Local H's "All the Kids are Right"
― kiss out the jams, Sunday, September 16, 2007 4:23 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
You're a fucking cunt for reminding me of this song...
Allow me to retort...
Also, there's a 1990's grunge-pop thred floating around that swimming with this shit.
― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this what you wantedSammy HagarSammy Hagar,Is this what you wanted, man?Dave lost his hairlineBut you lost your cool, buddy"Can't Drive 55"?I'll never buy your lousy records again
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 15 February 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Pop Grunge Popsub- grunge crap S&DRethinking the Grunge eraPost grunge mix
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 15 February 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Rahzel - All I Know
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 February 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Liquido - Narcotic
This one was a a huge hit in my city, I have no idea if it was as big on the whole country or anywhere else but this one kept being requested on the radio for more than a year. Nowadays few people remember it by name until I play it and they immediatly recognize the opening piano melody.
― Moka, Monday, 23 February 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone finally posted a full video of the afore-discussed "Fix," so here it is:
"All right y'all!"
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Moka - never heard, or heard of, that before... nice hook! The guy's "Gavin Rossdale with a keytar" thing doesn't really draw me in though...I can believe in this as a local hit.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I actually had no idea what the guys looked like because I had never seen the video before posting it here.Shortly afterwards they released another hit single called 'play some rock' tho it never garnered the same sort of attention over here. Also has a very catchy keyboard melody:
― Moka, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 06:58 (fifteen years ago) link
More also-ran trip-hop: "Failure" by Skinny
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 07:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Chopper One - Punk Named Josh
MxPx - Chick Magnet
also both good candidates for Punk-pop of the late 1990s was a good genre
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 May 2009 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Presidents of the United States of America - "Volcano" and "Mach 5":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXwzSPc0FoA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z02Y54Ce3U&feature=channel
Like most of the source album II these are pleasant and reasonably hooky, not quite up to the snuff of "Peaches" or "Lump" but not bad either.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Semisonic - If I Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y4PibJUQdc
Album before "Closing Time," good use of the guy's voice and a much more distinctive sound than they'd have on their later hits...there are traces of the Beatles pastiche on "All About Chemistry" but here they sound almost Elephant Six-y with the watery guitars and all. One of the best post-grunge choruses, IMO.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
9. LL Cool J, "Deepest Bluest" - Soundtrack contribution, LL Cool J rapping about how scary he would be if he was actually a mutant shark-man. "My hat is like a shark's fin!" Also written about at the page I linked above, and I'm having no luck at all tracking down the video, although I assure you it was a staple on The Box.― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 9 September 2007 17:57 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 9 September 2007 17:57 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Here is a link to the Deepest Bluest video: http://www.clip4e.com/play_ll_cool_j_deepest_bluest.htm
It is truly as amazing as Dr. Casino said. Plus, there's MORPHING in the video.
― the who cares (okamax), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Carnival Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCCdZtrvf50&feature=related
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
When I saw Carnival Art in London they were giving out unused VHS tapes with this video on. About 20 people at the gig as I recall...
― Matt #2, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
This has made my day because I had completely forgotten about it but as soon as I read the title I could hear it in my head.
Not quite sure where to draw the line of too obscure to mention on this thread. S'pose "token dance track on the Evening Session every night for a fortnight, sold approx. 3 copies, never heard of again" is probably not it and I should take my vague nostalgia for Deejay Punkroc or the Ecologist to This is the thread where we reminisce over not particularly good Evening Session bands from the late 90s or the big beat thread or somewhere
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno how memorable it really is, but I do rather fondly remember the UK Eurovision entry from 1999, "Say It Again", which was quite nice and surely much better than Charlotte Nilsson's winning song.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yea Matt, I saw them on the saem (probably only) tour in Glasgow, there were about 15 people there tops.
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 10:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Too weird for the mainstream, too mainstream for the weirdos (apart from me)!
― Matt #2, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I've mentioned the Thrumdrone record on other threads, it still stands up pretty well imho.
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Too weird for the mainstream, too mainstream for the weirdos
XTC and Thomas Dolby. :)
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g92vl5lsWVM
John Mellencamp - Just Another Day (aka "the Big Jim Picato song")
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 September 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ha. that one and "fire escape" are pretty much the only ones i remember.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"fire escape" is pretty grebt though.
dopey, but grebt. nice hook.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's a nicely done song! A drag at karaoke though, it turns out there's a few too many repetitions of the chorus IIRC.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
and now on youtube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMyjjeSWak
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"fire escape" came up on Pandora for me just yesterday!
― a seminar on ass play for kids or something (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Not on YouTube, but: 1,000 Clowns, "(Not The) Greatest Rapper."
