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6/28/17

1996 Survey Mix

This is the seventh in the 1990s survey mix series, which will come out monthly in chronological order through this year. You can find the previous mixes here. I think of the music of the ‘90s as a trilogy in which each act ends in tragedy – the suicide of Kurt Cobain, the murders of 2Pac and Biggie, and the disaster of Woodstock ’99. This survey brings us to the end of the 2nd act, though Biggie was not killed until early March of the following year.

1996 is an interesting transitional year! I’ll break it down into some bullet points for you.

• 1996 is the beginning of what I call “the eclectic ’90s,” in which mixing up genres and getting into random nostalgic sub-genres like swing music was a major virtue. (This is peak mix tape era, so that is a big reason for this shift in values.) Beck’s Odelay is a perfect example of this aesthetic, it was very much the center of the zeitgeist in this year, and that’s why “Where It’s At” opens this survey.

• This is the point at which the press and music industry tries to make “electronica” a thing, and though that feels a bit silly in retrospect, the prime movers here – The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Prodigy, Underworld – are all excellent. This is also the cultural peak for trip-hop, and a major year for Tricky, who actually has two tracks in this set. (The Nearly God song is also a Tricky production.) 1996 is also more or less the starting point for jungle/drum and bass, which we’ll get a lot more of in the next couple surveys.

• This is the peak of the East Coast/West Coast rivalry in hip-hop culture, and the emergence of Sean “Puffy” Combs as the dominant force in rap. But there’s a lot of major things happening in rap outside of the Death Row vs. Bad Boy situation – the release of major classics by the Fugees and Outkast, the reinvention of Kool Keith as Dr. Octagon, the commercial crossover of No Limit, the continuing renaissance of RZA and the Wu-Tang Clan in advance of Wu-Tang Forever, the breakthrough of instrumental hip-hop on DJ Shadow’s Entroducing. It’s also a key year for women in rap, with Lauryn Hill, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, and Missy Elliott all moving to the center of mainstream rap.

• 1996 is also ground zero for the neo-soul movement, with D’Angelo building on the success of his debut alongside the debuts of Maxwell and Erykah Badu. (“On & On” was released near the end of the year, her first album comes out in 1997 and will also be featured there with a different song.)

• We’re at the tail end of the Britpop boom, and this survey is packed full of what I’d consider to be Britpop also-rans.

• This year is the beginning of what I’d consider the second wave of ‘90s indie rock, with Belle & Sebastian, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Cat Power all emerging to push that scene into the late ’90s and early ’00s. “Post-rock” is becoming a thing too, thanks to Tortoise, Mogwai, and Gastr del Sol.

• It’s also the year in which much of what is now considered emo began to take shape in various suburbs and midwestern cities in the United States. And hey, Weezer’s Pinkerton came out in this year too.

• It’s the end of the line for grunge as a major cultural force, largely because Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, and Stone Temple Pilots all implode simultaneously, Pearl Jam officially shifts into “very large cult band” mode, and Screaming Trees just kinda fade away before ever hitting the big time. It’s also the end of R.E.M. as a major presence in pop culture, and the point at which The Smashing Pumpkins become so big that the rest of Billy Corgan’s career ends up feeling like a decline.

Thanks to Rob Sheffield, Sean T. Collins, Dan Kois, Eric Harvey, and especially Paul Cox for their valuable assistance in putting this set together. Thanks to Chappell Ellison for creating this Spotify playlist of the survey, minus about a dozen songs which are not available there.

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Beck “Where It’s At” / Stereolab “Metronomic Underground” / Tricky “Christiansands” / Fugees “Zealots” / Dr. Octagon “Blue Flowers” / Ginuwine “Pony” / Tori Amos “Professional Widow” / Rage Against the Machine “Bulls On Parade” / Chemical Brothers “Setting Sun” / Underworld “Born Slippy .NUXX” / Daft Punk “Da Funk” / Fiona Apple “Criminal” / Pulp “Disco 2000” / Belle & Sebastian “Seeing Other People” / Sleater-Kinney “Anonymous” / Guided by Voices “The Official Iron Men Rally Song” / The Loud Family “Don’t Respond, She Can Tell” / Sheryl Crow “If It Makes You Happy” / Bush “Swallowed” / Stone Temple Pilots “Big Bang Baby” / Imperial Teen “You’re One” / Imperial Drag “Boy Or A Girl” / Weezer “El Scorcho” / Ben Folds Five “Underground” / Spice Girls “Wannabe” / Mariah Carey “Always Be My Baby” / Blackstreet “No Diggity” / 2Pac “California Love” / Busta Rhymes “Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check” / Outkast “Elevators (Me & You)” / UGK “One Day” / DJ Shadow “Midnight In A Perfect World” / Dub Narcotic Sound System featuring Lois Maffeo “Ship to Shore”

