the best songs ever: the lost years

[gabrielle]

Sheryl Crow was OK.  She was inoffensive enough to appeal to an older generation bemused by the weirder and angstier Gen X stuff. 

Since you mentioned Alanis Morisette, here is a better song.  Plenty weird and angsty.  





It was one of two top 40 songs in 1995 to feature prominent use of the F word (though there might have been some rap songs that did).  Here is the other one:





Edit: "Closer" only reached #41 on Billboard, actually--so not technically top 40, sorry.

[Eric the Green]

Now THIS song from 1993 would be a better choice for kinsers' siggie!





Tom Lehrer: That's Mathematics (studio solo) (1993)

[Eric the Green]

Thanks to Stephen Colbert for directing me to this one. I like it. Big #1 hit. Back to 1987. I don't remember if I knew it back then, but it sounds familiar. Strange for a song that old to have 300 million views on the tube. But there's a reason for this:

Rickrolling[edit]
Main article: Rickrolling
"Never Gonna Give You Up" is the subject of a popular Internet prank known as "rickrolling" involving misleading links (commonly shortened URLs) redirecting to the song's music video.[8] Originally started by 4chan, by May 2007, the practice had achieved notoriety on the Internet, and it increased in popularity after its use as a 2008 April Fools' Day joke by various media companies and websites, including YouTube rickrolling all of its featured videos on that day and a website allowing people to rickroll their friends' phones.[9]

In "a couple of weeks," about 13 million people had been tricked into watching Astley's video, the BBC reported on 1 April 2008. "I think it's just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it," Astley told the Los Angeles Times in late March 2008, adding: "That's what's brilliant about the Internet."[10][11]

Astley also appeared in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade interrupting a song performed by those on a float promoting the Cartoon Network program Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends with a lipsynched performance of "Never Gonna Give You Up."

There were reports that despite the video garnering millions of hits on YouTube, Astley earned almost no money from the online phenomenon, receiving only $12 USD in royalties from YouTube for his performance share, as of August 2010,[12] but Astley denied those reports in 2016.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up

[Ragnarök_62]

(03-10-2017, 01:15 AM)gabrielle Wrote: Sheryl Crow was OK.  She was inoffensive enough to appeal to an older generation bemused by the weirder and angstier Gen X stuff. 

Since you mentioned Alanis Morisette, here is a better song.  Plenty weird and angsty.  





It was one of two top 40 songs in 1995 to feature prominent use of the F word (though there might have been some rap songs that did).  Here is the other one:





Edit: "Closer" only reached #41 on Billboard, actually--so not technically top 40, sorry.

NIN, yeah good stuff. It's part of Quake you know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game)

[Ragnarök_62]

Wow, here's a  2T/3T mixie thingie [from the 3T], but combines both:






So yeah, let it blow yer mind away.

[Eric the Green]

Know your meme!
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rickroll

John Oliver did it too!

[gabrielle]

Here is some more 90s electronica.  

Ed Simons, born 1970, and Tom Rowlands, born 1971, formed the Chemical Brothers in Manchester, England in 1989.  Dig Your Own Hole was their second, and possibly best, studio album.  It released 20 years and a few days ago.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Brothers

Here are a few cool tracks from this album:


















The following was a No 1 single in the UK (it did not reach top 40 in the US).  It was obviously inspired by "Tomorrow Never Knows," and they actually had to prove to the Beatles' lawyers that the drum track was not a direct sampling.

[gabrielle]

Portishead, Portishead (1997).  

Long live 90s trip hop.

These are a few great songs but I love the whole album.

[gabrielle]

More classic trip hop, stateside this time.  

