July 20, 2025 • 71 mins
We explore the recent revelation of an AI-generated rock band called The Velvet Sundown that gained over one million Spotify listeners before announcing they weren't real, raising questions about artistic creation and authenticity in the music industry.
• The Velvet Sundown revealed themselves as an AI project after gaining viral success on Spotify
• YouTube recently announced it will cut monetization from AI-generated content
• The 90s represented a transformative decade with multiple musical movements
• Whitney Houston's 1991 Super Bowl national anthem set the standard for all performances that followed
• Janet Jackson emerged from Michael's shadow to become a music powerhouse in her own right
• Napster revolutionized music distribution and was partly a response to CD price gouging
• TLC demonstrated the industry paradox of chart-topping success while filing for bankruptcy
• 1995 ranked as the strongest year in 90s music with cohesive R&B dominance
• The decade featured diverse movements from grunge to boy bands to hip-hop going mainstream
• Pop culture moments like the Spice Girls phenomenon and Britney's schoolgirl video defined the era
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Scott McLean (00:16):
What's up everybody?
What's up everybody.
Little deftones to get the showstarted.
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I love the deftones.
The name of the song is Minerva.
Go download it.
Deftones Solid, solid band, 90sband, which is what we're going
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to be talking about tonight.
This will definitely getcopyright problems.
God bless you all For the songyou sing.
Like I said, the song isMinerva by Deftones.
Go to Spotify, download it.
(01:31):
Give them your money.
Yeah, no, jack, tonight.
Patty, good evening.
You're the same as usual, pattyin first.
Patty, good evening.
As usual, patty in first.
(01:55):
Yeah, we're going to be doingsome music news tonight.
No, jack, it's hard to turn thesong down.
I hate cutting a song off inthe middle, but they'll take it
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down.
They'll take the whole livestream down.
They, they will do it.
We all know who they is.
Like I said welcome to the show.
Streaming live right now, overeverything.
Yeah, so we're going to do somemusic news tonight.
Might as well get right into it.
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Let's see.
Let's see what I can conjure up.
Pull myself down over here, getthis up over here.
I have some 90s, mostly 90sstuff.
I have one article, big hair,big sound and three big songs
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that defined the glamour of the80s.
The 80s was fucking great.
What a great decade that was Tobe a kid.
I don't know what adultsthought of it, but yeah, so
let's see.
I have this other article.
Let me pull it up on the screen.
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Come on, you can do it.
There we go.
Okay, let me cut back over here.
Let me add my scene.
Let me pull up my screen.
That will be screen.
There we go.
So let me.
This is kind of an interestingthing right here.
So let me.
This is kind of an interestingthing right here.
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Rock bands with a rock band withmore than a million Spotify
listeners.
This is today's music peopleRock band with one million
Spotify listeners.
Reveals it's entirely AIgenerated, down to the musicians
themselves.
A fresh new rock band thatquickly shot to Spotify's top
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ranks announced that it'sactually wholly generated by
artificial intelligence Just onemonth after its celebrated
debut album earned it onemillion listeners.
The 60s inspired rock and rollband, the Velvet Sundown Now, if
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you're a 60s, 70s kid, you knowthat's kind of a Velvet
Underground Velvet Sundown.
I don't know, it's too closefor me, let me get rid of that.
Revealed on Saturday thatnothing about it is real after
fans on the up-and-comingartists noticed there were
virtually no traces of anypeople associated with it online
.
Its debut album, floating onEchoes, was released on June 5th
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to mass appeal.
Online.
Most popular song in the albumpro peace folk rock song dust on
the wind.
See, you know what they'redoing here.
You know what they're doingright?
Not dust in the wind, dust onthe wind.
Uh, clinch the number it's, Idon't know.
We'll talk about this clininch,the number one spot on
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Spotify's daily viral 50 chartin Britain, norway and Sweden
between June 29th and July 1st.
All the while, the one millionmonthly listeners who started
following the Velvet Sundown hadno idea they were just
listening to a massiveartificial intelligence made by
fake musicians.
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The photos of the band sharedonline and featured on the
album's cover were unnaturallysmooth and mad in mad.
What is it?
And matt and the guitarist handwas wonky because ai if anybody
out there messes around with AI.
I do a lot and imaging is kindof.
It's very new and it has a hardtime.
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Ai has a hard time with thehand.
Hands and fingers are usuallymessed up, which I guess is the
same thing that happens to apainter.
Painters really have to do alot of extra work to learn how
to do a hand so, uh, so it saysthe hand was wonky, with fused
fingers gripping this instrument, a classic hallmark of ai
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generated images.
I don't read these articlesbefore I, uh, read them to you.
I like to have that naturalreaction.
The band's, too, were a perfectmesh of generic anti-war
sentiments and other clicheslike nothing lasts forever but
the earth and sky.
It slips away and all yourmoney won't.
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Another minute by the faux rockstars were also pumping out new
albums, scarily and inhumanelyfast, releasing two in June
alone and another set formid-July.
The band finally revealed itssecret over the weekend.
It updated its Spotifybiography Saturday to reflect
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the AI twist, assuring that theproject hadn't been trying to
bamboozle its audience.
Really, is this because you gotcaught?
Is this a?
Let's cut it off the anklesbefore we end up like millie
vanillie?
Maybe?
Yeah, I think they got toopopular too fast and there was
an oh shit moment and they said,ah, we should probably say
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something if, if they didn't getthis popular, would they have
ever come out of the closet theAI closet?
Who knows, who knows?
The Velvet Sundown is asynthetic music project guided
by human creative direction andcomposed, voiced and visualized
with the support of artificialintelligence.
This isn't a trick, it's amirror, any ongoing artistic
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provocation designed tochallenge the boundaries of
authorship, identity and thefuture of music itself in the
age of AI.
The biography reads so I have apodcast that I do.
It's my little side project.
One of my side projects.
It's called Bite SizeNightmares and what I do is I
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create these short horrorstories, but I create them with
the help of AI.
Ai, I look at it and I don'tknow about music, but I know
about the writing aspect of it.
It's not.
It's more of a collaborationthan cheating, because you
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really have to prompt AI to getit to do what you want.
You literally have to train itto do what you want.
The more you work with it, themore it starts to know you.
It knows your nuances, how youwrite or what you want it to do,
what you expect it to do.
So people think they can justgo to AI and write a song.
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It's really not that easy.
You can have a garbage like Icould have a garbage story, and
then I actually created an AIvoice that tells the stories and
that took work to get thatvoice perfected to make it sound
human.
So the work does have to gointo it and you have to do the
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work.
So, like I say, it's acollaboration if anything but
music is a whole.
Well, I don't know.
There's authors that I knowknow.
I know of an author.
He's a friend of mine and heuses ai.
Now, musicians, this is a bigdeal music and ai uh.
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So we'll see where it goes.
The velvet sundown is asynthetic music project guided
by human creative direction.
I already read that Some peoplewho had seen through the band's
ploy early tried to takeadvantage of its viral success
before the truth came out.
See, a Quebec-based web safetyexpert posed as a spokesman for
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the Velvet Sundown under thepseudonym Andrewrew freelawn,
which translate translates tohornet in french uh, and even
slid false information torolling stone magazine about his
supposed clients.
But the man behind the freelawnquickly confessed that he was
just trying to troll peopleonline.
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It's unclear if the VelvetSundown will face any backlash
from Spotify.
Isn't this a form of art, though?
Isn't this a form of art?
Like?
When synthesizers came along,there was a lot of piano players
.
There's a lot of organ playersthat got put out of business
Because synthesizers came along.
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So isn't this just anotherversion of that?
I'm not pro or knock came along.
So isn't this just anotherversion of that?
I mean, I'm not pro or knock on.
This isn't a hill I'm going todie on, uh, the backlash, uh,
from spotify or any otherplatforms where it may be
eligible for streaming revenue.
Starting on july 15th, youtubeannounced that it would be
cutting all monetization,including advertisements, from
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any content generated by AI.
Wow, hmm, that's interesting.
Youtube announced that it wouldbe cutting all monetization,
including advertisements, fromany content generated by AI.
Wow, that's going to hurt a lotof people.
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Now, what are the parameters ofthat?
Like can people?
Because I watch YouTubers,popular YouTubers that will use
most likely AI generated imagesto tell a story.
Does that not count anymore?
And these are pretty bigYouTubers.
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In late June, popular YouTuberMrBeast announced a tool that
would use AI to make thumbnailsfor videos.
He quickly removed it afterreceiving backlash for
supporting an artificialintelligence engine which often
requires Massive amounts ofenergy.
That would steadily offset Hisyears of environmental work and
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reforestation efforts, andMrBeast is the world's biggest
YouTuber.
Interesting, I don't know wherethat's going to go.
Let's get back to the show.
Let's see.
I probably lost my chat.
Let me get my chat here.
Let me get the overlay overhere.
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No, I want to get it.
How are we not talking aboutSteven Tyler killing it at
Ozzy's Farewell concert?
Tyler is back.
Not a big fan.
Bob Doucette Not a big fan.
Steven Tyler Don't really havemuch love for pedos.
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Self-admitted pedos Wrote it inhis book pedos no denying that
he did this.
Pedos Wrote it in his bookpedos no denying that he did
this.
Pedo.
So I don't give him myattention.
There's plenty more out therePerry Lightfingers, tedovich,
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the AI.
I guess you're going to causethis podcast to not get any
money on YouTube anymore becauseI'm making so much money off of
this.
Yeah, making so much money offthis.
So, yeah, I don't know what youthink about it.
I don't know what you thinkabout it.
I don't know what you thinkabout ai generated music.
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Uh, it's just another artisticform of creation, right?
Uh, again, so you have a lot ofmusic programs that have
pre-programmed loops and you cango in, and those eventually are
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going to be generated throughAI.
Uh, they're already probablycomputer generated and you can
make beats with them, the wholething, and so I don't know where
the line gets drawn.
It's a pretty gray line rightnow, but we'll see.
All right, let's see what wegot next.
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Let me pull up something next.
Let me get rid of this.
Hope everybody had a good 4th ofJuly.
By the way, me and Dr Vera hadanother amazing time up at St
Augustine.
It is the absolute grand slamon the 4th of July.
That place.
It really is St Augustine,florida.
I highly recommend it.
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Well, no, I don't, because thenyou'll show up and then there's
more people there.
But you know what the thingabout that place?
Everybody's cool, everybody'scool.
There's no hustle and bustle.
No one's trying to take yourspot, bump into you.
If they do this, they literallysay excuse me.
It's just such a cool place andyou're up on the bay where they
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do a beautiful 20, 25-minutefirework display.
They do it right.
It's one of their big eventsfor the year, so they put the
money into it.
Me and Dr Vera put our chairs upthere like 9 in the morning and
the fireworks don't go offuntil 9.30 at night.
We go back around 7.
Nobody's moved our chairs,nobody's touched them, nobody
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stole them, no one slid themdown so they could put their
chair in there.
People just put their chairsnext to you and they even keep a
little bit of a distance, andit's always a breeze.
There's always a breeze comingoff that bay, so it's perfect
weather, unless it rains.
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Anyway, I digress.
Let's see what do we got.
Let's go with the next Pull thisdown.
What do we got here?
Let's go with the next Pullthis down.
What do we got here?
You know what Five female altrock stars of the 90s we know
you love?
Let me pull this up.
That's going to be a video.
I don't want to do that.
No, let's go to quick notes.
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All iCloud here we go.
Let's go to the 90s here.
Let's see what we got.
Alright, go back over here.
This is live streaming, sothere's no editing here, but I'm
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getting good at this.
All right, here we go 20 iconicmusic moments that defined the
90s.
We don't, I don't, I don't.
We don't really talk about the90s.
That much I'll be on.
Uh, what does it say here?
The 90s was such an epic timefor music, a decade that not
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only had, it is a veryunderrated decade.
I think there's some shit thatwent on in the 90s like they had
a lot.
They were.
It was almost like the 70s.
There was about five differentthings going on in music in the
90s, just in that decade.
The 90s was such an epic timefor music, a decade that not
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only had elite music programmingacross radio and TV, but also
helped shape the course of musichistory, from the rise of hip
hop solidifying mainstreamdominance, to platforms changing
the way music is consumed,mainstream dominance to
platforms changing the way musicis consumed.
The 90s were a time for artistsand music industry to continue
to innovate with the times,whether it was an artist
redefining the super bowlhalftime show we know who that
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is or girl group becoming aworldwide phenomenon we know who
that is in the 90s, take aguess.
The 90s left an unforgettablemark on pop culture, from the
highs and the lows.
Let's take a look at somememories, memorable music
moments that defined the decadefrom 1990 to 1999.
We have Whitney Houston'snational anthem performance do
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you even have to talk about that?
At Super Bowl 25, do we evenhave to mention that is?
Is that not the cornerstone ofnational anthems?
Isn't that the pinnacle?
Outkast Source Awards speech Idon't know.
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Most of you probably don't knowwho OutKast is.
Mtv launches Total Request Live.
That was a phenomenon.
That thing was a big deal.
Carson Daly he tried to do hisown show after TRL, but, you
know, never did.
I mean, I caught myselfwatching this a bunch of times.
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So MTV was still musictelevision back then.
Uh, it was in 1998 that cameout.
Spice girls ruled the world.
We know that.
That started kicked off in 96,millie vanillie's downfall.
It happened in the 90s.