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Luscious Jackson “Naked Eye” / The Cardigans “Lovefool” / Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Can’t’ Stop” / Jay-Z “Ain’t No Nigga” / Junior MAFIA featuring Notorious BIG “Get Money” / Quad City DJs “C’mon N Ride It (The Train)” / Maxwell “Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder)” / Erykah Badu “On & On” / Jamiroquai “Virtual Insanity” / Sneaker Pimps “6 Underground” / Björk “Possibly Maybe” / Aphex Twin “Girl/Boy Song” / Aaliyah “If Your Girl Only Knew” / Ani DiFranco “Shameless” / Alanis Morissette “All I Really Want” / Cat Power “Nude As the News” / Chavez “Unreal Is Here” / Jonathan Fire Eater “The Search for Cherry Red” / Sebadoh “Nothing Like You” / Liz Phair “Six Dick Pimp” / Grant Lee Buffalo “Bethlehem Steel” / R.E.M. featuring Patti Smith “E-Bow the Letter” / The Tragically Hip “Ahead By A Century” / Counting Crows “Have You Seen Me Lately?” / Screaming Trees “All I Know” / Soundgarden “Burden In My Hand” / Pearl Jam “In My Tree” / Disco Inferno “It’s A Kid’s World” / Wilco “Misunderstood” / Lil Kim “No Time” / Foxy Brown “Get Me Home” / Ghostface Killah featuring Mary J Blige “All That I Got Is You”

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Tool “Stinkfist” / The Smashing Pumpkins “Tonight, Tonight” / Oasis “Don’t Look Back In Anger” / Radiohead “Talk Show Host” / Helium “What Institution Are You From?” / Nearly God featuring Neneh Cherry “Together Now” / Lox featuring The Notorious B.I.G. “You’ll See” / Nas “If I Ruled the World” / Geto Boys “The World Is A Ghetto” / Bone Thugs N Harmony “Tha Crossroads” / DJ Spooky “The Terran Invasion of Alpha Centauri 2794” / Silkk the Shockers featuring Master P “The Shocker” / Slum Village “Forth & Back (Remix)” / De La Soul “Itzsoweezee (HOT)” / 311 “All Mixed Up” / Sublime “What I Got” / Pavement “Give It A Day” / Archers of Loaf “Assassination On X-Mas Eve” / Robert Pollard “Psychic Pilot Clocks Out” / The Virgin-Whore Complex “Four Alarm Fire In Lovers’ Lane” / Foo Fighters “Big Me” / Sloan “The Lines You Amend” / Brian Jonestown Massacre “Cold to the Touch” / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Stagger Lee” / The Prodigy “Firestarter” / Butthole Surfers “Pepper” / Eels “Novocaine for the Soul” / Cibo Matto “Sugar Water” / Primitive Radio Gods “Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand” / Baader Meinhof “There’s Gonna Be An Accident” / Menswear “Being Brave” / Neil Young “Music Arcade” / Jeremy Enigk “Explain” / Modest Mouse “Dramamine” / Smog “Lize” / The Olivia Tremor Control “NYC-25”

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Girls Against Boys “Super-Fire” / Veruca Salt “I’m Taking Europe with Me” / Korn “A.D.I.D.A.S.” / Marilyn Manson “The Beautiful People” / Alice In Chains “Sludge Factory (Unplugged)” / Hooverphonic “2 Wicky” / Akinyele “Put It In Your Mouth” / DJ Kool “Let Me Clear My Throat” / The Roots “What They Do” / MC Lyte featuring Missy Elliott “Cold Rock A Party (Bad Boy Remix)” / Total featuring Da Brat “No One Else (Puff Daddy Remix)” / Me’Shell Ndegeocello “Leviticus: Faggot” / D’Angelo “Lady” / Donna Lewis “I Love You Always Forever” / Jewel “You Were Meant for Me” / Alison Krauss “Baby Now That I’ve Found You” / Beth Orton “She Cries Your Name” / The Wallflowers “One Headlight” / Clint Black “Like the Rain” / Alan Jackson “Little Bitty” / George Strait “Carried Away” / Archive “Londinium” / Yum Yum “Apiary” / For Squirrels “Mighty K.C.” / Nada Surf “Zen Brain” / Fountains of Wayne “Sink to the Bottom” / Local H “Bound for the Floor” / The Promise Ring “A Picture Postcard” / Afghan Whigs “Honky’s Ladder” / Kula Shaker “Tattva” / OMC “How Bizarre” / Los Del Rio “Macarena” / Dave Matthews Band “Too Much” / R.L. Burnside “Shake ‘Em on Down” / The Make Up “R U A Believer” / Bikini Kill “Capri Pants” / Melt-Banana “It’s In the Pillcase” / Emily’s Sassy Lime “Cadillac Stinger”

