My dad recently bought an old second-hand cassette player (as part of his latest quest to teach himself German via. aged language tapes from the public library) and so we decided to test it out which meant going through some of the dusty boxes in my closet to find tapes I used to listen to almost religiously as a ten-year old. All mainstream pop, of course, including (I'm not ashamed to admit) SpiceWorld, Backstreet Boys, Titantic Soundtrack, Hanson, Will Smith (his first foray into the music industry <-- getting jiggy with it!) and a '100% Hits' compilation tape.
You know what I realised?? The mid-to-late nineties had some pretty awesome music! Before pop went all... angry... and sad... when pop was still happy and optimistic, but still... substantial, sans the teeny-bopper-esque superficiality.
Some of the tracks off the 100% Hits compilation include:
-Iris, Goo Goo Dolls
- Real World, Matchbox 20
- One Week, Barenaked Ladies
- Break Me Shake Me, Savage Garden
- Kung Fu Fighting, Bus Stop
- Last Thing On My Mind, Steps
- I Will Wait, Hootie and the Blowfish
- Losing A Whole Year, Third Eye Blind
It was such a fun travelling-back-in-time moment. Oh, the memories. Surprisingly enough (or not?) I could sing along to basically every song on SpiceWorld, and, I have to admit, even remembered the dance for Stop. Go ahead and laugh, I grant you it is funny, but do keep in mind that Spice Girls embodied GIRL POWER. Powerful stuff for a bunch of ten year old girls.
And I reckon groups from that time period had the coolest, most original names! Just look at the list above... not to mention, just awesome groups, period. Groups who have all either gone their separate ways or are trying to recreate the magic they had back then.
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