Yeah, they were exposed in 89,but it carried over.
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It carried over East Coast vsWest Coast.
That was the for those of youthat like it, maybe you don't
like it hip hop that was morethan rock bands rivaling.
I can tell you that that wasserious.
This wasn't like than rockbands rivaling.
I can tell you that that wasserious.
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This wasn't like Axl Rose wantsto fight Sebastian Bach Right,
these motherfuckers wereshooting each other, literally.
Sebastian Bach wants to fightMarilyn Manson.
I would pay to see that, though.
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Let's see what do we got?
Boy bands are everywhere.
They definitely ruled the 90s.
They were in sync.
Backstreet Boys, hanson, 98Degrees they were all there.
Selena Not even going to jokeabout that.
That was just tragic.
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I didn't listen to Tejano music, tejano music, but I knew who
she was.
And beautiful young womanTragically shot by the fucking
president of her fan club.
Yeah, yeah, hey, macarena shotby the fucking president of her
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fan club.
Yeah, I hate macarena.
It was a 90s uh phenomenon, whatwas that?
Was that about the mid 90s?
I think yeah, uh, the brat.
She goes platinum then goesaway.
That's really really how thathappened goes platinum then
literally goes away.
She was exposed as a totalfucking asshole.
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Uh, shit changes the world ofauto-tune.
Do you believe in the power oflove?
Remember 98 had that auto tonein there that she pumped her
voice up.
So they.
So let's talk about that.
What's you know?
Auto tone, auto tune isn't that, it's almost well.
It's technology changingsomething.
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Is AI any different?
It creates something, I don'tknow.
But Auto-Tune was.
I'm just getting a text messagehere.
All right, latin artistscrossover Ricky Martin, you had
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Iglesias, I actually liked him.
Enrique Iglesias, I actuallydid like him.
He has some good songs.
And the other dude that marriedJ-Lo Mark Anthony.
Those were probably the three,the big three.
Janet Jackson signs the largestrecording contract,
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well-deserved, I think.
She.
You know what.
If you don't give her credit,then you're wrong.
You're just wrong, becauseJanet Jackson had.
She didn't have a fucking hillto climb, she had Mount Everest
to climb.
She was coming up in the shadowof Michael Jackson and the
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Jackson five.
That is a monumental task toget to the point that she got to
in music, miss Jackson.
When I mean all she said oneline in a song, miss Jackson, if
you're and she became MissJackson, I mean you think about
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that, think about the fuckingmountain she had to climb to get
above and then get over theMichael Jackson sister thing,
little sister thing, and she didit.
And she did it fucking big time.
She absolutely did it big time.
So all credit, all credit, allcredit to Janet Jackson.
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There's no doubt about it.
She earned everything.
She got earned it.
Nothing was given to that girl,nothing.
Mc Hammer is a diamond superstar.
He was one of the bringship-hop into the pop mainstream
world with Can't Touch Us right,the album Don't Hurt Him Please
, hammer, don't Hurt Him.
Everyone was doing the.
Hammer brings hip hop into thepop mainstream world with can't
touch us Right, the album Don'thurt him, please, hammer, don't
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hurt him.
Everyone was doing the hammerdance.
Everyone had on the genie pants, right, you know, you did, I
did, I had them genie pants.
They were comfortable.
They were comfortable.
Yeah, I could dance, I coulddance.
I could dance like Hammer.
No, not like Hammer, but yeah,hitting the clubs in Sacramento
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Black Angus, yucatan, liquorStand, paradise, beach Club,
bobby McGee's I go down the road.
I ran all those clubs inSacramento.
I'm just gonna say it was likeshooting fish in a barrel, if
you know what I mean.
Anyway, boyz II Men and MariahCarey break billboard records in
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the 90s.
They were both, I mean Mariah'sMariah, that's a one word,
that's a one name girl rightthere, there's no doubt about it
.
Michael Jackson's Super Bowlhalftime performance again very
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big, very big TLC files forbankruptcy.
This is where it all becamelike it got exposed.
I mean, tlc was everywhere.
Tlc was.
They were winning Grammys, theywere selling a million records
and they were everywhere.
They were videos, concerts andthey weren't getting shit.
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They signed a bad contract andit really got exposed.
Those three girls, left eye,lisa, left eye, lopez, rest in
peace.
Um, they uh, really had a lotof guts and they exposed the
record industry for what itreally was.
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And you had a band thateverybody's thought was making
bank.
Like how could you not?
But their manager, pebbles, whowas an 80s kind of pop star,
young black woman pop starpebbles.
She had a couple hits in the80s.
She was their manager and well,she, uh, she knew the business
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and she gave them the business,if you know what I mean.
They filed for bankruptcy,which was insane.
Yeah, Britney Spears is Pop'snewest star.
I don't care what you say, Ilove Britney.
Leave Britney alone.
Leave Britney alone.
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Leave Britney alone.
I always like God bless her.
Fucking crazier than a sprayedroach, but God bless her.
Yeah, she had talent.
She was fucking crazy.
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That's a great combinationcrazy and talented.
Ah, that's a media dream and wegot to watch it unfold,
unfortunately.
But uh, I always liked, Ialways liked her.
I didn't buy her CDs, she wasnot bad to look at.
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I'm not going to lie and I don'tknow any guy out there that
didn't watch that Baby One MoreTime video and that little
schoolgirl dress, right, littleplaid Catholic girl outfit.
If you say you didn't watchthat video, at least once,
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you're lying.
You're lying men anyway.
Uh, napster, napster reeks.
Have it god damn right, it did.
I'm not gonna say, and youmight know the story.
You might not know the story,but I'm going to tell you the
story.
Back around 90, let me see backaround 98, I went to this record
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store in Hollywood, florida,called Coconuts and I wanted to
buy.
You know, we all got bamboozledwith that whole.
Uh um, you know, vinyl sucksand everything is cds now.
So replace your vinylcollection with cds.
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That's exactly what themarketing was.
Uh, they, they, they bad.
It's like what the margin uhindustry did to margarine
industry did to butter.
Right, they tell you butter isbad, eat margarine, which is, as
we all know, one chemical shortof plastic, and ants won't even
eat it if you put it in thedirt.
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Uh, well, the, the cd industrydid that.
The record companies did thatto vinyl.
So we all try to replace andmost of us did our record
collection with CDs.
So I kind of got caught up in it, I'm not going to lie.
And I went to Coconuts and Igot the Clash London Calling.
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And I got the Clash LondonCalling.
Now that at the time was about20 years old, going on, 20 years
old.
It made its money fucking threetimes over in those just about
two decades.
And so I go to get the CD.
I'm expecting, like I don'tknow, 15 bucks.
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They wanted $24 for thatfucking CD.
I said, you motherfuckers, youmotherfuckers.
So I end up buying the CDbecause I wanted it, right when
I didn't have a record playerand I had a.
I had the old, uh, uh, I hadthe old, uh, six-pack CD player.
Yeah, remember that one, thatwas a 90s thing.
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So I got it.
But then I go to work and a guyat work tells me about Napster
or something.
I'm like, what do you mean?
He goes yeah, you can go on inand get this music.
So then I went home and Idownload Napster and I only had
dial-up.
So the first song that Idownloaded was Stone Temple
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Pilots.
I think it was like plush,never forget it, and it took
literally like 45 minutes forone file.
So I went back to work next dayand I'm like, what the fuck,
that takes forever.
Dude's like, oh, there's thisnew thing out and like this dude
, there was two guys that werejust computed.
They were computed junkies,right, yeah, this new thing, dsl
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, dsl.
Call at&t or whatever and seeif they have a dsl thing that's
you know that you're connectedto because it's regional, and
yada, yada, yada.
I go what the fuck is dsl?
He goes, it just makeseverything faster.
That's all I'm going to tellyou.
So I call and they're like yeah, we have it, you're eligible
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for it, you're in the right area.
And I said, all right, hook itup.
I don't even know how much Ipaid for it, but I got it hooked
up and that was the beginningof the fast speeds.
That was the beginning of thefast speeds and I went into
Napster and I proceeded Todownload, in the end, 10,000
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songs, just out of fucking purespite.
Just out of pure spite for therecord industry.
Yeah, I know, metallica was alllike you're taking the money
from the artists.
Yeah, well, fight with yourfucking record companies.
They've been taking your moneyfor decades and decades and
decades, and now they're takingour money too.
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So, fuck you, metallica.
10,000,.
Then my buddy taught me how toburn them onto CDs, mp3s, right,
mp3s, and I had like each discI had like 100 discs, I don't
know like Fucking a thousandsongs on it, whatever it was,
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thousand songs on, I don't know.
I was downloading everything,everything I downloaded, I don't
know if any of you rememberthis.
In the 80s, in the 70s, therewas a radio, when radio was
still radio, and there was ashow called CBS radio mystery
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theater and it was hosted by EGMarshall, and every night for an
hour they would tell these old.
You know it was a new version,like they'd tell new stories,
and it's kind of modernized forthe time that it was out.
And I found that and I musthave downloaded 500 of those
episodes and some of them arepretty cool because they still
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have the old commercials in themfrom like the 70s.
So it was pretty cool.
The bottom line is yeah, fuckthe record company, you screwed
me for $24 for an album thatmade its money two, three times
over already.
No, so thank you, napster,thank you.
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Lauryn Hill makes Grammy historyin the 90s.
Let me see what did she do.
The following year, hill becamea Grammy darling, won multiple
awards, including Best NewArtist, best R&B Album and Album
of the Year, the latter makingHill the first hip-hop artist.
She's with the Fugees I don'tknow if you've ever listened to
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the Fugees, who won the mostprestigious awards.
So there you go.
That's some shit.
That happened in the 90s.
I don't know how many of youwere really listening to music
back then, like Dave Phillips,king of the 45s, would say let
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me get caught up on the.
Oh, look at this, let me seeadam nelson.
It's very underrated.
Okay, 90s music I think he'stalking about and let me get
caught up on these.
Uh, patty ossey, she certainlydid.
Janet jackson, uh, mark shannontells me to shut up what you
know what?
This guy?
He doesn't know anything aboutmusic.
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Anyways, he probably came andwent.
He's probably one of those guys.
Uh, let's see.
Yeah, when I get that up on thescreen I can't read the uh
comments, so I don't know wherewe're at.
The glove box of your father'struck was full of them.
Yeah, steve Romano talkingabout, I guess, cds.
Then left, I burned down AndreRises, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Left eye, remember left eye?
That happened in the 90s.
Lisa left eye, lopez.
Andre Risen, atlanta Falconswide receiver, she burnt this
house down by lighting hissneakers on fire and throwing
them in the bathtub.
That she thought was metal Womp, womp, womp, womp.
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And I still mock and I still sayto Bob Doucette I won't talk
about Steven Tyler, that's it,won't do it.
Let me see what else we gotMoving right along.
Let me get rid of that.
Let's see, let's get out ofthis.
Let's go with, let's go withevery year of the 90s ranked
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according to music.
Let me see, I didn't just dothat right, here we go.
Okay, let me go over here, pullit up on the screen for the
people at home watching Again.
I don't read these, so theseought to be interesting.
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Every year of the 90s, rankedaccording to music, from 10 down
to 1.
As millennials relive the 90s inall its glory, it's hard not to
celebrate the ups and downs ofmusic over the course of the
decade.
As technology and the politicalclimate changed, so did fans'
appetite for genres likegangster rap, grunge, new jack,
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swing, punk and pop.
See, punk came back with thatold Green Day shit.
But there was a lot that wenton in the 90s, a lot of changes,
let me see.
As with any nostalgic music,post post, things need to be
ranked and in this case weranked each year based on
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selection of music and events tohappen over the course of the
90s.
Number 10 is 1991.
I was in sacramento, california.
That again great time, withAlternative Rock producing some
of the best albums of the year.
Nirvana introduces firstglimpse of grunge and R&B makes
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a go at the singles charts.
This year is a bit all over theplace in terms of genre and
style.
What happened?
Well, whitney Houston sings theStar Spangled Banner at the
Super Bowl, laying thegroundwork, like I said, for
every performance after that.
Janet Jackson signs a $30million record deal with Virgin
Records and her brother Michaelsigns a $1 billion contract with
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Sony.
Boys to Men makes it so hard tosay goodbye to.
Yesterday.
Perry Farrell from Jane'sAddiction launches the first
Lollapalooza festival tour.
Metallica releases the Blackalbum, one of the most
successful albums of all time.
Guns N' Roses sells 1.3 millioncopies of their sophomore album
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in one week.
Every major single, everything Ido, I did it for you, gonna
make you sweat.
Everybody dance now.
I like the way, uh, I like theway, uh.
The kissing game because I loveyou.
The postman song love willnever do without you features
parentheses in the title.
Ah, kenny rogers launches therestaurant chain kenny rogers
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roasters.
It's not the Seinfeld episodewhere they put a Kenny Rogers
Roasters across the street fromthe apartment building that
Jerry and Kramer live in.
Kramer referred to the red neonlight when it was going off.
He said being in his apartmentwas like being on the red planet
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, jerry.
And that was the episode whereJerry said he'll sleep in there.
And then the was it, mrChuckles?
The fucking Vandrilligris dollran across, ran across the floor
.
Oh yeah, notable releases MariahCarey by Mariah Carey.
Nevermind.
By Nirvana Ten.
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By Pearl Jam.
Metallica by Metallica.
