Hybrid - Finished Symphony
Back when tracklistings were nearly impossible to find and my friends and I were blindly downloading Ministry of Sound compilations and mislabeled mixes left and right, I fell in love with a breakbeat trance track that was heavy on orchestral strings. To my 17-year old self, it was the most beautiful piece of music that I had ever heard and was the first purely instrumental track to send my heart aflutter. Almost 10 years later, I finally know the artist and title of that track. Almost 10 years later, and it still moves me to the core.
Tool - Stinkfist
Everyone’s all about ’90s nostalgia these days. It’s all mini-backpacks this or Clarissa Explains It All that. Grunge! No Doubt! Tech vests!
Sure, I’m all about that, but there’s more to the ’90s than happy fun times.
Remember night terror inducing stop animation music videos?! Oh, the ’90s. Those were the days. The video for Stinkfist came out in 1996, with heavy rotation on MTV.
Interesting piece of trivia: the title “Stinkfist” was changed to “Track 1” on MTV. Who thinks that would happen now, if music channels actually played music videos?
Follow Up of the Day: Hey, remember Cry Baby Lane — that long-lost made-for-TV horror movie that was supposedly so scary that Nickelodeon banned it from re-airing and later refused to acknowledge its existence?
Well, a recent Reddit thread about the film revealed that at least one bootleg copy of Cry Baby Lane yet survived, and today it was uploaded to YouTube in full.
The movie’s director, Peter Lauer, told The Daily he personally felt it was best to leave it buried and forgotten, “with people wanting it and never seeing it and being disappointed by it.”
Clearly he’s just trying to avoid lawsuits from the relatives of viewers who will be frightened to death.
It’s hard to believe that this is from 2000. It has a distinct 1996 quality to it.
Anyway, this is what happens when you “just can’t deal with NY right now” - you stay in bed, watch some vintage Nickelodeon, and eat Thai take-out.
From The Archives: MTV’s Kurt Loder compares the “worldwide computer network called the Internet” to the CB radio fad of the 1970s, strongly advises “the hypersensitive, the humor-impaired, and puritans of every stripe” to stay away in this fascinating time-capsule from 1995.
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I miss MTV News. And the ’90s. I hate you, new millenium! I hate you! I wish you had never been born!
Today, I saw a black VW Beetle with a “The Beatles” decal minus the “s” on the back window.
“The Beatle,” I thought to myself, letting out a soft chuckle.
And then after that, all I could think about was how unfortunate it was that Volkswagen re-released the Beetle right when the show Beetleborgs ended. The Beetleborg kids were probably close to driving age by then; that was an amazing product placement opportunity there. Each Beetleborg would have his/her own VW Beetle in whichever color matched their Beetleborg outfits.
And then maybe you could have had a cameo appearance by Paul McCartney riding up to the Beetleborg kids in a VW Beetle. Ultimate.
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I bought this the other day. There is something definitively ’90s about it, and that’s why I got it. In case you haven’t noticed, I am hellbent on bringing parts of the ’90s back. More specifically, I want to bring the early ’90s back.
Like the word “slammin’”. I have been using it a lot. It WILL infiltrate vocabularies. Also using the word “hype” like… “that’s hype.” I am just going to use them like it ain’t no thang.
I really like the word “boss”. I’m going to try to work that one into my everyday vernacular, too.
Don’t get me wrong… there are certainly things about the ’90s I don’t miss. Like scrunchies. I want to tell American Apparel to stop trying to bring it back, but I mean… I get the same naysayin’ about my ’90s slang revival endeavors. I also don’t miss female hairstyles of the ’90s. Crimped hair? Nope, no thank you. The poofy wavy frizzy bangs? Nope. That shit was not hype.
Neon fabric paint splattered on a t-shirt? Now that is where it’s at.
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