Cursive is releasing an mp3 album today for ONE US DOLLAR. It's only for today, March 1st, so act fast. The price is going to increase by a dollar a day until the release of the CD.

Song: "Elephant Bell"
Artist: Monster Magnet
Album: Superjudge (1993)

I have effectively posted half of this album already. So you probably expected this. However, due to the lack of internet love for this song, ye will have to wait for a sample or go about your merry downloadin' ways.

This song is pretty much just plain old amazing. Very "strung out" in feeling. The bass/drums are fucking great, like a war march or the soundtrack to some kind of fight. I can imagine why people wouldn't like this (hello lyrics) but in the same... it's so powerful in feeling, how couldn't you?

Song: "Anything 'Cept The Truth"
Artist: Eagles of Death metal
Album: Heart On (2008)

I dreamed that I was talking on the phone with an uptight guy with black hair deciding that, later, I would go over to his house next door and kiss him. I was happily thinking about that about a minute when this blonde stoned guy with fluffy long hair seemed to be offering a chance at the HIV lottery. Instead he fell asleep on me before anything really happened. That's when the other guy walked in the room. I had the blanket up to my neck and stupid was lower. I was asked to explain the strange disproportionate raise in the blanket. I said it was my cat sleeping and pet its cute little fluffy head. Bobo's such a fat little fucker. He shrugged and walked off.

I'm always amazed what people believe when the obvious is so clear.

Song: "Take Me To The Hospital"
Artist: The Prodigy
Album: Invaders Must Die (2009)

I thought this song might be some Prodigy-izized version of The Faint song, but... nope. Though it's a thousand times heavier a song, it has a similar amount of infectiousness.

Song: "Throw in The Towel"
Artist: 16
Album: Bridges to Burn (2009)

From outsider observation I noticed that this is a guy's band. It could also be a particular generation or personality type that likes this, and I merely see guys chasing it down because that's my field of vision. Nevertheless, I gave this a shot when it came up... liked this song to the extent it wants to be liked... and the rest of the album is pretty lost on me. I see it has potential for the right temperament. I'm clearly not the gentle little hippy fairy I get off pretending to be sometimes, but I don't quite have the angst for this. Perhaps you do?

Song: "I Don't Think That's OK"
Artist: Josh Freese
Album: Since 1972 (2009)

The overall feeling of the song: modern pop-rock. Sounds like it's going to hit the radio if it hasn't already.

The voice was pretty surprising. Is that even him? I can't find any info on it. You'd think a drummer's voice would sound more like Danny Carey, but I suppose singing is different...

Song: "Reload"
Artist: Ministry
Album: Filth Pig (1995)

Got another mail today from someone attempting to evaluate my atheism. It seems if a stranger on myspace finds me, that's the only thing they see and therefore the only thing I get mail about. Or perhaps myspace has its own special brigade sent out to convert the lesser. I suppose it goes without saying, but some of these people seem like they would have benefited from a few more years in school. Spelling, grammar, punctuation, perhaps some typing lessons. There should also be a class specifically to learn about boundaries, especially on the internet.

So, anyway, this song is awesome and on par with what I've just "outlined". Give it a listen.

In the meantime, I'm going to get back to having premarital group sex with your sons and divorced daughters (all naked, of course, except for Chris because he's ashamed of his little dick so he wears a Big Bird costume which totally turns on his cousin so it's cool), all after a fine dinner of pickled human fetus that Mary brought from her abortion last summer... on wild rice with a side of broccoli. The rice was probably the only decent part of the meal but I don't want to offend Mary so don't tell her that. Anyhow, after our post-dinner sexploits, we will enjoy chocolate chip marijuana brownies and read tarot cards to each other. Oh yeah, and we'll be listening to the new Mastodon the whole time because last time we atheists got together to play Find The Gerbil we burned out on those Britney Spears albums that we stole from Walmart. You can't have everything, I guess.

A group on myspace is trying to make "doom" one of the categories of music on myspace. That's a nice idea and all, but I'm a bored and distracted individual. I started going through the people and bands that have joined this group looking for something to entertain me.

How 'bout some mini views?

Agent of the Morai. Like the first song, "Matthew Newsong". It's doom as you would expect. Overdone vocals, methinks.

Luvzya. Tried a few songs. Apparently drone. Apparently boring.

And Here I Lie. Listened to "At Rest". Production ok. Comes across as old, and apparently so, but don't know what's up with those drums. Black metal.

Abythos. LOL vocals. Was doing fine before the vocals, music's not bad.

Orpheus. Not good.

Ox/Ken. More drone? More better than the previous band. Sounds a little like Sunn.

Five Will Die. I'm not hearing their influences. They probably take more time to "view" that I'm going to give them.

Centrifuge. First stoner band so far, apparently playing SHOD and I recognize their name from... Sludge Swamp, I imagine? Heard too much of this over the last couple of years to really care. "Purge" seems okay if repetitive.

Elliotts Keep. Sounds familiar... I can't recall which band. Saint Vitus? Wait, they have Candlemass as a top friend...

Koloss. Weird, but interesting.

Dust. Not the Dust I've posted about. This sounds great in comparison to what I've been finding so far. Oh noes, the singer looks like my dad in that video.

