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Blog Description: A blog based on my interest in music. Artists and songs will be highlighted that have gone under the radar or that are just really good. The focus will be on mostly alternative rock from 1990 to the present.
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It is not too often that a TV show picks such a sensational song as "Hey Sandy" by Polaris to be its theme song. Pete & Pete was one of the few shows where I was actually disappointed whenever I missed a chance at watching the opening credits to a TV show. Where some could argue that Fresh Prince of Bel Air and The Wonders Years had a similar effect to them, The Adventures of Pete & Pete's opening credits never failed to create an uncontrollable urge to get up and start dancing.
There probably was no greater debate on the minds of six to ten year-olds at recess in the mid 90s then trying to figure out the correct lyrics to this song. I even remember looking up the lyrics about five years ago and the contributor literally writing something to the effect of "[uncomprehensible mumblings]" as one of the lines in the song. Not only did this create interest in the song and the show itself but also added to its legend.
Besides when my mom would tell me that we were having macaroni & cheese for dinner, I don't think there were many more things that got me more excited when I was a little kid then seeing that lawn mover roll across the screen. It all really boils down to the fact that no other show in the 90s had a theme song that fit so well with a random bike ghost-riding down a ramp then this one, and for that very fact, I present to you the Best 90s TV Show Theme Song, "Hey Sandy" by Polaris.
Rizzo Music is back with a new article from the "Popular Music of the 90s" series. Last week I made a list of some of the best pop music of the decade and today I am going to share with you my list for the most popular rock music of the 90s. Out of all the lists and playlists I have created in the past, this was by far the hardest to come up with. There are so many great artists and songs that originated in the 9os and deciding on just 5 songs for every year was tough. I tried to get representation out of all the key rock artists and hopefully I didn't forget anyone.
After much debate I was able to compile this list. There are so many songs that I really like that could not be included due restrictions on space but there are 50 great singles here for your enjoyment.
How it works: For each genre of music I will rank the top 5 singles from each year in the 90s. I will provide a link for each song (either imeem or youtube, depending on availability) for your listening pleasure.
Disclaimer: These rankings are based on my personal preferences, not on actual popularity. Feel free to argue but I will stand behind my rankings. I think of these lists more as recommendations anyway. Hopefully these songs will bring back some good memories, and if you have never heard them before, maybe create some new ones.
Well there you have it. The top 5 songs from each year of the 90s. I have a feeling that this list is going to be a lot more popular then the list of pop music. Thanks for listening and enjoy.
Agree? Disagree? Feel free to share your opinion by making a comment below.
Remember when you could turn on the radio and actually find some decent music? That is what I miss the most about the 90s. Whether you liked rock, pop, or rap, the 90s provided your fix for your particular tastes. Although my tastes tend to lean towards the post-grunge music I grew up on, there was no denying some of the great songs that came out of the decade.
I thought it was time to switch it up and bring to you a new kind of article. Within in the next few weeks I am going to present to you guys my favorite 90s songs separated by genres. I thought I would start off with pop since its pretty general, and well, popular. I will get to strictly rock and rap and many other sub-genres in the future. Feel free to offer your suggestions.
These articles will rank the top 5 singles from each year in the 90s. I will provide a link for each song (either imeem or youtube, depending on availiability) for your listening pleasure.
These rankings are based on my personal preferences, not on actual popularity. Feel free to argue but I will stand behind my rankings. I think of these lists more as recommendations anyway. Hopefully these songs will bring back some good memories, and if you have never heard them before, maybe create some new ones.
Some might look at the list and think, really? Is that the best the 90s had to offer? I, on the other hand, look at this collection of music, and see greatness. While I made it a point to disqualify anything that resembled rock and rap, and it still has some really good songs. At the very least I hope you found at least one good song in this giant list that you forgot about.
Agree? Disagree? Feel free to share your opinion by making a comment below.
