Those were some good days hitting up the local music store. Then jamming in the car on the way to go to the river for some inner tube floating. Fun times!!!
Am exchanging two songs a day with my 15 yr old daughter.
I am sending pre 2000 songs of various styles. Show her what it was like before autotune and drone rap and pop songs all sounding the same. Giving her a bit of an education.
While she is sending me current stuff she likes.
While I have been compiling songs lists, I noticed very few were females. Also what apealed to me growing up might not appeal to her. Then there are probably heaps of great songs from growing up in Australia, that I have forgotten all about.
I lived in New Hampshire for many years and we'd go to Boston for shows a lot- at T.T. the Bears (closed now 😢) and the Midway Cafe.
I saw The Gravel Pit at T.T.'s back in the early 2000s (a band made up of a singer/songwriter GENIUS, Jed Parish, and members of The Figgs).
Not sure how much (if any) The Gravel Pit got around outside of Massachusetts, but their album Silver Gorilla from 1999 is a modern rock MASTERPIECE. Jed's VOICE, LYRICS, and the arrangements-- give it a listen:
As ever, @ThisWeekInThe90s has come out with another tremendous newsletter. This week's edition take a look at the politics of Grunge and Generation X through the lens of 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up?"
And of course there's plenty of other great 90s music in there as well.
This thoughtful, intelligent, meticulously-researched weekly newsletter is fast becoming one of my favourite things. Do take a look!
I hadn't heard of cranes til I stumbled across them on Bandcamp the other day. Their new stuff is too light/airy for my tastes, but these Peel Sessions from 1989-1990 that release in a few days-- the two songs up so far.. wow. I LOVE her voice.. the great kinda minimal music behind it, reminds me of Björk a little sometimes, but maybe with SLIGHTLY more edge and more 80s-ish guitar. Check it out, let me know what you think.
Grunge was fine and all, but imagine if the '90s had kept going in the Body Count/Pretty Hate Machine-era Nine Inch Nails //Johnny Mnemonic/Tank Girl direction instead!
...What I'm basically trying to say is that the '90s didn't respect Ice-T enough. #90sMusic#90sMovies#IceT
From the "This Week In the 90s" newsletter, a deep dive into modern music licensing agreements (www.thisweekinthe90s.com)
'What Is Love' makes the shareholders happy [June 13, 1993]...