Just another Emusic junky. My preference is the avant-garde, and anything with a challenging rhythm. But, I'm really hear to enjoy and to discover music. ...and of course to stop worrying and learn to love the trolls.
"This is a list of albums that contain "hit singles" that I remember for the 80's and 90's. These were all popular on Much Music and the radio. I'm Canadian so this will be Canada centric."
"You're Too Cool Who could forget the iconic image of the band sitting in the back of a station waggon, ready to go, with mom and dad at the helm." less
"There's lots to say about Bjork, especially in my music video filled 90's. Best to leave it at my intro - ducti - on. Thanks in part to accom - panyi - ngvideo it would take years for people to stop being confused about her age." less
"Wild Thing With a disti - nctiv - elysimple drum roll and subse - quent - lyfunky beat the PG rated tales of debauchery begin. Classic beat, classic guitar riff, and the very cool Tone-Loc.
"Guilty, In the mid 90's when Nine Inch Nails was domin - ating - ,Grav - ityKlls came out with a similar agro- - industrial sound. Guilty was something I heard quite a bit." less
"Porce - lain - Iwas never that much into Moby. Porcelain is your standard pretty, soring, and beautiful techno song, if not the one that set standard. Most of Play was promoted through TV Comme - rcial - s,movies, and other non-t - radit - ionalvenues." less
"New York City An infec - tious - ,and sweet song with an oddly heavy bass line. "cause Everyone's a friend in New York City, everything is beautiful when you're young and pretty"" less
"Fires - tarte - r "I' - mthe Fires - tarte - r,twisted fires - tarte - r..." It was hard to escape this song when it came out. I still love the massive bass drum drone. It was hard hitting techno that fit the grung - e/met - altendencies of the day." less
"Cowgi - rl Th - evideo featured a psych - edeli - cmass of images, liquids, and words. "an eraser of love" The video was eye-p - oppin - gand ear catching when it first came out. "why don't call me I feel flying..."" less
"Born Slippy Nuxx This song got super popular thanks to the movie Train - spott - ing. I've never really been able to make out the lyrics, but it does say "...boy" a lot and there are some very blissful breaks in between the pulsing house beats." less
"Pump Up the Volum - e Whi - lethe original was by M.A.R.R.S. and this feature is missing some samples, it's really really really close to the original. The video featured astro - nauts - ,satel - lites - ,and another NASA related things. No actual lyrics just "pump up the volume pump up the volume" and "put the needle on the record"" less
"So it was 1992? It's confusing two guys that look like bulging Adonises poking fun at egoti - stica - lnature of models. If you don't remember it goes "I'm too sexy for my car, too sexy for my car, too sexy by far"" less
"My fondest memory is if the quirky "500 Up" video. It featured a Barbie with a duck's head cruising around the streets in a Barbie Mobile, some noisy shoe gaze influenced riffs, and a bridge straight from Rush. There's a lot of great stuff on here including the "Good in Everyone." It is a hits compi - latio - nafter all. Wish more of their proper albums were here." less