The Low End Theory one of thegreatest hip-hop albums ever
made by a tribe called Quest.
Everything I Do in parenthesesI Do For you.
By Bryan Adams I Wanna Sex youUp.
By Call Me Bad, gonna Make youSweat.
In parentheses.
Every Dance Now.
Everybody Dance Now.
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By the C&C Music Factory, rush,rush, paula Abdul.
One More Try by Timmy T.
Okay, number nine in therankings of the top 10 of the 10
years in the 90s, whatever thefuck.
The first year of the decade wastransitional year, with the
number of late 80s acts spillingover into the music, seeing a
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noticeable shift away from 80spop and hand metal.
Music tastes are a bit all overthe place as alternative rock
firmly establishes itself as thegenre of choice.
Now what happened?
Mtv's unplugged makes its debut, although it was with the
forgettable, a new wave band,squeeze.
Now that I watched that andthat wasn't forgettable.
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That wasn't forgettable.
The thing that was funny aboutthat.
This is a behind the scenesthing.
You might've heard me tell thisstory before.
Squeeze showed up at the studioand they didn't have any
instruments.
They had their electric guitarsand the producer of Unplugged
was like what are you doing?
He goes, we got our instruments, he goes, it's fucking
unplugged.
They was like what are youdoing?
He goes, we got our instruments, he goes, it's fucking
unplugged.
They were like what the fuck isunplugged?
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They're like it's acoustic andhe goes.
Well, nobody fucking told us.
So the producer of the showruns down to his office and gets
this fucking acoustic guitar.
So that was the guitar thatthey were using in that
performance.
They didn't do like the wholeshow, like Unplugged was like it
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would be like.
Sometimes two artists, maybethree.
And what else happened?
Public Enemy releases one ofthe best albums of the year Fear
of a Black Planet.
The Go-Go's reunite for thefirst time since breaking up in
85 to play a benefit concert.
While still named MookieBlaylock, pearl Jam plays their
first show.
Janet Jackson lands atop theBillboard Hot 100 in mainstream
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rock chart with Black Cat.
Two different songs of the samename Hold On by Wilson Phillips
and En Vogue top the charts.
I forgot about that.
Interesting Vanilla Ice samplesUnder Pressure by Queen and
David Bowie.
In Ice Ice Baby, it says no,it's just a little difference.
That tsss, yeah, that tsss.
It's different.
Celine Dion makes her Englishlanguage debut.
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Madonna makes her blondeambition, takes her blonde
ambition on tour and gets bannedby MTV.
Milli Vanilli admits to lipsyncing and later returns their
Grammy award for best new artist.
Noticeable releases RhythmNation 1814 by Janet Jackson.
Janet Jackson, hold On byWilson Phillips.
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It Must have Been Love byRoxette.
Nothing Compares to you bySinead O'Connor.
Go ahead, you know, princewrote that.
Fucking people.
Somebody out there, as soon asI said Nothing Compares to you
by Sinead O'Connor, somebody outthere fucking thought oh, you
know, prince wrote that.
The world fucking knows thatPrince wrote that song.
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There's no need to fucking gotell everybody.
When someone mentions the song,somebody is inevitably gonna say
hey, you know, prince wrotethat song, like everybody
fucking knows.
Okay, stop, you're not breakinglike the fucking sound barrier,
you're not.
You're not.
You know fucking changingevolution.
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Yes, he, okay, he wrote thesong.
Jesus.
All right, I feel better.
Let me see Belle Biv DevoePoison by Belle Biv Devoe.
That girl is poison.
Vogue by Madonna.
Strike a pose.
Fair of a Black Planet byPublic Enemy.
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Black Steel and the Hour ofChaos.
Right, yeah, you don't knowanything about that.
Goo by Sonic Youth.
Great album.
Bossa Nova by Pixies.
Ritual de lo Habituel by JamesAddiction great fucking album.
All right, number eight on thislist, 1993.
With the start of the SoundScanera, the charts explode with a
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mix of pop, hip-hop and R&B.
Nothing really feelsgroundbreaking, although there's
plenty of fun to be had.
What happened?
Well, whitney Houston spends 14weeks atop the charts with her
cover of I Will Always Love you.
Janet Jackson becomes the firstfemale artist to debut at
number one in the BillboardAlbum album charts in the
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SoundScan era.
Prince changes his name to theunpronounceable symbol, becoming
artist formerly known as Prince.
Did you know he wrote NothingCompares to you.
Did you know that?
Shut the fuck up.
Okay, natalie Merchant from10,000 Maniacs goes solo and
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they were never the same.
After that.
She was 10,000 Maniacs.
That's all there is to it.
Leaving 10,000 Maniacs after 12years with the band Wu-Tang
Clan, wu-tang bitches.
Enter the 36 Chambers.
That's the album.
Enter the 36 Chambers.
Ace of Base was never a big fan.
Releases their debut featuring acover of tina turners, don't
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turn around and meatloaf will doanything for love, except for
that one thing.
Notable releases well, there itis.
Hate that fucking song, siamesedream, and that was by tag team
siamese dream by the smashingpumpkinshing Pumpkins.
Debut by Bjork Janet, by JanetJackson Week by SWV, which
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stands for Sisters With Voicesthey came and went Informa.
By the White Canadian Snow,trying to be all gangster the
Canadians.
White Canadian Gangster, I'mgoing to be 500 Miles by the
white Canadian gangster.
I'm gonna be 500 miles by thereclaimers.
I fucking hate that song.
I could be some thousand milesand I could be Fucking hate that
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song.
Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambersby Wu-Tang Clan, wu-tang bitches
.
And the sign by Ace of Base.
I found a sign, anyway, numberseven, 1992.
With the grunge movementestablished, kurt Cobain becomes
the voice and face of thedespondent 90s generation.
A despondent 90s generation.
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They weren't that despondent.
I think the writer here istaking a little liberty.
They weren't despondent.
Maybe they were fuckingdespondent up in seattle, but
they're always despondent.
Fucking.
Northwest is just a miserableplace.
Uh, the year feels cohesive, ifnot slightly serious, as acts
like rage against machine remand sonic youth follow in
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cobain's shoes.
No, but anyway.
What happened?
Well, let me tell you, nirvanaestablishes the grunge movement
In Cobain's shoes.
No, but anyway.
What happened?
Well, let me tell you, nirvanaestablishes the grunge movement
with the success of Nevermind.
Guns N'.
Roses releases the world'slongest single, november Rain,
which clocks in at 8 minutes and57 seconds.
The music video also costs arecord $1.5 million to make.
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It wasn't really a milliondollar video, but okay.
Eric Clapton pens the emotionaland shot-topping tribute Tears
in Heaven To his late son, conor.
Sinead O'Connor rips up thePope on Saturday Night Live.
If she did that today, I meanshe was way ahead of her time
and I always loved me someSinead Again, another one who's
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unfortunately crazier than asprayed roach, but God bless her
, she was way ahead of her time.
Queen re-releases BohemianRhapsody.
When the song appears in Wayne'sWorld, madonna gets erotic on
wax with uh, what's the name ofthe song?
Yeah, I forget, but it wasplayed on MTV like only after
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midnight.
Yeah, something about my love,my love.
Boyz II Men spent 12 weeks atopthe Billboard Hot 100 with End
of the Road.
The B-Girl becomes the mostpopular video.
Vixen in Blind Melon's no Rain,little B-Girl Everyone
remembers the B-Girl becomes themost popular video.
Vixen in Blind Melon's.
No Rain, little B-Girl Everyoneremembers the B-Girl.
The tap dancing B-Girl, pew,pew, pew, okay.
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Whitney Houston makes her filmdebut in the Bodyguard and
covers Dolly Parton for thesoundtrack.
Vibe Magazine launches Dr Dreain't nothing but a g thing.
Baby was released with uh snoopdogg.
Mariah carey covers the jackson.
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Five notable releases end ofthe road by boys to men.
Baby got back by sir mcslott.
Hate that fucking song.
Jump by crisscross.
Save the best for last byvanessa williams.
A hottie always was a hottie.
Tears in heaven by eric clapton.
I'm too sexy by right saidfriend, I always liked that song
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.
I don't care what you say, Ilike that song.
It it's just catchy.
It's a fucking catchy pop tune.
Can't take it serious, but youcan't deny it either.
It's fucking upbeat, it's happyand you can dance to it.
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I am too sexy for my cat.
Too sexy for my cat, oh my, mypussy cat Morrissey doesn't like
that though.
My cat Achy Breaky Hot by BillyRay Cyrus.
A lot of conversation we couldhave about that.
The Chronic by Dr Dre, one ofthe greatest hip hop albums ever
made Automatic for the Peopleby REM.
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Rage Against the Machine byRage Against the Machine and 40
Ounce by Freedom.
Oh, and 40 Ounce by Freedom.
40 Ounce and Freedom by Sublime.
Number 6 on the list 1994,following the directional list.
Why does this guy have to?
Or this lady have to fuckingmake it sound like it was such a
desperate time in America, the90s, following a directional
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list 93.
Directional list 93.
Desperate time in America, the90s, following a directionless
93.
Directionless 93.
What the?
The next year enjoys a revivalof punk and witnesses the
beginning of New Jack Swing.
Now, by 94, I was in, I wentfrom Sacramento, made their Air
Force Base in Sacramento toMarch Air Force Base in Southern
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California and that's rightaround Riverside.
Ah, let me see.
The next year enjoys rival punkand witnesses the beginnings of
the New Jack Swing.
Again, I can dig that.
What happened?
Well, let me tell you, greenDay throws Dookie everywhere and
launches the punk revival ofthe mid-90s.
Fuck Green Day, fuck them, fuckthem.
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I don't know why you fuckingbought their albums.
Anyways, kurt Cobain is founddead after committing suicide.
Isn't that kind of redundant?
Why can't they just say kirkcobain committed suicide?
Why would they say kirk cobainis found dead after committing
suicide?
Well, they're not going to findhim dead before suicide.
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Idiots, fucking writers.
Today, does anybody proofreadthis stuff?
Anybody.
I am not an english major byany fucking means, but I can see
and I can read when something'swrong.
Kurt Cobain is found dead aftercommitting suicide.
If I was the editor which theyevidently don't have this would
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be fucking crumbled up andthrown in their face like just
say, kurt Cobain killed himself,kurt Cobain committed suicide.
I think the reader isintelligent enough to know that
they're going to find him dead.
Fucking brain dead.
Generation Weezer introducesthemselves to the world with the
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Blue Album.
Weezer very consistent band,lisa Left Eye Lopez sets fire.
Here we go To her thenboyfriend under her eyes at home
.
Red Hot Chili Peppers overrated, overrated, but people love
them because of things like this.
They perform in light bulbcostumes at Woodstock 94.
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What people see in that fuckingband?
I don't know.
I just think you're anunintelligent music person if
you think that there's anythingremotely great about them.
Flea is a great bass player,like and that's it.
And the drummer he's good.
That was it.
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Alicia Silverstone stars inAerosmith's music video Crying,
and then she followed up withthe next video and that little
thing was a trilogy.
Michael Jackson and Lisa MariePresley Awkwardly kiss on stage
at MTV Video Music Awards.
Maybe if his name was LouisMarie Presley, michael would
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have Kissed him better.
I don't know, I could be wrong.
Tlc creeps on their men,because I creep.
That's a great song.
Notable releases in 1994.
Don't Turn Around by Ace ofBase, I Swear.
By All For One, I Swear Hero byMariah Carey, definitely Maybe
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by Oasis there you go.
Illmatic by Nas there you go.
I wasn't a big Nas fan backthen but I am now.
Weezer by Weezer, there you go.
Lion King soundtrack featuringElton John.
It was a big deal.
Crazy, sexy, cool by TLC theywere broke, but it sold over a
lot of albums.
Long View by Green Day.
Ready to Die by the Notorious,big, great album.
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1996 comes in at number five inranking the years of the decade
of the 90s, following years ofalternative rock, grunge and
punk Dominating the radio and TV.
Music begins to shift aship-hop goes mainstream.
What happened?
Hey, let me tell you whathappened, if you really want to
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know.
Madonna steps into avida'sshoes.
Rent makes his debut offbroadway kiss, reunites with the
original lineup and makes firstappearance in full makeup
together since 1983.
Money grab, but they're greatmarketers.
Tupac, overrated, releases hisfirst ever rap double album, all
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eyes on me, and then Take thatsplits up.
Oh boy, pop-up video.
Remember pop-up video?
Everybody watched pop-up videoon Vh1.
That's what vh1 was like.
They were at their peak.
They had all those great showsbehind the music.
You know, uh getting the bandback, whatever it was, uh baking
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the band and uh, pop-up video.
And I mean it was just greatwatching because we all
reminisced over those videos tooand you find out shit you
didn't really know.
It's pretty cool pop-up video.
Uh, mtv2 was launched mariahcarey and that was as successful
as espn too.
Mariah carey and boys to mensit atop the charts for 16 weeks
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with one sweet day.
Mc hammer files for bankruptcy.
That didn't take long.
Phil Collins leaves Genesis,begins an extremely successful
solo career.
Slash leaves Guns N' Roses.
Sammy Hagar leaves Van Halen.
Spice Girls released theirdebut single, wannabe, going
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number one in 31 countries.
Aaliyah collaborates withTimbaland she was pretty, that
was a pretty girl and one in aMillion.
Whitney Houston sings backupfor Brandy on Sittin' Up in my
Room.
