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Post by Sanziana on Mar 1, 2016 13:12:18 GMT -5
I still listen to this song from time to time. It's the worst cliche song of the '90s and it has the campiest, silliest video but I absolutely love it.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Mar 16, 2016 23:47:49 GMT -5
Mariah Carey edition. I'm not actually ashamed, but I probably should be?
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Post by Sanziana on Mar 17, 2016 6:30:27 GMT -5
Lady in Red. The cheese is strong in this one but I listen to it quite regularly: Lord Lucan I still listen this song every Christmas and I don't care
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 9:10:54 GMT -5
There is no shame in this.
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Post by moimoi on Mar 28, 2016 23:50:38 GMT -5
My brother recently asked if I had nostalgic affection for New Kids on the Block, the tween sensation of my childhood, and to be honest, the answer is no. What I do have nostalgic affection for is freestyle (and its UK counterpart, Hi-NRG) for the beats, the synths, the cliches, and perhaps above all, the fashion:
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Post by moimoi on Apr 14, 2016 21:08:37 GMT -5
I think it has been established that I have a soft spot for soft rock, thanks to the few gems among the Lite FM dreck I had to listen to while working retail in high school. With this song, James Taylor displays an unusual jauntiness and buoyancy - nearly accomplishing a sound that we might call 'soul'.
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Post by moimoi on Aug 14, 2016 20:45:10 GMT -5
This song is so cute it makes me wish I were an elementary school PE teacher:
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Post by SLOW on Aug 27, 2016 20:58:33 GMT -5
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Post by moimoi on Aug 27, 2016 22:26:57 GMT -5
I love commercial dancehall and at home alone, I am known to wine and grine to the following:
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Jan 26, 2019 17:25:24 GMT -5
I'm reviving this thread rather than make my own thread where I admit my shameful love of the glam metal pedophilia anthem "Seventeen" by Winger
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Post by moimoi on Jan 26, 2019 22:46:49 GMT -5
I'm reviving this thread rather than make my own thread where I admit my shameful love of the glam metal pedophilia anthem "Seventeen" by Winger Though if I recall, doesn't it have a similar bassline to this shamefully enjoyable track by Hagar-led Van Halen?
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Jan 28, 2019 23:20:07 GMT -5
See moimoi at first I thought the "Seventeen" in the title was a reference to the time signature the song's in (sort of like that Primus track "Eleven") and not a reference to the age of the girl this lunkhead is sleeping with! And even now the lyrics barely register because intellectually I know they're skeevy but I'm too distracted by those totally sick syncopated snares and that mathematically perfect C major guitar riff and... it's a total groove, ok?? I just pretend it's a teen sex anthem of the "we were barely seventeen and we were barely dressed" school and not the "R. Kelly did nothing wrong" school. Please forgive me.
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Post by Prole Hole on Feb 4, 2019 6:39:52 GMT -5
Naturally I have near-immaculate taste in music. It goes without saying that I'm a man of wealth and taste always demonstrating the very finest and most refined of musical choices. Saying that...
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Aug 17, 2020 18:45:38 GMT -5
Yes the lyric is capital-P Problematic but jesus fucking christ this song has a bunch of cool string sweeps. Da dun, BWEEEEEEEEeEeEeEeeeeee!!! Da dun, BWEEEEEEEEeEeEeEeeeeee!!!
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Aug 17, 2020 18:57:43 GMT -5
Also some of y'all need to get over yourselves and acknowledge that Michelle Branch is talented actually (among other things). Especially side-eyeing moimoi with her "'I Love You Always Forever' is a crime against humanity" bullshit.
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Post by moimoi on Aug 17, 2020 19:46:24 GMT -5
Also some of y'all need to get over yourselves and acknowledge that Michelle Branch is talented actually (among other things). Especially side-eyeing moimoi with her "'I Love You Always Forever' is a crime against humanity" bullshit. I have no problem with Michelle Branch - just search this thread! I'll take her over them basic-ass HAIM bitches.
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Post by Prole Hole on Aug 20, 2020 12:44:15 GMT -5
Only 90's Kidz Will Remember The Trauma/Horror!
Pick a godsdamned team! Either do the up-tempo dance-y thing or the grungy guitar thing! The move between the is as elegant as Trump making a speech.
Still genuinely like the song tho...
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Post by Nudeviking on Aug 25, 2020 2:13:16 GMT -5
Only 90's Kidz Will Remember The Trauma/Horror! Pick a godsdamned team! Either do the up-tempo dance-y thing or the grungy guitar thing! The move between the is as elegant as Trump making a speech. Still genuinely like the song tho... As a child of the 90s I must confess that I'd fortunately never heard this before today. It must have been something that the American public somehow avoided and judging by the reviews of the album Stateside I've found it's pretty easy to see why. "Ok kids are you ready for dance music with a message? Well, even if you are, steer clear of Babylon Zoo and their annoying political/spiritual rants set to music," writes Heather Phares for the Michigan Daily. J.D. Considine reviewing the album for the Baltimore Sun has the following to say of the record, "This pseudo-futuristic combo -- the improbably-named Jas Mann plus a few studio cronies -- went straight to the top of the charts at Christmas with the single 'Space Man' and has continued to separate Britons from their money with the album The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes. What's the appeal? It's hard to say, really. It might be the way Mann's pompous delivery and comic book lyrics recall the glory days of Gary Numan, or that the shoddy sound and abundant gimmickry appeal to those who think the world needs another Sigue Sigue Sputnik. But it's hard to imagine America falling for this junk, no matter how many John Tesh albums we buy. And if that doesn't make you proud to be an American, I don't know what would."
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Post by Prole Hole on Aug 25, 2020 8:42:45 GMT -5
Only 90's Kidz Will Remember The Trauma/Horror! Pick a godsdamned team! Either do the up-tempo dance-y thing or the grungy guitar thing! The move between the is as elegant as Trump making a speech. Still genuinely like the song tho... As a child of the 90s I must confess that I'd fortunately never heard this before today. It must have been something that the American public somehow avoided and judging by the reviews of the album Stateside I've found it's pretty easy to see why. "Ok kids are you ready for dance music with a message? Well, even if you are, steer clear of Babylon Zoo and their annoying political/spiritual rants set to music," writes Heather Phares for the Michigan Daily. J.D. Considine reviewing the album for the Baltimore Sun has the following to say of the record, "This pseudo-futuristic combo -- the improbably-named Jas Mann plus a few studio cronies -- went straight to the top of the charts at Christmas with the single 'Space Man' and has continued to separate Britons from their money with the album The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes. What's the appeal? It's hard to say, really. It might be the way Mann's pompous delivery and comic book lyrics recall the glory days of Gary Numan, or that the shoddy sound and abundant gimmickry appeal to those who think the world needs another Sigue Sigue Sputnik. But it's hard to imagine America falling for this junk, no matter how many John Tesh albums we buy. And if that doesn't make you proud to be an American, I don't know what would." This is the most kind, generous and positive review of The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes I have ever read.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Nov 20, 2020 15:07:49 GMT -5
Not the actual song, but the instrumental is genuinely really fun, in a jock-jam way.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Dec 4, 2020 1:14:33 GMT -5
Am I tripping, or could this totally be, like, a Slowdive B-side with some minor tweaks in production?
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