the spot that I have for this era of music is very soft

I don't know what it is

Late 1994/early 1995

I guess I was finally growing into myself as a person (as everyone tends to do at that age), and this song was just kind of around and it's just stuck with me ever since

I still have absolutely no idea who this guy was before this song, which was pretty much his final hit and was probably dismissed by people who loved him for *checks wikipedia* "Goody Two Shoes" or whatever

there is no longer any place in this world for the emotions in this song

No one plays guitar like this anymore, the instrument is just not comin back

don't know what to tell you

now playing his ambient album and it's not bad at all

Oh wow, he also did this song, I've probably heard this a hundred times but never connected the dots until now

undo wrote:

I don't know what it is

Late 1994/early 1995

I guess I was finally growing into myself as a person (as everyone tends to do at that age), and this song was just kind of around and it's just stuck with me ever since

Oh fuck, the chorus of this just hit me right the fuck in the face. Not sure I've heard this since '96.

Also I always thought this was Matthew Sweet.

undo wrote:
I still have absolutely no idea who this guy was before this song, which was pretty much his final hit and was probably dismissed by people who loved him for *checks wikipedia* "Goody Two Shoes" or whatever

I have this weird postcard my cooler friend sent me where Adam Ant is in like leather pants and black lipstick and a shirt that says something like "fuck me" and he's with Souixsie Souix so I guess he was a punker at some point? But yeah, the same.

Yeah, Adam Ant was a punk. He was like Gary Numan in that way. They were both in the London punk scene but then embraced synthesizers. Adam was always looking for fame from what I’ve read whereas Gary Numan stayed weird, even though he got lucky with Cars.

The only thing this really has in common with anything else here is that it's totally faded from the collective memory and there's just no nostalgia for this band here at all. Now in Canada, I mean I'm sure they're not Tragically Hip-level revered but this may be a different story.

Cowboy Junkies' cover of "Sweet Jane" is the song I know by them. I heard it a long time before I heard VU's version and love it almost as much as the original.

undo wrote:

I still have absolutely no idea who this guy was before this song, which was pretty much his final hit and was probably dismissed by people who loved him for *checks wikipedia* "Goody Two Shoes" or whatever

there is no longer any place in this world for the emotions in this song

No one plays guitar like this anymore, the instrument is just not comin back

Really really feeling this right now. Everything about it. Have never heard this in my life.


This isn't really of this era per say, but I'm really getting these JJ vibes:

Ned Braden wrote:

Really really feeling this right now. Everything about it. Have never heard this in my life.

I am very surprised to hear this.

I also assumed you'd have thoughts about the OP.

BGwaves wrote:Yeah, Adam Ant was a punk. He was like Gary Numan in that way. They were both in the London punk scene but then embraced synthesizers. Adam was always looking for fame from what I’ve read whereas Gary Numan stayed weird, even though he got lucky with Cars.

Further tangential from the theme of this thread but Adam Ant has a super-interesting place in that period of UK popular music. Great reading:
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2014/05/adam-ant-in-seattle-with-me/

Duff... wrote:

Ned Braden wrote:

Really really feeling this right now. Everything about it. Have never heard this in my life.

I am very surprised to hear this.

I also assumed you'd have thoughts about the OP.

Another one I hadn’t even heard! I was feeling it as well, but folks had already commented on it a bit. The reason I felt the need to comment on the Adam Ant song is that I know and like Adam Ant. I had a couple of his 80s records and listened to them a lot, but the idea of him even existing 1990s and beyond seemed foreign to me.

Cowboy Junkies song is kind of woven together in my memories with "Fade Into You" by Mazzy Star (not included in this thread because it's more alternative rock than I wanted this thread to go and also because I already started a thread on it a year or two ago). But apparently they came out three years apart!

Very specific and distinct memories of "A Common Disaster" being in the movie Twister or on the soundtrack but the Internet does not confirm this whatsoever.

By far the lamest song in this thread (yet, anyway), something about it just stops me in my tracks every time I hear it. I'm instantly transported back in time to a specific place... one that makes no sense at all because I never owned this CD or anything so I certainly couldn't be listening to it on the bus ride home from school under any circumstances. Yet I get a super specific memory of staring out the window while the bus lumbered through a backwoods subdivision that was miles and miles from my home because whoever designed the bus routes was either corrupt or incompetent at their job.

When Duran Duran were the biggest band in the world, I was totally oblivious to them. I was not aware of them until "Ordinary World" was on the radio all the time and even then, I didn't know anything about who they were or where they came from.

"Too Much Information" was the first song I heard when I woke up for school on the first day of eighth grade. I remember alarm clock underneath my fish tank on the other side of the room going off and this song playing through the little speaker on top, the red digital display lighting up the time but I have no memory of what it said. The Madchester vibes of this still do something for me but keep in mind that I'm entertained by some of the corniest stuff that came out of that scene.

This is not a good song by any means. I won't try to explain what I thought this song was about at the time but I didn't certainly catch onto how much it was just them complaining about not being arena rock stars anymore in the 90s.

Think I posted about this recently but I remember the first time hearing "Ordinary World" and having my mind blown that Duran Duran were still alive.

undo wrote:

By far the lamest song in this thread (yet, anyway), something about it just stops me in my tracks every time I hear it.

I nearly contributed "Fields of Gold" to this thread but declined because I thought it'd be too lame.

I will savor “Fields of Gold” any time I hear it in a restaurant or store. Sting is lame but he always did whatever he wanted and maybe there’s nothing cooler than that.

undo wrote:

By far the lamest song in this thread (yet, anyway), something about it just stops me in my tracks every time I hear it. I'm instantly transported back in time to a specific place... one that makes no sense at all because I never owned this CD or anything so I certainly couldn't be listening to it on the bus ride home from school under any circumstances. Yet I get a super specific memory of staring out the window while the bus lumbered through a backwoods subdivision that was miles and miles from my home because whoever designed the bus routes was either corrupt or incompetent at their job.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/09/disturbed-cover-sting-if-i-ever-lose-my-faith-in-you/

the sincerity of this just gets to me

God damn. I forgot that that song existed!

Never heard that before in my life. That's really 94-95?

Duff... wrote:Never heard that before in my life. That's really 94-95?

Barely missed the top 10 in 1992. I'm not really being picky about when any of these are from, really.

Heard it for possibly the first time this century in the grocery store the other day.

Ned Braden wrote:This isn't really of this era per say, but I'm really getting these JJ vibes:

This band is definitely remembered as one hit wonders in the US... but did you know they actually had two top five hits? This one actually came out first!

Kinda want to post "Sowing the Seeds of Love" in here (definitely one of the definitive songs that made me want to start some kind of thread like this in the first place) but it's like three years older than I thought it was. Like, I can close my eyes and remember sitting in front of my boombox in my bedroom and hearing that song on the radio right after something like "Pets" by Porno For Pyros or "Numb" by U2 but if these memories are actually accurate, then I was fooled into believing that it was a new song and not something that was released and peaked in 1989.

Also, how on earth is this from 1997 and not, like, 1994 or something?