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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #30 on: September 17, 2009, 10:39:08 AM »

BOS4 Blur!!  AL lurves her some Blur, apparently.

agreed, but still shocked to see you up to BOS #4 in a 90's set that's far from over.

I love '90s sets that feature songs KFOG was ignoring at the time.


Okay,I'm up to four now.  Yay for a Nirvana bustout.
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #31 on: September 17, 2009, 10:40:35 AM »
BOS to Nirvana, and Leadbelly too, while we're at it.
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #32 on: September 17, 2009, 10:40:47 AM »
wow, VHM to a Nirvana bustout.
I've never heard this before.  Intense, but not exactly good.
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #33 on: September 17, 2009, 10:42:42 AM »
OTOH, I've never liked the Cobain = Lennon trope. WAY overstated.
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #34 on: September 17, 2009, 10:43:48 AM »
proxy of Gaz, Seal "Prayer For the Dying".  Nice seg there, AL
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #35 on: September 17, 2009, 10:44:39 AM »
VHM to Seal, who I saw open for the Stones in '94.  (I thought Prayer for the Dying was out before '94 though.)
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #36 on: September 17, 2009, 10:50:43 AM »
wow, VHM to a Nirvana bustout.

I've never heard this before.  Intense, but not exactly good.

so I guess you wouldn't cop to the Lennon-of-his-generation comparison?

I had an interesting introduction to Nirvana. I was living in a pretty large apartment complex in Isla Vista (UCSB), and the managers had their own apartment, complete with nymphomaniac teenage daughter, whom they hired me to tutuor (she slept with my roommate).  I also helped her get a PT job at the local K-Mart where I worked on weekends, and got to know a couple of her HS friends that way.  One of whom was smokin' hot & one evening drove up in her Camaro to pick her friend up while I was out front after closing chatting with her.  The smokin' hot friend leaned out the window & said, "You guys got to hear this!" and then she cranked up "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on her car CD player right there in the parking lot.  I was literally blown away (& keep in mind I had been the TA for the Pop Culture History class twice by then, so I was at the peak of my Culture Vulture-hood, and had got the prof to work into the lecture content from both volumes of The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization).  I remember right then & there thinking that maybe, finally, punk was making a comeback & that hair metal was maybe, finally, on its way out.
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #37 on: September 17, 2009, 11:20:14 AM »
One more BOS for the bonus track, the soon-to-reform Pavement's Cut Your Hair.  Another song KFOG NEVER played back when.
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #38 on: September 17, 2009, 11:35:57 AM »

One more BOS for the bonus track, the soon-to-reform Pavement's Cut Your Hair.  Another song KFOG NEVER played back when.

I've got two Pavement CD's - only because they finished in the top 10 in End of Year polls in Spin &/or RS, but I since I was in Taiwan during their heyday, I can state unequivocally that I have never heard a song of theirs on the radio, ever

Too bad I missed the Bonus Track taking a phone call.
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #39 on: September 17, 2009, 11:46:14 AM »

One more BOS for the bonus track, the soon-to-reform Pavement's Cut Your Hair.  Another song KFOG NEVER played back when.

I've got two Pavement CD's - only because they finished in the top 10 in End of Year polls in Spin &/or RS, but I since I was in Taiwan during their heyday, I can state unequivocally that I have never heard a song of theirs on the radio, ever

Too bad I missed the Bonus Track taking a phone call.

CYH got airplay on Alternative Rock radio around the time of this set, so I can't claim to have *never* heard them on the radio, but outside of 94-95, they didn't get played much beyond that.

I'm curious which two you have. I'd say there are three that are worth owning: Slanted and Enchanted; Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; and Brighten the Corners and of those the last is probably my fave.  (CYH is on Crooked Rain, iirc.)
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #40 on: September 17, 2009, 12:47:55 PM »
9/17/09 - Thursday!  Shhhhh....it's a Mystery Year! (1994)

   1.  Collective Soul - Shine
(News:  Tension in Iraq)
   2.  Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
   3.  Lisa Loeb - Stay
(News: OJ/Susan Smith/Lorena Bobbitt)
   4.  Veruca Salt - Seether (BOS)
   5.  Hootie & the Blowfish - Hold My Hand
(TV:  E.R. Season One)
   6.  James - Laid
   7.  Blur - Parklife (BOS)
(Dueling health care reform)
   8.  Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down
   9.  Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night
 10.  Seal - Prayer for the Dying

BONUS TRACK:  Pavement - Cut Your Hair

as noted earlier, I count 6 songs that KFOG did not play in '94. I was pretty evenly divided between KFOG and Live 105 back then, and the Veruca Salt and James tracks in particular were Live 105 biggies, iirc.
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #41 on: September 17, 2009, 01:14:41 PM »
9/17/09 - Thursday!  Shhhhh....it's a Mystery Year! (1994)

   1.  Collective Soul - Shine
(News:  Tension in Iraq)
   2.  Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
   3.  Lisa Loeb - Stay
(News: OJ/Susan Smith/Lorena Bobbitt)
   4.  Veruca Salt - Seether (BOS)
   5.  Hootie & the Blowfish - Hold My Hand
(TV:  E.R. Season One)
   6.  James - Laid
   7.  Blur - Parklife (BOS)
(Dueling health care reform)
   8.  Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down
   9.  Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night
 10.  Seal - Prayer for the Dying

BONUS TRACK:  Pavement - Cut Your Hair

as noted earlier, I count 6 songs that KFOG did not play in '94. I was pretty evenly divided between KFOG and Live 105 back then, and the Veruca Salt and James tracks in particular were Live 105 biggies, iirc.


my buffered online stream -- which I can usually rewind and listen to at my leisure, sah-weet! -- died in the middle of Lisa's Lobes, so I missed everything after. dang.  some nice ones.  Eno-produced James' Laid (there was a tranny folk singer who used to do this at Johnny Foley's pub on O'Farrell a few years back), Veruca Salt, Blur and Seal.
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #42 on: September 17, 2009, 01:16:50 PM »
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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #43 on: September 17, 2009, 02:07:24 PM »
Eno-produced James' Laid (there was a tranny folk singer who used to do this at Johnny Foley's pub on O'Farrell a few years back).

That immediately made me think of Phranc, the crew-cut lesbian folkie, but no one would dare dye her eyes. Or call her pretty.

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Re: 17 Sept 2009: a Year O' Mystery (1994)
« Reply #44 on: September 18, 2009, 06:15:10 AM »
9/17/09 - Thursday!  Shhhhh....it's a Mystery Year! (1994)

   1.  Collective Soul - Shine
(News:  Tension in Iraq)
   2.  Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
   3.  Lisa Loeb - Stay
(News: OJ/Susan Smith/Lorena Bobbitt)
   4.  Veruca Salt - Seether (BOS)
   5.  Hootie & the Blowfish - Hold My Hand
(TV:  E.R. Season One)
   6.  James - Laid
   7.  Blur - Parklife (BOS)
(Dueling health care reform)
   8.  Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down
   9.  Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night
 10.  Seal - Prayer for the Dying

BONUS TRACK:  Pavement - Cut Your Hair

as noted earlier, I count 6 songs that KFOG did not play in '94. I was pretty evenly divided between KFOG and Live 105 back then, and the Veruca Salt and James tracks in particular were Live 105 biggies, iirc.


I'll go w/ Veruca Salt as BOS. Pretty strong set, and no WOS, although I wish radio would have played something besides "Shine" off of "Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid"... it was actually a pretty decent album, IMHO.