After a two month hiatus, RizzoMusic is back and better than ever. In the coming weeks, I am going to set up a schedule for posting and I am finally going to stick to it. We are finally receiving some steady traffic and I am sure everyone would appreciate some more consistency in the frequency of posts. Expect to see more of the very popular ?Top Ten? playlists, music reviews, a continuation of the countdown of the Top 100 Songs of the 1990s and more music news. I am glad to be back and today I have something to report back from my summer travels.
This summer I spent some time in the Big Apple, New York City. Over two months, and I only managed to get to one concert. Luckily for me it was a great one. I saw Collective Soul and Live play at the Hammerstein Ballroom on July 30th. This wouldn?t be the first time I?ve seen these bands live, but it was surely a concert I would never forget.
Fortunately for me, I was able to go for free. RizzoMusic?s first sponsor, RazorGator.com, was able to provide me with enough funds to go to a concert of my choice, free of charge. It was too good of a deal for me to pass up. After much debate I decided on Live and Collective Soul, two bands that I have seen before individually and together. Having a great respect of their newest releases, Songs from Black Mountain, and Afterwords, respectively, I knew that it would be a great show.
First I am going to give a little review of RazorGator?s services before I get into actually reviewing the concert. RazorGator is a ticket marketplace where anyone can post extra tickets they have for other people to buy. Their slogan is ?Your Connection for Hard-to-GetŪ Tickets!? and unfortunately for me, the Collective Soul tickets weren?t exactly hard to get. The tickets were not sold out and retailed for about 50 dollars. The cheapest I was able to come across were 74 dollars. Not too bad but considering that you could still by them from the box office for cheaper, there wasn?t much incentive to buy from RazorGator. RazorGator does charge for shipping and processing fees, so my total was $189.30. So for this particular concert, I can?t really say that I would recommend using RazorGator but if a concert or sporting event is sold out, they are a very good option. I ordered my tickets 2 days before the concert and they were shipped and delivered in time. One little caveat for people looking to use RazorGator?s services, you need to be able to sign for the tickets when they come to your house. Luckily where I was living, we had a doorman so it wasn?t a problem but I could see where this could become problematic. They do give you the shipping tracking number so you can figure out about what time the package will come and I can understand RazorGator?s position in requiring a signature. They guarantee the tickets to be there on time for the event and a signature requirement ensures that the tickets were received. The process was very smooth, and I overall happy with their service. They accept all major credit cards and everything is shipped FedEx. I even called their customer service number, and the man I talked to was very helpful. I would recommend the website for sold out concert tickets or if you?re looking for closer seats then are available. The Hammerstein Ballroom had balcony seats but I was cool with the general admission floor tickets. You can get a lot closer and everyone down there gets really into it.
Alright, now that you know how I got to the concert, I am sure you are all dying to hear how the concert was. In case you were living in a cellar throughout the 90s, Live and Collective Soul were two of the most popular rock bands of the decade. Each have had their fair share of chart topping hits, combining sales of about 20 million records in the U.S.. While Live has sold more records, Collective Soul has had more #1 singles on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
The concert opened with an up and coming female artist, Hana Pestle. A singer/songwriter from Montana, Pestle was a surprisingly good addition to what was sure to be a great concert. Coming on stage with only an acoustic guitar, she impressed the audience with her entrancing voice. She has some serious range, and her songs were very good. I was a little disappointed when I heard that Blues Traveler, famous for ?Hook? and ?Run Around?, wasn?t going to open up for this concert like they have been in the past but Hana Pestle, more then made up for their void. Like most opening acts, the crowd wasn?t really into it like they were for the main act but you could tell that some were pleasantly surprised by her performance. She was upbeat and talkative though you could tell that she felt that crowd was unresponsive. She covered the song ?Creep? by Radiohead before she left the stage and the audience finally welcomed her with a rousing applause. She has the voice to make it in the business and I wouldn?t be surprised if she breaks though sooner, rather then later.