Manlord. Friends with sheavy? Hard to hate them. These sound good, nice and warm.

Defeat. I'll give them for "Pit of Despair".

And moving away from this activity to just bands in general...

Anorexia Nervosa. Black metal. Lesson of the day: I hate classical instruments in metal.

Obviously I know who Behemoth is. I can't figure out what they're doing wrong that makes them not appealing at all, while all of the elements are there.

Azarath. It is christ scum or christs cum?

The Does. And hard to hate a girl band who knows who [enter bands here] are unless they're outright terrible. Still not keen on the vocals, though. Nice Cat is better...

I wonder if Holoscene has ever played at Holocene?

School of Seven Bells. Blonde Redhead fans perhaps? Actually not too bad, but far more relaxed that what I've posted about so far.

Starfucker. Been avoiding this for ages. Very pop besides accessibility.

Wooden Shjips. Know who they are, didn't know they were coming here. 60s-70s psych galore.

Eat Skull. See their name on calendars all of the time. And I am thoroughly unimpressed.

Yep. That's all I can handle. I've turned on my shitty re-recording of Ancient Age's live video song to cleanse my soul. Please, listen to it.

Song: "When I Grow Up"
Artist: Fever Ray
Album: Fever Ray (2009)

Excellent video. It's so god damn off its rocker, I require you to watch it.

Kids, don't do drugs and play near swimming pools.

For fans of Anonymous-era Tomahawk and The Knife (same vocalist). Check "If I Had A Heart" for the obvious Tomahawk influence and another brilliant video.

Song: "Sleep Alone"
Artist: Bat For Lashes
Album: Two Suns (2009)

I'm working on getting Sounds of Sadge a domain. The whole process is giving me a headache even though I've done this shit several times before. Light music to keep me from punching a hole in the wall seems about right.

A couple of songs on this album here are unmistakable Tori Amos impressions. This one is less so.

Dear Black Cobra,

It's been a year now. I am still, like, totally in love with your music. I thought I was nuts back then, but since you've apparently withstood the test of time... Well, uh, I guess I'm still crazy.

Just. fucking. amazing.

Please, for the love of music, continue what it is you do.

-jf


PS. "Swords for Teeth" OMG OMG OMG.

Song: "Disappear"
Artist: Witch
Album: Paralyzed (2008)

This song doesn't really meet my standards as a whole... but that whiny instrument sound at the beginning and throughout the song "makes" the song work for me. If blogspot had a utility that allowed me to voice record my impression of what it sounds like, I'd post that right about here. Because it doesn't, you'll have to give the song a listen.

I threw a bunch of presently interesting songs into a folder, played around with them for an hour, and this came out. A few irrelevant songs made relevant by context.

I Don't Care If You're Dead, Honey.
01. nine inch nails - eraser
02. witch - disappear
03. morphine - super sex
04. white hills - return of speed toilet
05. zoroaster - seeing the dark
06. fever ray - if i had a heart
07. akimbo - rogue
08. tweak bird - white lips
09. bat for lashes - sleep alone
10. fever ray - dry and dusty
11. tool - cesaro summability
12. gojira - global warming

Ditto. This one completely lacks heaviness. Go ahead and cry along, you pussy.

Strangelove.
01. and you will know us - ode to isis
02. madonna - get together
03. morphine - you look like rain
04. porcupine tree - the sleep of no dreaming
05. goldfrapp - felt mountain
06. bat for lashes - glass
07. tool - right in two
08. muse - invincible
09. tomahawk - crow dance
10. fiona apple - waltz
11. nine inch nails - 28 ghosts iv
12. my morning jacket - into the woods
13. hot chip - boys from school
14. depeche mode - strangelove
15. monster magnet - cry

OMG. My first entry at the site. What am I going to wear? Oh, right, same BC shirt I've been wearing for the past six days. Sweet!

I'm still getting used to this new shit, here. So far things look practically the same, but, holy shit, they are NOT working the same behind the scenes. My hitting of small children and/or pets mood has passed, though, so that's cool.

Here's your first song, song blog #3. Cherish it.

"Death's Not Your Friend" by Wooden Shjips. I got this from the The Heads/Wooden Shjips Tour EP split (2008), available for download over at Sludge Swamp. I was not convinced but this is pretty cool.

Song: "Heart On"
Artist: Eagles of Death Metal
Album: Heart On (2008)

Damn the internet. I have this song stuck in my head again. I thought it would go away after its first run of stuck-in-head-ness last year, but... it's back again. Son of a bitch.

Song: "Moriah"
Artist: Masters of Realty
Album: Welcome to the Western Lodge (1999)

'Tis good.

Song: "Deformography"
Artist: Marilyn Manson
Album: Antichrist Superstar (1996)

I have the fondness for this song. It sucks that it's "cool" right now to hate this guy, because some of his albums are still packed full of classics.

Song: "Endure"
Artist: Nonpoint
Album: Statement (2000)

I'm posting a different video on the link than here. The link above is to a proper video. This other one is live. Really good video quality and sound, but it's apparent that the crowd is not really there for Nonpoint. In every other video I've found of this song, the crowd has drowned out the singer at the "en-durrrrre" part of the song (like here) and been jumping to the beat the whole time.