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Velocity Girl “Gilded Stars” / Lush “Ladykillers” / Republica “Ready to Go” / Soul Coughing “Super Bon Bon” / Self “So Low” / Tracy Bonham “Mother Mother” / Jill Sobule “I Kissed A Girl” / No Doubt “Don’t Speak” / Manic Street Preachers “A Design for Life” / CJ Bolland “Sugar Is Sweeter” / Orbital “The Box” / Sepultura “Roots Bloody Roots” / Texas is the Reason “Back and to the Left” / Fu Manchu “Regal Begal” / Lifetime “The Boy’s No Good” / At the Drive-In “StarSlight” / New Radiant Storm King “C/Swoon” / Mogwai “Summer” / Mobb Deep “G.O.D. Part III” / A Tribe Called Quest “Phony Rappers” / Bounty Killer “War Face (Remix)” / Boards of Canada “Everything You Do Is A Balloon” / Plug “Drum N Bass for Papa” / RZA featuring Method Man and Cappadonna “Wu Wear, The Garment Renaissance” / Large Professor “Mad Scientist” / Tortoise “The Taut and Tame” / Toni Braxton “Un-Break My Heart” / Patty Griffin “Moses” / Tom Petty “Walls” / Hayden “Bad As They Seem” / The For Carnation “Lmyr, Marshmallow” / Psychic TV “The La La Song” / Bis “Teen C-Power!” / Suicide Machines “No Face” / Goldfinger “Here In Your Bedroom” / Reel Big Fish “Everything Sucks” / Superdrag “Sucked Out” / Supergrass “Going Out” / Sense Field “Outlive the Man” / Down by Law “Independence Day” / The Mountain Goats “Then the Letting Go”

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Master P featuring Silkk the Shocker “Mr. Ice Cream Man” / Xzibit “The Foundation” / Mad Skillz “The Nod Factor” / Shyheim “Shaolin Style” / 112 featuring The Notorious B.I.G. “Only You” / R. Kelly “I Believe I Can Fly” / Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey “One Sweet Day” / Garth Brooks “The Beaches of Cheyenne” / Trisha Yearwood “Believe Me Baby (I Tried)” / Lonestar “No News” / Shania Twain “I’m Outta Here” / Mindy McCready “Guys Do It All the Time” / Patti Smith “Gone Again” / Beautiful South “Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)” / Tracy Lawrence “Time Marches On” / Catatonia “You’ve Got A Lot to Answer For” / Tim McGraw “She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart” / Lambchop “The Man Who Loved Beer” / High Llamas “Checking In, Checking Out” / Silver Jews “How to Rent A Room” / Silkworm “Never Met A Man I Didn’t Like” / The Cure “Mint Car” / Combustible Edison “Short Double Latté” / Lilys “A Nanny In Manhattan” / Porno for Pyros “Porpoise Head” / Stabbing Westward “What Do I Have to Do?” / Gravity Kills “Guilty” / LTJ Bukem “Horizons (Vocal Mix)” / Photek “Titan” / Billie Ray Martin “Deadline for My Memories” / Spain “Untitled #1” / Zumpano “Behind the Beehive” / 16 Horsepower “Black Soul Choir” / Phish “Character Zero” / Nerf Herder “Van Halen” / Braid “Divers” / Bad Religion “A Walk” / Unwritten Law “Denied” / Brainiac “Nothing Ever Changes” / Henry’s Dress “Target Practice” / Neutral Milk Hotel “Song Against Sex” / Palace Music “Arise Therefore”

