Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I drew alien heads on all my CD mixes
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I had cassette tapes until I got a cd player in 2000
Mix tapes were well not for me as music was an ongoing search and by the time I started dating I was out in the wilds looking for it and there was no coming back
Buying the same cassette three times because my shitty deck ate the tape was cool.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
If you ever get the chance to see them live, I highly recommend it. I've seen them three times, and they always look happy to be playing music and it shows.
The 98 best songs of 1998 according to a writer for Rolling Stone. Should be plenty of 90s conversation fodder here.
The year 1998 had some great ideas our culture gave up on too soon: Internet cafes, travel agencies, Jennifer Love Hewitt's singing career. Plus questionable ideas, like Canadians rapping about Chickity China the Chinese Chicken. But most of all, it was a year full of music. Every genre was booming – rap, modern rock, electronica, R&B divas, Britpop poseurs, indie slop, trip-hop, coffee-house techno, wherever the hell you'd file "The Rockafeller Skank." The music world kept changing so fast, songs could explode out of nowhere to become huge hits, in a way that was unthinkable just a couple of years later. Fans bought CDs (with money!) at a record-breaking rate. One-hit wonders flourished. Legendary veterans changed their games. Beyoncé was just the second girl from the left in a new group called Destiny's Child. The sky was the limit, right before Napster arrived and the boom went bust.
It was a time of historic transformations. Nobody knew teen-pop and nu-metal and MP3s and Google were right around the corner. Sinatra and Seinfeld signed off the same night. MTV debuted Total Request Live. George Michael came out. Kurt, Biggie and Tupac were dead, yet their legacies helped inspire a creative boom for both rappers and rockers. The New Radicals showed up sounding just like Hall & Oates. Hall & Oates came back sounding just like Hall & Oates. (And damn straight, both made this list.) New genres got invented every week, which was how long most of them lasted. But these faves are just the tip of the iceberg – the full list could stretch into quadruple digits easily. As for what counts as a 1998 song, there's a lot of grey area – if a song made its impact in 1998, it's fair game even if it had an official 1997 release date. On the other hand, many greats technically came out in late 1998, but didn't made their real impact until later. (Just to pick the most obvious example, Britney's "Baby One More Time" appeared at the end of the year, but it spiritually belongs to 1999, when it changed the world.)
Stakes were high, for the simple reason that we all loved music so fiercely. Fans went to the record store, chose CDs off the racks, took them home, cranked them all night. We had no trouble finding songs to love, to argue about, to put on mixtapes and pass around. You can hear that excitement right in the music, which is why all 98 of these songs still sound so brilliant today. So let's celebrate the best of 1998. As Garbage sang that summer: Push it. Make the beats go harder.
91. The Spice Girls, "Stop"
Sporty (a.k.a. The One Who Could Actually Kinda Hella Sing Spice) carries a fab blast of London faux-Motown in the tradition of Culture Club, Wham! or Bananarama. "Stop" comes from their 1998 cinematic epic Spice World, the ultimate fin de siecle time capsule – especially the scene where Ginger Spice demonstrates she's a master of disguise by ducking into a phone booth, then emerging as Bob Hoskins to say, "Girl power! Equalization between the sexes!" Make it last forever: Friendship never ends.
84. Maxwell, "Everwanting: To Want You to Want"
Only a sex mystic like Maxwell could do a seven-minute slo-mo funk jam based on the premise that Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" and Soul II Soul's "Back To Life" were secretly the same song.
78. Savage Garden, "Truly Madly Deeply"
How exactly did this happen? An Australian boy-on-boy duo in matching turtlenecks and sideburns glide across the ocean to seduce the moms of America, then glide right back where they came from, leaving only broken hearts behind. The singer had a solo hit titled "Pop!ular," which is taking a good idea too far. Best use of the verb "bathe" in any song ever.
What songs should be there, but aren't? What songs don't belong on that list? Get nostalgic for a bit, get angry, and discuss.
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astrobstrdSo full of mercy...Registered Userregular
I'll take a look later, but I vaguely remember Rob Sheffield as someone whose taste in music was a literal 180 of mine. Like, I sought out his bad reviews of anything with a distortion pedal to find new music.
If you ever get the chance to see them live, I highly recommend it. I've seen them three times, and they always look happy to be playing music and it shows.
