loving the small time
Back when I would occasionally go into the used CD shop and just on a whim, pick music I'd never heard of based entirely upon how interesting the cover art was. We're talking most of the mid-'90s through 2005 (never did the napster thing, or anything like it--the laptop I have now is the most un-outdated computer I have ever had in my life, by about two years). I like to think I was pretty lucky with my selections, 'cause the winners, or at least listenable music tended to outweigh the utter crap that looked good until actually listened to.
I've been having a strange urge to revisit the bizarre assortment of music I was listening to around '97-'99 lately, can't say why, but so in the process to quench this desire, I realized that most of the crap I was listening to back then was just a bunch of one-off CDs by groups that I never heard about again. There is a point to this, believe it or not. I'm getting there.
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So I do my best to only pay enough attention to pop music as much as I can without wanting to kill myself. I caught some program last year with Maroon 5 doing the "moves like Jagger" song, and it was then, hearing it essentially live, I realized that I recognized the lead singers voice. So anyway, I do the wikipedia thing on Adam Levine, and...discover that his first group was one that I'd been trying to remember for a couple years now. Kara's Flowers is perhaps one of the dumbest names for a group ever, but it's nice, light and fluffy late-'90s pop, and the singular album they put out, called "The Fourth World" is so harmless in its charm I'm embarrassed to say that I bought this used at Dave's in Pittsburgh back in early '98 and listened to it pretty often for a few years.
I also managed to rediscover the name and album of another group by the name of Orbit, and while their one album that I had (Libido Speedway...dumb album name by a decently named group) was more touch and go in listenability, I get their song "Medicine" stuck in my head at random times, despite the fact that I know I haven't heard it until tonight in over ten years.
So.
I've been having a strange urge to revisit the bizarre assortment of music I was listening to around '97-'99 lately, can't say why, but so in the process to quench this desire, I realized that most of the crap I was listening to back then was just a bunch of one-off CDs by groups that I never heard about again. There is a point to this, believe it or not. I'm getting there.
*
So I do my best to only pay enough attention to pop music as much as I can without wanting to kill myself. I caught some program last year with Maroon 5 doing the "moves like Jagger" song, and it was then, hearing it essentially live, I realized that I recognized the lead singers voice. So anyway, I do the wikipedia thing on Adam Levine, and...discover that his first group was one that I'd been trying to remember for a couple years now. Kara's Flowers is perhaps one of the dumbest names for a group ever, but it's nice, light and fluffy late-'90s pop, and the singular album they put out, called "The Fourth World" is so harmless in its charm I'm embarrassed to say that I bought this used at Dave's in Pittsburgh back in early '98 and listened to it pretty often for a few years.
I also managed to rediscover the name and album of another group by the name of Orbit, and while their one album that I had (Libido Speedway...dumb album name by a decently named group) was more touch and go in listenability, I get their song "Medicine" stuck in my head at random times, despite the fact that I know I haven't heard it until tonight in over ten years.
So.