Anyway, angst? Nonpoint has some. Great song, one of the best ever. Nonpoint really needs to stop nationally touring with sub-par bands, though.

Song: "One Minute to Midnight"
Artist: Justice
Album: Cross (2007)

Is there some other Justice I don't know about? It's so strange to be on some stoner rock related site and discover they're pushing the Justice alongside the doom. EH? How does a band/duo become that diverse?

For the record, this song sounds best when you're in a low mood, played extremely loud. Think Electric Wizard, except... dance music. And don't forget about playing "Waters of Nazareth" first, either.

Song: "To Sirius"
Artist: Gojira
Album: From Mars to Sirius (2006)

Best part of this song: either the vocal-less, building psychedelic guitar pieces or 4:09/"this is my way" onwards. Discuss.

Song: "Billy Fish"
Artist: Melvins
Album: Nude With Boots (2008)

I haven't listened to this album much in a while. Been sort of picking at it. Then this song comes on this evening... And that little guitar solo at 2:51 hits. EE!

Song: "Threads"
Artist: Portishead
Album: Third (2008)

Another got me. It took a long time. Good. There is hope for me.

Song: "Supernaut"
Artist: Black Sabbath
Album: Vol 4 (1972)

It's nice that lyrics are often so vague. Today this song is about record labels.

I want to reach out and touch the sky
I want to touch the sun
but I don't need to fly
I'm gonna climb up every mountain of the moon
And find a distant man a-waving his spoon

Got no religion, don't need no friends
Got all I want and I don't need to pretend
Don't try to reach me, 'cause I'd tear up your mind
I've seen the future and I've left it behind

Song: "Jerk-Off"
Artist: Tool
Album: Opiate (1992)

Today, this song is about record labels, too.

it doesn't matter what's right
it's only wrong if you get caught

Song: "Jerusalm (pt. 5)"
Artist: Sleep
Album: Jerusalem (1999)

And, this song is about being a good christian.

:)

Song: "Chip Away"
Artist: Jane's Addiction
Album: NIN/JA Tour Sampler (2009)

Not too bad... I've heard the NIN tracks, though, thanks to internet cleverness. Street Sweeper? No thanks. But this song is cool enough.

For the record, if you don't want the sampler, you can listen to the song in the little player on that page.

Song: "Eyes & Teeth"
Artist: High on Fire
Album: Surrounded By Thieves (2002)

I watched something yesterday about a lady who could see/taste sounds. She said that deep bass caused her to see black squares.

This song's intro is, therefore, an intricate chessboard.

Song: "Magic Dance"
Artist: David Bowie/Labyrinth
Album: Labyrinth OST (1986)

Soundtracks suck really hard... unless they're over the top, too retarded to resist. I mean, muppets. I think I'm the only girl of this movie's generation that doesn't care for men in tights and blonde hairspray fro's, but the movie definitely has a power over sensible thought in ladies. This and freakin' Legend. Just look at Sara's stupid peasant shirt. If I had a shirt like that, I'd get lost in a maze and start hallucinating furry beasts named Ludo, too. I thought this movie was filmed in the 80s, not the late 60s...

I suppose I should say something about the song. Hm. Well... it's catchy.

Song: "No Diggity"
Artist: Blackstreet
Album: Another Level (1996)

And speaking of over the top shit...

I remember listening to this when I was... 15? It was awful then. Most of my music-listening relatives were really into rap/r&b, so I heard enough as it was, but this song was played... constantly... on the radio. I was pretty sure at this point I wasn't heading in that direction, but god... mass media is cruel.

Wikipedia is telling me I was 14. Ok.

Song: "Pony"
Artist: Ginuwine
Album: Ginuwine…the Bachelor (1996)

Here's another one from the same time. If the song isn't funny enough as is, imagine a ten year old enthusiastically singing this.

I prefer this version.

Song: "Freak Like Me"
Artist: Adina Howard
Album: Do You Wanna Ride? (1995)

I was going through tapes today and found a clip of this song. I had recorded the tape in '98 and wasn't intending to record this song specifically. It's interesting seeing how over-the-top sexual this song is in relation to other shit I picked up from the same time, or my friends around this time, or where I was/am in general. I'm surprised this song was on the radio as much as it was, considering "freak" is an obvious synonym...

Song: "The Way"
Artist: Fastball
Album: All the Pain Money Can Buy (1998)

This song was also on the tape...

I went through the list of popular singles in the year 1990 because I got an annoying idea to post as many of these old singles that I can remember in some way. I don't think I'll be needing to post some of these songs since most people know them, and there are a few I've never even heard, and there are some just not worth repetition... but here's a few.

So, in 1990, I was 7-8 years old. This was my last year living in the desert. My parents had cable here, but I didn't watch too much tv and definitely didn't watch much music tv... so much of this music came after-the-fact or through other people around this time or a little later.

Janet Jackson: "Black Cat", "Escapade", "Rhythm Nation". Apparently she was having a "year". I only have vague memory of the first two videos, but I definitely remember RN. At the time I didn't think much of it, aside from being annoyed at over-play over the years. I think I remember something about my mom liking Janet Jackson, but I'm not sure it was any of these songs...

