Think about this, this song came just before Smells Like Teen Spirit in my 2005 playlist and the next song that I'll post came after Teen Spirit. Just think about that.
I had every single song from this fantastic album. I had them on an audio tape in the 1990s and then on that Windows Media Player playlist in the 2000s.
I'll be back with the great Alanis tonight, but finally this morning, let's all come together and
1994 and 1995 were great years for music. They produced outstanding albums like Crazy, Sexy, Cool by TLC, II by Boyz II Men, What's The Story Morning Glory? by Oasis, Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish and this spectacular album, Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette.
Those years also formed part of the campaign period ahead of the 1996 US presidential election and the Republican candidate, Bob Dole and his wife, Elizabeth Dole, attacked hip hop music during their campaign. They complained about the use of vulgar swear words and depiction of violence in rap music and one of their regular targets was 2Pac Shakur. The criticism became so much that 2Pac had to respond in the lyrics of his song How Do You Want It. He rapped,
Mistaking me for Bill Clinton, Mister Bob Dole? You're too old to understand the way the game's told
One of the rappers, I can't remember if it was 2Pac, also complained that there was a bit of racism in the criticism. Why are they criticising rap music and not rock music? Have you heard Alanis Morissette?
Well, listen to her.
The rage in this song gave me enormous amounts of energy back then.
naptu2: You Oughta Know was of course the smash hit and it was my favourite initially, but
This song (I've remembered its name) eventually became my favourite. You Oughta Know is pure fire, but I think this song is much richer.
This song got to number 1 when it was released, but can you believe that it came back to the charts 1 year after it was released and got to number 1 again. Just listen to the harmonica solo!
I had planned to post some songs from the 1990s, but then I went to exercise on the bridge and a lot of classic songs flooded my head while I was exercising, so I'm going to post them next.
naptu2: I think I'm going to go mad tonight. Do you know what's happened?
The wonderful thing about having playlists and mix tapes is that you remember all the songs once you hear one song. I went to the bridge this evening and so many classic songs were pouring into my head. It also led to a realisation. The realisation that I might not be able to post all the songs that were on that playlist on this thread.
naptu2: OK, this particular song, I have to write the lyrics in full because the lyrics. . .
(You already know the next song by now if you know Alanis Morissette )
Please read all the words and get the meaning.
An old man turned ninety-eight He won the lottery and died the next day It's a black fly in your Chardonnay It's a death row pardon two minutes too late And isn't it ironic... don't you think
It's like rain on your wedding day It's a free ride when you've already paid It's the good advice that you just didn't take Who would've thought... it figures
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye He waited his whole damn life to take that flight And as the plane crashed down he thought "Well isn't this nice..." And isn't it ironic... don't you think
It's like rain on your wedding day It's a free ride when you've already paid It's the good advice that you just didn't take Who would've thought... it figures
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face
A traffic jam when you're already late A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife It's meeting the man of my dreams And then meeting his beautiful wife And isn't it ironic...don't you think A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...
It's like rain on your wedding day It's a free ride when you've already paid It's the good advice that you just didn't take Who would've thought... it figures
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out Helping you out
I had the unplugged version of this. It was just her and her guitar.
This group had two fantastic songs, one of which was used in a Batman movie and I had been hyping them to my friends. Then the group was invited to perform at the Grammy Awards ceremony and I saw it as a chance to show them off to my friends, but they got on stage and performed an obscure and rubbish song and I was so disappointed.
naptu2: Do you know how much that guitar costs? Look at the way he threw it!
I forgot to mention that George Harrison's son, Dhanni, is also on stage playing with them.
Note, Prince did not rehearse this with them before the performance, that's why he kept looking at Tom Petty like, "Should I stop now?", but what he was doing was so magical that they let him continue.
naptu2 post=44929301: Guitar kings.
Prince was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. There was a tribute to the Beatles' George Harrison at that same ceremony and some of the greatest guitarists came on stage to perform While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Prince stole the show.
On stage: Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lyne, PRINCE, etc.