No Doubt airs their dirtylaundry amid breakup tensions.
In the music video for Don'tSpeak and Jamarraquai creates a
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virtual insanity.
That guy is loaded.
The lead singer forJamamiroquai I think he is
Jamiroquai.
I saw a video on him.
This dude's loaded.
He's got this whole fuckingcollection of like these
one-of-a-kind cars, like newcars, notable releases One Sweet
Day by Mariah Carey.
And Boyz II Men, always Be myBaby by Mariah Carey, and Boys
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to Men, always Be my Baby byMariah Carey.
Give Me One Reason.
Give Me One Reason to Love you.
By Tracy Chapman.
I'm just that's.
Everybody said it, it's notjust me.
Everybody would say that I'mjust continuing the joke.
It's not she did.
I mean, if you looked at her,tracy Chapman, just go look, go
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pull up a picture of her from1994, whatever this year was.
What year was it 1996.
Go look, just saying, don't geton me about it.
You making me high by ToniBraxton.
She had.
You Making Me High by ToniBraxton.
She had a pretty consistentcareer, toni Braxton.
She did okay Ironic.
By LA Nismarra-Sett.
That was a big one.
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Loungin' by LL Cool J, uncle L,it was written by Nas.
Falling Into you by Celine Dion.
All Eyes on Me by Tupac.
The Score by the Fugees SpaceJam.
Music from and inspired byMotion Picture featuring R Kelly
.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha.
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They took that one off theshelves, I'm sure.
One in a Million.
By Aaliyah Number four.
I'm almost there, almost there.
What you want to?
Come up, come up.
Come on, buddy, come on.
What's the matter.
Morrissey is visiting me.
I didn't even know he was inhere.
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Let me see 1998, following therevival of pop, mainstream radio
finally hears a variety ofmusic that lay the groundwork
for the iPod generation.
What happened?
Well, let me tell you whathappened in 1998.
Madonna freezes in a desert ina video for Frozen Red.
Hot Chili Peppers fires DaveNavarro.
Vh1 gathers the music's biggestdivas Aretha Franklin, gloria
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Estefan, celine Dion, shaniaTwain and Mariah Carey.
For one night, aerosmith goesnumber one for the first time in
28 years, together with I Don'tWant to Miss a Thing that they
didn't write Jerry Hallwell.
Whatever redhead Spice leavesthe Spice Girls.
Lauren Hill goes solo.
Why not with the miseducationof Lauren Hill?
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Total Request Live debuts on MTV.
Everybody watch thatney sparesreleases her first single baby.
One more time that, like I said, every guy watched that video
at least once.
I don't care what you say.
Brandy and monica fight for thesame guy.
Google doll spent 18 weeks totop the billboard.
Hot 100 share introduces theworld to auto-tune.
Courtney Love and Hole go glamfor Celebrity Skin.
(58:43):
The album the still hype-huntedJay-Z samples Annie and Alanis
Morissette rides the subwaynaked.
Yeah, I remember that one.
Notable releases that yearBefore these Crowded Streets by
Dave Matthews Band.
It's Dark as Hell is Hot by DMX.
Do Wop that Thing by LaurynHill.
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Ray of Light by Madonna.
Streets by Dave Matthews Band.
It's Dark as Hell is Hot by DMX.
Do Wop that Thing by LaurynHill.
Ray of Light by Madonna.
The Boy Is Mine by Brandy andMonica.
Nice and Slow by Usher GettingJiggy With it by Will Smith,
volume 2, hard Knock.
Life by Jay-Z, aquaman and Iwhatever by Outkast, you've come
a long way.
Baby by fat boy.
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Slim, hello nasty.
By beastie boys.
Mutations by beck.
Closing time by semi-sonic andkiss me, kiss me, oh, the new
sea sunshine, kiss me by sixpence downence, none the richer.
This is what happened at numberthree in 1997.
Number three is ranked top tenyears in a decade.
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You already know if you'relistening.
Thanks to Spice Girls and Hanson, fans taste the pop for pop
reignited and country has itsmainstream moment thanks to
artists like Shania Twain andGothberg.
Meanwhile, hip-hop continues toexplode with acts like Puff
Daddy, missy Elliott and theNotorious BIG.
Let me tell you what happened.
(01:00:09):
You want to know what happened?
Let me tell you what happened.
Daft Punk makes their debutwith homework.
Notorious BIG is shot deadahead of his release for his
double album Life After Death.
Ironic.
Puff Daddy and the Family andSting pay tribute to Biggie with
a performance of I'll BeMissing you at the MTV VMAs.
Hanson and Spice Girls usher ina new era of pop music.
(01:00:32):
Missy Elliott Can't Stand theRain.
I can't stand the rain what?
Come up and see me, stop crying.
I didn't even know he was inhere.
Uh, let me see the ladies ofrap.
Angie martinez, the brat lefteye, little kim and missy
elliott unite on not tonight.
Sarah mclachlan launcheslaunches the first lilith fair.
(01:00:54):
Both leanne rhymes and trishayearwood record the same song
how do I live and released theirversions on the same day.
Close to a million people showup for Gott Brook's free concert
in Central Park.
Fleetwood Mac reunites on theDance.
Elton John pays tribute toPrincess Diana with a
re-recording of Candle in theWind.
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Shania Twain becomes thebiggest country star to cross
over the mainstream with Come OnOver Now.
That's what I call musiccollects this year's biggest
singles blah, blah, blah.
Notable releases bought byhansen, bobby girl, by aqua.
Something around, somethingabout the way you look tonight.
Candle in the wind, 1997 byelton john.
Foolish games by jewel,semi-charmed life by third eye
(01:01:37):
blind, hypnotized by thenotorious big come on over by
shania twain.
Spice World by Spice Girls.
The Velvet Rope by JanetJackson.
Ok Computer by Radiohead.
The Color and the Shape by FooFighters.
The Fat of the Land by theProdigy Bitch, by Meredith Cole.
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I'm a bitch, I hate thatfucking song.
My Heart Will Go On by CelineDion.
No, no, no.
By Destiny's Child and BigWillie Style by Will Smith and
Honey by Mariah Carey.
All right, hold on one second,hold on.
You want to go out?
Come on, let's go out.
Come on, let's go.
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Come on, come on, let's go.
Come on, go, go, go, go.
Get up.
All right, he's out.
All right, he's done.
Get rid of Morrissey.
I'm almost there, almost there.
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The second ranked year in thedecade of the 90s is 1999.
In a year I'd been with customsfor over a year at that point
in South Florida In a year whenbasically anything could happen,
just about everything did.
The last year of the decade,while disjointed at times in
terms of taste, had somethingfor everyone and has a new
generation of spending powercame of age.
(01:02:59):
What happened?
Let me tell you what happened.
Britney Spears and boy bandskick off a new era of pop thanks
to the success of TRL.
Tlc don't want no scrubs intheir life.
After returning with their firstnew album in five years, sugar
Ray ditched funk metal I mean,they weren't funk metal for pop
(01:03:22):
rock on 1459.
Jennifer Lopez makes hermusical debut and helps usher in
the Latin explosion.
And helps usher in the Latinexplosion.
Napster is launched.
Women dominate the GrammyAwards with Lauryn Hill, madonna
, shania Twain, sheryl Crow andGarbage, funded by Shirley
Manson, all up for album of theYear.
(01:03:44):
Red Hot Chili Peppers reunitethe original lineup for the
release of Californication.
Carlos Santana collaborateswith Rob Thomas.
Ugh, ugh, that fucking song.
Ugh, where's the King of the45s for that one?
Lauryn Hill and others ofSupernatural.
(01:04:08):
Mariah Carey lands her 14thnumber one single on the
Billboard Hot 100 withHeartbreaker.
The Ladies of R&B put men intheir place with Bills, bills,
bills, destiny's Child, bugabooDC.
It's Not Right, but it'sOkayney.
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Houston, no scrubs.
Tlc where my girl's at 702, 702music music dies.
At woodstock 99, when thefestival was plagued by sexual
assaults, poor conditions,excessive heat and fires and
protests.
Notable releases that yearHeartbreak Hotel by Whitney
Houston, faith Evans and KellyPrice, fan Mail by TLC, the Slim
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Shady LP by Eminem, smooth bySantana and Rob Thomas, ricky
Martin by Ricky Martin.
Millennium by Backstreet Boys.
Fly by the Dixie Chicks.
Genie in a Bottle by ChristinaAguilera.
What's it Gonna Be by BustaRhymes and Janet Jackson.
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If you had my Love by JenniferLopez.
Bills, bills, bills byDestiny's Child, rainbow by
Mariah Carey and Mambo no 5 byLou Bega.
So that was no 2.
This is the no 1 year.
1995 was the no 1 year,according to this article, in
music for the decade of the 90s.
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Nor the year felt as cohesiveas 1995.
R&b dominated the radio withmost of the year's biggest
singles, and some of thedecade's most now classic albums
were released.
Fans were done with the darkundertones of grunge and looking
for more optimistic anddanceable sounds again, with the
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fucking misery thing, jesus.
Okay, what happened?
Well, let me tell you whathappened in 1995 that made this
the number one year in thedecade.
T TLC chases waterfalls and thenflies for bankruptcy, files for
bankruptcy.
Tupac scores a number one albumMe Against the World While in
prison and later signs withDeath Row Records.
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Robbie Williams quits the boyband world Offspring and Rancid
extend Green Day's punk revival.
Cher releases her first newalbum in four years.
Coolio gets Michelle Pfeifferto star in his music video for
Gangsta Paradise.
Janet and Michael Jacksonscream at each other and spend a
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record $7 million on the duet'saccompanying music video.
Seal delivers a kiss from arose and wins all the awards at
the Grammys.
Hootie and the Blowfish scorethe best selling album of the
year.
New Jack Swing takes over theairwaves thanks to acts like TLC
, boys to Men, monica and IdinaHoward.
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Alanis Morissette seeks revengeon Dave Coulier with Jagged
Little Pill, great album.
Notable releases.
Fantasy by Mariah Carey.
Don't Take it Personal.
Just One of them Days by Monica.
This Is how we Do it by MontelJordan.
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Freak Like Me by Idina Howardthat's a jam right there.
Freak Like Me by Idina Howard.
Go download that one.
Go listen to that one onSpotify.
That's a jam right there.
Freak Like Me by Adina Howard.
Go download that one.
Go listen to that one onSpotify.
That's a jam right there.
Adina was killing it on thatsong.
You probably won't go listen.
So Freak Like Me by Adina Howard.
Waterfalls by TLC.
Jagged Little Pill by AlanisMorissette.
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Melancholy and the InfiniteSadness by the Smashing Pumpkins
.
What's the Story?
Mourn and Glory by Oasis youknow that.
The Bends by Radiohead.
Post by Bjork Macarena by LosDel Rio, tragic Kingdom by no
Doubt and Pieces of you by Jewel.
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There you go, I got through itand I'm back.
Yeah, what did I miss on it?
And I'm back.
Yeah, what did I miss on thecomments?
Let's see.
Let me see Steve Romano.
Robert Kirkman what the hell?
I don't get notificationsanymore when you're on.
Well, I posted it.
Patty Yossi replying to RobertKirkman Robert Kirkman wins it 7
(01:08:20):
pm.
Tap on videos on his profile.
Okay, robert Kirkman, maggie'sdream has formed.
Oh Jesus, robert Kirkman again.
Replying to Robert KirkmanPatricia, yeah, blah, blah, blah
.
They're having a conversationin the chat.
That's replying to RobertKirkman.
Thought the 90s were prettygood.
Patty Yossi said and I'm old,let me see.
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And finally, robert Kirkmansays no, gwen Blake is one lucky
SOB.
Okay, that's it everybody.
I just went over an hour.
I'm just going to kind of turnit down, turn it off.
At this point, I want to thankyou for watching.
Thank you for listening.
If you like it, share it.
If you didn't like it, well,thanks for watching.
Thank you for listening.
If you like it, share it.
If you didn't like it, well,thanks for watching, or
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listening for an hour and nineminutes.
I didn't see big head Todd theWits rocket tonight.
I didn't see Dave Phillips,king of the 45s.
I didn't see any of these guys.
Okay, that's all right.
That's like it's summertime.
It's summertime, shit starts tokind of take a break.
Everybody's out doing shit.
Hopefully your weather is nice,although I'm sure it's raining
somewhere.
It's not raining here, though.
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It's been an okay summer downhere in the lovely boca raton,
florida, not too bad.
Can you believe thatthanksgiving is like four months
away?
I love that.
I love that thanksgiving islike four months away.
Yeah, and we're almost halfwaythrough July already.
(01:09:46):
It's going fast.
It's going fast, which is finewith me.
I used to love summer and thenI started liking the, the
holidays.
I really look forward to theholiday season, but yeah, so
alright, everybody with that.
Again, thanks for watching andlistening and I'll be back next
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week.
I don't know if Jack will.
Jack's somewhere in Cape Cod.
The Luther is four months away.
That's right.
Robert Kirkman, I need somecards.
I know I got to get on all thatfor my other nonprofit.
I've been slacking.
I got like five projects goingon at my house here and we went
on vacation.
And it's summer.
(01:10:27):
It's just hard to get your shittogether, mike Tiviasi freak
like me, alicia Keys falling,there you go and yeah, so that's
it.
Got some 90s news this week andI hope you liked it, and I
don't know if Jack will be herenext week.