Warrant - "Cherry Pie". Hard to forget this one.

Maxi Priest - "Close to You". I didn't realize how long this guy was in the music business... This song sounds absolutely nothing like his other 90s singles.

Faith No More - "Epic". Am I the only one who saw this video for the first time and cracked the fuck up watching it? How did such a fucking geek become so admired?

(breaking format so I don't have to edit this anymore)

"Everybody Everybody" - Black Box. I remember this being on the radio briefly...

"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now!)" - C+C Music Factory. Boy is this song similar to the opening to the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But besides that... on the radio, all the time.

"Groove Is In The Heart" - Deee-Lite. I posted this before but the video disappeared. Apparently it's nowhere... except in live format. If you have a copy of it, upload it somewhere besides youtube, k?

"Hard To Handle" - The Black Crowes. Didn't recognize this song at all by name, but yep... I remember it now. In comparison to the other songs on this list, this seems way out of place. I didn't realize this song was this old...

"Hold On" - En Vogue. Though annoyed at their over-play, I actually really liked En Vogue growing up. More when I was 10-ish than this age, but nevertheless... Fond no-memories, here.

"I'm Your Baby Tonight" - Whitney Houston. This song sucks bad, but the chorus is awful catchy.

"Janie's Got a Gun" - Aerosmith. This song doesn't seem this old to me...

"Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinéad O'Connor. Oh man, I used to think this song was ridiculous when I was growing up... Then when I was about 20 it applied to the situation.

"Opposites Attract" - Paula Abdul. I thought this was the greatest video of all time when I saw it. Now it's like... is this video a message about Paula's sexuality?

"The Power" - Snap!. What an effective intro.

"Tom's Diner" - Suzanne Vega. I remember, as a teenager, agreeing with a friend that this song was incredibly pointless. I suppose it maybe is written to be pointless... but fuck. Too much.

"Unbelievable" - EMF. This song is totally about me.

"Vogue" - Madonna. Damn Madonna and her timeless dance music.

This year was shitty for me, and it looks like it was shitty for music as well...

"Alive" - Pearl Jam. I avoided PJ as much as I could growing up because that voice is annoying. I picked them back up as an older teenager, so this doesn't come across as that old to me.

"Baby Baby" - Amy Grant. Radio. I'm pretty sure I taped myself, at 12 or so, making fun of this song. Pop is ugly.

"Black Or White" - Michael Jackson. MJ was incredibly popular in the 80s and for the beginning of the 90s, so this was unavoidable for me. I remember the outro to this video more than anything.

"Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are the Days of Our Lives" - Queen. I had heard/seen this song a few times, but my most vivid memory of it was, duh, Wayne's World. but yeah, about 15 years off, here...

"Enter Sandman" - Metallica. My most vivid memory here came later, when I was about 12-13, suddenly deciding that maybe I liked Metallica even though hair metal was lame. I remember this song and picture my bedroom at the time, my black radio/cassette player on my white desk, the high narrow window, the heater in the ceiling, the ugly old carpet...

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" - Bryan Adams. I really liked Robin Hood when it came out... but have never, at any point, appreciated the musical styles of Bryan Adams. GAG.

"Give it Away" - Red Hot Chili Peppers. My relatives loved this song/band. The first time I ever heard "Under The Bridge" I was driving with these freaks... I think I fell asleep in the back of the van and woke up to them all singing.

"I Touch Myself" - Divinyls. I wasn't sure if I wanted to see the video...

"I Can't Dance" - Genesis. No idea why, but I liked this song then and still do.

"Let's Talk About Sex" - Salt-N-Pepa. Perspective.

"Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" - Spin Doctors. Overplay.

"Live And Let Die" - Guns N' Roses. Still stuck in my head: Thanks KUFO.

"Losing My Religion" - R.E.M. I can't put, in words, how much I hate this song. Someone I respected once told me he was listening to REM and wanted to talk about this bullshit excuse for music, and... ergh. Not many faster ways to make me hate you.

"Love Will Never Do (Without You)" - Janet Jackson. She's so happy at the beach!

"More Than Words" - Extreme. This song always reminds me of my parents splitting. Whoever I was sharing a room with (my niece, probably) had a clock radio and for some reason it was set to go off at 2am, so it would go off then, waking me up, and without fail this song would be playing every time... Every time this song comes on I remember that. Strangely, I miss that room...

"Motownphily" - Boyz II Men. Why am I still listening to this?

"No more tears" - Ozzy Osbourne. I don't remember this video much, but damn... cheesy. Hey look at that, Mike Patton and Ozzy have a similar face structure... HAHA. Those vocals are fantastic.

"O.P.P." - Naughty by Nature. YEAH YOU KNOW ME.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana. Hated this song when it came out, hated it more and more as I grew up, hated it even more when he went and died, hated it when I was a teenager and every other person were saying they "loved" Nirvana (fucking liar), hated it in my 20s watching shitty music specials masturbating all over Kurt or Nirvana or this fucking song... I don't get it. It's a generic piece of shit.

"Something To Talk About" - Bonnie Raitt. The lyrics of this song unnerve me. I have a Scorpio Moon. I'd rather give them a series of lies or some rat poison. Stay out of my fucking love life, "them".

