the area's main disco at the Sunday $5 "Drink & Drown".  She was 26 and had her own job/place and I was 21 and had recently moved home, was going to school and working at the golf course.  

The first time she had me over, cooked me dinner, then disrobed me ...then herself and we got in the tub.  Song playing ..."Take Me To The River".  She had bought me the album so I got two surprises that night.  She broke my heart a few months later, but it was worth it.  

 
I'm finding a lot of current elder statesmen who were hitting their strides in 96-97, including my top contending choices for 25yo album

 
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Round 8.xx - 20 Year-Old Album

Well, it should be something that was social more so than an independent musical journey, because we lived in a five-person suite with two bedrooms and a common area. Most likely, if you were there in the spring (I was twenty) you heard me and my roommates playing this

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

I was supposed to transfer to play hockey after my sophomore year and decided not to do so thanks to the strength of friendships made on campus. This album and our scene had a lot to do with that. Of course, those were halcyon days and things never work out the way a nineteen/twenty year old plans, but I'll never forget those spring and summer nights, sitting in our hall, generally jamming down. "Please, please, please do not go," was the refrain, and it was heeded. We'd spend the summer in Boston and at that time, we couldn't do anything wrong. I was more into punk as the spring and summer wore on as my true stripes showed. The Rip Offs, The Queers, The Muffs, Screeching Weasel  -- they all were primary, but this was the album that most defined the twenty year-old I was, social as I'd ever be, reveling in the adulation of a bunch of other nineteen or twenty year-old contrarians, twenty of us deep, marching to the future all together, undivided.

To borrow from Grease!, Oh! Those Summer Nights...

 
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Age 25 song “Balloon Man”- Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians

and it rained...like a slow divorce 

Never understood these lyrics but by God I’ve always loved them. 

 
25.s   A Night to Remember - Shalamar

The future Mrs. Eephus and I got engaged when I was 25 but we weren't living together yet.  Our record collections had already intermingled with most of her small collection of albums and 45s finding their way into in the crates in my living room.  One of the side benefits of dating a Black girl (and she was still a girl) was getting exposed to a lot of R&B that I wasn't familiar with.  I already liked the obvious stuff like Motown, Stevie and Prince and the occasional Black band that crossed over into Rock critic consciousness like P-Funk.  But she had a bunch of records by artists that hadn't crossed over and listening to them with her was a revelation.   Shalamar was one of my favorites.  They were slick, manufactured dance product but so was a lot of music that was played on MTV and "rockoftheeighties" stations at the time.

I'm going to drop the Mrs. Eephus schtick for a paragraph and call Pam by the name her parents gave her.  I've written before about how I fell in love with Pam on the dance floor.  It wasn't the way she moved although she was smoking hot back in the day.  Instead, it was the joy in her face as we danced with each other.  We both love music in our own way; over the years I've increasingly approached it on an analytical level as just another thing to be intellectualized and categorized.  But Pam has always responded to music in a way that's much more visceral and intuitive.  She'll find a song she loves and play it over and over again.  We embarrassed the kids many times by dancing in the kitchen to some old song.  Even now (pre-shutdown of course), she'll wait in line for hours for a show so she can get right in front of the stage.  Once she's there, she'll dance and scream ecstatically.  I complain about leaving the house at 6PM for an 8PM door but seeing Pam turn to me between songs with a huge smile on her face makes it worthwhile.

In retrospect, it was a monumental leap of faith at 25 to commit to spend the rest of our lives together.  If you'd asked me where we'd be 35 years later, I'd have absolutely no point of reference although to be honest, I would have bet race relations would be further along than they are.  Our mutual love of music has been a constant throughout.  It helped bring us together, has brought us a lot of enjoyment over the decades and it remains one of the thousands of things I love about her. 

 
9.xx - Age 25 Song - The Zombies - Remember You

This is where the pot comes in. I could never be cooler than this song, sung by guys in bespoke, skinny suits and black plastic frames/sunglasses with long hair. There was never a cooler soundtrack to gin and tonics and marijuana and one hundred degree days in Washington, D.C. I lost this CD no less than twenty times only to find it in somewhere else in my car charger. That's about my state of mind at the time. Did I mention how cool? I had a cool little wooden bowl that folded into nothing with these cool rubber band sides that snapped the flume into place, as it were. Smoking down 16th Street in NW D.C. on my way to my cool political research job. I had a cool girlfriend, a cool roommate, friends who had moved down from my cool fraternity (my sophomore-senoir years had gone sideways, I'd pledged a fraternity in my fourth year of college, and the rest was history), and just generally spent time at my job and on the Capitol Mall playing softball. Whoohooo and life was...

