CMJ New Music Sampler: September 1998
As promised, the return of the CMJ Sampler. Leaner, fitter, happier.
Elliott Smith “Waltz #2” – A pretty fantastic song that showed what Smith could do with more than a four-track recorder. By the way, it’s about a karaoke bar.
Bill Fox “Bonded To You” – Fox was the main songwriter for an unfortunately short-lived Cleveland band named The Mice, which was the bastard child of the Replacements and Husker Du. In a perfect world, they would have soundtracked “Say Anything.”
Embrace “All You Good Good People” – Didn’t I refer to these guys as “dregs” in the Elastica review? This serves as additional evidence to my statement.
Catatonia “Road Rage” – This was a huge hit in Britain in ’98. Sounds like Garbage. The band, of course…I guess.
Tripping Daisy “Sonic Bloom” – Creators of the supremely annoying ’95 sorta hit “I Got a Girl.” Now, former lead singer Tim DeLaughter is best known as the head of the supremely annoying Polyphonic Spree.
Ednaswap “Back On the Sun” – I believe this band wrote Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn.” The initial royalties were certainly nice, but now? I mean, does anyone ever hear this song on the radio anymore?
Black Eyed Peas “Que Dices?” – Long before they asked us to get retarded, or not to phunk with their hearts, the BEP were an “alt-rap” act that looked to the Pharcyde and the Roots for inspiration. It’s fairly amusing to hear the band dropping f-bombs left and right amid pop-unfriendly beats, and then realize they’ll be rapping lines like “milky, milky cocoa puffs” seven years later.
Elliott Smith “Waltz #2” – A pretty fantastic song that showed what Smith could do with more than a four-track recorder. By the way, it’s about a karaoke bar.
Bill Fox “Bonded To You” – Fox was the main songwriter for an unfortunately short-lived Cleveland band named The Mice, which was the bastard child of the Replacements and Husker Du. In a perfect world, they would have soundtracked “Say Anything.”
Embrace “All You Good Good People” – Didn’t I refer to these guys as “dregs” in the Elastica review? This serves as additional evidence to my statement.
Catatonia “Road Rage” – This was a huge hit in Britain in ’98. Sounds like Garbage. The band, of course…I guess.
Tripping Daisy “Sonic Bloom” – Creators of the supremely annoying ’95 sorta hit “I Got a Girl.” Now, former lead singer Tim DeLaughter is best known as the head of the supremely annoying Polyphonic Spree.
Ednaswap “Back On the Sun” – I believe this band wrote Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn.” The initial royalties were certainly nice, but now? I mean, does anyone ever hear this song on the radio anymore?
Black Eyed Peas “Que Dices?” – Long before they asked us to get retarded, or not to phunk with their hearts, the BEP were an “alt-rap” act that looked to the Pharcyde and the Roots for inspiration. It’s fairly amusing to hear the band dropping f-bombs left and right amid pop-unfriendly beats, and then realize they’ll be rapping lines like “milky, milky cocoa puffs” seven years later.
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