Yeah i can't keep hating on 'in the meantime' i was trying to get my appreciation back to secret. fail. i still like it.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 29 June 2018 03:02 (five years ago) link
Speaking of Bran Van:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm622tnjmjM
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 June 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
Except in Len's case, the sample is basically the whole song
Uh no it’s not... it’s the bridge
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 29 June 2018 06:06 (five years ago) link
― pomenitul, viernes 29 de junio de 2018 4:15 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I do not understand, what does this has to do with Bran van?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 June 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
Len ftw
― stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
As close to this as dEUS came
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP_kdA_NqeI
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Friday, 29 June 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link
― dorsalstop, Friday, 29 June 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
Going through mid-year best of features, Caroline Rose's "Soul No. 5" is the spiritual descendant of this aesthetic, rock anthem + cautious embrace of hip hop. Though I don't think I'd have made the connection without seeing this thread 'cause I kinda repress memories of this era in 90s music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzIfmtKSLTE
At first I thought the difference was that Rose has a layer of sarcasm. But a lot of these songs felt like they had a layer of sarcasm at the time, but the sarcasm has burned off and it feels earnest in retrospect.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 29 June 2018 11:27 (five years ago) link
James Di Salvio is featured in it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 June 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
Absolute Radio on in the office today - we've had Len and the New Radicals so far (NR sounding GREAT)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 29 June 2018 11:43 (five years ago) link
At first I thought the difference was that Rose has a layer of sarcasm. But a lot of these songs felt like they had a layer of sarcasm at the time, but the sarcasm has burned off and it feels earnest in retrospect.― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, June 29, 2018 12:27 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, June 29, 2018 12:27 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah I'm not getting a whole lot of sarcasm from these, more naivety, jejeune
― Hotdogs Killcars (dog latin), Friday, 29 June 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
Fan of the first two (Canadian), tired of the third, don't know the other two. If "How Bizarre" were listed, that'd get my vote; as is, "Steal My Sunshine." (I don't think I'd include "Loser" here, probably not "1979" either.)
― clemenza, Friday, 29 June 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
Except in Len's case, the sample is basically the whole songUh no it’s not... it’s the bridge
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 29 June 2018 13:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nntd2fgMUYw
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― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 29 June 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
i really dislike that song as it edges things really closely to Toploader territory but there's no denying it's a Sunny D
― Hotdogs Killcars (dog latin), Friday, 29 June 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/34324828_10160551886875385_3571852312689246208_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=0f1b7925563ba9c1e7b5017f393c3699&oe=5BB1E4F7
― Hotdogs Killcars (dog latin), Friday, 29 June 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
I feel like a good example of a modern take on this sound would be Only Real, which also mixes it with a bit of King Krule and Mac Demarco:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q5nFR-EW7U
But it definitely has strong touches of Bran Van, Len and some New Radicals in there.
― MarkoP, Friday, 29 June 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
i was singing the ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooeooh bit from in the meantime in the shower this morning
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 June 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
i just youtubed drinking in la because i didn't remember it. i'm pretty sure i've never heard it before, and fuuuuuk, no way.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 29 June 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
I revisited it again this morning as well. I'm mainly indifferent, but the way it interpolates "Gin & Juice" pushes it into the No column -- that's some Dynamite Hack shit, avant la lettre.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 29 June 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
It's almost more akin to something like "Lazy Sunday" (an SNL Digital Short™) than it is a pop song.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 29 June 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
I don't think I had ever seen the music video for it before. Want to try and identify all the records shown? 1:35 and 2:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQsQZvsR_QI
There's:
David Bowie - HeroesConnie Francis - Sing Along with Connie FrancisCommodores - self titledToronto - Get It On Credit
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 June 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
What are Gregg Alexander's other good songs? I tried getting into the New Radicals album recently and I thought it was kind of annoying but I know he's written a handful of songs that I like.
Rivers Cuomo covered one of them on a demo collectionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYNA-SKrYiY
― billstevejim, Friday, 29 June 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
Some other albums from the Bran Van clip
ELO: DiscoveryLoverboy: S/TBruce Springsteen: Greetings From Asbury Park...
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
also had never heard Drinking in LA, and I was a freshman in college at the time who wore raver/skater pants but listened to some hiphop so it should've def been on my radar.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Here’s another Gregg Alexander classique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z6HP7fvbkI
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 29 June 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
I quite liked Drinking in LA because I first heard it when I was LA, drinking. It was my first time in the US and it was all very exciting. This was in 1999 so I think it had been out for ages by then. Tbh I have a reasonable tolerance for this kind of vibe even though I don't really *like* any of these songs I don't hate them either. Apart from that Eagle Eye Cherry one maybe.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
I haven't thought about that Spacehog song in 20 years, but it was all over the radio when it came out.
Only one of these songs spells out the word l-a-t-e-r though so...
― how's life, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
Spacehog probably the archetypal British-band-bigger-in-US, even more than Bush, it's probably a cliche to even mention it tbh, although I actually do remember hearing that song in the UK at the time, so it wasn't a complete flop.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
The bowie aping in it is groany but also sorta in the spirit of the day. “lol well heart in the right place for these times.”
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
that samplethat bass linethat ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooeooh part
this is Spacehog in a walk
― alpine static, Saturday, 30 June 2018 04:26 (five years ago) link
len ftw
― Y'all (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 05:14 (five years ago) link
(and i LOVE EELS)
Think this fits in here somewherehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBZqmL8ehg
― Real Compton City G, Saturday, 30 June 2018 07:08 (five years ago) link
p sure we already have 900 trip-hop landfill threads
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
xp shiit yea that Hanson song is sick
― billstevejim, Saturday, 30 June 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
did anyone mention citizen king? that one always gets lost in the mix.
― hackshaw, Saturday, 30 June 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
having a bad week, sic?
― Hotdogs Killcars (dog latin), Saturday, 30 June 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 1 July 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Len ftw!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 1 July 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
The new radicals album is all time for meStill sounds dope
― President Keyes, Sunday, 1 July 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
there are a bunch of songs I've never heard before that totally fit that I enjoyed hearing for the first time too! thraed just moved on by the time I saw them
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Sunday, 1 July 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
Missed this poll, but would have argued that “Natural One” should have been included.
― incel clown posse (naus), Sunday, 1 July 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link
Gonna try to nail this aesthetic as:- period of roughly '94 - 2000 with some exceptions- funky/hip-hop influenced pop/rock but not firmly entrenched in any particular camp- usually a one or two-hit wonder
― incel clown posse (naus), Sunday, 1 July 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
“Natural One” should have been included.
agreed
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 1 July 2018 03:23 (five years ago) link
I remember getting a haircut in college when “Natural One” came on the radio; the woman cutting my hair was scoffing at the song with another stylist – “Who writes this stuff?” I sat there thinking, Uh, it’s John Davis and Lou Barlow... I could talk for 10 minutes about these guys!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 1 July 2018 03:42 (five years ago) link
Len won. Justice is done. Y’all
― Garden variety uncouth (Ross), Sunday, 1 July 2018 08:35 (five years ago) link
The performance of the Eels song in this poll – and the fact that barely anyone even reminisced about on it in the thread – reinforces the mystery around the fact that it was an Alternative hit.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
It was, but--like a lot of big tracks from that period--it didn't have legs past it's point of max. impact.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link