https://youtu.be/T1a4gmuCiqU

man fuck these little kids lol

youtube showed me this advertisement before the video played.


this gon be gud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FhmzwXfgz8



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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

Mostly because there are two full figured Black women in lead roles.
Monique was the bigger surprise to me...and makes me think that whole blackballed news story was publicity motivated.

I feel like 1-2 other early ones were familiar but I didn't hear any Pop til 97-98.

It is wild how songs can be huge to the point that they're never played again after they fall off. While some, like Poison, stay around for damn ever.

Which goes to show that song is never played anymore. I don't remember hearing it at any time in my adult life.

it seems like the songs that stick around have a reason too.
Good party songs get played at weddings, bbq's, etc. One Sweet
Day is a depressing ass song. I bump have it on rotation in
the wife's mix on my ipod. So we still here it during long
drives. Love the song but the lyrics kind of leave it off of
most wedding, bday party, school dance play lists.

Seriously, Ace of Base, *SMH*!!! When they came out here originally with the OG version of "Happy Nation" and later "All that she wants" and so on, I thought it was the most clumsy, amateurish bullshit ever. They even clowned them on the swedish grammys by referring to them as "austrian reggae". I couldn't even imagine that these fools-who included a "white power" musician and some fools from one of the gazillion Depeche Mode/Yazoo rip offs that existed locally in the 80's-would top the *US* charts and sell an extra-ordinarily amount of records.

Granted, swedish internationally successful acts after ABBA had a tendency to be horrendous; see:Europe ("the Final Countdown"; their first two albums are straight though), Roxette ("It must have been love", "The look" etc.) not to mention the wackest "Hip-hop" act ever (=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WmeD8A-pa4 )

However, Ace of Base were just *supremely* euro-cheese wack, I just couldn't believe it...

Serious question:was any of you actually jamming Ace of Base? Like, you thought that was *cool*/good/whatever? In sweden, only people with no interest in music or country cornballs dug that shit...

shit this post has me listening to them right now

You didn't have an issue with the lo-fi "Casio-reggae" vibe of their productions? That the Berggren sisters sang with the passion and soul of someone reading a food-menu on some 90's phone-service? That their grasp of the english language was on some 5th grader shit (seriously, "All that she wants is another baby"? The "baby" here refers to another boyfriend). That one of the dudes was a nazi (allegedly reformed but still...)?

Then again, I heard that Dr Alban became a huge star in many african countries with his nigerian-via-swedish euro-cheese ragga so I guess I was just too snobby...

EDIT:If you can find something redeeming in Midi, Maxi&Efti (another "WOAT" tune:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYO9gqdUXXI ) though, I'd accuse you of "swedophilia"!!!

and i dont know anything about the group per se
i did like the sign and happy nation (didnt know they had other albums)
and yes, even all that she wants is another baby she's gone tomorrow.

the only other swedes im partial to are neenah and eagle eye cherry

>Then again, I heard that Dr Alban became a huge star in many
>african countries with his nigerian-via-swedish euro-cheese
>ragga so I guess I was just too snobby...

who?

and ya, im pretty aware of swedish xenophobia

That shit is wicked awesome

https://youtu.be/5Nvxv2R01po

I wasw a serious metalhead as a kid and the very idea that a song perceived as "metal"-or even hardrock-was driven by a fucking *syntheseizer*-riff while the guitars are barely nowhere to be found outside of the solo was repulsive to me and I still hate it.

Of course, if viewed more as an 80's pop-tune, i guess it fares better but how could I possibly view it as that? When it comes to Europe, this is more my speed even if Joey's FAR too "clean-scrubbed" vocals prevent it from being genuinely good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVl8qX23K-M

Also, Europe's last two albums have been surprisingly good with lots of Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, (70's) Whitesnake and Deep Purple-overtones; not something I've ever buy due to sounding too slick and "old fart" but far better than their successful 80's shit... Seems like they got back to their roots while forgetting the bullshit

They were better than Bon Jovi though in terms of fake-heavy; that band were marginally more "metal" than Bryan Adams, journey or Foreigner and yet were perceived as such, shit pissed me off to no ends. Say what you want about Mötley Cure, Twisted Sister etc. but they at least put the big, dumb riffs front-and-center in their music... Those were reasonably "credible" acts for that reason-Europe, Bon Jovi and late period Def Leppard were not...

I never understood how the tripe they were peddling made any noise back in the day.



Since 1976

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0mg9DxvfZE

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know certain music...

love tribe and de la

and de lite because if target commericals

remember nirvana from rock band they
played on the first ds

plus they can google, do not need liner notes
or the a listening booth at virgin megastores

and he was blasting NE Heartbreak in his headphones on his way to school


I do remember around 2000ish meeting an 18 year old named Jane. i mentioned EPMD and she had no idea what in the fuck I was talking about

Also In the last year or 2 I was talking to a youngin (prolly bout 18-20) who didn't know who PRINCE was yo. PRINCE!!!!

>and he was blasting NE Heartbreak in his headphones on his
>way to school

blame Nvincible1 lol

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>
>I do remember around 2000ish meeting an 18 year old named
>Jane. i mentioned EPMD and she had no idea what in the fuck I
>was talking about

This isn't surprising though: if this 18 yr old wasn't a hip-hop head, she could have lived her whole life and never heard of MPMD or Erick Sermon.

>
>Also In the last year or 2 I was talking to a youngin (prolly
>bout 18-20) who didn't know who PRINCE was yo. PRINCE!!!!

I don't expect the average 20 year old to know who Prince was anymore than I expect the average 30 yr old to know who Sly Stone is. If they're a music person - and a music person who actually goes back to older stuff - and don't know who Prince/Sly is, _then_ there's an issue.

I mean, I heard of Chubby Checker. I don't know shit about him but I have HEARD of him. I was shocked and appalled LOL

I didn't know who Bob Dylan was for a long time, but always knew of Chubby Checker.

Dylan would be a better comparison to Prince. Or maybe Billy Preston.

When you say kids...what age are you talkin about? Cause I work with some 20 year old dudes at my job and when 90's....and 80's music (r&b) for that matter comes on the radio them niggas know it



Some kids may not know 90's music but they fo sho know Michael Jackson's stuff. Which is a testament to how dope his music was.

Nirvana, that is interesting.

now the big 90's question is do they know who Garth Brooks is?

thats a interesting elephant in the room

dude one of these things is not like the other

that was the reason of those names.

If you aren't putting your kids on to music from your youth you are doing it wrong. There wasn't a Saturday or Sunday morning where my mom didn't have her vinyl out. Had us cleaning the house to Kool & the Gang, Vicente, The Ojays, etc.

cats who are fan of rap but couldn't tell you shit about the jazz or funk that inspired their favorite genre


lol

I assume most parents of kids born 95-99 are anywhere from 40-55, so some of those older parents may not have been into 90's music as much. And then, they are asking about different genres. Half the Black folks I know who are 25-35 couldn't name the White/Pop/Rock songs they mentioned...maybe they recognize the song, but couldn't tell you it's Green Day or Chumbawumba.

AND.....all the 70's artists you mentioned are >>>>>>>> Green Day, Chumbawumba, Coolio, Ace of Base. Hell, I listen to way more 70's than anything they showed in this video lol

they were also younger, though.

They listened to what we did, to a point.

than Biggie/Pac/Tribe. Especially the ones I gotta DJ for, SMH.

& a chick saying WTF is this....

That's when I knew I was old