There were some movies that I watched in the 1970s and ‘80s that I hated with every fibre of my being. Most of these movies got you emotionally involved in their lead characters and took you on great emotional highs, only for the lead character to die in very tragic and gut wrenching circumstances. The only excuse for these movies was that most of them were biopics.
That movie called The Buddy Holly Story (1978) was eventually banned from my house and we laid a curse on anyone that would make the mistake of bringing it to our house again. After defeating adversity in the shape of country music, black music and his girlfriend’s aunt and after going through the breakup of his band and overcoming the fear of performing alone and just when the band was about to reunite, the damned movie ended the way it did. Gosh, it was heart-breaking!
Everybody was talking about this upcoming movie called La Bamba in 1987, so I went down to Cosmo and got the movie (we were members of Cosmo and VideoMart in the mid and late 1980s). The movie was wonderful. . . until I saw Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper in it. At that point I knew how the movie would end. At least I had time to prepare my mind for the way it would end. Maybe that’s why I don’t hate the film (it could also be because I love the song).
In 1990 we saw an amazing preview of a movie. We were in the mood for a good action film and this preview was all action. So we sent someone to Glowe and got the movie. It was called La Femme Nikita. O my God, was that movie terrible or what! That movie was incredibly boring. I was already sleeping 30 minutes into it. The movie was subsequently banned in my house.
Then there was “Young Joe, The Forgotten Kennedy (1977). The NTA repeatedly tortured us with this movie in the early 1980s. I couldn’t get over the explosion and I kept asking myself, “What would you do if you know that you are in a plane that’s going to explode and there’s nothing you can do about it and nowhere to run?”
Joseph P. Kennedy Jnr (1915-1944) was the eldest son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Snr. Both of his grandfathers were politicians, as was his father. Joe Jnr attended Harvard College, the London School of Economics and Harvard Law School. Joseph Kennedy Snr was determined that at least one of his children would become the first Catholic president of the United States and so he trained Joe Jnr for the presidency right from when he was a young child (Joe Jnr visited Germany on behalf of his father and spoke highly of Adolf Hitler). The military remains the best place to get the best management training and so Joe Kennedy ensured that his sons enlisted in the armed forces.
Joe Kennedy Jnr enlisted in the navy before he could graduate from Harvard Law School and he became a US Navy pilot. He was based in Britain and he piloted land based bombers on missions over Europe during World War 2. He had completed 25 combat missions and was eligible to return to the US, but he volunteered for top secret missions in Operation Aphrodite.
Operation Aphrodite was a US Army Air Corps secret operation that utilised radio controlled planes (drones) to attack Nazi targets in Europe. The bomb-laden planes could not safely take off on their own, so a crew of two would pilot the plane through its take off routine and until it got to 2,000 feet, then they would arm the detonators and activate the radio control system and then parachute from the plane while the plane was remotely guided to crash into the target.
Kennedy’s plane, along with 3 other planes (one of which was filming the mission), took off from an RAF airbase at 6pm on August 12, 1944. Their mission was to attack German submarine pens in the North Sea. The plane completed its first remote controlled turn at 2,000 feet near the North Sea coast and Kennedy and his partner removed the safety pin, thereby arming the bombs. Kennedy radioed a coded message to base (to indicate that the bombs had been armed), but two minutes later, before the agreed time for the crew to bail out of the plane, the bombs suddenly exploded, killing Kennedy and his co-pilot. Their bodies were never recovered.
naptu2: From the soundtrack of the smash hit 1987 movie "La Bamba" (starring Lou Diamond Philips as Richie Valens)
I rented the movie from Cosmo Video Club (on Cameron Road Ikoyi) back then and the video was shown after the end credits. It also seemed like MTV and NTA2 Channel 5 could not stop showing the song, which was great cos I love the song.
And then in 1989 came Tandi Guarana and they covered the song in the advert for that soft drink.
naptu2: Was this their biggest hit? I'm not sure, but it was either this or One Bad Apple.