"Train in Vain (Stand By Me)" - The Clash. I wrote a haiku about this song... This must have been a re-issue.

"Wicked Game" - Chris Isaak. Another beach video. Highly memorable, but.. gah.

Song: "Battle For The Sun"
Artist: Placebo
Album: Battle For The Sun (2009)

This song seems like a more logical next step from Sleeping With Ghosts than Meds is/was. After listening to it a few times... I have to say I like it.

Song: "Vuvuvu"
Artist: MSTRKRFT
Album: Fist of God (2009)

MSTRKRFT has apparently gone in the direction that I witnessed live last year (ie. not interesting). Some of this has potential to wear given the proper mood, but... It seems like a backwards step. Where's the classic feeling of... let's say, "Easy Love"? It's just unmistakable... You know it's that band that has no vowels in their name, and it grabs you even though you don't want it to. It's just too god damn light and fluffy. This new shit sounds like little more than Daft Punk rip offs.

And while this Vu song is cliche in its simplicity... It'll have to do. I like how the song sounds like it's name, at least.

Song: "More"
Artist: Peaches
Album: I Feel Cream (2009)

Uno mas. I wonder what was given, here. I hope it wasn't herpes. Like diamonds, herpes are forever.

Peaches has a Pluto-Jupiter-Mars-Uranus conjunction... all square Venus. This album should be another interesting display of Mars in Libra being a happy little It.

This was the year I turned 10. I had just recently started paying some attention to current music because I finally had a radio of my own... and didn't know what to think. I made fun of things, instead.

"All That She Wants" - Ace Of Base. Can't imagine why anyone would want another baby, nevermind one in the first place.

"Come as You Are" - Nirvana
"In Bloom" - Nirvana
"Lithium" - Nirvana
I didn't know these songs well or at all at this time... I was avoiding Nirvana.

"Connected" - Stereo MCs. This song still works for times when music is needed but distraction isn't.

"Dreamlover" - Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey came up on previous lists, but I remember this one best. One of these I taped myself, at 12, screaming at in fake pain/agony. It's amazing how all these years have passed and I feel the same way.

"Free Your Mind" - En Vogue. STILL APPLIES OMG.

"I Love Your Smile" - Shanice. Another song I have a recording of.

"I'll Be There" - Mariah Carey. I hope not.

"I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston. Man, when I was 10, I could do a mean WH impression. I was listening to the radio at my niece's house one afternoon when this song was popular and I belted this song out in her room. It was hilarious. I can't remember if she agreed.

"Jeremy" - Pearl Jam. HATE. Oddly, I grew to sort of like this song in a distant sort of way.

"Jump Around" - House of Pain. You sold your soul to potato chips. How does it feel?

"Just Another Day" - Jon Secada. Whenever this song plays, all I hear is the hollow drums...

"Life is a Highway" - Tom Cochrane. K.

"My Lovin' (Never Gonna Get It)" - En Vogue. This is one of the most memorable videos for me. "And now it's time for a breakdown..." I had a friend for about five minutes who agreed with me that that was awesome.

"No Ordinary Love" - Sade. I've listened to/heard this song mostly as the Deftones cover... What an odd mix.

"Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" - Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg. Little white kids with southern accents doing impressions of this song (among others) = hilarious.

"November Rain" - Guns N' Roses. I hated this when it came out. I still do.

"Remember The Time" - Michael Jackson. ...another movie.

"Runaway Train" - Soul Asylum. All I remember about this song is that it became a ballad for all the fucked up things in the world happening to kids/teenagers. I was fucking bored by this concept. It's called a gun.

"Save the Best for Last" - Vanessa Williams. I hate songs that have my name in them.

"Supermodel (You Better Work)" - RuPaul. I vaguely remember watching the RuPaul show...

"Tears in Heaven" - Eric Clapton. Another one of those not-nice feeling songs, regularly confused with the Extreme song.

"Green Jellÿ" - Green Jellÿ. I don't know what this is referring to exactly, but I definitely remember the "Three Little Pigs" song on tv.

"This Used to Be My Playground" - Madonna. I hate this song because of my cousin, who at this time was an obnoxious attention whore that needed to be beaten unconscious.

"Two Princes" - Spin Doctors. English.

"Walking on Broken Glass" - Annie Lennox.

"What About Your Friends - TLC. I don't remember this video at all, but this group always reminds me of relatives.

The first half of this year sucked hard, but it improved about midway when I was finally relieved of my duty as the local involuntary martyr. Peace and quiet led to much music tv watching...

"Bad Boys" - Inner Circle. First memory was, obviously, of Cops. Then I remember my mom quoting my dad making fun of her for watching Cops. Then I remember my brother in a law had a tape or CD from this band. Finally, I remember Paris and Nicole dancing stupidly to this song on their fucking tv show.

"Bombtrack" - Rage Against the Machine. I never cared or really even liked Rage until I was about 16-17, and that phase passed pretty quickly... except for Killing in the Name Of. He says "UGH" in it and those two seconds made for hours of laughter.

"Can't Help Falling in Love" - UB40. WTF? I've seen this movie and it's not "romantic". It's a stalker/rape/murder movie...