Cool. I can't remember too much from those days, and the alcohol and drugs would stop working at twenty-six, but there was the Zombies, a bright spot. This may or may not have been the version I listened to

 
rockaction said:
Eephus said:
MILWAUKEE!!!!!
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San Francisco was jealous for just a moment...
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I listen to a lot of WYMS Radio Milwaukee on the kitchen smart speaker.  They play a very good mix of Indie, Rap and R&B, especially at night.  They also play a lot of local artists.  I'm impressed by the music coming out of that city right now.  It's a stronger scene than SF where the cost of living and dearth of rehearsal space makes it a really tough place for new music.

 
I saw Violent Femmes at the Fillmore.. last month?  This month? A year ago?  Who can tell.  If we all die it will be the last concert I ever saw

BO

R

ING

(no offense intended.. the album is legend)

 
Eephus said:
25.s   A Night to Remember - Shalamar

The future Mrs. Eephus and I got engaged when I was 25 but we weren't living together yet.  Our record collections had already intermingled with most of her small collection of albums and 45s finding their way into in the crates in my living room.  One of the side benefits of dating a Black girl (and she was still a girl) was getting exposed to a lot of R&B that I wasn't familiar with.  I already liked the obvious stuff like Motown, Stevie and Prince and the occasional Black band that crossed over into Rock critic consciousness like P-Funk.  But she had a bunch of records by artists that hadn't crossed over and listening to them with her was a revelation.   Shalamar was one of my favorites.  They were slick, manufactured dance product but so was a lot of music that was played on MTV and "rockoftheeighties" stations at the time.

I'm going to drop the Mrs. Eephus schtick for a paragraph and call Pam by the name her parents gave her.  I've written before about how I fell in love with Pam on the dance floor.  It wasn't the way she moved although she was smoking hot back in the day.  Instead, it was the joy in her face as we danced with each other.  We both love music in our own way; over the years I've increasingly approached it on an analytical level as just another thing to be intellectualized and categorized.  But Pam has always responded to music in a way that's much more visceral and intuitive.  She'll find a song she loves and play it over and over again.  We embarrassed the kids many times by dancing in the kitchen to some old song.  Even now (pre-shutdown of course), she'll wait in line for hours for a show so she can get right in front of the stage.  Once she's there, she'll dance and scream ecstatically.  I complain about leaving the house at 6PM for an 8PM door but seeing Pam turn to me between songs with a huge smile on her face makes it worthwhile.

In retrospect, it was a monumental leap of faith at 25 to commit to spend the rest of our lives together.  If you'd asked me where we'd be 35 years later, I'd have absolutely no point of reference although to be honest, I would have bet race relations would be further along than they are.  Our mutual love of music has been a constant throughout.  It helped bring us together, has brought us a lot of enjoyment over the decades and it remains one of the thousands of things I love about her. 
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Oh damn :wub: all of that.

 
JZilla said:
I saw Violent Femmes at the Fillmore.. last month?  This month? A year ago?  Who can tell.  If we all die it will be the last concert I ever saw

BO

R

ING

(no offense intended.. the album is legend)
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No offense taken. It's a show. I'd probably take more offense to hating my five-year old song, anyway. And if we do all die, there are a lot of lasts I'm gonna regret...oof. 

 
rockaction said:
No offense taken. It's a show. I'd probably take more offense to hating my five-year old song, anyway. And if we do all die, there are a lot of lasts I'm gonna regret...oof. 
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I just remember thinking

1) I could lie down on the floor of the venue and take a nap, as long as nobody step on me..

2) What a career arc.. peak in (83?),  as kids, solid cult following, do just good enough to somehow sustain it into being old farts onstage in 2020 singing about how can I get just one -?

I needed weed

 
rockaction said:
9.xx - Age 25 Song - The Zombies - Remember You

This is where the pot comes in. I could never be cooler than this song, sung by guys in bespoke, skinny suits and black plastic frames/sunglasses with long hair. There was never a cooler soundtrack to gin and tonics and marijuana and one hundred degree days in Washington, D.C. I lost this CD no less than twenty times only to find it in somewhere else in my car charger. That's about my state of mind at the time. Did I mention how cool? I had a cool little wooden bowl that folded into nothing with these cool rubber band sides that snapped the flume into place, as it were. Smoking down 16th Street in NW D.C. on my way to my cool political research job. I had a cool girlfriend, a cool roommate, friends who had moved down from my cool fraternity (my sophomore-senoir years had gone sideways, I'd pledged a fraternity in my fourth year of college, and the rest was history), and just generally spent time at my job and on the Capitol Mall playing softball. Whoohooo and life was...

Cool. I can't remember too much from those days, and the alcohol and drugs would stop working at twenty-six, but there was the Zombies, a bright spot. This may or may not have been the version I listened to
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so ...wait, how old are you?

 
Another interesting thing about the Violent Femmes show

I was on the older side of the crowd, for SURE.. and I was 11 when that was released, heard it when I was 18 maybe?

Talk about your timeless set of tunes

A unique arc definitely

And it's just these old dudes up there, "we are gonna keep playing these songs as long as you all will pay!"

 
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