[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIduOvEoVeQ[/youtube]
Big Willie Style! I miss the days when people said they were ‘getting jiggy with it’, because it just sounded cool, you know? The Fresh Prince is number one in my heart, so I hope you agree. The only thing missing in this video is my man Alfonso Rebiero!
- D’Hoochie
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4xMR7mYPWU[/youtube]
Favorite band in high school
- Sarah
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM__lPTWThU[/youtube]
again, what the hell could I say about this, it speaks for itself, it just fucking RULES!
- Scott
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQaJj1qaAU[/youtube]
Such a sexy song to get your groove on to!
- Jenny
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqgXzPfAxjo[/youtube]
Actually didn’t listen to this in the 90′s but have since recognized the utter genius of this tune.
- Tiffany
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQCro68sRU[/youtube]
“Two Princes.” “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong.” The Docs put out what I
would consider one of the greatest cassettes ever that was chock full
of hits on both sides. They were poised to take over the world and be
even bigger than U2. And then… Nothing. They never put out another
cassette or CD and you never heard shit about them ever again.
Crap… I just realized, I hope they didn’t all die in some bus
accident or something.
- Chaz
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLw4CHe2_Mg[/youtube]
Truer words.
- Daniel
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs5AhkWuZF8[/youtube]
Kind of want to slap Lou Barlow but this is pure indie sugar drama pop.
- Charlie
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQOJglzT9Ns[/youtube]
Merges the math and intellect with the voice and loss.
-Daniel
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87nAc-o2JdE[/youtube]
Late night high school hangouts…
-Sarah
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzMSwTvWzE8[/youtube]
-Eric
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDsZMHW1wMM[/youtube]
I admit I don’t know what this song is about but I think I don’t
really need to understand it to enjoy it. That’s the thing about art,
you know? It’s different for everybody and you project what you think
you feel onto it. Me personally, I think the song is about just
getting into a sweet paintball groove where you’re owning every bitch
on the field but that’s probably because this is my go-to song when I
go into battle.
-Chaz
On the other hand, I do know what THIS song is about. Don’t watch this
one in public because I guarantee you it’s gonna make you cry.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUIPlLw2ZE[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U-ih-Jq79w
(Vid embedding disabled…shucks)
I’m not trying to be ironic or weird with this one at all. I had a spice rack in my kitchen about 12 years ago, it was covered in Spice Girl stickers, and housed their first 2 cd’s. This was a cheap joke because I worked at a record store, and there were always used copies in the bin. Totally worth it.
I was so perplexed by the fame of this group at the time. it made no sense how so many people around me fell for these strange older british ladies, and I really do try to give everything an honest chance, I just couldn’t understand the fascination (still can’t with a bunch: Oasis, Gene Loves Jezebel, Cirith Ungol, etc…)….
Cut to a few months later and I find myself in a movie theater on the opening day of SPICEWORLD, genuinely stoked to see the movie, more stoked than my girlfriend! What the fuck? What happened to my brain? How did this dumb joke of mine turn into “ohmygod!ohmygod!ohmygod!” fandom? Shortly after this happened, I saw the video for 2 Become 1 and it was all clear to me, sure, their voices are horrible garbage, and the programmed music is mediocre at best, but that wasn’t it, it was the lyrics! The lyrics are hyper suggestive which caught me first, middle, and last! These Spiced Girls are basically saying “tonight, dude, we’re gunna fuck! it’s not open for discussion” then the video itself, with that, them trapped in this slow dimension while time races around them thing.. it really fucked me up.. way more.. but in a good way more. Look out for the group-one-by-one looking up at you eye thing they do at the end, it’s during the awesome string breakdown! shiiiiiiit. I love you ginger spice.
-Scott
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d43U0OeWg3Q[/youtube]
You jerks probably think that I should have put ‘Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong’ on this list instead. No way! This is the hit for a reason. Anytime I’m having ‘the best day ever’, this song is playing on repeat in my head the whole time.
-D’Hoochie
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV_ME8eBB1w[/youtube]
Back in the day I was one of those dorks that thought Free Kitten was the shit. But: they kind of are. Who knew how much punk angst women in their forties could dish out?
