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― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 June 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk9-28HgxfE
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 28 June 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
I would have voted for 'Get What You Give' but 'Drinking In LA' has personal resonance for me so that.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Thursday, 28 June 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
Post-Beck is a pretty otm name.
Odelayter
― President Keyes, Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
I liked the Spacehog single enough that I bought the CD, then immediately sold it back after hearing the other songs.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
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
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
Correct link:
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
And this one:
Show me a 90's hit that is somewhere in my head but I just don't know it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
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
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
And others that sort of fit according to me:
Lightning Seeds - you showed meMoloko - fun for meBabylon zoo - spaceman
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
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
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
No idea if it’s complete but here’s one in spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/user/otro_daniel/playlist/2PeNJybKOg0KnuDCrVBYuk?si=HZPWhRrbRS62YKips79L3g
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
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?
― lana del boy (ledge), Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
ha that's my fave part of the song and now that i'm aware of the source fuck spacehog.
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZ4pve5Mkc
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 28 June 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
well I never .. had no idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Meantime_(Spacehog_song)
― mark e, Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
People were mad that it used a cool sample?
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
Ah, that's interesting...
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
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
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
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
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
this thread had a lot of discussion
― billstevejim, Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
xpost
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...
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
ilm folks are old.
― mark e, Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
The bass line in "In The Meantime" is one of my favorite things in any song.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
yeah it's a great bassline
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
"Drinking In LA" never actually charted in the States, though I guess it was in the Buzz Bin maybe?
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
When I said "it was not on the radio" I meant like Alt-rock stations.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
was big in uk, top 10 hit
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
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
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
(...for purposes of this thread -- it's from a few years earlier, and is pretty much a straight-up rawk song)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
EMF/Jesus Jones etc. have to be part of lineage here
― President Keyes, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
Numb by U2 would be considered Pre-Beck, right?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
the Len, Eels, and New Radicals singles (don't know how those did at radio).
Len: #9 Pop, #5 Mod. RockEels: #39 Pop (!), #1 Mod. RockNew Radicals: #36 Pop, #8 Mod. Rock
Surprised New Radicals wasn't bigger.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
xpostYeah -- good pull on "Numb"
I'm surprised Eels charted that high at Modern Rock!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
It's really hard not to vote for Drinking in L.A. That track is really all time.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Huh thought new radicals was a top 10 at least. It got a lot of airplay on mtv.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
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!!!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
got a lot of radio play too and found its way to one of the NOWs. it's a song that everyone knows even if they don't necessarily know its name.
― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Beck reported that "I was in a grocery store and he (Alexander) came running up to me, so apologetic, and saying, 'I hope you weren't offended. It wasn't supposed to be personal.' I was kind of pleased, because he's a big guy."
Following the mass media's excitement about the celebrity insults, Alexander explained that the verse, along with the lines directly preceding it ("Health insurance rip off lying / FDA big bankers buying / Fake computer crashes dining / Cloning while they're multiplying") were an experiment to see if the media would focus on the real issues, or on the celebrity ridicule.
LOL
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
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did you need to
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
-_-
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
imagine thinking new radicals suck lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
otm
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
yeah that whole album is pretty good
― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
I'm so bourgeois, not radical enuff!!
Apparently the guy co-wrote "The Game of Love" by Michelle Branch & Santana, which was a pretty good song.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link