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
From the comments for 1000 Clowns:"i wonder how many chicks he picked up with that song?I am thinking 0"― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, July 15, 2006 3:59 PM Bookmark
"i wonder how many chicks he picked up with that song?
I am thinking 0"
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, July 15, 2006 3:59 PM Bookmark
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Robbie Williams - "Millenium". Really great pop tune, I thought it was big but nobody really remembers it anymore. Was stunned to find out that he was like a multi-billionaire with a castle...I thought this was his debut. I guess in America we never really heard much of him.
Moxy Fruvous - "King of Spain". Fun and gimmicky, actually this band turned out to be pretty decent if a little grating.
Janet Jackson - "Runaway". I hear it a lot in grocery stores and the like. I'm not really a fan but the vocal overdubs in this song were incredible. I always thought the song sounded unfinished and could have been a lot better. I still enjoy it (believe it or not)
Merril Bainbridge - "Mouth". Remember this cute little aussie girl? Kind of what I called "Mom Rock", catchy and quirky, and very friendly. If you don't remember it's the one that goes "would it be so bad/if I could turn you on?" She had another single "Under the Water" that got stuck in my head for like 10 years. I also remember that she did a Pet Shop Boys cover that was pretty interesting. Wonder what happened to her...?
Little T and One Track Mike - "Shaniqua". Classic!! Looking back this tune was even more bizarre than I remembered! "She's busy milking her purple cow and talkin' to the Easter Bunny!" Really bizarre rhymes but altogether this came together quite well.
Bad Ronald - "Shoot the Shit". Saw it on MTV a few times, had no idea what to think. Catchy tune but the bad clearly wanted to have more of an edge. Somehow I may be the only one who remembers "Bad Ronald".
Aqua - "Doctor Jones". Yes, they DID have another single! If I recall correctly this was a #1 in their home country and generally very big in Europe. In fact, Aquarium technically had 7 singles! "Doctor Jones" is easily their best, one of the few perfect pop songs in existance (really!)
Doctor Casino - I do remember Everclear's "One Hit Wonder"...IMO it was the best single off that album, maybe because it actually kind of sounded different from the rest? I went back and listened to the Everclear disc I bought when I was 12 and wow do they recycle their chord progressions a lot. Sounds great when you're 12 though.
I also thought "Fire Escape" was pretty great. Just pure and perfect power-pop. Sadly the band wasn't really that great. They still kick around but from what I've heard never really made a good album.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"Millenium" is the only Robbie Williams song I know!
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the reason you never hear it anymore is like "Will 2k," it has a built in expiration date. "Millenium" does get some play on adult contempo radio sometimes.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Samantha Mumba
― the knicks ain't that bad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Robin S - Show Me Love & Robyn S - Show Me Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2OkrWNmzEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwaxy3KCfgQ
― the knicks ain't that bad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Robyn* ;)
― the knicks ain't that bad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Yvette Michele - I'm Not Feelin You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opgllgc_lOw
― the knicks ain't that bad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Horace Brown - One For the Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB-VTA9nw2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXbldxnQgy8
Jennifer Trynin, "Better Than Nothing"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
She later wrote one of those "alternative rock, what was THAT about?" memoirs like the drummer from Semisonic
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
da croupier -- where the hell were you living in the 90's and why did this song show up on the radio?
― the knicks ain't that bad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, the "Alternative" station in State College, PA actually played shit like Chavez' "The Guard Attacks" and Sebadoh's "The Ocean" as Buzz Tracks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHtVvq4I_S0&ob=av2e
Veruca Salt - "Shutterbug"
A friend had this on his tumblr the other day, couldn't remember how it went at ALL until I played it even though I owned the cassette and recognized the video from multiple views on 120 Minutes
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i am a fan and this has long been my favorite song by her
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
The Firm "Phone Tap"
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Did Veruca Salt use those novelty tall dresses in another video, or am I just thinking of the novelty bungee cord harnesses in "Volcano Girls"?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf Nas Escobar? I'm so confused about what the name of this group was supposed to be... So I guess it's not The Firm..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9zpTTZirk
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
32. The Offspring - "All I Want" (the last alt-rock semi-hit to clock less than 2:00?)
up until "United States Of Whatever" & "Fell In Love with A Girl"
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"she's all i ever had" ricky martin
literally i think i am the only person on earth who remembers this song (including ricky martin) and i'm probably the only one who enjoys it too
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just talking w/my friend on the phone and had to remind him Marcy Playground had a hit after "Sex and Candy" (albeit a smaller one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPWZZ4QaSQ0
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link