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I Know Her: Off-topic, Off-duty Friday Night 90s Flashback Rockin’ Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpoqzt2EHaA

I got on a bit of a 90s kick last night, so here’s the Spotify playlist that came from it, a kind of 90s alt-rock-chick greatest hits mixtape. So enjoy, if you’re into this kind of thing!

Ironically, my 90s binge was inspired by a band that’s not on the mixtape, because they’re not on Spotify: Cake Like, a band fronted by Kerri Kenney, perhaps better known for playing the somewhat off-kilter Deputy Trudy Wiegel on Reno 911. Poking around on Youtube, I had found some episodes of Viva Variety, the extremely odd and rather short-lived variety show parody show she did with Thomas Lennon, who also went on to greater fame on Reno 911.

So that led me to some Cake Like videos. The friend I showed them to was not impressed. But hey, I like them, and maybe some of you will too.

(In case you’re wondering, I’m still off-duty, and probably will be over the long weekend as well; I may post some more off-topic stuff before I officially return.)

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mobiusclimber
mobiusclimber
8 years ago

Since we’re talking about favorite “girl bands” and Japanese music, here’s a song by one of my favorite groups, TsuShiMaMiRe:

Pietro_McM
Pietro_McM
8 years ago

Favourite ‘girl‘ bands is it?

One from Japan:

https://youtu.be/3zWwd8n2JVI

Playbaby

Not exactly a ‘girl‘ band, but they are from London, The Dustaphonics:

https://youtu.be/7wCuZTAJsfE

Music makes me happy. :>D

Imaginary Petal
Imaginary Petal
8 years ago

My 90s post finally came out of moderation. :p

Alan Robertshaw
Alan Robertshaw
8 years ago

Oh gawd, this reminds me of when a local nightclub did ‘themed’ nights. I could understand “60s”, “70s” and possibly even “80s” night, but I did end up harrumphing “How can the “90s” be nostalgic? That like only just happened”

My friends gave me the same pitiful look they do when I talk about “great new bands” Nirvana and The Prodigy.

Alan Robertshaw
Alan Robertshaw
8 years ago

@ IP

I don’t think anyone will be interested in this

I found that really interesting. Shabba!

Eva Vavoom
8 years ago

Thank you all for a really inspiring thread full of musical discoveries.

For the entire 90s I had my radio in Quebec City hacked to get Montreal stations and it was permanently tuned to CHOM FM when they played classic rock. I also had a shortband radio that I used to listen to Radio France Internationale in all the far flung French outposts. I have no idea what’s up with music today. I have sequestered myself into a quiet fortress.

kupo
kupo
8 years ago

@Alan

“How can the “90s” be nostalgic? That like only just happened”

My husband gets a kind of nostalgia for certain music from the 2000’s that baffles me.

Alan Robertshaw
Alan Robertshaw
8 years ago

@ kupo

I set a quiz for our local pub and I did come in for some comments about my “current events” round.

Now if you’ll excuse me; I need to go yell at some clouds. 🙂

Robert
Robert
8 years ago

Some of the comments piqued my curiosity, so I went to the Wikipedia entry for ‘heavy metal ‘. Well, that was a good antidote for intellectual pride. Reminded me of when my older son tried to explain the difference between dubstep and drum-and-bass.

I have eclectic tastes in music, but there are entire swaths that I just don’t understand. I did spend a good deal of time and effort educating myself about jazz several years ago, and can now listen with enjoyment. Still don’t understand what syncopation is, but at least I can tell a trumpet from a saxophone from a trombone just by listening carefully.

mobiusclimber
mobiusclimber
8 years ago

Japanese national-treasure, Sheena Ringo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECxBHhMc7oI

Did someone say Babes in Toyland?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09aJfTUR94k

Any Spore fans? Great forgotten noise-rock band:

Kat
Kat
8 years ago

@Alan Robertshaw

Now if you’ll excuse me; I need to go yell at some clouds.

I’ll stay behind to write a polite letter to the editor. Once I drop it in the mailbox, I’ll call my friend from the nearby phone booth. We might go bowling.

See you later, alligator!

