Music of the 90s

In finding music for Sarah's reunion last week - I had a good laugh at some of the music I was finding in my archives. My mission was to find 3 hours worth of music that spanned 1993-1997. While not exact, I did what I considered a good job. Here's some of the highlights (with my usual commentary):

• Beck, "Loser" and "Where it's At" - Never has the thought of two turn tables and a microphone been so cool!
  
• ButtHole Surfers, "Pepper" - Classified as White Guy Rap, but not nearly as good as the Beastie Boys.
• Jamiroquai, "Virtual Insanity" - Remember the MTV Awards with the walkways built into the stage? That was cool.... for 1990s
• Warren G, "Regulate" - The development of R&B as seen here
• Sublime, "What I got" - should have found more Sublime stuff to play, they were pretty good
• TLC, "Waterfalls" - she made me play this one
• Oasis, "Wonderwall" - as much as we hate Oasis now, we all enjoyed the song when it was first played
• Snoop Dogg, "Snoop Doggy Dogg" and "Gin N' Juice" - every day is better with a little Snoop. Could have filled a whole day with Snoop contributions!
• Soul Asylum, "Runaway Train" - One of the songs/genre of the 1990s I wasn't too fond of.
• Soul Coughing, "Circles" - Obviously having the word "Soul" in your band name was a requirement at some point
• Marcy Playground, "Sex and Candy" - Title alone gets your attention... it says "we have your two favorite things" and could only have been topped by calling the song "Sex, Candy, and Steak done medium well while watching girls on trampolines". Trampolines is hard to rhyme with though.
• Toadies, "Possum Kingdom" - still on my list of "favorite songs" of all time. Probably on my top 5... just throwing it out there.
  
• Tupac, "Dear Mama", "California Love" - to be fair, should have had some B.I.G. on here as well but Tupac's death in the 90s (or supposed death... could be on an island with Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa) was a key importance to the development of attention to the whole East Coast vs West Coast.
• Wreckx N Effect, "Rump Shaker" - haha, gotta have this one!
• Fatboy Slim, "Praise You" - The song that never seems to end!
  
• Of course we get the Jock Jams in here.... Think "Hip Hop Hooray", "Pump up the Volume", "R U Ready", "TOOTSIE ROLL", and "Whoomp There It Is".... LOVE IT!!!
• Then the country (I had help with these): Shanai, Dixie Chicks, Kenny Chesney, Garth, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, and my favorite - Brooks N Funn!!! Unfortunately, Country started getting more and more air play in the 90s:(

So just a taste of what we may have forgotten in the past 10 years! At what point is music considered "oldies" or "classic" for the relative stations? I'm already hearing 80s hair bands played as "classic" rock.... soon it will include the stuff from the 90s. More than anything, I realized that there was definitely a lull of good music from 1991-1994 time frame.

Haiku of the Day
"Got two turn tables"
(A cool name and a top hit)
"And a microphone"

Entertainment of the Day - I checked out 1408 this weekend. It's the scary movie with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson based on the Stephen King short story. This is one of the few examples where I felt the movie was almost better than the story. It's a "short" story which is actually faster to read than to watch the movie - but I liked the development of the characters in the movie that was lacking in the story. I did not care for the alter in ending for the movie... and I'll leave it at that. Lots of junk jumping out during the movie if that's what you're looking for.

Weblink of the Day - We were all told, "don't play with your food"... but what about PLAYING YOUR FOOD?!?!? As in an acoustical arrangement of vegetables played as music. Interesting concept. (May take a moment or 10 to load)