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Frank Black “The Marsist” / The Amps “Tipp City” / Polvo “Fast Canoe” / Metallica “Hero of the Day” / Refused “Coup D’etat” / Rasputina “Transylvanian Concubine” / Ministry “Reload” / Prong “Rude Awakening” / Future Sound of London “We Have Explosive (Oil Funk Remix)” / KMFDM “Rules” / Type O Negative “My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend” / Meat Beat Manifesto “Asbestos Lead Asbestos” / Jedi Knights “May the Funk Be With You” / SWV “You’re the One” / Keith Sweat “Twisted” / New Edition “Hit Me Off” / Redman “Smoke Buddah” / Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf “My World Premier” / INI “Fakin’ Jax’” / Bahamadia “True Honey Buns (Dat Freak Shit)” / Joe Henry “Trampoline” / Original Cast of Rent “Seasons of Love” / Backstreet Boys “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)” / Geggy Tah “Whoever You Are” / Los Lobos “Revolution” / Fatboy Slim “Everybody Needs A 303” / Squirrel Nut Zippers “Hell” / The Auteurs “Light Aircraft On Fire” / Remy Zero “Descent” / Luna “Season of the Witch” / Momus “Saved” / The Divine Comedy “Something for the Weekend” / Super Furry Animals “Something 4 the Weekend” / Arab Strap “The First Big Weekend” / Cast “Alright” / Jawbox “Mirrorful” / Jale “Ali” / Versus “Yeah You” / Butterglory “You’ll Never Be (As Good As That)” / Free Kitten “Kitten Bossanova” / Bardo Pond “Tantric Porno” / Gastr del Sol “Our Exquisite Replica of ‘Eternity’” / Dirty Three “Hope” / Rachel’s “Family Portrait”

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Michael Jackson “They Don’t Care About Us” / Fun Lovin’ Criminals “Scooby Snacks” / Everything But the Girl “Wrong (Todd Terry Mix)” / Pet Shop Boys “Se A Vida” / U96 “Heaven” / George Michael “Fastlove” / Madonna “You Must Love Me” / Snoop Dogg “Snoop’s Upside Ya Head” / Shaquille O’Neal featuring The Notorious B.I.G. “Still Can’t Stop the Reign” / Heltah Skeltah “Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka” / Blahzay Blahzay “Danger” / Smoothe da Hustler “Broken Language” / Cake “The Distance” / Reverend Horton Heat “Big Red Rocket of Love” / Rocket from the Crypt “Born in 69” / The Wonders “That Thing You Do!” / moe. “She Sends Me” / Brooks & Dunn “My Maria” / Lyle Lovett “The Road to Ensenada” / Gin Blossoms “Follow You Down” / The Lemonheads “If I Could Talk I’d Tell You” / Boys Life “All of the Negatives” / Opeth “The Night and the Silent Water (Morningrise)” / His Name Is Alive “Movie” / The Frogs “I’m Evil, Jack” / Rainer Maria “I Love You Too” / The Spinanes “Lines and Lines” / Come “Secret Number” / Boss Hog “I Dig You” / Kustomized “Handcuffs” / Moby “That’s When I Reach For My Revolver” / Comet Gain “Last Night” / Unwound “Corpse Pose” / Urusei Yatsura “Pow R Ball” / Ash “Goldfinger” / Dodgy “If You’re Thinking of Me” / The Wrens “Rest Your Head” / D Generation “Frankie” / The Cranberries “Salvation” / Limblifter “Screwed It Up” / East River Pipe “Kill the Action” / Ocean Colour Scene “The Riverboat Song” / The Black Crowes “Blackberry” / Suede “Trash” / Babybird “You’re Gorgeous” / Boyzone “Words” / Guv’ner “She’s Evil” / Longpigs “On and On” / The Verve Pipe “The Freshmen”

3/31/17

1993 Survey Mix

This is the fourth in the 1990s survey mix series, which will come out monthly in chronological order through this year. You can find the previous mixes here.

We’re in the thick of it now! This year, along with the next two, are unquestionably the most formative time for me as a young music fan and virtually all of my taste as an adult can be traced to something you can hear in this set. There’s a lot going on here, but there’s basically two dominant narratives here that will carry over into 1994 and 1995 – the explosion of alt-rock and indie rock on one hand, and a renaissance in hip-hop on the other. Younger listeners should keep in mind that a crucial difference between then and now is that alt-rock is very much the mainstream at this point, and Pearl Jam and Nirvana were popular on a level on par with – or greatly exceeding – that of major contemporary stars like Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Drake. They were very much the center of pop culture, though the vibrant rap and R&B scenes were also pretty crucial. I think it’s fair to say that this period of time from about 92-95 is as consistently cool as the mainstream has ever been, or at least as cool as it’s been in my lifetime.

