Monster Magnet - “Negasonic Teenage Warhead”
From their 1995 album, Dopes To Infinity.
I CAN TELL JUST BY THE CLIMATE
AND I CAN TELL JUST BY THE STYLE
I WAS BORN AND RAISED ON VENUS, AND I MAY BE HERE AWHILE
The Infinity Project - “Mystical Experiences”
Not so much “rock” as it is 90’s, we’re delving into the far psychedelic today. So what if it’s not exactly rock? I think we can do this once every other week or so. It’s called tastebuilding. :P
A few weeks back a friend of mine introduced me to The Infinity Project; an obscure and almost unknown psychedelic trance band that was briefly active during the early 90’s. While largely forgotten, some electronic music fans may recognize one of the contributing members, Raja Ram aka Ronald Rothfield, who has gone on to have a mildly successful career as the owner of the TIP World record label, as well as continuing to put out his own solo efforts and collaborations with other artists.
Source: http://www.vgrc.net/2009/06/90s-music-spotlight-the-infini.html
Ben Harper - “Excuse Me Mr.”
From his 1995 album, Fight For Your Mind.
I’ve seen enough to know that I’ve seen too much…
Filter - “Hey Man Nice Shot (Big Mac)”
Got a rarity today, folks. Most of you have heard “Hey Man Nice Shot” from the band’s 1995 album Short Bus. However, have you heard the “Big Mac” version? It’s an extended 8 and a half minute cut that was one of the b-sides on a 12-inch vinyl used to promote the single.
Radiohead - “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”
From their 1995 album, The Bends.
And what does Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke have to say about this one?
Street Spirit is our purest song, but I didn’t write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers; its biological catalysts. Its core is a complete mystery to me, and, you know, I wouldn’t ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve. Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with that song. It’s called detachment. Especially me; I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn’t play it. I’d crack. I’d break down on stage. That’s why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That’s what’s meant by ‘all these things you’ll one day swallow whole’. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn’t have it in me to articulate the emotion. I’d crack…
Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don’t realise what they’re listening to. They don’t realise that Street Spirit is about staring the fucking devil right in the eyes, and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he’ll get the last laugh. And it’s real, and true. The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that too long, I’d crack.
I can’t believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that song. That’s why I’m convinced that they don’t know what it’s about. It’s why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell every time I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of its meaning, like when you’re going to have your dog put down and it’s wagging its tail on the way there. That’s what they all look like, and it breaks my heart. I wish that song hadn’t picked us as its catalysts, and so I don’t claim it. It asks too much. I didn’t write that song.
Goo Goo Dolls - “Naked”
From their 1995 album, A Boy Named Goo.
Infamous for the cookie-cutter slow pop-rock ballads of their later career, it’s easy to forget some of Goo’s earlier efforts, which were dirty and unpolished. “A Boy Named Goo” shows the band at the peak.
Kyuss - “Phototropic”
From their 1995 album, …And the Circus Leaves Town.
One of the most legendary bands to come out of the Palm Desert scene, Kyuss broke up shortly after the release of their final album, “…And the Circus Leaves Town.” While never gaining anything close to a mainstream following, their now infamous “generator parties” in the middle of the desert are the stuff of legend, with NME having described them as and attempt to “figuratively melt a hundredweight of hot desert sand into metal.”
Oasis - Some Might Say
The last Oasis song recorded to feature original drummer Tony McCarroll, this one is from their 1995 album, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
Monster Magnet - I Control, I Fly
From their 1995 album, Dopes To Infinity.
I can read all the lines on your face
I can breathe all the cancer in space
I can love all the worms of your hate
I can live, live in the void I know I control
I control, I control