Did you know that One Bad Apple was originally written for the Jacksons? Yes, it's true. It was written for the Jacksons, but the song writer eventually decided to give it to the Osmonds. Michael Jackson told Donny Osmond that they almost recorded it, but they had to chose between it and ABC and they eventually chose ABC. (Maybe I'm crazy, but I do remember hearing the Jacksons perform One Bad Apple. I wonder where that memory came from).
(Michael and Donny were friends for many years).
They had different configurations and I think this was the most successful configuration when it came to releasing albums.
There were the Osmonds, made up of Alan, Wayne, Merril, Jay and Donny (Donny was not an original member, but he joined them when he was old enough and he became the lead singer).
There were Donny and Marie (this was the most successful configuration on TV).
Then there was Jimmy. Jimmy had many hits as a solo artiste (right from when he was 5 years old) and he was the troublemaker on the Donny and Marie Show.
I think that this song became a hit because nobody thought that they could do it. This was a nice, peaceful, clean mormon family and nobody thought that they could do a rock song like this. Everybody thought that they could only do bubblegum music and children's music.
Jay was the leader singer on this (which was unusual) and Donny played the organ with that crazy horses sound (Donny had just hit puberty and his voice was changing, so he didn't sing lead here).
♫There's dancing Behind movie scenes Behind the movie scenes Sadi Rani
She's the one that keeps the dream alive From the morning Past the evening To the end of the light
Brimful of Asha on the 45 Well it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
And dancing Behind movie scenes Behind those movie scenes Asha Bhosle
She's the one that keeps the dream alive From the morning Past the evening To the end of the light
Brimful of Asha on the 45 Well it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow Everybody needs a bosom Mine's on the 45
And singing Illuminate the main streets And the cinema aisles We don't care bout no Gov't warnings, 'bout their promotion of a simple life And the dams they're building
Brimful of Asha on the 45 Well it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow Everybody needs a bosom Mine's on the 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45 Well it's a brimful of Asha on the 45
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow Everybody needs a bosom
I'm singin', and dancin' And singin' and dancin'
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow Everybody needs a bosom Mine's on the RPM♪
The beginning of this song (the organ music) reminds me of Pop Muzik by M-Pop.
naptu2: One of the best rock n roll songs. At a point in time, this and Labamba were my favourite rock songs. I used to play that riff on the guitar. The song also has one of the most unique beginnings (the organ music).
This was the song that introduced me to George Michael the solo artiste (I already knew him from WHAM and Wake Me Up).
naptu2: This song was very often played on Radio Nigeria and the NTA. It also reminds me of a strange encounter I had a few years ago.
I was walking down the driveway (near the hall) when I saw Mrs Cecilia Ngurube walking towards me. Wow! She was the host of quite a few shows on the NTA (including the Under 5s) between c1979-1985.
What was strange was that she was staring at me as if she knew me.
She stopped right in front of me and told me that she was certain that she knew me, but couldn't remember how she knew me. This was very strange. Usually, I should be telling the star that I knew her, not the other way round.
"Was I a guest on one of her shows?", she asked. No, I was never a guest on any of her shows, I replied.
Was I one of her students at Kings College?
Nope I was never her student.
She then asked me for my name and I told her.
"Oooh!", she exclaimed. She then offered her condolences on the death of Old Man (even though he had been dead for more than 20 years) and asked about Old Girl (she had passed on almost 10 years ago).
And that was how I met the legend.
This song was the signature tune of the Under 5s, which was probably her most popular tv show. It was also often played on Saturday mornings on RN2
This song was initially made famous by the movie Rocky 3. It was made even more popular by the World Wrestling Federation's Hulk Hogan who used it as his theme song.
I'm going to post two videos of this song. The first video was in my 2005 playlist. It's of a live performance and WHAT WAS FREDDIE MERCURY WEARING!
There were two rock concerts that NTA Channel 10 usually showed as musical interludes in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One was a Jimi Hendrix concert and the other was a concert by Queen. I thought that Freddie Mercury was a demon back then because he wore a hat that had horns on it and you could barely see him because of all the lights and smoke on stage.
The second video is the original video for the song.
naptu2: "In your head, in your head, they are fighting. With their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns, In your head, they are crying.
In your heeeaaaad, in your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie"