Thanks to Paul Cox, Rob Sheffield, Sean T. Collins, Steve Kandell, Dan Kois, and Chris Conroy for their valuable assistance in putting this together.

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The Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock” / Pearl Jam “Animal” / Nirvana “Scentless Apprentice” / PJ Harvey “Man Size” / Liz Phair “Help Me Mary” / James “Laid” / The Cranberries “Linger” / Sarah McLachlan “Possession” / Janet Jackson “That’s the Way Love Goes” / Salt N Pepa “Shoop” / 2Pac “I Get Around” / Biggie Smalls “Party & Bullshit” / Cypress Hill “Insane in the Brain” / Wu-Tang Clan “7th Chamber Part II” / The Breeders “Cannonball” / Frank Black “Ten Percenter” / Stone Temple Pilots “Plush” / Red Hot Chili Peppers “Soul to Squeeze” / Porno for Pyros “Pets” / Belly “Feed the Tree” / Radiohead “Creep” / R.E.M. “Everybody Hurts” / Mazzy Star “Fade Into You” / New Order “Regret” / Annie Lennox “Little Bird” / Björk “Big Time Sensuality” / A Tribe Called Quest “Award Tour” / Dr. Dre & Snoop Doggy Dogg “Fuck With Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’)” / Tears for Fears “Break It Down Again” / U2 “Stay (Faraway, So Close!)”

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Shudder to Think “X French T-Shirt” / The Flaming Lips “Pilot Can at the Queer of God” / Stereolab “Crest” / Onyx “Slam” / Outkast “Player’s Ball” / Black Moon “Who Got the Props?” / DJ Shadow & Asia Born “Send Them” / Snoop Dogg “Who Am I (What’s My Name)?” / KRS-One “Sound of Da Police” / Mary J. Blige featuring The Notorious B.I.G. “What’s the 411? (Remix)” / Mariah Carey “Dreamlover” / Aerosmith “Cryin’” / Counting Crows “Mr. Jones” / Gin Blossoms “Hey Jealousy” / Blur “For Tomorrow” / Pulp “Lipgloss” / Alice In Chains “Rooster” / Tool “Sober” / Aphex Twin “On” / Moby “Move” / Whitney Houston “I’m Every Woman” / Tag Team “Whoomp! There It Is” / Naughty by Nature “Hip Hop Hooray” / The Pharcyde “Passin’ Me By” / Archers of Loaf “Web In Front” / Guided by Voices “Shocker in Gloomtown” / M.O.T.O. “It Tastes Just Like A Milkshake” / Sebadoh “Soul and Fire” / Letters to Cleo “Rim Shack”

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Fugazi “Facet Squared” / Bikini Kill “Rebel Girl” / Huggy Bear “Her Jazz” / Bratmobile “Love Thing” / Yo La Tengo “From A Motel 6” / Pavement “Shoot the Singer” / Straitjacket Fits “Brittle” / Royal Trux “Back to School” / Velocity Girl “Here Comes” / Unrest “Make Out Club” / The Lemonheads “Into Your Arms” / Cracker “Low” / Faith Hill “Wild One” / Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee” / Garth Brooks “Ain’t Going Down (’Til the Sun Comes Up)” / Melissa Etheridge “Come To My Window” / Babyface “When Can I See You” / Toni Braxton “Another Sad Love Song” / Ace of Base “All That She Wants” / Robin S. “Show Me Love” / Haddaway “What Is Love?” / De La Soul “Breakadawn” / Me’Shell Ndegeocello “If That’s Your Boyfriend (He Wasn’t Last Night)” / 95 South “Whoot, There It Is” / Duice “Dazzy Duks” / Silk “Freak Me” / H-Town “Knockin’ Da Boots” / D.R.S. “Gangsta Lean” / Positive K “I Got A Man” / Arrested Development “Mr. Wendal” / Michael Jackson “Will You Be There”