I think he's down in Cape Codright now Not watching the show.
(01:10:49):
You know he never listens ornever watches the shows after he
does them.
He's so fucking pretentious.
Don't get me started on Jack.
All right, everybody.
Well, as I always say, to quotemy favorite artist Morrissey,
about doing the show for you,the pleasure, the privilege is
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mine and I will be back nextThursday.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
What's up everybody?
What's up everybody.
Little deftones to get the showstarted.
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I love the deftones.
The name of the song is Minerva.
Go download it.
Deftones Solid, solid band, 90sband, which is what we're going
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to be talking about tonight.
This will definitely getcopyright problems.
God bless you all For the songyou sing.
Like I said, the song isMinerva by Deftones.
Go to Spotify, download it.
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Give them your money.
Yeah, no, jack, tonight.
Patty, good evening.
You're the same as usual, pattyin first.
Patty, good evening.
As usual, patty in first.
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Yeah, we're going to be doingsome music news tonight.
No, jack, it's hard to turn thesong down.
I hate cutting a song off inthe middle, but they'll take it
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down.
They'll take the whole livestream down.
They, they will do it.
We all know who they is.
Like I said welcome to the show.
Streaming live right now, overeverything.
Yeah, so we're going to do somemusic news tonight.
Might as well get right into it.
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Let's see.
Let's see what I can conjure up.
Pull myself down over here, getthis up over here.
I have some 90s, mostly 90sstuff.
I have one article, big hair,big sound and three big songs
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that defined the glamour of the80s.
The 80s was fucking great.
What a great decade that was Tobe a kid.
I don't know what adultsthought of it, but yeah, so
let's see.
I have this other article.
Let me pull it up on the screen.
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Come on, you can do it.
There we go.
Okay, let me cut back over here.
Let me add my scene.
Let me pull up my screen.
That will be screen.
There we go.
So let me.
This is kind of an interestingthing right here.
So let me.
This is kind of an interestingthing right here.
(03:50):
Rock bands with a rock band withmore than a million Spotify
listeners.
This is today's music peopleRock band with one million
Spotify listeners.
Reveals it's entirely AIgenerated, down to the musicians
themselves.
A fresh new rock band thatquickly shot to Spotify's top
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ranks announced that it'sactually wholly generated by
artificial intelligence Just onemonth after its celebrated
debut album earned it onemillion listeners.
The 60s inspired rock and rollband, the Velvet Sundown Now, if
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you're a 60s, 70s kid, you knowthat's kind of a Velvet
Underground Velvet Sundown.
I don't know, it's too closefor me, let me get rid of that.
Revealed on Saturday thatnothing about it is real after
fans on the up-and-comingartists noticed there were
virtually no traces of anypeople associated with it online
.
Its debut album, floating onEchoes, was released on June 5th
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to mass appeal.
Online.
Most popular song in the albumpro peace folk rock song dust on
the wind.
See, you know what they'redoing here.
You know what they're doingright?
Not dust in the wind, dust onthe wind.
Uh, clinch the number it's, Idon't know.
We'll talk about this clininch,the number one spot on
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Spotify's daily viral 50 chartin Britain, norway and Sweden
between June 29th and July 1st.
All the while, the one millionmonthly listeners who started
following the Velvet Sundown hadno idea they were just
listening to a massiveartificial intelligence made by
fake musicians.
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The photos of the band sharedonline and featured on the
album's cover were unnaturallysmooth and mad in mad.
What is it?
And matt and the guitarist handwas wonky because ai if anybody
out there messes around with AI.
I do a lot and imaging is kindof.
It's very new and it has a hardtime.
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Ai has a hard time with thehand.
Hands and fingers are usuallymessed up, which I guess is the
same thing that happens to apainter.
Painters really have to do alot of extra work to learn how
to do a hand so, uh, so it saysthe hand was wonky, with fused
fingers gripping this instrument, a classic hallmark of ai
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generated images.
I don't read these articlesbefore I, uh, read them to you.
I like to have that naturalreaction.
The band's, too, were a perfectmesh of generic anti-war
sentiments and other clicheslike nothing lasts forever but
the earth and sky.
It slips away and all yourmoney won't.
(06:57):
Another minute by the faux rockstars were also pumping out new
albums, scarily and inhumanelyfast, releasing two in June
alone and another set formid-July.
The band finally revealed itssecret over the weekend.
It updated its Spotifybiography Saturday to reflect
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the AI twist, assuring that theproject hadn't been trying to
bamboozle its audience.
Really, is this because you gotcaught?
Is this a?
Let's cut it off the anklesbefore we end up like millie
vanillie?
Maybe?
Yeah, I think they got toopopular too fast and there was
an oh shit moment and they said,ah, we should probably say
(07:43):
something if, if they didn't getthis popular, would they have
ever come out of the closet theAI closet?
Who knows, who knows?
The Velvet Sundown is asynthetic music project guided
by human creative direction andcomposed, voiced and visualized
with the support of artificialintelligence.
This isn't a trick, it's amirror, any ongoing artistic
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provocation designed tochallenge the boundaries of
authorship, identity and thefuture of music itself in the
age of AI.
The biography reads so I have apodcast that I do.
It's my little side project.
One of my side projects.
It's called Bite SizeNightmares and what I do is I
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create these short horrorstories, but I create them with
the help of AI.
Ai, I look at it and I don'tknow about music, but I know
about the writing aspect of it.
It's not.
It's more of a collaborationthan cheating, because you
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really have to prompt AI to getit to do what you want.
You literally have to train itto do what you want.
The more you work with it, themore it starts to know you.
It knows your nuances, how youwrite or what you want it to do,
what you expect it to do.
So people think they can justgo to AI and write a song.
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It's really not that easy.
You can have a garbage like Icould have a garbage story, and
then I actually created an AIvoice that tells the stories and
that took work to get thatvoice perfected to make it sound
human.
So the work does have to gointo it and you have to do the
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work.
So, like I say, it's acollaboration if anything but
music is a whole.
Well, I don't know.
There's authors that I knowknow.
I know of an author.
He's a friend of mine and heuses ai.
Now, musicians, this is a bigdeal music and ai uh.
(09:56):
So we'll see where it goes.
The velvet sundown is asynthetic music project guided
by human creative direction.
I already read that Some peoplewho had seen through the band's
ploy early tried to takeadvantage of its viral success
before the truth came out.
See, a Quebec-based web safetyexpert posed as a spokesman for
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the Velvet Sundown under thepseudonym Andrewrew freelawn,
which translate translates tohornet in french uh, and even
slid false information torolling stone magazine about his
supposed clients.
But the man behind the freelawnquickly confessed that he was
just trying to troll peopleonline.
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It's unclear if the VelvetSundown will face any backlash
from Spotify.
Isn't this a form of art, though?
Isn't this a form of art?
Like?
When synthesizers came along,there was a lot of piano players
.
There's a lot of organ playersthat got put out of business
Because synthesizers came along.
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So isn't this just anotherversion of that?
I'm not pro or knock came along.
So isn't this just anotherversion of that?
I mean, I'm not pro or knock on.
This isn't a hill I'm going todie on, uh, the backlash, uh,
from spotify or any otherplatforms where it may be
eligible for streaming revenue.
Starting on july 15th, youtubeannounced that it would be
cutting all monetization,including advertisements, from
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any content generated by AI.
Wow, hmm, that's interesting.
Youtube announced that it wouldbe cutting all monetization,
including advertisements, fromany content generated by AI.
Wow, that's going to hurt a lotof people.
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Now, what are the parameters ofthat?
Like can people?
Because I watch YouTubers,popular YouTubers that will use
most likely AI generated imagesto tell a story.
Does that not count anymore?
And these are pretty bigYouTubers.
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In late June, popular YouTuberMrBeast announced a tool that
would use AI to make thumbnailsfor videos.
He quickly removed it afterreceiving backlash for
supporting an artificialintelligence engine which often
requires Massive amounts ofenergy.
That would steadily offset Hisyears of environmental work and
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reforestation efforts, andMrBeast is the world's biggest
YouTuber.
Interesting, I don't know wherethat's going to go.
Let's get back to the show.
Let's see.
I probably lost my chat.
Let me get my chat here.
Let me get the overlay overhere.
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No, I want to get it.
How are we not talking aboutSteven Tyler killing it at
Ozzy's Farewell concert?
Tyler is back.
Not a big fan.
Bob Doucette Not a big fan.
Steven Tyler Don't really havemuch love for pedos.
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Self-admitted pedos Wrote it inhis book pedos no denying that
he did this.
Pedos Wrote it in his bookpedos no denying that he did
this.
Pedo.
So I don't give him myattention.
There's plenty more out therePerry Lightfingers, tedovich,
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the AI.
I guess you're going to causethis podcast to not get any
money on YouTube anymore becauseI'm making so much money off of
this.
Yeah, making so much money offthis.
So, yeah, I don't know what youthink about it.
I don't know what you thinkabout it.
I don't know what you thinkabout ai generated music.
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Uh, it's just another artisticform of creation, right?
Uh, again, so you have a lot ofmusic programs that have
pre-programmed loops and you cango in, and those eventually are
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going to be generated throughAI.
Uh, they're already probablycomputer generated and you can
make beats with them, the wholething, and so I don't know where
the line gets drawn.
It's a pretty gray line rightnow, but we'll see.
All right, let's see what wegot next.
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Let me pull up something next.
Let me get rid of this.
Hope everybody had a good 4th ofJuly.
By the way, me and Dr Vera hadanother amazing time up at St
Augustine.
It is the absolute grand slamon the 4th of July.
That place.
It really is St Augustine,florida.
I highly recommend it.
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Well, no, I don't, because thenyou'll show up and then there's
more people there.
But you know what the thingabout that place?
Everybody's cool, everybody'scool.
There's no hustle and bustle.
No one's trying to take yourspot, bump into you.
If they do this, they literallysay excuse me.
It's just such a cool place andyou're up on the bay where they
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do a beautiful 20, 25-minutefirework display.
They do it right.
It's one of their big eventsfor the year, so they put the
money into it.
Me and Dr Vera put our chairs upthere like 9 in the morning and
the fireworks don't go offuntil 9.30 at night.
We go back around 7.
Nobody's moved our chairs,nobody's touched them, nobody
(15:58):
stole them, no one slid themdown so they could put their
chair in there.
People just put their chairsnext to you and they even keep a
little bit of a distance, andit's always a breeze.
There's always a breeze comingoff that bay, so it's perfect
weather, unless it rains.
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Anyway, I digress.
Let's see what do we got.
Let's go with the next Pull thisdown.
What do we got here?
Let's go with the next Pullthis down.
What do we got here?
You know what Five female altrock stars of the 90s we know
you love?
Let me pull this up.
That's going to be a video.
I don't want to do that.
No, let's go to quick notes.
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All iCloud here we go.
Let's go to the 90s here.
Let's see what we got.
Alright, go back over here.
This is live streaming, sothere's no editing here, but I'm
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getting good at this.
All right, here we go 20 iconicmusic moments that defined the
90s.
We don't, I don't, I don't.
We don't really talk about the90s.
That much I'll be on.
Uh, what does it say here?
The 90s was such an epic timefor music, a decade that not
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only had, it is a veryunderrated decade.
I think there's some shit thatwent on in the 90s like they had
a lot.
They were.
It was almost like the 70s.
There was about five differentthings going on in music in the
90s, just in that decade.
The 90s was such an epic timefor music, a decade that not
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only had elite music programmingacross radio and TV, but also
helped shape the course of musichistory, from the rise of hip
hop solidifying mainstreamdominance, to platforms changing
the way music is consumed,mainstream dominance to
platforms changing the way musicis consumed.
The 90s were a time for artistsand music industry to continue
to innovate with the times,whether it was an artist
redefining the super bowlhalftime show we know who that
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is or girl group becoming aworldwide phenomenon we know who
that is in the 90s, take aguess.
The 90s left an unforgettablemark on pop culture, from the
highs and the lows.
Let's take a look at somememories, memorable music
moments that defined the decadefrom 1990 to 1999.
We have Whitney Houston'snational anthem performance do
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you even have to talk about that?
At Super Bowl 25, do we evenhave to mention that is?
Is that not the cornerstone ofnational anthems?
Isn't that the pinnacle?
Outkast Source Awards speech Idon't know.
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Most of you probably don't knowwho OutKast is.
Mtv launches Total Request Live.
That was a phenomenon.
That thing was a big deal.
Carson Daly he tried to do hisown show after TRL, but, you
know, never did.
I mean, I caught myselfwatching this a bunch of times.
(19:20):
So MTV was still musictelevision back then.
Uh, it was in 1998 that cameout.
Spice girls ruled the world.
We know that.
That started kicked off in 96,millie vanillie's downfall.
It happened in the 90s.
Yeah, they were exposed in 89,but it carried over.
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It carried over East Coast vsWest Coast.
That was the for those of youthat like it, maybe you don't
like it hip hop that was morethan rock bands rivaling.
I can tell you that that wasserious.
This wasn't like than rockbands rivaling.
I can tell you that that wasserious.
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This wasn't like Axl Rose wantsto fight Sebastian Bach Right,
these motherfuckers wereshooting each other, literally.
Sebastian Bach wants to fightMarilyn Manson.
I would pay to see that, though.
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Let's see what do we got?
Boy bands are everywhere.
They definitely ruled the 90s.
They were in sync.
