im not sure if this is the right thread for this but i just want to make sure everyone knows that i have several black friends
― max, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Aaliyah - "Are You That Somebody?" - 2003 or '04. Almost certainly downloaded after having read about the song on ILM.
ok, i'm with deej, you really do live under a rock
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm actually more surprised about "Paranoid Android" taking till '01! Esp. considering "Hyperballad" and "Common People" were already familiar
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
ah wait missed the "probably overheard it in college" part
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha in a "who am i to be speaking" moment, i just realized i never heard any of the songs on this list by white people during the 90s (although i was familiar with "loser" from friends playing weird al's "alternative polka"). i still haven't heard seven of them.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
not one of these, aside from nirvana/weezer, ever got airplay back then did they? i just remember the 90's as a whole lot of eminem and offspring.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
alright ban kelpolaris
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
songs on this i've never heard
dj shadowbjorkdepeche modemazzy staraphex twinpavement (before i looked it up because it won the poll)
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I've made no bones about the fact that I didn't listen to commercial pop music at all between like 1994 and 2002!
In the summer of '98, when "Are You That Somebody?" came out, I had a weekly internship at Minty Fresh Records and listening to stuff on the label, like the Aluminum Group and Komeda. I was still thick in the midst of a crush on both Stereolab and Tortoise. The only radio stations I fucked with were the college station in Kalamazoo, and the AAA and alt-rock stations in Chicago. I didn't have cable. I heard "Flagpole Sitta" because it was used in the commercials for Disturbing Behavior. I heard "Criminal" on Q101 while driving to the northern suburbs to jam with friends from college. I heard "One Week." One of the CDs I bought right before the end of my sophomore year was Gastr del Sol's Camoufleur. I read Pitchforkmedia.com for the first time when I was looking for reviews of that album. I borrowed David Grubbs and Steve Reich albums from my friend Colin. I listened to Sonic Youth's A Thousand Leaves, even though I thought it was a step down from Washing Machine. I made awesome synth jams on a Korg I borrowed from the head honcho at Minty Fresh. I saw a ton of indie movies, like Whatever and Your Friends and Neighbors and The Opposite of Sex and Buffalo '66 and Henry Fool and Slums of Beverly Hills, but I never saw Dr. Dolittle. Never heard "The Boy Is Mine," either.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
...but I'm losing my edge!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
j0rdan listen to Enjoy The Silence on YouTube, I'm like 100% certain youve heard it
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll cop to never having heard that Belle & Sebastian song
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:13 (fourteen years ago) link
for a period in the late 90s following a severe head injury the sound of my refrigerator humming at night sounded exactly like the mazzy star song listed here
i first heard "smells like teen spirit" vacationing in belgium in 2002. it was playing over a german-language commercial for the hyundai accent.
i have never heard the björk, depche mode or outkast singles &, quite frankly, hope i never will.
during my senior year of high school in 2001 my roommate alexander lost his virginity to beck's loser. consequently he would play it on repeat while studying for ap chem finals. he was also a big aphex twin fan but claimed that, with the important exception of the 1st 30 minutes of "selected ambient works vol. II", nothing aphex twin ever recorded could be played during sex.
i 1st heard nothing but a g thang during a fifth grade presentation on the effects of air pollution. it played over a montage of fish killed by acid rain.
as far as i cant tell the belle & sebastian and aaliyah singles are situationist pranks executed by the editors of pitchfork. no such songs have ever existed, nor should they.
the radiohead song was used in the short lived cbs situation comedy "the naked lens" starring rhea pherlman and téa leoni. i 1st heard it in a commercial for a high-end swiss watch brand.
the pulp song was played regularly in british taxi cabs when i was living in london while my stepfather oversaw a bank merger there. this was ~1997/8. i cannot pinpoint the moment i heard it any more exactly.
i bought and still own "in an aeroplane over the sea" on compact disc. however i have never listened to it & the disc remains in its original shrinkwrap. i 1st heard holland 1945 @ an indie dance night at stanford.
as for the rest i probably first heard them during a brief and rather foolish infatuation with shortwave radio when i was 12.
― swagula (Lamp), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i've never heard that nirvana song. should i check it out on youtube?
― charlie h, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:19 (fourteen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:09 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
haha was just coming down here to post this -- its def wayyy too dancey & uhhh awesome for him not to be into
― you cant see me markers (deej), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
imo any respectable cut copy fan shd really know that jam
― you cant see me markers (deej), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i might've heard this before but it doesn't ring any bells
it is really good tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
thought i heard a dope depeche mode song on the radio last month but it was actually this d-_-b
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOyyrB1wj04&feature=related
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― charlie h, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:19 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
^^this guy laid the foundation for a good run of sockpuppetry in the al ship top 50 rock songs thread but really just blew the whole thing here
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
had no idea ned raggett had a band xp
― you cant see me markers (deej), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh w/ d-mode i was always more a personal jesus fan as far as that big jams go
i imagine that everyone from the 80s looks like ned raggett
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
if gr80 REALLY wants 2 show me how to live he needs to get a video of ned karaoke'ing this next time
― you cant see me markers (deej), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
ban charlie h
― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry for that guys.
anyway, in seriousness i had to double check that i'd heard the aaliyah song. everything else i could recall because it was either a) right up my alley, or b) a staple from my youth.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty good Lamp post up there
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, quality
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
This is my favorite Depeche Mode knockoff:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OJahIpVzR0
― jaymc, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
^that's some good shit
as far as farces go, this thread is pretty weak
― hobbes, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
gonna have to check out this "WU TANG CLAN", though, thanks ilx
― hobbes, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link
you mean you don't know?
― hobbes, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
not trolling here, but when/how/why is "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" a thing? I had to look it up on YouTube just to know what Kast song it was... :/
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
TR0LLIN but you mean you don't know?
― hobbes, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
it doesn't even have a wiki page
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
cuz it's fucking dope? idk
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 September 2010 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
it has the best horn chart ever?
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 07:21 (fourteen years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10:28 PM Bookmark
does this include madonna?
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
many ppl had sideburns in the 80s
― hk phooey (crüt), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 07:25 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^^ Jason Priestly waited until '91.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 11:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― max, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:33 (6 hours ago)
this is the thread yes
― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:57 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
bcuz its a beloved outkast single
― you cant see me markers (deej), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:13 (fourteen years ago) link
smh
according to wikipedia it wasn't a single?
(that's one i def don't remember from the time, and didn't hear until i finally copped aquemini about 5 years ago, and it's good but not really a stand-out even on its album imo)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
idk those horns kinda make it stand out
― just sayin, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i think my favs on aquemini are rosa parks/mamacita/liberation, but ehhh i've never been, like, obsessed with outkast
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/OutKast-Spottieottiedopaliscious/release/219553
― you cant see me markers (deej), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
its absolutely a standout
yall are trying to second guess me here -- as w/ check the rhime & juicy, i think this is absolutely a great representative of their careers
mamacita
nononononononoNONONONONONONONONO
― the mid- '80s vein of hellmusic we love to hate (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
just... no
smgdh