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Depeche Mode “I Feel You” / Type O Negative “Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)” / The Afghan Whigs “Gentlemen” / Lenny Kravitz “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” / One Dove “White Love (Guitar Paradise Edit)” / Sunscreem “Love U More” / RuPaul “Supermodel (You Better Work)” / Geto Boys “Six Feet Deep” / Billy Joel “The River of Dreams” / Phish “The Wedge” / Spin Doctors “Two Princes” / Collective Soul “Shine” / Dwight Yoakum “A Thousand Miles from Nowhere” / Matthew Sweet “Time Capsule” / George Strait “Easy Come, Easy Go” / Rosanne Cash “The Wheel” / Jodeci “Lately” / Meat Loaf “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” / Rod Stewart “Have I Told You Lately” / Crash Test Dummies “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” / The Verve “Slide Away” / Suede “Animal Nitrate” / Rage Against the Machine “Bombtrack” / Candlebox “Far Behind” / Shai “Baby I’m Yours” / Tony! Toni! Toné! “If I Had No Loot” / Lords of the Underground “Chief Rocka” / UB40 “(I Can’t Help) Falling In Love with You”

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The Roots “The Session (Longest Posse Cut In History)” / Guru “Trust Me” / KMD “What A Nigga Know?” / Tricky “Aftermath (Version 1)” / Cupid Car Club “Grace Juice Plus” / Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Afro” / FU-Schnickens “What’s Up Doc? (Can We Rock?)” / Digable Planets “Where I’m From” / St. Etienne “You’re In A Bad Way” / The Loud Family “Inverness” / 10,000 Maniacs “Stockton Gala Days” / Helium “Lucy” / The Juliana Hatfield Three “My Sister” / Grant Lee Buffalo “Fuzzy” / Randy Travis “Look Heart, No Hands” / Doug Supernaw “I Don’t Call Him Daddy” / Frenté! “Bizarre Love Triangle” / Lorrie Morgan “What Part of No?” / Buffalo Tom “Sodajerk” / Dig “Believe” / Melvins “Honey Bucket” / Superchunk “Precision Auto” / Sunny Day Real Estate “8” / Sepultura “Refuse/Resist” / Luscious Jackson “Daughters of the Kaos” / Boss “Recipe of a Hoe” / US3 “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” / Sting “If I Ever Lose My Faith In You” / Duran Duran “Ordinary World”

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” / Mary Lou Lord “Some Jingle Jangle Morning” / Urge Overkill “Sister Havana” / Primus “My Name Is Mud” / Green Jelly “Three Little Pigs” / Slowdive “Alison” / Cowboy Junkies “Anniversary Song” / Morphine “Buena” / Everclear “Your Genius Hands” / Heatmiser “Candyland” / Fastbacks “Gone to the Moon” / Chug “Flowers” / Pet Shop Boys “Go West” / Leftfield “Open Up” / Underworld “Mmm…Skyscraper I Love You” / Pete Rock “Lots of Lovin’” / Jade “Don’t Walk Away” / Kirsty MacColl “Angel” / INXS “Beautiful Girl” / Dinosaur Jr “Start Choppin’” / American Music Club “All Your Jeans Were Too Tight” / Joe Diffie “John Deere Green” / Denis Leary “Asshole” / Mercury Rev “Bronx Cheer” / Boss Hog “Ruby” / Don Caballero “For Respect” / Manic Street Preachers “La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)” / The Ocean Blue “Sublime” / Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet “For Other Eyes” / Donald Fagan “Snowbound” / Prince “Pink Cashmere”

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Zhane “Hey Mr. DJ” / Usher “Call Me A Mack” / Portrait “Here We Go Again” / Original Flavor “Can I Get Open” / Shaggy “Oh Carolina” / Madonna “Rain” / Take That “Pray” / Xscape “Just Kickin’ It” / The Auteurs “American Guitars” / Swervedriver “Duel” / The Boo Radleys “Lazarus” / Polvo “Tilebreaker” / Medicine “Never Click” / P.M. Dawn “Looking Through Patient Eyes” / Redman “Time 4 Sum Aksion” / Smooth “You Been Played” / Smooth Touch “House of Love” / Autechre “Bike” / Atari Teenage Riot “Kids Are United” / Curve “Superblaster” / The Catherine Wheel “Crank” / The Verlaines “Heavy 33” / Elastica “Stutter” / Teenage Fanclub “Hang On” / The Posies “Dream All Day” / The The “Love Is Stronger Than Death” / Tracy Lawrence “Alibis” / Coverdale Page “Pride and Joy” / Ethyl Meatplow “Devil’s Johnson” / The Alkaholiks “Only When I’m Drunk” / Butthole Surfers “Who Was In My Room Last Night?”

