Oh yeah. My local Alt-Rock station had a strict 'no repeats' policy during DJ shifts that they broke for "Discotheque"--I swear they played it every hour for two or three weeks.
I feel I should also mention here that I was one of the ten people who saw the ABC PopMart TV special when it aired.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
The Apollo 100 thread reminded me of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GHN1Mu6VG0
Apollo 440: "Stop The Rock" (a summer '99 release that may have had more impact in 2000)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 July 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmw94O9OWRE
Fatboy Slim: "Going Out of My Head"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 July 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd_UCgMaHYQ
Death In Vegas: "Dirt"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 July 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
Last 3 posts brought to you in part by MTV's AMP and new Diet Mountain Dew.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 July 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
I remember hearing Bachelor Girl's "Buses and Trains" on the radio back in 1998, but I'm surprised to find it only got to number 65 in the UK:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJJKXt3tczw
― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 18 July 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
Stop the Rock was pretty well known in meme circles and sites like YTMND in the 2000s.
― MarkoP, Monday, 18 July 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
Also, I don't think I've heard Ace of Base's "Love is a Flower" since... also 1998, in fact it was released a few weeks before "Buses and Trains":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdc_6YvJfFo
I remember liking it - the lyrics are drivel but the verse has an odd structure. It goes to the chorus one line before you expect. I also remember feeling slightly surprised that Ace of Base were still a thing.
Bizarrely it was released in the United States as... a different song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkSdP1-GY9s
The lyrics make more sense (they were written by Mike Chapman) but it's not as good. This is the thing about actually living through 1998. I can remember 1998! I have no idea what I did in 2012, but I can remember 1998. I really have no idea what I did in 2012.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 18 July 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
Haven't listened to that Death in Vegas track for years! think my pal put it on a tape for me. I liked Ace of Base but hated that song. Was on Radio 2 forever and ever.
― kinder, Monday, 18 July 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
So here's me trying to catch the differences between Canada and the United States in that time period. Particularly where I remember stuff getting a bit of airplay in Canada, but apparently not enough to have a charting position listed on the single's Wikipedia page, but also nothing listed for the United States either:
Did the Spice Girls solo material get any airplay in the United States? I particularly remember seeing Melanie C's "Going Down" and "Never Be The Same Again" getting some play on MuchMusic, and a little bit of play of Melanie B's "I Want You Back" and her cover of "Word Up". Geri Halliwell's singles seemed to fair a lot better, particularly "Look at Me", "Mi Chico Latino", and her cover of "It's Raining Men". Zero recollection of Emma Bunton or Victoria Beckham's solo stuff making any bit of dent over here though.
― MarkoP, Monday, 18 July 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
I dug all three of "Stop the Rock," "Going Out Of My Head," and especially "Dirt." The video of that one really impressed/freaked me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QWJm5cY60c
I don't think I saw it on TV much, maybe on some early realplayer-type online streaming service like Launch.com... not sure when that would have been though.
"Stop the Rock" I think I saw on MTV2 circa fall 2000. A tasty big-beat obscurity in the USA, a top 10 hit in the UK.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 July 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
And yeah, meme references checks out for "Stop the Rock" -- someone made a video of it attached to the rolling boulder scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was worth a giggle iirc.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 July 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
I particularly remember seeing Melanie C's "Going Down" and "Never Be The Same Again" getting some play on MuchMusic, and a little bit of play of Melanie B's "I Want You Back" and her cover of "Word Up". Geri Halliwell's singles seemed to fair a lot better, particularly "Look at Me", "Mi Chico Latino", and her cover of "It's Raining Men".
I remember some modest controversy over the double entendre of "Going Down", and "Look At Me" got some TRL action, but I think that was it. When America was done with the Spice Girls, they were _done_.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 July 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
Mr Icon mentioned them up the page, but Sugar Ray's "Every Morning" seemed to be on the radio all the time when it came out. It got to number ten in the UK. I'm not going to link to the video because I hated that song, everything about it. The smugness. I hated the smugness. It embodies a certain time and place and it can't exist outside that context.
My memory also throws Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" at me. That got to number five. The two songs came out within a few months of each other in early 1999. I think of it as the "something something something samurai" song.
I remember Mel C's "Northern Star" getting a lot of airplay. I've always associated it with darkness, rain, and the cold. I realise now that must be because it came out in November 1999, which probably explains why. Pre-millennial tension and all that. Bad weather. It got to number 5. Didn't chart in the US at all. The parent album got good reviews and sold a couple of million, but only reached 108 in the US. My recollection is that Geri Halliwell's solo singles were inexplicably popular, despite being naff, but she was likeable enough so it was hard to be annoyed with her.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 18 July 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
Looking at the "Goin' Down" video and realizing it could have been where Miley Cyrus got all of her edgy schtick from...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn7OS2K-hwI
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
Dirt, Going Out of My Head, Stop the Rock... All very much in my territory, these. STR is great but along with Lost in Space marks a point where they kept peddling novelties, soundtrack remixes etc. - not a criticism, and after all they beat Scooter to Quo-rave territory by a decade, but it ended up spelling a commercial dead end for them here in the UK after 2000.