"Come Undone" - Duran Duran. No wonder I've never seen this. This video sucks.

"Creep" - Radiohead. I didn't really hear much of this song until I started listening to rock/metal radio, at which point it was a constantly beating of emo bullshit. I do remember liking it, though... It's tough not to relate.

"Cryin'" - Aerosmith. Alicia.

"Ditty" - Paperboy. No memories, just odd.

"Dre Day" - Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg. It's amazing how attitude can completely deflect retarded lyrics...

"Far Behind" - Candlebox. Someone needs a hug.

"Heart-Shaped Box" - Nirvana. I'd been hating Nirvana a while, and I did not want to like this video... but I was a little pseudogoth 10 year old. I could not help it.

"Hip Hop Hooray" - Naughty by Nature. Hey. Ho.

"Human Behaviour" - Björk. My memory of this video is very very vague, assuming I saw it at the time it came out. I picked bjork up after seeing her "I Miss You" video when I was an older teenager... and I kind of knew the name, but it seemed new then.

"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" - Meat Loaf. Hate.

"I'm Every Woman"- Whitney Houston. Not quite, but I didn't mind this song.

"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" - The Proclaimers. I loved the fuck out of this song when I heard it... Having absolutely nothing to do with that movie and that crude mispelling of names.

"If" - Janet Jackson. It's weird how she became bigger than Michael for a while...

"If I Had No Loot" - Tony Toni Toné!. ...I think I used this as an intro to a show. Or maybe tortured someone with it. Hm.

"Informer" - Snow. Why not just call yourself Vanilla Ice 2?

"Insane in the Brain" - Cypress Hill. Es el loco. HEH, the guy still looks like my sister's boyfriend to me.

"Keep Ya Head Up" - 2Pac. When I was 15, a girl told me she LOVED tupac, and went off on some spiel about how she related heavily to his lyrics/songs... Meanwhile, I'm standing there thinking, yeah... if it wasn't tupac, it would have been biggie, or kurt, or jimi, or janice... You relate real hard, there, lady.

"Linger" - The Cranberries. Another band I couldn't switch the channel fast enough for.

"Looking Through Patient Eyes" - PM Dawn. Radio invasion.

"Mr. Vain" - Culture Beat. Call it the beginning of popularized raver music...

"Mr. Wendal" - Arrested Development. I don't like Mr Wendal.

"No Rain" - Blind Melon. NO MORE BEES! FUCKING QUIT IT! IT'S NOT THE FUCKING 90S! THIS IS NOT A CULTURAL ICON. STOP.

"Ooh Child" - Dino. Never seen this awful video before, but I remember having this song taped because it was like my reality at the time...

"Plush" - Stone Temple Pilots. And I feel'ayn...

"Queen Of The Night" - Whitney Houston. Another taped song. One of these days I'm going to experience a full-on personality split, and one personality is going to try to embarass the other by re-recording it and uploading it.

"The River of Dreams" - Billy Joel. Massively catchy.

"Rooster" - Alice in Chains. Ain't found a way to kill me yet...

"Shoop" - Salt-N-Pepa. It's strange how much of this song I can automatically recall whereas I have trouble with some of my favorite song's lyrics...

"Show Me Love" - Robin S. That bouncy hollow sound is awesome.

"The Sign" - Ace of Base. It'll never go away.

"Whoomp! (There It Is)" - Tag Team. I remember asking about this song to my sister/mom, asking about the lyrics because the song was on, and they just looked at me like I was nuts.

There was a lot of fucking R&B and hip-hop this year... I skipped a lot.

This was a good year for the most part for me. After a while I was watching less tv and paying less active attention to music, but this also happened to be the year I decided I needed to spend more time recording myself making fun of the radio because I now had a proper recorder. I have little clips of some of these songs on tape without even knowing what the song/artist was at the time, where I'm making fun of them or otherwise just being an asshole... It's really weird in retrospect.

"100% Pure Love" - Crystal Waters. And here we go with the dance music...

"About a Girl (Unplugged)" - Nirvana. Never watched this show. One of the few Nirvana songs I can go back to without cringing.

"All I Wanna Do" - Sheryl Crow. This song reminds me of sitting on my niece's bed, looking out the window at night, thinking about this guy I had a massive crush on. Amazingly having nothing to do with the song, but... it was popular at that very time. He was super hot.

"Another Night" - M.C. Sar & the Real McCoy. Another dream but always you it's like a vision of love, seems to be true. ARGH.

"Asshole" - Denis Leary. Didn't know this had a video...

"Basket Case" - Green Day. The guy I had a crush on liked Green Day. ^Asshole.

"Big Empty" - Stone Temple Pilots. Takes me right back to my teenage bedroom with one little whiny guitar note.

"Better Man" - Pearl Jam. Ditto.

"Big Poppa" - Notorious B.I.G. All I remember about this video is a hot tub and champagne.

"Black Hole Sun" - Soundgarden. My cousin loved this song, which meant I hated it. Still difficult to listen to though I got over my Soundgarden hatred after a while.

"Come Out and Play" - The Offspring.

"Corduroy" - Pearl Jam. This used to make my heart hurt.