Backstreet Boys, hanson, 98Degrees they were all there.
Selena Not even going to jokeabout that.
That was just tragic.
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I didn't listen to Tejano music, tejano music, but I knew who
she was.
And beautiful young womanTragically shot by the fucking
president of her fan club.
Yeah, yeah, hey, macarena shotby the fucking president of her
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fan club.
Yeah, I hate macarena.
It was a 90s uh phenomenon, whatwas that?
Was that about the mid 90s?
I think yeah, uh, the brat.
She goes platinum then goesaway.
That's really really how thathappened goes platinum then
literally goes away.
She was exposed as a totalfucking asshole.
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Uh, shit changes the world ofauto-tune.
Do you believe in the power oflove?
Remember 98 had that auto tonein there that she pumped her
voice up.
So they.
So let's talk about that.
What's you know?
Auto tone, auto tune isn't that, it's almost well.
It's technology changingsomething.
(22:06):
Is AI any different?
It creates something, I don'tknow.
But Auto-Tune was.
I'm just getting a text messagehere.
All right, latin artistscrossover Ricky Martin, you had
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Iglesias, I actually liked him.
Enrique Iglesias, I actuallydid like him.
He has some good songs.
And the other dude that marriedJ-Lo Mark Anthony.
Those were probably the three,the big three.
Janet Jackson signs the largestrecording contract,
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well-deserved, I think.
She.
You know what.
If you don't give her credit,then you're wrong.
You're just wrong, becauseJanet Jackson had.
She didn't have a fucking hillto climb, she had Mount Everest
to climb.
She was coming up in the shadowof Michael Jackson and the
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Jackson five.
That is a monumental task toget to the point that she got to
in music, miss Jackson.
When I mean all she said oneline in a song, miss Jackson, if
you're and she became MissJackson, I mean you think about
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that, think about the fuckingmountain she had to climb to get
above and then get over theMichael Jackson sister thing,
little sister thing, and she didit.
And she did it fucking big time.
She absolutely did it big time.
So all credit, all credit, allcredit to Janet Jackson.
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There's no doubt about it.
She earned everything.
She got earned it.
Nothing was given to that girl,nothing.
Mc Hammer is a diamond superstar.
He was one of the bringship-hop into the pop mainstream
world with Can't Touch Us right,the album Don't Hurt Him Please
, hammer, don't Hurt Him.
Everyone was doing the.
Hammer brings hip hop into thepop mainstream world with can't
touch us Right, the album Don'thurt him, please, hammer, don't
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hurt him.
Everyone was doing the hammerdance.
Everyone had on the genie pants, right, you know, you did, I
did, I had them genie pants.
They were comfortable.
They were comfortable.
Yeah, I could dance, I coulddance.
I could dance like Hammer.
No, not like Hammer, but yeah,hitting the clubs in Sacramento
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Black Angus, yucatan, liquorStand, paradise, beach Club,
bobby McGee's I go down the road.
I ran all those clubs inSacramento.
I'm just gonna say it was likeshooting fish in a barrel, if
you know what I mean.
Anyway, boyz II Men and MariahCarey break billboard records in
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the 90s.
They were both, I mean Mariah'sMariah, that's a one word,
that's a one name girl rightthere, there's no doubt about it
.
Michael Jackson's Super Bowlhalftime performance again very
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big, very big TLC files forbankruptcy.
This is where it all becamelike it got exposed.
I mean, tlc was everywhere.
Tlc was.
They were winning Grammys, theywere selling a million records
and they were everywhere.
They were videos, concerts andthey weren't getting shit.
(26:11):
They signed a bad contract andit really got exposed.
Those three girls, left eye,lisa, left eye, lopez, rest in
peace.
Um, they uh, really had a lotof guts and they exposed the
record industry for what itreally was.
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And you had a band thateverybody's thought was making
bank.
Like how could you not?
But their manager, pebbles, whowas an 80s kind of pop star,
young black woman pop starpebbles.
She had a couple hits in the80s.
She was their manager and well,she, uh, she knew the business
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and she gave them the business,if you know what I mean.
They filed for bankruptcy,which was insane.
Yeah, Britney Spears is Pop'snewest star.
I don't care what you say, Ilove Britney.
Leave Britney alone.
Leave Britney alone.
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Leave Britney alone.
I always like God bless her.
Fucking crazier than a sprayedroach, but God bless her.
Yeah, she had talent.
She was fucking crazy.
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That's a great combinationcrazy and talented.
Ah, that's a media dream and wegot to watch it unfold,
unfortunately.
But uh, I always liked, Ialways liked her.
I didn't buy her CDs, she wasnot bad to look at.
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I'm not going to lie and I don'tknow any guy out there that
didn't watch that Baby One MoreTime video and that little
schoolgirl dress, right, littleplaid Catholic girl outfit.
If you say you didn't watchthat video, at least once,
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you're lying.
You're lying men anyway.
Uh, napster, napster reeks.
Have it god damn right, it did.
I'm not gonna say, and youmight know the story.
You might not know the story,but I'm going to tell you the
story.
Back around 90, let me see backaround 98, I went to this record
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store in Hollywood, florida,called Coconuts and I wanted to
buy.
You know, we all got bamboozledwith that whole.
Uh um, you know, vinyl sucksand everything is cds now.
So replace your vinylcollection with cds.
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That's exactly what themarketing was.
Uh, they, they, they bad.
It's like what the margin uhindustry did to margarine
industry did to butter.
Right, they tell you butter isbad, eat margarine, which is, as
we all know, one chemical shortof plastic, and ants won't even
eat it if you put it in thedirt.
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Uh, well, the, the cd industrydid that.
The record companies did thatto vinyl.
So we all try to replace andmost of us did our record
collection with CDs.
So I kind of got caught up in it, I'm not going to lie.
And I went to Coconuts and Igot the Clash London Calling.
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And I got the Clash LondonCalling.
Now that at the time was about20 years old, going on, 20 years
old.
It made its money fucking threetimes over in those just about
two decades.
And so I go to get the CD.
I'm expecting, like I don'tknow, 15 bucks.
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They wanted $24 for thatfucking CD.
I said, you motherfuckers, youmotherfuckers.
So I end up buying the CDbecause I wanted it, right when
I didn't have a record playerand I had a.
I had the old, uh, uh, I hadthe old, uh, six-pack CD player.
Yeah, remember that one, thatwas a 90s thing.
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So I got it.
But then I go to work and a guyat work tells me about Napster
or something.
I'm like, what do you mean?
He goes yeah, you can go on inand get this music.
So then I went home and Idownload Napster and I only had
dial-up.
So the first song that Idownloaded was Stone Temple
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Pilots.
I think it was like plush,never forget it, and it took
literally like 45 minutes forone file.
So I went back to work next dayand I'm like, what the fuck,
that takes forever.
Dude's like, oh, there's thisnew thing out and like this dude
, there was two guys that werejust computed.
They were computed junkies,right, yeah, this new thing, dsl
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, dsl.
Call at&t or whatever and seeif they have a dsl thing that's
you know that you're connectedto because it's regional, and
yada, yada, yada.
I go what the fuck is dsl?
He goes, it just makeseverything faster.
That's all I'm going to tellyou.
So I call and they're like yeah, we have it, you're eligible
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for it, you're in the right area.
And I said, all right, hook itup.
I don't even know how much Ipaid for it, but I got it hooked
up and that was the beginningof the fast speeds.
That was the beginning of thefast speeds and I went into
Napster and I proceeded Todownload, in the end, 10,000
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songs, just out of fucking purespite.
Just out of pure spite for therecord industry.
Yeah, I know, metallica was alllike you're taking the money
from the artists.
Yeah, well, fight with yourfucking record companies.
They've been taking your moneyfor decades and decades and
decades, and now they're takingour money too.
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So, fuck you, metallica.
10,000,.
Then my buddy taught me how toburn them onto CDs, mp3s, right,
mp3s, and I had like each discI had like 100 discs, I don't
know like Fucking a thousandsongs on it, whatever it was,
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thousand songs on, I don't know.
I was downloading everything,everything I downloaded, I don't
know if any of you rememberthis.
In the 80s, in the 70s, therewas a radio, when radio was
still radio, and there was ashow called CBS radio mystery
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theater and it was hosted by EGMarshall, and every night for an
hour they would tell these old.
You know it was a new version,like they'd tell new stories,
and it's kind of modernized forthe time that it was out.
And I found that and I musthave downloaded 500 of those
episodes and some of them arepretty cool because they still
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have the old commercials in themfrom like the 70s.
So it was pretty cool.
The bottom line is yeah, fuckthe record company, you screwed
me for $24 for an album thatmade its money two, three times
over already.
No, so thank you, napster,thank you.
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Lauryn Hill makes Grammy historyin the 90s.
Let me see what did she do.
The following year, hill becamea Grammy darling, won multiple
awards, including Best NewArtist, best R&B Album and Album
of the Year, the latter makingHill the first hip-hop artist.
She's with the Fugees I don'tknow if you've ever listened to
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the Fugees, who won the mostprestigious awards.
So there you go.
That's some shit.
That happened in the 90s.
I don't know how many of youwere really listening to music
back then, like Dave Phillips,king of the 45s, would say let
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me get caught up on the.
Oh, look at this, let me seeadam nelson.
It's very underrated.
Okay, 90s music I think he'stalking about and let me get
caught up on these.
Uh, patty ossey, she certainlydid.
Janet jackson, uh, mark shannontells me to shut up what you
know what?
This guy?
He doesn't know anything aboutmusic.
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Anyways, he probably came andwent.
He's probably one of those guys.
Uh, let's see.
Yeah, when I get that up on thescreen I can't read the uh
comments, so I don't know wherewe're at.
The glove box of your father'struck was full of them.
Yeah, steve Romano talkingabout, I guess, cds.
Then left, I burned down AndreRises, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Left eye, remember left eye?
That happened in the 90s.
Lisa left eye, lopez.
Andre Risen, atlanta Falconswide receiver, she burnt this
house down by lighting hissneakers on fire and throwing
them in the bathtub.
That she thought was metal Womp, womp, womp, womp.
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And I still mock and I still sayto Bob Doucette I won't talk
about Steven Tyler, that's it,won't do it.
Let me see what else we gotMoving right along.
Let me get rid of that.
Let's see, let's get out ofthis.
Let's go with, let's go withevery year of the 90s ranked
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according to music.
Let me see, I didn't just dothat right, here we go.
Okay, let me go over here, pullit up on the screen for the
people at home watching Again.
I don't read these, so theseought to be interesting.
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Every year of the 90s, rankedaccording to music, from 10 down
to 1.
As millennials relive the 90s inall its glory, it's hard not to
celebrate the ups and downs ofmusic over the course of the
decade.
As technology and the politicalclimate changed, so did fans'
appetite for genres likegangster rap, grunge, new jack,
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swing, punk and pop.
See, punk came back with thatold Green Day shit.
But there was a lot that wenton in the 90s, a lot of changes,
let me see.
As with any nostalgic music,post post, things need to be
ranked and in this case weranked each year based on
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selection of music and events tohappen over the course of the
90s.
Number 10 is 1991.
I was in sacramento, california.
That again great time, withAlternative Rock producing some
of the best albums of the year.
Nirvana introduces firstglimpse of grunge and R&B makes
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a go at the singles charts.
This year is a bit all over theplace in terms of genre and
style.
What happened?
Well, whitney Houston sings theStar Spangled Banner at the
Super Bowl, laying thegroundwork, like I said, for
every performance after that.
Janet Jackson signs a $30million record deal with Virgin
Records and her brother Michaelsigns a $1 billion contract with
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Sony.
Boys to Men makes it so hard tosay goodbye to.
Yesterday.
Perry Farrell from Jane'sAddiction launches the first
Lollapalooza festival tour.
Metallica releases the Blackalbum, one of the most
successful albums of all time.
Guns N' Roses sells 1.3 millioncopies of their sophomore album
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in one week.
Every major single, everything Ido, I did it for you, gonna
make you sweat.
Everybody dance now.
I like the way, uh, I like theway, uh.
The kissing game because I loveyou.
The postman song love willnever do without you features
parentheses in the title.
Ah, kenny rogers launches therestaurant chain kenny rogers
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roasters.
It's not the Seinfeld episodewhere they put a Kenny Rogers
Roasters across the street fromthe apartment building that
Jerry and Kramer live in.
Kramer referred to the red neonlight when it was going off.
He said being in his apartmentwas like being on the red planet
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, jerry.
And that was the episode whereJerry said he'll sleep in there.
And then the was it, mrChuckles?
The fucking Vandrilligris dollran across, ran across the floor
.
Oh yeah, notable releases MariahCarey by Mariah Carey.
Nevermind.
By Nirvana Ten.
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By Pearl Jam.
Metallica by Metallica.
The Low End Theory one of thegreatest hip-hop albums ever
made by a tribe called Quest.
Everything I Do in parenthesesI Do For you.
By Bryan Adams I Wanna Sex youUp.
By Call Me Bad, gonna Make youSweat.
In parentheses.
Every Dance Now.
Everybody Dance Now.
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By the C&C Music Factory, rush,rush, paula Abdul.
One More Try by Timmy T.
Okay, number nine in therankings of the top 10 of the 10
years in the 90s, whatever thefuck.
The first year of the decade wastransitional year, with the
number of late 80s acts spillingover into the music, seeing a
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noticeable shift away from 80spop and hand metal.