David
David
8 years ago

David, I’m definitely behind the vast majority of the performers on your playlist. May I add Helium? If you have The Breeders, Throwing Muses, Belly, et al., you must like Helium, no? Mary Timony is still rocking, too, bless her.

Patricia Kayden
Patricia Kayden
8 years ago

@Imaginary Petal,

Really enjoyed your write-up on dancehall music. Not really a big fan although I recognize a few of the artists and songs. For me, Bob Marley was Reggae and I still listen to other old school artists. The newer artists and music are a bit too risque for my liking.

Thanks for the great history. I’ll watch the linked videos when I have time.

DrHoveiny
DrHoveiny
8 years ago

Johnny Bluejeans! Ahhh loved Viva Variety and Cake Like.

Mels
Mels
8 years ago

@mobiusclimber

Shiina Ringo (/Shena Ringo/Sheena Ringo) in a WHTM thread? Two of my favorite things together! God bless.

Japan has so many alternative music queens.

Tsuki Amano

Chara

Yumi Nakashima

LinuxLea
LinuxLea
8 years ago

The fascination with this piece of vocalizer software creeps me the fuck out.
It’ a piece of software!
It’s Britney Spears for the socially awkward.
And the neckbeards, don’t forget the neckbeards.
It’s not a creative endeavour, it’s a product.
It’s worse than any cynical consumer culture nightmare William Gibson dreamt up.

This is exactly why I don’t call myself a nerd anymore, because you automatically get associated with this creepy fandom that gushes over a fictional teenaged girl and buys worthless plastic crap for millions of dollars.
Another reason is that the creepy fandom automatically assumes you are one of them and start pestering you with their borderline pedophile fascination for animated children.

These people are the reason “normal” people give me strange looks when they find out I like asian films. You always have to clarify that you like Kurosawa, Kitano, Woo and stuff like that.

Every time I see someone running around in these kind of cosply-y outfits without a reason, I really want to beat some sense into them.

I hope these people grow up one day, only to wake up every morning to experience shame for what they helped create.

Rant over.

For context:
I worked in what you could call a “nerd store” for several years, and these people were the bane of my existence. Obnoxious without exception, gifted with the attentionspan of a goldfish, completely stunned when they found out you didn’t share their love for stupid shit (And yes, “One Piece”, “Dragon Ball Z” etc can be adequately described as such), rude, demanding and generally a pain to deal with.

kupo
kupo
8 years ago

@ LinuxLea
Holy fuck, how about you not generalize people for their fucking interests? I don’t feel like I can come up with a coherent response right now for all of this, but I’ll address one thing: if I make a piece of music with my korg keyboard, is it not a creative endeavor? If so, how are the synthethic sounds on my keyboard any different from the synthetic sounds on the vocaloid software? If not, how is a synthetic instrument different from a physical instrument?

LinuxLea
LinuxLea
8 years ago

I have suffered at the hands of these people, they have earned my ire.

Imaginary Petal
Imaginary Petal
8 years ago

@LinuxLea

Um. What the fuck was that?

EDIT: You’ve “suffered at the hands” of people liking things you don’t like? Wow, I can’t imagine how terrible that must’ve been for you.

Viscaria
Viscaria
8 years ago

I legitimately don’t even understand what that was all about or even what prompted it.

Imaginary Petal
Imaginary Petal
8 years ago

@Viscaria

Yeah me neither. Thoroughly confusing angry rant out of nowhere.

Viscaria
Viscaria
8 years ago

Also Britney Spears is not, to the best of my knowledge, a piece of software.

EJ (The Other One)
EJ (The Other One)
8 years ago

I worked in what you could call a “nerd store” for several years, and these people were the bane of my existence.

I feel you. It is the nature of any customer service job that afterwards, you will utterly and entirely hate the particular demographic that you served. It’s just a thing. Ask me to tell you airline stories sometime.

That doesn’t make it okay to generalise like that; but your frustration and anger are genuine and I understand where they come from.

Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
8 years ago

It’ a piece of software!

So’s Linux.

LinuxLea
LinuxLea
8 years ago

@EJ: Yeah, they made up about 15% of customers, but they took up about 80% percent of the time. And they puked on me, touched other customers inapropriately, and tried to get me fired when I couldn’t provide any hentai.

@SFHC: And I don’t mistake it for a performance artist.