"Closer" - Nine Inch Nails. The first time I heard this song all of the way through, I was 15 sitting in a car waiting for my friend to stop terrorizing people in a parking lot, sitting with someone I'd just met who was probably as embarassed as I was. It was weird. The first time I heard this song at all, though, was this year while dialing through the radio. I can't remember what I said now, but my reaction was very "what the hell is this?" And then it was gone for three years... Maybe I should upload this moment of my life because it's just so fucking off the wall.

"Crazy" - Aerosmith. Alicia, again.

"Gin & Juice" - Snoop Doggy Dogg. "You need to get a jobby job".

"I Alone" - Live. LOL.. Never seen this before. Are they TRYING to be retarded?

"I Like to Move It" - Reel 2 Real. I'm not never not going to see dancing cartoon animals.

"Longview" - Green Day. Because there's not enough songs about masturbation.

"Loser" - Beck. In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey...

"Mary Jane's Last Dance" - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. I don't know which way to go with this one.

"Rape Me" - Nirvana. I dated a guy once who had never heard this song before. BLASPHEMY! He was probably missing a lot of braincells... but that doesn't negate how I'm still shocked that anyone could miss this song.

"Regulate" - Warren G featuring Nate Dogg.

"Sabotage" - Beastie Boys. This was on every fucking time I turned on the tv to any of the music stations for a month or two. So. fucking. annoying.

"Secret" - Madonna. Because there's not enough songs about masturbation.

"Seether" - Veruca Salt. Didn't care until later... at which point, LEEB ME. LYING HERE.

"Self Esteem" - The Offspring. This song is about my first boyfriend.

"Stay (I Missed You)" - Lisa Loeb. I hate you and your extremely boring video.

"Spoonman" - Soundgarden. Because there's not enough songs about masturbation.

"Tootsee Roll" - 69 Boyz. Oh.. my... god.

"Waterfalls" - TLC. This song was stuck in my head for years... Also known as the best video ever to my 12 year old self.

This year was strange, to say the least. I spent most of the time escaping through books and video games and writing fucked up things. I'm lucky I didn't have any friends because this would have been a prime year to learn about socially medicating myself. People are fucking assholes.

"1st Of Tha Month" - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. My nephew liked this group... It was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen.

"Ants Marching" - Dave Matthews Band. I don't get it, at all.

"Any Man of Mine" - Shania Twain. When I was a teenager, someone bought me one of Shania's CD. This is when I was listening to Tool and Marilyn Manson. I wondered a lot about this completely off interpretation.

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something. I remember this was on the radio a lot... Boring.

"Buddy Holly" - Weezer. I thought this came later... Guess not.

"Bullet With Butterfly Wings" - The Smashing Pumpkins. I loved this video when I first saw it (as much as I could with all of my rampant hate going on at this point). One of these days it's getting parodied. If you have an all black t-shirt, or a black shirt that doesn't have see-through print on the inside, and you don't mind dirt/makeup, you should let me videotape you very seriously lip-singing this.

"Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine. Nothing like a drunk boy trying to quote this song to make an afternoon. I miss when guys were cute instead of in need of a good kick in the nuts, and the head, and the stomach, etc.

"Carnival" - Natalie Merchant. Can't seem to find the video anywhere, but yeah... I remember not being impressed.

"Cotton Eye Joe" - Rednex. A few people I knew after this time said they remembered this song with fondness... I must have missed something, somewhere.

"Creep" - TLC. Didn't care for this when it came out (what a shitty video in comparison to Waterfalls), but I liked the song itself when I was older.

"December" - Collective Soul. Very memorable song in and of itself...

"Don't Take It Personal" - Monica. Loved this when it came out... I mean, why not, I have psycho in the genes.

"Fantasy" - Mariah Carey. I remember my family playing this in the car while I sat there in pain.

"Freak Like Me" - Adina Howard. I just posted this...

"Gangsta's Paradise" - Coolio. I could quote the shit out of this song this year... That and California Love... but apparently that's next year.

"Hand In My Pocket" - Alanis Morissette. Though I understand, it bugs me when people I know don't like Alanis. We have the same Sun/Moon, near the same degrees... Also, the same Venus...

"Hey Man, Nice Shot" - Filter. This song always reminds me of the movie Demon Knight.

"Hook" - Blues Traveler. Amazing song about "amazing" songs.

"I Know" - Dionne Farris. Became annoying through overplay...

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"I wanna be with u" - Fun Factory. Fucking radio asshole jerks. Man.

"Kiss From A Rose" - Seal. I hate this song. Still.

"Lightning Crashes" - Live. I remember wondering where this song went after a while, but I couldn't tolerate its slowness at the age I was when it was popular.

"Lump" - The Presidents of the United States of America. BAA.

"Macarena" - Los del Río. I did the Macarena once or twice just to be stupid. Mainly I remember the olympics people the next year doing it.

"Missing" - Everything But The Girl. I hated this from overplay, but somehow it snuck into my collection when I was older. I remember listening to the radio once and some girl calling in trying to ask what the lyrics were... MORON.

"One More Chance (Remix)" - The Notorious B.I.G. Oh no, here comes Faith...

