31 March 2010: a year o'Mystery (1999)

[Davefish]

Ahh, great story.

[RGMike]

3/31/10 A Mystery Year this Wednesday*

 1.  The Old 97's- Murder (Or A Heart Attack) (B.O.S tie!)
 2.  Guster- Barrel Of A Gun
 3.  Travis- Why Does It Always Rain On Me
(News: Tony Blair/ Ireland)
 4.  Collective Soul- Run
 5.  Pretenders- Pop Star
(Movie: Office Space)
 6.  Ben Harper- Burn To Shine
 7.  Moby- Porcelain (B.O.S tie!!)
(TV: Jon Stewart on Bill and Hill news)
 8.  Filter- Take A Picture
 9.  Sting- Brand New Day
(TV: Ted Danson in Becker)
10. Santana feat Dave Matthews- Love Of My Life
* Yes indeed...you got it! The Big hits of... 1999!

[mshray]

I had to google to find out this "awake on my airplane" thing is Filter. KFOG certainly wasn't playing this in '99.

I liked it.  It moved from droozly wimpy to wall-of-sound awesome!

Damn, I would have been all over that.  I love that song.  Surprising no one recognized it, it hit #12 on the Hot 100 (& is one of the runners up on my personal Top 100 at that position).

The guy behind Filter is Richard Patrick, the brother of the actor Robert Patrick, who was the evil shape-shifting robot in T2, as well as the guy who replaced Fox Mulder as the X-Files limped to its conclusion.  Anyone with kids of a certain age will also know him as the father in Bridge to Terabithia.

Richard was also in Nine Inch Nails back when that was more than one person.

I used to have a great trivia question about Robert Patrick, back before Planet Hollywood went bankrupt:   Who is the only actor (with spoken lines, not just a stunt man) to have been killed on screen by all three founders of Planet Hollywood: Schwarzenneger, Willis & Stallone?

[radical347]

didn't they play any actual *rock* music in 1999?

This set makes it feel like the singer songwriters on quaaluudes reigned.

This one's not a keeper, that's fo' sho'. OTOH, we've avoided "Smooth". What we need is "Believe" by Cher.

uh-oh, Sting -- why would we wanna put ourselves thru all that again?

Whenever I hear Sting I think of the time when I first started dating my fiancee and she was lamenting that her mother really wanted to go see Sting and Annie Lennox at the Concord Pavilion.  GF did NOT want to take her Mom, but it's what mom really wanted for her birthday or something..  

I told her, "don't worry, I'll win tickets for you."   And then I managed to call in to the KFOG Morning Show and win second row tix to the Sting concert!   holee crap!!!   When Renee asked me my name and contact info, I gave her my girlfriend's name and address (her name can be a guy's name, too).  She showed up, picked up the tix, and treated Mom to Sting and Annie from the second Row.  The best thing about this was I impressed the hell out of her mother even before we had met ... and the 2nd best ting was I didn't have to go to the concert myself..



  from the KFOG Morning show

Wow, that's awesome!

[radical347]

BOS's to Moby and Sting, even though the Moby one being the epitome of the intersection of 'mainstream' and 'chill' is still overplayed.

VHM to Santana/Dave Matthews, the single from that album that Hits 106 played but didn't seem to get anywhere else.

WOS to Filter.  I actually loved that song (though the pop radio mix, I think it was called the H&H Mix is much better than the album version which is the one that most stations play anymore, including what we heard today) until I found out that it was about him running around naked on an airplane...wtf.

[radical347]

Oh that snoozy one was Moby. At least we didn't have to suffer thru "West Side" or whatever that song he did with Gwen Stefani was.

South Side (Which AL played in the last '99 set!) is, in my opinion, one of the most brilliant songs ever recorded.

[radical347]

1999 is the year I started keeping personal charts.  Looking back at them, I see a bunch of songs that would have sounded good in this set: (I agree with Mike that she should have played "Believe" by Cher too)

Len - Steal My Sunshine
The New Radicals - Someday We'll Know (their, er, his other song)
Orgy - Blue Monday
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
Rufus Wainwright - Instant Pleasure
Bree Sharp - David Duchovny
Garth Brooks in the Life of Chris Gaines - Right Now
Eminem - My Name Is (Though I doubt she'd play this one.)

[Big Fingers McGee]

1999 is the year I started keeping personal charts.  Looking back at them, I see a bunch of songs that would have sounded good in this set: (I agree with Mike that she should have played "Believe" by Cher too)

Len - Steal My Sunshine
The New Radicals - Someday We'll Know (their, er, his other song)
Orgy - Blue Monday
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
Rufus Wainwright - Instant Pleasure
Bree Sharp - David Duchovny
Garth Brooks in the Life of Chris Gaines - Right Now
Eminem - My Name Is (Though I doubt she'd play this one.)

Their peaks on my personal chart:

Someday We'll Know 20
My Own Worst Enemy 35

Those are all that charted.