Music tastes are a bit all overthe place as alternative rock
firmly establishes itself as thegenre of choice.
Now what happened?
Mtv's unplugged makes its debut, although it was with the
forgettable, a new wave band,squeeze.
Now that I watched that andthat wasn't forgettable.
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That wasn't forgettable.
The thing that was funny aboutthat.
This is a behind the scenesthing.
You might've heard me tell thisstory before.
Squeeze showed up at the studioand they didn't have any
instruments.
They had their electric guitarsand the producer of Unplugged
was like what are you doing?
He goes, we got our instruments, he goes, it's fucking
unplugged.
They was like what are youdoing?
He goes, we got our instruments, he goes, it's fucking
unplugged.
They were like what the fuck isunplugged?
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They're like it's acoustic andhe goes.
Well, nobody fucking told us.
So the producer of the showruns down to his office and gets
this fucking acoustic guitar.
So that was the guitar thatthey were using in that
performance.
They didn't do like the wholeshow, like Unplugged was like it
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would be like.
Sometimes two artists, maybethree.
And what else happened?
Public Enemy releases one ofthe best albums of the year Fear
of a Black Planet.
The Go-Go's reunite for thefirst time since breaking up in
85 to play a benefit concert.
While still named MookieBlaylock, pearl Jam plays their
first show.
Janet Jackson lands atop theBillboard Hot 100 in mainstream
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rock chart with Black Cat.
Two different songs of the samename Hold On by Wilson Phillips
and En Vogue top the charts.
I forgot about that.
Interesting Vanilla Ice samplesUnder Pressure by Queen and
David Bowie.
In Ice Ice Baby, it says no,it's just a little difference.
That tsss, yeah, that tsss.
It's different.
Celine Dion makes her Englishlanguage debut.
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Madonna makes her blondeambition, takes her blonde
ambition on tour and gets bannedby MTV.
Milli Vanilli admits to lipsyncing and later returns their
Grammy award for best new artist.
Noticeable releases RhythmNation 1814 by Janet Jackson.
Janet Jackson, hold On byWilson Phillips.
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It Must have Been Love byRoxette.
Nothing Compares to you bySinead O'Connor.
Go ahead, you know, princewrote that.
Fucking people.
Somebody out there, as soon asI said Nothing Compares to you
by Sinead O'Connor, somebody outthere fucking thought oh, you
know, prince wrote that.
The world fucking knows thatPrince wrote that song.
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There's no need to fucking gotell everybody.
When someone mentions the song,somebody is inevitably gonna say
hey, you know, prince wrotethat song, like everybody
fucking knows.
Okay, stop, you're not breakinglike the fucking sound barrier,
you're not.
You're not.
You know fucking changingevolution.
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Yes, he, okay, he wrote thesong.
Jesus.
All right, I feel better.
Let me see Belle Biv DevoePoison by Belle Biv Devoe.
That girl is poison.
Vogue by Madonna.
Strike a pose.
Fair of a Black Planet byPublic Enemy.
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Black Steel and the Hour ofChaos.
Right, yeah, you don't knowanything about that.
Goo by Sonic Youth.
Great album.
Bossa Nova by Pixies.
Ritual de lo Habituel by JamesAddiction great fucking album.
All right, number eight on thislist, 1993.
With the start of the SoundScanera, the charts explode with a
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mix of pop, hip-hop and R&B.
Nothing really feelsgroundbreaking, although there's
plenty of fun to be had.
What happened?
Well, whitney Houston spends 14weeks atop the charts with her
cover of I Will Always Love you.
Janet Jackson becomes the firstfemale artist to debut at
number one in the BillboardAlbum album charts in the
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SoundScan era.
Prince changes his name to theunpronounceable symbol, becoming
artist formerly known as Prince.
Did you know he wrote NothingCompares to you.
Did you know that?
Shut the fuck up.
Okay, natalie Merchant from10,000 Maniacs goes solo and
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they were never the same.
After that.
She was 10,000 Maniacs.
That's all there is to it.
Leaving 10,000 Maniacs after 12years with the band Wu-Tang
Clan, wu-tang bitches.
Enter the 36 Chambers.
That's the album.
Enter the 36 Chambers.
Ace of Base was never a big fan.
Releases their debut featuring acover of tina turners, don't
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turn around and meatloaf will doanything for love, except for
that one thing.
Notable releases well, there itis.
Hate that fucking song, siamesedream, and that was by tag team
siamese dream by the smashingpumpkinshing Pumpkins.
Debut by Bjork Janet, by JanetJackson Week by SWV, which
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stands for Sisters With Voicesthey came and went Informa.
By the White Canadian Snow,trying to be all gangster the
Canadians.
White Canadian Gangster, I'mgoing to be 500 Miles by the
white Canadian gangster.
I'm gonna be 500 miles by thereclaimers.
I fucking hate that song.
I could be some thousand milesand I could be Fucking hate that
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song.
Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambersby Wu-Tang Clan, wu-tang bitches
.
And the sign by Ace of Base.
I found a sign, anyway, numberseven, 1992.
With the grunge movementestablished, kurt Cobain becomes
the voice and face of thedespondent 90s generation.
A despondent 90s generation.
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They weren't that despondent.
I think the writer here istaking a little liberty.
They weren't despondent.
Maybe they were fuckingdespondent up in seattle, but
they're always despondent.
Fucking.
Northwest is just a miserableplace.
Uh, the year feels cohesive, ifnot slightly serious, as acts
like rage against machine remand sonic youth follow in
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cobain's shoes.
No, but anyway.
What happened?
Well, let me tell you, nirvanaestablishes the grunge movement
In Cobain's shoes.
No, but anyway.
What happened?
Well, let me tell you, nirvanaestablishes the grunge movement
with the success of Nevermind.
Guns N'.
Roses releases the world'slongest single, november Rain,
which clocks in at 8 minutes and57 seconds.
The music video also costs arecord $1.5 million to make.
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It wasn't really a milliondollar video, but okay.
Eric Clapton pens the emotionaland shot-topping tribute Tears
in Heaven To his late son, conor.
Sinead O'Connor rips up thePope on Saturday Night Live.
If she did that today, I meanshe was way ahead of her time
and I always loved me someSinead Again, another one who's
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unfortunately crazier than asprayed roach, but God bless her
, she was way ahead of her time.
Queen re-releases BohemianRhapsody.
When the song appears in Wayne'sWorld, madonna gets erotic on
wax with uh, what's the name ofthe song?
Yeah, I forget, but it wasplayed on MTV like only after
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midnight.
Yeah, something about my love,my love.
Boyz II Men spent 12 weeks atopthe Billboard Hot 100 with End
of the Road.
The B-Girl becomes the mostpopular video.
Vixen in Blind Melon's no Rain,little B-Girl Everyone
remembers the B-Girl becomes themost popular video.
Vixen in Blind Melon's.
No Rain, little B-Girl Everyoneremembers the B-Girl.
The tap dancing B-Girl, pew,pew, pew, okay.
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Whitney Houston makes her filmdebut in the Bodyguard and
covers Dolly Parton for thesoundtrack.
Vibe Magazine launches Dr Dreain't nothing but a g thing.
Baby was released with uh snoopdogg.
Mariah carey covers the jackson.
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Five notable releases end ofthe road by boys to men.
Baby got back by sir mcslott.
Hate that fucking song.
Jump by crisscross.
Save the best for last byvanessa williams.
A hottie always was a hottie.
Tears in heaven by eric clapton.
I'm too sexy by right saidfriend, I always liked that song
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.
I don't care what you say, Ilike that song.
It it's just catchy.
It's a fucking catchy pop tune.
Can't take it serious, but youcan't deny it either.
It's fucking upbeat, it's happyand you can dance to it.
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I am too sexy for my cat.
Too sexy for my cat, oh my, mypussy cat Morrissey doesn't like
that though.
My cat Achy Breaky Hot by BillyRay Cyrus.
A lot of conversation we couldhave about that.
The Chronic by Dr Dre, one ofthe greatest hip hop albums ever
made Automatic for the Peopleby REM.
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Rage Against the Machine byRage Against the Machine and 40
Ounce by Freedom.
Oh, and 40 Ounce by Freedom.
40 Ounce and Freedom by Sublime.
Number 6 on the list 1994,following the directional list.
Why does this guy have to?
Or this lady have to fuckingmake it sound like it was such a
desperate time in America, the90s, following a directional
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list 93.
Directional list 93.
Desperate time in America, the90s, following a directionless
93.
Directionless 93.
What the?
The next year enjoys a revivalof punk and witnesses the
beginning of New Jack Swing.
Now, by 94, I was in, I wentfrom Sacramento, made their Air
Force Base in Sacramento toMarch Air Force Base in Southern
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California and that's rightaround Riverside.
Ah, let me see.
The next year enjoys rival punkand witnesses the beginnings of
the New Jack Swing.
Again, I can dig that.
What happened?
Well, let me tell you, greenDay throws Dookie everywhere and
launches the punk revival ofthe mid-90s.
Fuck Green Day, fuck them, fuckthem.
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I don't know why you fuckingbought their albums.
Anyways, kurt Cobain is founddead after committing suicide.
Isn't that kind of redundant?
Why can't they just say kirkcobain committed suicide?
Why would they say kirk cobainis found dead after committing
suicide?
Well, they're not going to findhim dead before suicide.
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Idiots, fucking writers.
Today, does anybody proofreadthis stuff?
Anybody.
I am not an english major byany fucking means, but I can see
and I can read when something'swrong.
Kurt Cobain is found dead aftercommitting suicide.
If I was the editor which theyevidently don't have this would
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be fucking crumbled up andthrown in their face like just
say, kurt Cobain killed himself,kurt Cobain committed suicide.
I think the reader isintelligent enough to know that
they're going to find him dead.
Fucking brain dead.
Generation Weezer introducesthemselves to the world with the
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Blue Album.
Weezer very consistent band,lisa Left Eye Lopez sets fire.
Here we go To her thenboyfriend under her eyes at home
.
Red Hot Chili Peppers overrated, overrated, but people love
them because of things like this.
They perform in light bulbcostumes at Woodstock 94.
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What people see in that fuckingband?
I don't know.
I just think you're anunintelligent music person if
you think that there's anythingremotely great about them.
Flea is a great bass player,like and that's it.
And the drummer he's good.
That was it.
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Alicia Silverstone stars inAerosmith's music video Crying,
and then she followed up withthe next video and that little
thing was a trilogy.
Michael Jackson and Lisa MariePresley Awkwardly kiss on stage
at MTV Video Music Awards.
Maybe if his name was LouisMarie Presley, michael would
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have Kissed him better.
I don't know, I could be wrong.
Tlc creeps on their men,because I creep.
That's a great song.
Notable releases in 1994.
Don't Turn Around by Ace ofBase, I Swear.
By All For One, I Swear Hero byMariah Carey, definitely Maybe
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by Oasis there you go.
Illmatic by Nas there you go.
I wasn't a big Nas fan backthen but I am now.
Weezer by Weezer, there you go.
Lion King soundtrack featuringElton John.
It was a big deal.
Crazy, sexy, cool by TLC theywere broke, but it sold over a
lot of albums.
Long View by Green Day.
Ready to Die by the Notorious,big, great album.
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1996 comes in at number five inranking the years of the decade
of the 90s, following years ofalternative rock, grunge and
punk Dominating the radio and TV.
Music begins to shift aship-hop goes mainstream.
What happened?
Hey, let me tell you whathappened, if you really want to
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know.
Madonna steps into avida'sshoes.
Rent makes his debut offbroadway kiss, reunites with the
original lineup and makes firstappearance in full makeup
together since 1983.
Money grab, but they're greatmarketers.
Tupac, overrated, releases hisfirst ever rap double album, all
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eyes on me, and then Take thatsplits up.
Oh boy, pop-up video.
Remember pop-up video?
Everybody watched pop-up videoon Vh1.
That's what vh1 was like.
They were at their peak.
They had all those great showsbehind the music.
You know, uh getting the bandback, whatever it was, uh baking
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the band and uh, pop-up video.
And I mean it was just greatwatching because we all
reminisced over those videos tooand you find out shit you
didn't really know.
It's pretty cool pop-up video.
Uh, mtv2 was launched mariahcarey and that was as successful
as espn too.
Mariah carey and boys to mensit atop the charts for 16 weeks
(54:58):
with one sweet day.
Mc hammer files for bankruptcy.
That didn't take long.
Phil Collins leaves Genesis,begins an extremely successful
solo career.
Slash leaves Guns N' Roses.
Sammy Hagar leaves Van Halen.
Spice Girls released theirdebut single, wannabe, going
(55:19):
number one in 31 countries.
Aaliyah collaborates withTimbaland she was pretty, that
was a pretty girl and one in aMillion.
Whitney Houston sings backupfor Brandy on Sittin' Up in my
Room.
No Doubt airs their dirtylaundry amid breakup tensions.
In the music video for Don'tSpeak and Jamarraquai creates a
(55:42):
virtual insanity.
That guy is loaded.
The lead singer forJamamiroquai I think he is
Jamiroquai.
I saw a video on him.
This dude's loaded.
He's got this whole fuckingcollection of like these
one-of-a-kind cars, like newcars, notable releases One Sweet
Day by Mariah Carey.
And Boyz II Men, always Be myBaby by Mariah Carey, and Boys
(56:06):
to Men, always Be my Baby byMariah Carey.