From "Endtroducing," (1996) by DJ Shadow (b June 29, 1972).  According to wikipedia, it was noted in Guinness World Records as the "first completely sampled album."  Perhaps that, along with the album's remote, dreamy atmosphere, explains why listening to this always made me feel nostalgic without really knowing why, or what I was remembering.  "The only pieces of equipment Shadow used to produce the album were the AKAI MPC60 12-bit sampling drum machine, a pair of turntables and a borrowed-by-visiting Pro Tools setup from an early adopter of the technology, Dan "The Automator" Nakamura. In November 2006 Time magazine named it one of its "All-Time" 100 best albums." (more wiki)

"Producing..."

[Eric the Green]

Gen Xers outside the USA can make great music! Popular composer and pianist Yiruma (b.1978):





Not sure of the date of this piece called "Hope" though. Actually, first released in 2009.

http://www.famousfix.com/topic/yiruma-missing-you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiruma

River Flows in You: https://youtu.be/XsTjI75uEUQ

[gabrielle]

[Eric the Green]

Neglected rock classic from 2001





"Snake Charmer" by Zenfin, which I had listed some years ago on my Bewitched Genre music page.
http://philosopherswheel.com/bewitched.html
I think one of my listeners recommended it as a bewitched song.
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/zenfin

[Eric the Green]

The best of these years comes in New Age styles of various kinds. Here's an acoustic artist doing another great but neglected instrumental bewitched tune. Happy Halloween and Boo to You!





http://www.dannyheines.com/bio.html
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/danny-he.../biography

[gabrielle]

November 1996:  

The album "If You're Feeling Sinister" is released by Belle and Sebastian, of Glasgow.  Lead singer and songwriter Stuart Murdoch (born 1968) considers this album to be their best collection of songs, and it is noted as one of "One Of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die."  

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You%27r...g_Sinister)

[gabrielle]

Mazzy Star, an alternative rock band featuring a style of dream pop, folk music and neo-psychedelia, formed in Santa Monica, CA in the late 80s.  They had some moderate success in the early/mid 90s, "Fade Into You" being their highest charting hit.  I like these other two songs better.

Both are from 1993: 

[gabrielle]

Quote:On the football pitch in Parkland, Florida, the students listened to a recording of the song Shine – “heaven let your light shine down” – as sympathy banners sent from around the world draped an adjacent building.

Then, 17 minutes later, the students filed back inside.

'Enough': US students come together in spectacular walkout to end gun violence  --the Guardian, 3/14/18

I'm really proud of these kids.  May heaven listen to their prayers and congress listen to their demands.

[David Horn]

(03-14-2018, 09:46 PM)gabrielle Wrote: ['Enough': US students come together in spectacular walkout to end gun violence  --the Guardian, 3/14/18

I'm really proud of these kids.  May heaven listen to their prayers and congress listen to their demands.

Optimism may be warranted or not, but it's certainly welcome. Eventually, something, somewhere has to give.

[gabrielle]

"Why don't you close your eyes and reinvent me?"

Twenty years ago this spring, Massive Attack released Mezzanine, their darkest and sexiest album.  

"On Mezzanine, Massive Attack tried to escape trip-hop. They nearly tore themselves apart and made its defining document instead."
-- https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22703-mezzanine/

[gabrielle]

"Does your soul cast about like an old paper bag?
Past empty lots and early graves
Of those like you who lost their way
Murdered on the interstate
While the red bells rang like thunder?"

"Deep Red Bells," from the 2002 album Blacklisted, by Neko Case.  





Some more 3T alt-country gems:

"Revelator," from the 2001 album Time (the Revelator), by Gillian Welch





And here is one of my favorites from Son Volt, from the 1996 album Trace.





Some more Gillan Welch and David Rawlings, for fun:

[Bill the Piper]

(07-28-2017, 02:04 AM)taramarie Wrote: Gen xers in America make fantastic music. For those who are not blinded and deafened by their own standards and ideology of course.

I tend to agree. Many of my favourite songs are from 2000 to 2005, which I consider the last years of the 3T.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8mpAvTm_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soa3gO7tL-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw17-BEFb3Y

Late 2000s and 2010s music simply lacks something.