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thousandsofcandlesI meant to post this a couple of days ago but I've been so completely distracted by all things Star Trek: Enterprise. Seriously, I've watched two and a half seasons since the weekend!
I've been on a 90s nostalgia kick lately, especially with music. I found playlists on Spotify of the Now compilation albums from the year I was born and had a good listen to them.
Some of them, like Take That and Boyzone are really familiar to me - music I've grown up listening to my whole life and still listen to now.
Some of them, like Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around from Four Weddings & A Funeral are just classics at this point and I think everyone knows them... and possibly might even still be fed up of it 26 years later haha. That was number one for what, like, 2 years or something?
Most of it has been completely foreign and actually a bit alien to my ears. I do not like the - is it jungle it was called? That was dreadful! And what was with the all the reggae? That was not something I was expecting from 90s pop music from the UK I tell you!
One new artist I'm really liking though. I don't really think I can call them 'new' if they were releasing music 20 years ago. New to me at least. Not sure if they're still around but I'm really liking East 17. From what I can tell, they were like the 'bad boys' boy band to Take That's 'good boys'. Same thing with 5ive and Boyzone a few years later.
(Is that a law about boybands? That there's always two - the good boys and the bad boys?)
I've listened to Stay Another Day a few times and at this point I think it's my favourite. Wikipedia tells me it was their only UK number #1 - and was Christmas #1 the year I was born.
I'm also liking It's Alright, Around The World, If You Ever, Steam and Thunder. I want to at some point actually sit down and listen to their albums, see if they're as good as the songs that I'm enjoying. But damn some of their lyrics are fucking filthy. I swear I actually blushed listening to Steam, especially the last line 'Outside it's raining but inside is wet'. WOW. Yet at the same time, it makes me insanely curious to listen to the rest of their music.
So I quickly looked them up on Wikipedia and it seems they are still around - but neither the guy who wrote the songs and did the rapping, or the vocal guy are still in the band who have a completely different line-up. It looks like they did just the three albums in the 90s so I'll be checking those out - probably once I've finished mainlining Enterprise.
I've been on a 90s nostalgia kick lately, especially with music. I found playlists on Spotify of the Now compilation albums from the year I was born and had a good listen to them.
Some of them, like Take That and Boyzone are really familiar to me - music I've grown up listening to my whole life and still listen to now.
Some of them, like Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around from Four Weddings & A Funeral are just classics at this point and I think everyone knows them... and possibly might even still be fed up of it 26 years later haha. That was number one for what, like, 2 years or something?
Most of it has been completely foreign and actually a bit alien to my ears. I do not like the - is it jungle it was called? That was dreadful! And what was with the all the reggae? That was not something I was expecting from 90s pop music from the UK I tell you!
One new artist I'm really liking though. I don't really think I can call them 'new' if they were releasing music 20 years ago. New to me at least. Not sure if they're still around but I'm really liking East 17. From what I can tell, they were like the 'bad boys' boy band to Take That's 'good boys'. Same thing with 5ive and Boyzone a few years later.
(Is that a law about boybands? That there's always two - the good boys and the bad boys?)
I've listened to Stay Another Day a few times and at this point I think it's my favourite. Wikipedia tells me it was their only UK number #1 - and was Christmas #1 the year I was born.
I'm also liking It's Alright, Around The World, If You Ever, Steam and Thunder. I want to at some point actually sit down and listen to their albums, see if they're as good as the songs that I'm enjoying. But damn some of their lyrics are fucking filthy. I swear I actually blushed listening to Steam, especially the last line 'Outside it's raining but inside is wet'. WOW. Yet at the same time, it makes me insanely curious to listen to the rest of their music.
So I quickly looked them up on Wikipedia and it seems they are still around - but neither the guy who wrote the songs and did the rapping, or the vocal guy are still in the band who have a completely different line-up. It looks like they did just the three albums in the 90s so I'll be checking those out - probably once I've finished mainlining Enterprise.
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Date: 2020-11-20 06:33 pm (UTC)