I saw them way back when as was unimpressed. Not that they were bad; that would have left an impression. They were pretty thoroughly forgettable. The only thing I remember about the show was they had a violinist with them for a song, and when she was leaving the stage, they spontaneously broke out in "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman" for her. Could not tell you one other thing about that show.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I went though and read all 98 songs and meh that list was more of a personal taste sanitized for print.
Seriously there was magical songs if you just looked past the crap that was popular in the 90's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=566w9f5wrWs
If you ever get the chance to see them live, I highly recommend it. I've seen them three times, and they always look happy to be playing music and it shows.
I was never able to do it until a few years ago when I got advice to gaze into the distance of the image rather than at the surface, in addition to the usual keeping your eyes unfocused. Ever since then it has always immediately popped out at me as soon as my eyes drift into the horizon.
The illusion is really quite interesting if you can see it.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
When I was a kid, there was a couple down the road who had kids about the same age as my sister and I, and my parents had been friends with them since high school. So we would visit them pretty frequently, and they were one of the few non-relations we'd exchange Christmas presents with.
The dad was a pretty good guy, but he was also sort of a pompous know-it-all. So one year, at the height of the Magic Eye craze, my parents found a poster that was designed to be unseeable. It was some clusterfuck of half-rendered 3D shapes that would convince you that that there was something there, but refuse to resolve into any discernible picture.
My parents gave it to him and told him it was a poster of the Enterprise, since he was a Trekkie. And then we all stifled laughter as he admired the 3-D starship he was supposedly seeing in the static. I was about eight at the time. They never told him the truth.
My parents are awful chaos muppets and they're the reason I am the way I am, is what I'm saying here.
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Mix tapes were well not for me as music was an ongoing search and by the time I started dating I was out in the wilds looking for it and there was no coming back
As in shiggity shiggity?
The central vowel sound?
I forgot how much I enjoyed them
If you ever get the chance to see them live, I highly recommend it. I've seen them three times, and they always look happy to be playing music and it shows.
The 98 best songs of 1998 according to a writer for Rolling Stone. Should be plenty of 90s conversation fodder here.
What songs should be there, but aren't? What songs don't belong on that list? Get nostalgic for a bit, get angry, and discuss.
I saw them way back when as was unimpressed. Not that they were bad; that would have left an impression. They were pretty thoroughly forgettable. The only thing I remember about the show was they had a violinist with them for a song, and when she was leaving the stage, they spontaneously broke out in "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman" for her. Could not tell you one other thing about that show.
Seriously there was magical songs if you just looked past the crap that was popular in the 90's
I don't care what anyone says, I preferred Ezra.
GET THE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT!
Holy shit I remember seeing schwa stuff but I didn't know what it was.
Oh!
X-Files
Is it a sailboat?
Thank you, now I am remember the various dumb internet meme videos and sites from back then, such as MARIO TWINS
also Harder Better Faster Stronger put to River City Ransom, Zombo com, badger badger badger, Real Ultimate Power, and of course, All Your Base
also I remember this neat "3D" pong game where instead of a topdown view, you were basically on one end of the table
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some people legitimately can't
I forget if it's a physiological thing or a processing thing, but yeah, some people actually cannot
my stepmom is one of them, but obviously that doesn't ever stop us from saying "oh, you're just not trying hard enough"
It took me forever to figure out how to do those, but once I did, I felt like a wizard
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I was never able to do it until a few years ago when I got advice to gaze into the distance of the image rather than at the surface, in addition to the usual keeping your eyes unfocused. Ever since then it has always immediately popped out at me as soon as my eyes drift into the horizon.
There's also an animated version of this same image.
The illusion is really quite interesting if you can see it.
The dad was a pretty good guy, but he was also sort of a pompous know-it-all. So one year, at the height of the Magic Eye craze, my parents found a poster that was designed to be unseeable. It was some clusterfuck of half-rendered 3D shapes that would convince you that that there was something there, but refuse to resolve into any discernible picture.
My parents gave it to him and told him it was a poster of the Enterprise, since he was a Trekkie. And then we all stifled laughter as he admired the 3-D starship he was supposedly seeing in the static. I was about eight at the time. They never told him the truth.
My parents are awful chaos muppets and they're the reason I am the way I am, is what I'm saying here.
name a cooler one
i dare you
you know what was lame in the 90's?
dares.
which you would have known, if you were cool