i do mostly spanish hip-hop fridays 5-7 then uk/"future" bass stuff fridays 9-11
i listened to the new hfs for a bit when it first came back a few years ago and it just sounded like dc101
also the final song on the old hfs being buckley's last goodbye *tear*
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
i am occasionally pleasantly surprised by stuff the new hfs plays, but yeah obv it's not the same
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
The last song on WHFS was "After Hours" by the Velvet Underground. The station at 99.1 that switched to Spanish-Language had been garbage for at least the previous decade.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah yeahzzzz
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
(although i really appreciated the switch to el zol it was about damn time we got a spanish fm station)
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
anybody own that Soul Asylum record? A '95 example of ship's list of commercial failures.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
oops wrong thread
Would have picked "About a Girl" or possibly "Kenneth" at the time. Not completely sure now. Had no idea that Morrissey song made #1 on any US chart!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
"Tomorrow" did too in '92.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
plus five other songs that charted in the top 3
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
didn't chart on US rock radio again for a decade after "More," though, really just disappeared
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
Morrissey's mid nineties profile was so bewildering. He'd been going from peak to peak, then a year later the (British) hits were middling, even after the Bros Gallagher couldn't stop yakking about him and the Smiths.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
like I had no idea Morrissey was getting US hits before "The More You Ignore Me" (and had no idea that went #1)
― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
college radio hits
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey_discography
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
oh my bad
― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
Rumor has it he styles his pubes in a mullet.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of 1994 OMG you guys look what I saw in my local alt-weekly today can't wait so excited
http://s02.imageupper.com/1/5/L1337861850348606_1.jpg
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/319842_3720375324667_1134308060_3466100_808101273_n.jpg
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/319842_3720375324667_1134308060_3466100_808101273_n.jpg
oh ffs nevermind
also on my playlist of mediocre modern rock!
― how's life, Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
haha i had rotting pinata. "plowed" RULES
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
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not just college radio #1s, mainstream modern rock radio #1s!
― some dude, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
I was distinguishing between college/modern rock and Hot 100 hits.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
but college and modern rock charts are as different from each other (in terms of listenership #s) as modern rock is from the hot 100!
― some dude, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
i'm curious what it took to get a #1 in the pre-nirvana years of the modern rock chart because holy fuck robyn hitchcock got one
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
like at some point alt-radio got to a point where lou reed could no longer dominate it
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
I'd have to check old CMJ playlists but I heard those pre-Nirvana singles ("Balloon Man," "Madonna of the Wasps," "So You Think You're in Love") all the time on college radio, enough to say that there was overlap between it and the modern rock chart.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
like at some point alt-radio got to a point where lou reed old men could no longer dominate it
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm sure there was a lot more overlap/ambiguity between the 2 formats before the explosion circa 1992
― some dude, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
I doubt that even if Peter Gabriel had recorded more albums instead of growing a Fu Manchu he'd have scored another couple of modern rock #1's.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
Plowed is an awesome song. fuiud. Molly was also pretty great.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
looking over the charts, 1994 is like the last year where there's a chart-topper that wasn't a hit-hit
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
until the "rhcp, foo or gtfo" era i mean
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
gtfo was rhcp, weren't it?
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
The only way I make sense of the pre-91 modern rock charts is by imagining that they were all made up by one randomly chosen English TA.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
English TA's are dim creatures but they wouldn't own Ian McCulloch solo records.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
posting so that I remember the day I found out that the Counting Crows actually called one of their songs "Einstein on the Beach"
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MPv-kMF0MGo/TYf1CSowDBI/AAAAAAAAADM/i5whBN-G7M8/s1600/albert-einstein-1945.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
they took it from a philip glass opera. the song was pretty good
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
i'll have you know the full title of the song is "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)"
― some dude, Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
Albert's always sincere, he's a sensitive typeHis intentions are clear, he wanna be well-likedIf everything is nothing, then are we anything?Is it better to be better than to be anything?And Albert's vision is blooming uncontrolledAll his wings are slowly sinkingThe world begins to disappearThe worst things come from inside hereAll the king's men reappearFor an eggman, on and off the wallWho'll never be together againEinstein's down on the beach staring into the sandCause everything he believes in is shatteredWhat you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway-ayWe all get burned asone more sun comes sliding down the skyOne more shadow leans against the wallThe world begins to disappearThe worst things come from inside hereAnd all the king's men reappearfor an eggman, on and off the wallWho'll never be together againAlbert's waiting in the sunOn a field AmericanFor the cause of some inflated form of hit and runOne more sun comes sliding down the skyOne more shadow leans against the wallThe world begins to disappearThe worst things come from inside hereAnd all the king's men reappearfor an eggman, fallin' off the wallWill never be together againAlbert's fallen on the sunCracked his head wide openThe world begins to disappearThe worst things come from inside hereAnd all the king's men reappearfor an eggman, falling, fallingThe world begins to disappearThe worst things come from inside hereAnd all the king's men reappearfor an eggman, fallin' off the wallWill never be together againNo never be together againNo no never never never again, uh huhWhat you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway
― some dude, Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Definitely the Counting Crows' best straight pop (read: non-mawkish) song.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
why not write a song called "Einstein (Wearing Mandles)"?
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, who was buying Ian McCulloch records?
(And, yeah, I was surprised too to know that Counting Crows wrote a song named after Einstein on the Beach.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
I know they did, that's kind of my point
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
it's like if Avril called a song "The Kreutzer Sonata"
so you live to torture me is basically what you're saying
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
found out about you is so good and it is what i am voting for
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link