Both the Geri and Mel C albums try a bit of everything but they come across in different ways. Mel C was I think going the 'Robbie route'* and trying a lot of 'credible' (in a Radio 1 way) things hoping certain ones will stick (influences incl. Garbage, noise pop, Britpop, TLC, Ray of Light), plus there was her V99 performance and NME being relentlessly ruthless to her throughout 99-00 for Daring To Touch Their Music. But after an infamous false start (Goin' Down), the album took off here in 2000 after some of its less typical tracks - the gorgeous Left Eye collab, a noisy Ibiza trance remix of the title track - really took off. She had a good year. Geri's album other hand is eclectic in the way Spiceworld was. A general variety show feel, brash and all quite pastichey and lighthearted-seeming in hindsight (although still careful enough to ensure all its diversions - Shirley Bassey-ishness, Latin pop, the big disco golden ring - were going to make her a success. And there's also the matter of the former of those, Look at Me, being intended as a total Event single).
*maybe before Robbie himself even had. His most realised Big Tent-ish move isn't until Sing When You're Winning (summer 2000).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 18 July 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
Geri is a terrible singer but a great pop star. "Look At Me" is an incredible piece of provocation, it's her doubling down on everything that she was hated for and embracing it whole-heartedly.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 09:34 (one year ago) link
Mel C's solo stuff made me think there was literally something wrong with me because she was supposedly "the good singer" in the Spice Girls, and I found her yowling unbearable. and I like yowling!
― kinder, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 09:54 (one year ago) link
Yeah can't stand Mel C's voice either, Emma was the best singer and had imo the best solo single ("Maybe") but that didn't seem to equate to much chart success on either side of the Atlantic.
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 10:25 (one year ago) link
here's the forgotten big beat hit (though not much of a hit) missing from the list above.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IWl77o3l50
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 10:28 (one year ago) link
Going back to MarkoP's post-Beck/Cake/Sublime Spirit of 96 playlist: could the transition from the verse to the chorus of Kid Rock "Cowboy" be marked as some kind of end point for the genre? The moment the big (sampled?) drum fill kicks in, Kid lapses from chilled-out woozy summer vibes into sub-Aerosmith rawkin' and the spell is broken.
(I guess "All Summer Long" could be sort of a belated return back to this sound/style.)
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 27 October 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
Also, Kid-adjacent, I'd also consider ICP's "Another Love Song," which actually samples Beck's "Jack-Ass" to cast a backyard-party haze over their misogynistic murder fantasies.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 27 October 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABBPdf5SwJA
Linda Perry: "Fill Me Up"
#onethread
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 February 2023 02:16 (one year ago) link
Huh! Never knew that existed. It's... Huh. I don't hate the performance and I kinda like the sound, but the song itself isn't landing with me tbh.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 February 2023 04:39 (one year ago) link
Earned some modest airplay late summer/early fall '96. Kind of interesting in how it tries to sell that it's the "What's Up" lady, but with every edge softened, which kind of misses the point of what people who like that song like about it.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 February 2023 05:15 (one year ago) link
I didn't know until I heard Pink talking about it on Howard Stern a couple days ago, but she's the reason Linda Perry came out of semi-retirement. Pink was a huge fan and went looking for her to do some writing/producing. And now she won't go away lol
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 25 February 2023 06:24 (one year ago) link
My daughter used the expression "I'm living a lie" this morning and it inexplicably thrust this song into my head that seems to have left very little lasting footprint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk0aiREnTsc
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 12:20 (one year ago) link
"What do you do when you feel like you're living a lie?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k67uejNr9FA
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
Courtesy of Lithium Deep Cuts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqeT9ooYKnM
Jimmie's Chicken Shack: "High", a Godsmack-y Hard Rock song preparing absolutely no one for their next album's Blink-182/Lit-move lead single "Do Right":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsttsAHkZvw
^Mentioned upthread by some dude. The video is...something else (as you can see, MTV2 actually aired it with the intro interview bit w/the ex-girlfriend, which was eventually edited out for regular MTV after an airing or two)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 February 2024 18:55 (two months ago) link
def remember "Do Right." "High" is tickling some memory bone but nothing specific. I guess they were early Korn adopters? Kind of an awkward fit with the bright colorful video. Not sure they should have agreed to the "actual chicken shack" video concept.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 10 February 2024 03:13 (two months ago) link
Apparently they are still active and released their most recent album in 2022??
Early Korn Adopters is my new band name, thanks doc
― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 10 February 2024 13:26 (two months ago) link
The Soundtrack To Our Lives - Instant Repeater '99
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6tk-3ADdg
― llurk, Sunday, 11 February 2024 00:14 (two months ago) link