Give Me One Reason.
Give Me One Reason to Love you.
By Tracy Chapman.
I'm just that's.
Everybody said it, it's notjust me.
Everybody would say that I'mjust continuing the joke.
It's not she did.
I mean, if you looked at her,tracy Chapman, just go look, go
(56:30):
pull up a picture of her from1994, whatever this year was.
What year was it 1996.
Go look, just saying, don't geton me about it.
You making me high by ToniBraxton.
She had.
You Making Me High by ToniBraxton.
She had a pretty consistentcareer, toni Braxton.
She did okay Ironic.
By LA Nismarra-Sett.
That was a big one.
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Loungin' by LL Cool J, uncle L,it was written by Nas.
Falling Into you by Celine Dion.
All Eyes on Me by Tupac.
The Score by the Fugees SpaceJam.
Music from and inspired byMotion Picture featuring R Kelly
.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha.
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They took that one off theshelves, I'm sure.
One in a Million.
By Aaliyah Number four.
I'm almost there, almost there.
What you want to?
Come up, come up.
Come on, buddy, come on.
What's the matter.
Morrissey is visiting me.
I didn't even know he was inhere.
(57:33):
Let me see 1998, following therevival of pop, mainstream radio
finally hears a variety ofmusic that lay the groundwork
for the iPod generation.
What happened?
Well, let me tell you whathappened in 1998.
Madonna freezes in a desert ina video for Frozen Red.
Hot Chili Peppers fires DaveNavarro.
Vh1 gathers the music's biggestdivas Aretha Franklin, gloria
(57:58):
Estefan, celine Dion, shaniaTwain and Mariah Carey.
For one night, aerosmith goesnumber one for the first time in
28 years, together with I Don'tWant to Miss a Thing that they
didn't write Jerry Hallwell.
Whatever redhead Spice leavesthe Spice Girls.
Lauren Hill goes solo.
Why not with the miseducationof Lauren Hill?
(58:19):
Total Request Live debuts on MTV.
Everybody watch thatney sparesreleases her first single baby.
One more time that, like I said, every guy watched that video
at least once.
I don't care what you say.
Brandy and monica fight for thesame guy.
Google doll spent 18 weeks totop the billboard.
Hot 100 share introduces theworld to auto-tune.
Courtney Love and Hole go glamfor Celebrity Skin.
(58:43):
The album the still hype-huntedJay-Z samples Annie and Alanis
Morissette rides the subwaynaked.
Yeah, I remember that one.
Notable releases that yearBefore these Crowded Streets by
Dave Matthews Band.
It's Dark as Hell is Hot by DMX.
Do Wop that Thing by LaurynHill.
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Ray of Light by Madonna.
Streets by Dave Matthews Band.
It's Dark as Hell is Hot by DMX.
Do Wop that Thing by LaurynHill.
Ray of Light by Madonna.
The Boy Is Mine by Brandy andMonica.
Nice and Slow by Usher GettingJiggy With it by Will Smith,
volume 2, hard Knock.
Life by Jay-Z, aquaman and Iwhatever by Outkast, you've come
a long way.
Baby by fat boy.
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Slim, hello nasty.
By beastie boys.
Mutations by beck.
Closing time by semi-sonic andkiss me, kiss me, oh, the new
sea sunshine, kiss me by sixpence downence, none the richer.
This is what happened at numberthree in 1997.
Number three is ranked top tenyears in a decade.
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You already know if you'relistening.
Thanks to Spice Girls and Hanson, fans taste the pop for pop
reignited and country has itsmainstream moment thanks to
artists like Shania Twain andGothberg.
Meanwhile, hip-hop continues toexplode with acts like Puff
Daddy, missy Elliott and theNotorious BIG.
Let me tell you what happened.
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You want to know what happened?
Let me tell you what happened.
Daft Punk makes their debutwith homework.
Notorious BIG is shot deadahead of his release for his
double album Life After Death.
Ironic.
Puff Daddy and the Family andSting pay tribute to Biggie with
a performance of I'll BeMissing you at the MTV VMAs.
Hanson and Spice Girls usher ina new era of pop music.
(01:00:32):
Missy Elliott Can't Stand theRain.
I can't stand the rain what?
Come up and see me, stop crying.
I didn't even know he was inhere.
Uh, let me see the ladies ofrap.
Angie martinez, the brat lefteye, little kim and missy
elliott unite on not tonight.
Sarah mclachlan launcheslaunches the first lilith fair.
(01:00:54):
Both leanne rhymes and trishayearwood record the same song
how do I live and released theirversions on the same day.
Close to a million people showup for Gott Brook's free concert
in Central Park.
Fleetwood Mac reunites on theDance.
Elton John pays tribute toPrincess Diana with a
re-recording of Candle in theWind.
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Shania Twain becomes thebiggest country star to cross
over the mainstream with Come OnOver Now.
That's what I call musiccollects this year's biggest
singles blah, blah, blah.
Notable releases bought byhansen, bobby girl, by aqua.
Something around, somethingabout the way you look tonight.
Candle in the wind, 1997 byelton john.
Foolish games by jewel,semi-charmed life by third eye
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blind, hypnotized by thenotorious big come on over by
shania twain.
Spice World by Spice Girls.
The Velvet Rope by JanetJackson.
Ok Computer by Radiohead.
The Color and the Shape by FooFighters.
The Fat of the Land by theProdigy Bitch, by Meredith Cole.
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I'm a bitch, I hate thatfucking song.
My Heart Will Go On by CelineDion.
No, no, no.
By Destiny's Child and BigWillie Style by Will Smith and
Honey by Mariah Carey.
All right, hold on one second,hold on.
You want to go out?
Come on, let's go out.
Come on, let's go.
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Come on, come on, let's go.
Come on, go, go, go, go.
Get up.
All right, he's out.
All right, he's done.
Get rid of Morrissey.
I'm almost there, almost there.
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The second ranked year in thedecade of the 90s is 1999.
In a year I'd been with customsfor over a year at that point
in South Florida In a year whenbasically anything could happen,
just about everything did.
The last year of the decade,while disjointed at times in
terms of taste, had somethingfor everyone and has a new
generation of spending powercame of age.
(01:02:59):
What happened?
Let me tell you what happened.
Britney Spears and boy bandskick off a new era of pop thanks
to the success of TRL.
Tlc don't want no scrubs intheir life.
After returning with their firstnew album in five years, sugar
Ray ditched funk metal I mean,they weren't funk metal for pop
(01:03:22):
rock on 1459.
Jennifer Lopez makes hermusical debut and helps usher in
the Latin explosion.
And helps usher in the Latinexplosion.
Napster is launched.
Women dominate the GrammyAwards with Lauryn Hill, madonna
, shania Twain, sheryl Crow andGarbage, funded by Shirley
Manson, all up for album of theYear.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers reunitethe original lineup for the
release of Californication.
Carlos Santana collaborateswith Rob Thomas.
Ugh, ugh, that fucking song.
Ugh, where's the King of the45s for that one?
Lauryn Hill and others ofSupernatural.
(01:04:08):
Mariah Carey lands her 14thnumber one single on the
Billboard Hot 100 withHeartbreaker.
The Ladies of R&B put men intheir place with Bills, bills,
bills, destiny's Child, bugabooDC.
It's Not Right, but it'sOkayney.
(01:04:28):
Houston, no scrubs.
Tlc where my girl's at 702, 702music music dies.
At woodstock 99, when thefestival was plagued by sexual
assaults, poor conditions,excessive heat and fires and
protests.
Notable releases that yearHeartbreak Hotel by Whitney
Houston, faith Evans and KellyPrice, fan Mail by TLC, the Slim
(01:04:50):
Shady LP by Eminem, smooth bySantana and Rob Thomas, ricky
Martin by Ricky Martin.
Millennium by Backstreet Boys.
Fly by the Dixie Chicks.
Genie in a Bottle by ChristinaAguilera.
What's it Gonna Be by BustaRhymes and Janet Jackson.
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If you had my Love by JenniferLopez.
Bills, bills, bills byDestiny's Child, rainbow by
Mariah Carey and Mambo no 5 byLou Bega.
So that was no 2.
This is the no 1 year.
1995 was the no 1 year,according to this article, in
music for the decade of the 90s.
(01:05:30):
Nor the year felt as cohesiveas 1995.
R&b dominated the radio withmost of the year's biggest
singles, and some of thedecade's most now classic albums
were released.
Fans were done with the darkundertones of grunge and looking
for more optimistic anddanceable sounds again, with the
(01:05:51):
fucking misery thing, jesus.
Okay, what happened?
Well, let me tell you whathappened in 1995 that made this
the number one year in thedecade.
T TLC chases waterfalls and thenflies for bankruptcy, files for
bankruptcy.
Tupac scores a number one albumMe Against the World While in
prison and later signs withDeath Row Records.
(01:06:12):
Robbie Williams quits the boyband world Offspring and Rancid
extend Green Day's punk revival.
Cher releases her first newalbum in four years.
Coolio gets Michelle Pfeifferto star in his music video for
Gangsta Paradise.
Janet and Michael Jacksonscream at each other and spend a
(01:06:34):
record $7 million on the duet'saccompanying music video.
Seal delivers a kiss from arose and wins all the awards at
the Grammys.
Hootie and the Blowfish scorethe best selling album of the
year.
New Jack Swing takes over theairwaves thanks to acts like TLC
, boys to Men, monica and IdinaHoward.
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Alanis Morissette seeks revengeon Dave Coulier with Jagged
Little Pill, great album.
Notable releases.
Fantasy by Mariah Carey.
Don't Take it Personal.
Just One of them Days by Monica.
This Is how we Do it by MontelJordan.
(01:07:15):
Freak Like Me by Idina Howardthat's a jam right there.
Freak Like Me by Idina Howard.
Go download that one.
Go listen to that one onSpotify.
That's a jam right there.
Freak Like Me by Adina Howard.
Go download that one.
Go listen to that one onSpotify.
That's a jam right there.
Adina was killing it on thatsong.
You probably won't go listen.
So Freak Like Me by Adina Howard.
Waterfalls by TLC.
Jagged Little Pill by AlanisMorissette.
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Melancholy and the InfiniteSadness by the Smashing Pumpkins
.
What's the Story?
Mourn and Glory by Oasis youknow that.
The Bends by Radiohead.
Post by Bjork Macarena by LosDel Rio, tragic Kingdom by no
Doubt and Pieces of you by Jewel.
(01:07:58):
There you go, I got through itand I'm back.
Yeah, what did I miss on it?
And I'm back.
Yeah, what did I miss on thecomments?
Let's see.
Let me see Steve Romano.
Robert Kirkman what the hell?
I don't get notificationsanymore when you're on.
Well, I posted it.
Patty Yossi replying to RobertKirkman Robert Kirkman wins it 7
(01:08:20):
pm.
Tap on videos on his profile.
Okay, robert Kirkman, maggie'sdream has formed.
Oh Jesus, robert Kirkman again.
Replying to Robert KirkmanPatricia, yeah, blah, blah, blah
.
They're having a conversationin the chat.
That's replying to RobertKirkman.
Thought the 90s were prettygood.
Patty Yossi said and I'm old,let me see.
(01:08:44):
And finally, robert Kirkmansays no, gwen Blake is one lucky
SOB.
Okay, that's it everybody.
I just went over an hour.
I'm just going to kind of turnit down, turn it off.
At this point, I want to thankyou for watching.
Thank you for listening.
If you like it, share it.
If you didn't like it, well,thanks for watching.
Thank you for listening.
If you like it, share it.
If you didn't like it, well,thanks for watching, or
(01:09:04):
listening for an hour and nineminutes.
I didn't see big head Todd theWits rocket tonight.
I didn't see Dave Phillips,king of the 45s.
I didn't see any of these guys.
Okay, that's all right.
That's like it's summertime.
It's summertime, shit starts tokind of take a break.
Everybody's out doing shit.
Hopefully your weather is nice,although I'm sure it's raining
somewhere.
It's not raining here, though.
(01:09:26):
It's been an okay summer downhere in the lovely boca raton,
florida, not too bad.
Can you believe thatthanksgiving is like four months
away?
I love that.
I love that thanksgiving islike four months away.
Yeah, and we're almost halfwaythrough July already.
(01:09:46):
It's going fast.
It's going fast, which is finewith me.
I used to love summer and thenI started liking the, the
holidays.
I really look forward to theholiday season, but yeah, so
alright, everybody with that.
Again, thanks for watching andlistening and I'll be back next
(01:10:06):
week.
I don't know if Jack will.
Jack's somewhere in Cape Cod.
The Luther is four months away.
That's right.
Robert Kirkman, I need somecards.
I know I got to get on all thatfor my other nonprofit.
I've been slacking.
I got like five projects goingon at my house here and we went
on vacation.
And it's summer.
(01:10:27):
It's just hard to get your shittogether, mike Tiviasi freak
like me, alicia Keys falling,there you go and yeah, so that's
it.
Got some 90s news this week andI hope you liked it, and I
don't know if Jack will be herenext week.
I think he's down in Cape Codright now Not watching the show.
(01:10:49):
You know he never listens ornever watches the shows after he
does them.
He's so fucking pretentious.
Don't get me started on Jack.
All right, everybody.
Well, as I always say, to quotemy favorite artist Morrissey,
about doing the show for you,the pleasure, the privilege is
(01:11:09):
mine and I will be back nextThursday.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
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