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The Proclaimers “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” / 4 Non Blondes “What’s Up” / Inner Circle “Bad Boys” / Snow “Informer” / Boy Krazy “That’s What Love Can Do” / Mr. Blobby “Mr. Blobby” / Cannibal Corpse “Hammer Smashed Face” / Reba McEntire “The Heart Won’t Lie” / John Michael Montgomery “I Love the Way You Love Me” / Brian McKnight “One Last Cry” / David Bowie “Jump They Say” / The Fall “Why Are People Grudgeful?” / Fishbone “Swim” / Big Head Todd and the Monsters “Bittersweet” / Sugar “Tilted” / Paul Westerberg “World Class Fad” / Noise Addict “I Wish I Was Him” / Sheryl Crow “Run, Baby, Run” / Jeremy Jordan “The Right Kind of Love” / µ-Ziq “Iesope” / Illegal feat. Eric Sermon “We Getz Buzy” / Compulsion “Basketcase” / House of Pain & Helmet “Just Another Victim” / Freestyle Fellowship “Inner City Boundaries” / S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. “It’s Gonna Be A Lovely Day” / MC Lyte “Ruffneck” / Ned’s Atomic Dustbin “Not Sleeping Around” / The Connells “’74-’75” / Smog “37 Push Ups” / Palace Brothers “Idle Hands Are the Devil’s Plaything” / Israel Kamakawiwo’ole “Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World”

1/3/17

1990 Survey Mix

Welcome to the ’90s, dude.

This is the first in the 1990s survey mix series, which will come out monthly in chronological order through this year. It’s important for the ‘90s to be presented in order, because the story of music in that decade is basically a trilogy in which each act ends in tragedy – the suicide of Kurt Cobain, the murders of Tupac and Biggie, and the toxic masculinity run rampant at Woodstock ’99.

In this framework, 1990 is like a prologue in which we watch the 1980s shift into the 1990s with a great deal of innocence and optimism. 1990 is a peculiar year with a distinct aesthetic that is almost entirely abandoned by 1992. It’s as though at some point in 1989, everyone was sent a memo “hey, this is what the ‘90s is gonna sound like” and then by spring of 1991, another memo went out telling people to scrap all that and go in another direction. Anyway, enjoy immersing yourself in the first draft of the ‘90s. It’s pretty fun for the most part, and it starts off with Mariah Carey showing up out of nowhere and changing the course of pop music forever.

Thanks to Paul Cox, Rob Sheffield, Sean T. Collins, and Chris Conroy for their valuable assistance in putting this set together!

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Mariah Carey “Vision of Love” / Wilson Phillips “Hold On” / Madonna “Vogue” / Deee-Lite “Groove Is In the Heart” / George Michael “Freedom ’90” / The Black Crowes “Hard to Handle” / Tevin Campbell “Round and Round” / Janet Jackson “Escapade” / INXS “Disappear” / Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence” / Sinead O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” / My Bloody Valentine “Soon” / Nine Inch Nails “Sin” / Enigma “Sadeness Pt 1” / Bell Biv DeVoe “Poison” / C&C Music Factory “Gonna Make You Sweat” / Happy Mondays “Step On” / Primal Scream “Come Together” / Maxi Priest “Close to You” / Ralph Tresvant “Sensitivity” / Queensryche “Silent Lucidity”

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LL Cool J “Mama Said Knock You Out” / Public Enemy “911 Is A Joke” / MC Hammer “U Can’t Touch This” / Morrissey “Piccadilly Palare” / Garth Brooks “Friends In Low Places” / Concrete Blonde “Joey” / The La’s “There She Goes” / The B-52’s “Roam” / Aerosmith “Janie’s Got A Gun” / Alannah Myles “Black Velvet” / Heart “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You” / Suzanne Vega & DNA “Tom’s Diner” / Lisa Stansfield “All Around the World” / Snap! “The Power” / Adamski “Killer” / Soho “Hippychick” / 808 State “Pacific 202” / The Cure “Never Enough” / The Soup Dragons “I’m Free” / The Stone Roses “One Love” / Ride “Vapour Trail” / Cocteau Twins “Iceblink Luck” / Roxette “It Must Have Been Love” / Go West “The King of Wishful Thinking” / Celine Dion “Where Does My Heart Beat Now”