-Juan
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc9n3hFM_Wc[/youtube]
Lilian Vieira’s sweet and sultry voice made me fall in love with her and the Portuguese language.
- Juan
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNrQOUtXYOo[/youtube]
Watch for the snake a couple of minutes in because I think that’s a
perfect analogy for Ed Kowalczyk. He’s a cobra ready to strike and he
brings that ferocity to his music.
- Chaz
Bonus: It’s Live, live! I was fucking AT this show, bitches.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucWcR2XClyk[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Dvlyn4W4c[/youtube]
Years before she appeared on Mr. Show & later became a star on ’24′ as Chloe, I had a mad crush on Mary Lynn Rajskub (who I went to Art School with for a year). Ya that’s right ya Chloe-fevered schmucks… Go eat yer Neo-Con paltry thriller computer chipped hearts out. Man, I hate that fuckin show… but I digress… Back then, Mary Lynn used to perform strangely hilarious shy stuttering open mic poetry as performance art spazz comedy routines and one fateful night we ended up at a house party dancing together like freezing mongoloid monkeybots caught in a temporal tractor-beam. An opportunity had finally presented itself… I was dancing with the girl I had been dreaming about all semester long but here I was rattling and shaking like a busted-up animatronic idiot from Showbiz Pizza! Oh no It’s all coming clear now… I remember how she seemingly tried to reach out to me, by playfully mocking my robo-retardo moves… but in my completely flabbergasted stoned-ass state I kept on devolving my moves into goofier and goofier spasms and tics until we stood there miming a robotic Russian winter of 1812. It was fun and we laughed about it but I could hardly speak, no wit to twit… Damn You POt! Sometimes I can get too stoned and then throw a heapin helpin of nervous nelly nerves on top and… forrgeddabouttit… I lose the ability to put together sentences and resort solely on telepathy…
But nothing ever came of it. I had fizzled or she had had a boyfriend… regardless she graduated soon after in the spring.
Years later when I discovered the above track, it kinda strangely rekindled my long ago, but not entirely forgotten, unrequited crush and for a brief moment it became my mantra for my last hurrah! of how I was finally, Shockingly! going to woo her… but really it made me question why whenever I wasn’t with anyone, I would remember her and still hold out some goofy hope that someday someway in summertime something might happen between us? I guess I thought she was my ‘one that got away’ ha! what a stretch… But after all the years that had passed, this goofy song, of all things(?) was finally forcing my hand… I resolved that: “The daydream must attempt to become reality! Dopey delusions & daydreams be damned!”
- Dr. G
inscrutable charmz...
Ok, so when Chaz sent in his weekly update from the Oblivious zone, I knew right away that if we posted his “top ten 90s songs” straight up, we, the back admin of NF, were gonna have another shit storm on our hands. Considering the amount of ravenous hate mail we got on his “10 Most Beautiful Women of the World” (more like the mall it turns out…) we decided executive measures we’re in order. So we put out a call to some peeps in the know from various musical backgrounds for their top 10 90s jams and ended up with a wild, weird and wonderful list of awesome 90s jams… So we decided why not mix them together and count down the 99 best jams of the 90s over 9 days… So without further ado here we go:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw[/youtube]
You ever have a relationship where everything seemed okay to you but
she just was never happy with anything you ever did even though you
fucking paid for everything like dinner at Houstons twice a month and
even co-signed on a PT Cruiser for her because of her shitty credit?
That’s what I think of when I hear this song. I think the word I’m
looking for is “bittersweet.”
- Chaz
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfJe8hQ8ha0[/youtube]
The perfect ukelele summer jam to dance on out of your Bugle Boys to!
- D’ Hoochie
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpoYNXrJfGM[/youtube]
It’s weird how much I LOVED Pavement and now It’s sort of hard to listen to. I don’t know why, maybe in 5 years I’ll be ready again. Or is it just too precious, too pretentious to ever work for me again? Time will tell. But this song still deserves to be on the list.
- Charlie
