Drinking In L.A. * Steal My Sunshine * In The Meantime * Get What You Give * Novocaine For The Soul

(and being racist)

I made a playlist a while ago that was very much stuff in the vibe of a few of these songs. Mostly stuff the came out in 96 or the surrounding years:
https://open.spotify.com/user/hairysquishmas/playlist/29OSMeThq1N86C0P7cBSxi

In the 90s I knew a girl in the 90s who liked to play the Sims; the stereo in her simworld rotated between the following songs: Get What You Give, Bittersweet Symphony, and Kids in America. Just those songs in rotation. 30 seconds of each. For hours.

dog latin did you not include 1979 because you knew it would win

this was easy though, 'Steal My Sunshine'

I made a playlist a while ago that was very much stuff in the vibe of a few of these songs. Mostly stuff the came out in 96 or the surrounding years:
https://open.spotify.com/user/hairysquishmas/playlist/29OSMeThq1N86C0P7cBSxi

― MarkoP

Ah yes! These has other songs I was thinking about earlier like scooby snacks and geggy tah.

Gah at my "In the 90s I knew a girl in the 90s."

also it was between the years 1989 and 2000, in case you were wondering

The Sims was released on February 4, 2000.

owned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk9-28HgxfE

I would have voted for 'Get What You Give' but 'Drinking In LA' has personal resonance for me so that.

Post-Beck is a pretty otm name.

Odelayter

I liked the Spacehog single enough that I bought the CD, then immediately sold it back after hearing the other songs.

Might as well link to this thread:

50 Memorable Songs Of The Late 1990s That Apparently Only You Remember, Even Though They Were Totally On The Radio And Stuff

Correct link:

50 Memorable Songs Of The Late 1990s That Apparently Only You Remember, Even Though They Were Totally On The Radio And Stuff

And this one:

Show me a 90's hit that is somewhere in my head but I just don't know it.

Another one which sort of classifies as summer post-beck hit:

Cornershop - brimful of asha

and I like this one better from the same album even better but it wasn’t a hit:

Cornershop - candyman

And others that sort of fit according to me:

Lightning Seeds - you showed me
Moloko - fun for me
Babylon zoo - spaceman

It would be interesting to make a list of *pre*-Beck hits (or "MTV hits," if they didn't chart) that were rap/rock/pop hybrids. For example --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Dw6q-5iaA&list=RDK4Dw6q-5iaA

Just realized most if not all of these were on MTV’s Daria soundtrack at some point so if you want more of these, that’s a good place to search for.

No idea if it’s complete but here’s one in spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/user/otro_daniel/playlist/2PeNJybKOg0KnuDCrVBYuk?si=HZPWhRrbRS62YKips79L3g

spagehog are originally from leeds.
and the opening of that track was used in a phone advert for years in the uk, hence the inbuilt animosity for many people.

was it spacehog in the advert or the original penguin cafe orchestra track that they shamelessly ripped off?

ha that's my fave part of the song and now that i'm aware of the source fuck spacehog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZ4pve5Mkc

well I never .. had no idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Meantime_(Spacehog_song)

People were mad that it used a cool sample?

gosh no … not at all, just had no idea re the source.
I unashamedly love the song as I do a lot of Spacehog.
even tracked down their albums that never got a full uk release.

my point was that the advert/sample was all over the place for a very very long time.
became the sonic signature for a mobile operator in the uk.
hence the very possible annoyance factor that happens with over exposure.

Ah, that's interesting...

It would be interesting to make a list of *pre*-Beck hits (or "MTV hits," if they didn't chart) that were rap/rock/pop hybrids.

This fits in nicely from 92:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6r-k9Bk6o

and even this from 87:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w

surprising myself i voted 'drinking in LA' over 'you get what you give' and 'steal my sunshine' maybe just bc the former was so underexposed for me.

the bottom two songs id never heard & i dont really get the connection

love omc 'how bizarre' though

this thread had a lot of discussion

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Thanks, Dan -- btw, the one I tried to post above (it didn't seem to work) was Urban Dance Squad's "Deeper Shade of Soul," from 1990.

"Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega (DNA remix) -- also 1990 -- may also qualify.

Trying to think of others... Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" seems too "hard" to really fit the mold (...plus, the Beasties are their own thing); Deee-Lite and Neneh Cherry maybe too club/dance-oriented...

this thread had a lot of discussion

ilm folks are old.

If I asked all of my friends, I would guess most of them are familiar with the 4 that aren't "Drinking In LA." It was not really played on the radio at all in my area.

The bass line in "In The Meantime" is one of my favorite things in any song.

yeah it's a great bassline

"Drinking In LA" never actually charted in the States, though I guess it was in the Buzz Bin maybe?

I knew it from 120 Minutes and it was def on the college stations in my area and my own mixtapes, but it feels like an outsider in this group. Def closer to "Brimful Of Asha" imo.

When I said "it was not on the radio" I meant like Alt-rock stations.

was big in uk, top 10 hit

Bran Van was big on MTV and/or VH1, as with the Len, Eels, and New Radicals singles (don't know how those did at radio).

Spacehog was huge at radio. I still don't get how that one relates to these others, tho

(...for purposes of this thread -- it's from a few years earlier, and is pretty much a straight-up rawk song)

EMF/Jesus Jones etc. have to be part of lineage here

Numb by U2 would be considered Pre-Beck, right?

the Len, Eels, and New Radicals singles (don't know how those did at radio).

Len: #9 Pop, #5 Mod. Rock
Eels: #39 Pop (!), #1 Mod. Rock
New Radicals: #36 Pop, #8 Mod. Rock

Surprised New Radicals wasn't bigger.

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Yeah -- good pull on "Numb"

I'm surprised Eels charted that high at Modern Rock!

It's really hard not to vote for Drinking in L.A. That track is really all time.

Huh thought new radicals was a top 10 at least. It got a lot of airplay on mtv.

New Radicals is one of those tracks that was perfect for MTV/VH1 at that time, but didn't quite fit the mold of either Pop or Modern Rock radio (at least in the U.S.)

I will also mention again that it fuckin' sucks!!!