"Only Wanna Be With You" - Hootie & the Blowfish. Suck suck suck suck sucks.

"Run-Around" - Blues Traveler. Memorable video...

"Scream" - Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson. Nice attempt at a comeback, but NO.

"She" - Green Day. She, she screams in silence...

"The World I Know" - Collective Soul.

"This Is A Call" - Foo Fighters. It took a while, but I liked the Foo Fighters.

"This Is How We Do It" - Montell Jordan. Nothing like parading superficial bullshit for the kids.

"Tomorrow" - Silverchair. Nothing like being the same age as the people on the tee-vee and not knowing how this could be possible.

"Wonderwall" - Oasis. I decided that Oasis' only asset to bring them into popularization was their blatant post-Beatles Britishness.

"You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette. Hate. Hate is great. I love hate.

I moved in 1996 and started high school. These things were very refreshing for me. At the time I was dialing back and forth between the pop station and an 80s/early 90s non-cheesy pop and dance station, and late this year I started listening to the alternative rock station (post-grunge, pre-nu metal times) sometimes as well. I didn't yet own a CD player and my newest friend owned Metallica CDs, which made me realize I had something to work on if I was going to be as cool as I felt in high school (sarcasm).

"1979"- The Smashing Pumpkins. I'd pretty much tuned out by this point.

"All Mixed Up" - 311. Never understood their popularity...

"Big Me" - Foo Fighters. MENTOS.

"California Love" - Tupac Shakur / Dr. Dre. After five years of pining for home and parents that didn't suck at life and thinking every day about running away, this song spoke to me...

"Children" - Robert Miles. I completely forgot about this song until I found it on some comp a few years ago. It sounds way better as an adult.

"C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train)" - Quad City DJ's. I could stand to never hear this song ever again, ever.

"Crash Into Me" - Dave Matthews Band. Crash into your own damn self, asshole.

"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" - Madonna. ...became "Don't cry for me, Pepperoni" after a while. I miss saying ridiculous shit to my cat. What a jealous bitch.

"Down" - 311. CHILL. Or don't, because, ew. No.

"Give Me One Reason" - Tracy Chapman. Annoying from overplay.

"Guilty" - Gravity Kills. And here we find the first socially relevant song and band I had a crush on (assuming Stabbing Westward didn't come first). This song, it's dirty but subtle/well-timed... Finally I find my kind of music. Their CD became one of my first.

"Head over Feet" - Alanis Morissette. Tuning out...

"Hero of the Day" - Metallica. His mom tried to rape him. I wonder if Metallica's ever toured with Mudvayne.

"If It Makes You Happy" - Sheryl Crow. I had no crushes synchronize with this song.

"If You Could Only See" - Tonic. Future boyfriend projection.

"I'll Stick Around" - Foo Fighters. How young they look...

"It's Oh So Quiet" - Björk. I still have no idea what to think.

"Interstate Love Song" - Stone Temple Pilots. Internets love song.

"Ironic" - Alanis Morissette. No, it isn't.

"Killing Me Softly" - The Fugees. Cover songs are annoying, but I didn't mind this the first couple of times I saw it.

"King Nothing" - Metallica. The song's been stuck in my head, uh, 13 years...

"My Boo" - Ghost Town DJ's. Gross.

"Naked Eye" - Luscious Jackson. I remember recording this off the radio once and my niece recorded over it.

"No Diggity" - Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre. Just posted this...

"One Headlight" - The Wallflowers. They lost me with their name. But wow, that guy looks familiar to me now. Creepy.

"Pepper" - Butthole Surfers. I had a cat named Pepper and one named Cinnamon. I was curious as to how this song happened to me.

"Pretty Noose" - Soundgarden. I was pissed Soundgarden hadn't died in a plane crash.

"Return of the Mack" - Mark Morrison. Another guy named Mark.

"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" - Primitive Radio Gods. More hate to give.

"Stupid Girl" - Garbage. I told my nephew that this song was about his sister one day, and we decided to obnoxiously sing it hoping she'd hear. We also had a good laugh about "Head Like A Hole" near this year...

"Tha Crossroads" - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. My nephew making me laugh, again.

"The Beautiful People" - Marilyn Manson. I didn't pick up Marilyn Manson until later... At this time I just remember hearing the name in synch with negative criticism.

"Tonight, Tonight" - The Smashing Pumpkins. Terrible. I saw this performed on some music (video?) awards and was just... no. Boring, dull, no no no.

"Until It Sleeps" - Metallica. Take it out for coffee?

"Virtual Insanity" - Jamiroquai. Lovvvvvved this video when I first saw it.

"Wannabe" - Spice Girls. I might have heard about the Spice Girls before I saw the video, because I remember all of this talk about their feministic ways and being somewhat offended that they were really kind of slutty. In retrospect, this was pretty much the beginning of the forced, mass-produced mechanical "dumb girl" pop.

"What I Got" - Sublime. Overrated.

"Where It's At" - Beck. Also overrated, but I loved this song.

"Who Will Save Your Soul" - Jewel. I thought this song would go away after its moment, but it's hard to get fucked up teeth songs out of head.

"Zero" - The Smashing Pumpkins. And god is empty just like me.

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