Next up was Ed Roland and company. They got the crowd going by opening up with ?Heavy? and never looked back. They played the usual classics, like ?Shine?, ?Run?, ?The World I Know?, and ?December?. I?ve seen them 3 times in the last three years and they never fail to play the songs that the crowd wants to hear. Since it was a shortened set since they were sharing time with Live, they only played two of their songs from their new album, the two singles, ?Hollywood? and ?All That I Know?. They also played one of my favorite songs to hear live, ?Listen?, one of their most underrated songs. Much to my delight, they pulled one of songs out of the archive for this tour, ?Needs?. I?ve been hoping and hoping that they would play it live one of these days and I finally got to hear it. The crowd loved it and it sounded great even without the strings. Ed gave his usual energetic performance and had everyone singing along.
After about a 30 minute intermission to get things set up, Live came out and ?the other Ed?, Ed Kowalczyk, got the crowd roaring with the opening song, ?Simple Creed?. Like Collective Soul, Live never seems to disappoint on the classics. They turned out ?All Over You?, ?Heaven?, ?Dolphins Cry?, ?Selling the Drama?, ?I Alone?, and of course ?Lightning Crashes?. They ended with their bone-chilling performance of ?Lightning Crashes? like they normally do but I think that hearing ?I Alone? live in concert is something that everyone should see before they die. It?s a great song and they do such a good song delivering it in concert. They played some of the new ones including, ?The River?, ?Wings? and ?Sophia?. Like ?Needs? for Collective Soul, I was very surprised to hear ?Turn My Head?, easily my favorite lesser known hit from Live. Hearing those two gems that night was well worth the ticket price. They played an awesome four song encore. Not quite the seven song encore I was able to see a few years back when they played without an opening act but very good nonetheless.
Overall, it was one of the best concerts I?ve ever been to. It was about 5 times better then the last time I saw them together in concert, mainly because it was an indoor, intimate concert. The crowd was great; the bands were great and having the equivalent of about a 4th row floor seat was amazing. Rock concerts always tend to be better when there is standing room right in front of the stage. Unfortunately I don?t have any picture as I forgot my camera but if you would like to see some, Pop Culture Madness also reviewed the concert and took a few pictures. I hope you enjoyed the review and hopefully there will be a lot of new articles in the near future. Thanks for listening.
It has been a long time since I made a playlist so I decided what better way to make a playlist then to have one with a litte variety. 90s music is a topic that covers all genres and hopefully I got a good sample of the 1990s in this playlist. This playlist doesn't feature any hits that were that big in the 90s but does offer some pretty good songs and a couple of my favorites. No matter what type of music you enjoy, this should take you down memory lane, as there is sure to be at least one song you recognize. I hope you enjoy this selection of 90s music and be sure to tell me what you think of it. Feel free to check out my other playlists at the bottom of the post and I'll see you next time.
With the new album, "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends" set to be released June 17th, 2008, Coldplay has announced it's first single, "Violet Hill". It is available on Coldplay.com as a free download for 2 more days till May 6 when it will be officially released and made available for download on Itunes. It was first made available for free download on April 29th and in the first 24 hours it was downloaded a remarkable 600,000 times.
Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, has been quoted as saying that the new single has a "chalky, pastel feeling" that reminds him of his childhood. I wouldn't say that the new single is my favorite single by Coldplay but it is definitely growing on me. "Violet Hill" features a fairly simplistic yet catchy guitar solo that is by far my favorite part of the song.
"Violet Hill" has me intrigued if the new album will be as good as Coldplay's previous. It looks like they peaked with their sophomore album, "Rush of the Blood to the Head" as far as album sales go but it will be interesting to see how well they do this time around.
The track listing for the new album is as follows:
1. "Life in Technicolor" (Hopkins) 2. "Cemeteries of London" 3. "Lost!" 4. "42" 5. "Lovers in Japan"/"Reign of Love" 6. "Yes"/"Chinese Sleep Chant" 7. "Viva la Vida" 8. "Violet Hill" 9. "Strawberry Swing" 10. "Death and All His Friends"/"The Escapist"
If you get a chance, be sure to go to Coldplay.com and download "Violet Hill" for free before it's too late.
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