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Jane’s Addiction “Been Caught Stealing” / Pixies “Dig for Fire” / Sonic Youth “Kool Thing” / Fugazi “Repeater” / A Tribe Called Quest “Bonita Applebum” / Keith Sweat “Make You Sweat” / Salt-N-Pepa “Let’s Talk About Sex” / Roxanne Shante “Brothers Ain’t Shit” / Vanilla Ice “Ice Ice Baby” / Consolidated “Product” / The KLF “What Time Is Love?” / Black Box “I Don’t Know Anybody Else” / Neneh Cherry “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” / Stevie B “Because I Love You (The Postman Song)” / Julee Cruise “Falling” / Yo La Tengo “Oklahoma, USA” / Clint Black “Loving Blind” / Emmylou Harris “Tougher Than the Rest” / King Missile “Jesus Was Way Cool” / Buffalo Tom “Skeleton Key” / Mudhoney “Hate the Police” / World Party “Way Down Now” / Winger “Can’t Get Enuff” / Nelson “Love and Affection” / Phish “Bouncing Around the Room” / Prefab Sprout “Wild Horses” / Everything But the Girl “Driving”

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Paul Simon “The Obvious Child” / Alice In Chains “Man in the Box” / Nirvana “Sliver” / The Breeders “Iris” / Lush “Sweetness and Light” / Mazzy Star “Holah” / The Sundays “Here’s Where the Story Ends” / Blake Babies “I’ll Take Anything” / Cinderella “Shelter Me” / Billy Idol “Cradle of Love” / Los Lobos “I Walk Alone” / Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians “Black and Blue” / Heavenly “Escort Crash on Marston Street” / Aztec Camera “Good Morning Britain” / Teenage Fanclub “Everything Flows” / The Simpsons “Do the Bartman” / Tony! Toni! Toné! “Feels Good” / Brand Nubian “Feels So Good” / Ice Cube “Who’s the Mack?” / Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. “Psyko Funk” / Dr. Alban “No Coke” / Cud “Magic (Farsley Mix)” / Betty Boo “Where Are You Baby?” / Nikki “Notice Me” / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “The Ship Song”

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N.W.A. “100 Miles and Runnin’” / Above the Law “Murder Rap” / Pantera “Cowboys from Hell” / KMFDM “Godlike” / Iggy Pop “Candy” / Poison “Unskinny Bop” / Mother Love Bone “Stardog Champion” / Warrant “Cherry Pie” / Indigo Girls “Welcome Me” / Bongwater “Talent Is A Vampire” / Guy “Wanna Get With U” / Too Short “Short But Funky” / Johnny Gill “Rub You the Right Way” / Beats International “Dub Be Good To Me” / The Orb “Little Fluffy Clouds” / Adrian Belew “Young Lions” / The Chills “Heavenly Pop Hit” / The Charlatans “The Only One I Know” /Bailter Space “Fish Eye” / Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine “Sheriff Fatman” / New Kids on the Block “Step by Step” / The Pooh Sticks “Radio Ready” / Mecca Normal “Water Cuts My Hands” / Inspiral Carpets “This Is How It Feels” / Prince “Thieves in the Temple”

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MC 900 Ft. Jesus “UFO’s Are Real” / Big Daddy Kane “It’s Hard Being the Kane” / Monie Love “Monie in the Middle” / EPMD “Gold Digger” / Digital Underground “The Humpty Dance” / Eric B. and Rakim “Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em” / Youssou N’Dour “Toxiques” / Whitney Houston “I’m Your Baby Tonight” / Meat Beat Manifesto “Genocide” / Nitzer Ebb “Fun to be Had” / Boogie Down Productions “Love’s Gonna Get’cha (Material Love)” / DC Talk “Nu Thang” / Brian Eno & John Cale “One Word” / Dead Can Dance “The Song of the Sibyl” / His Name Is Alive “How Ghosts Affect Relationships” / Lloyd Cole “Downtown” / They Might Be Giants “Birdhouse In Your Soul” / The Bats “Smoking Her Wings” / The Replacements “Merry Go Round” / Dwight Yoakum “You’re the One” / Straitjacket Fits “Down In Splendour” / The Lemonheads “Stove” / The Flaming Lips “Take Meta Mars” / Pavement “Perfect Depth” / Sun City Girls “Space Prophet Dogon”

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AC/DC “Thunderstruck” / Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Fuckin’ Up” / Jon Bon Jovi “Blaze of Glory” / Reba McEntire “Fancy” / Uncle Tupelo “No Depression” / Rosanne Cash “What We Really Want” / Cowboy Junkies “Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning” / Bob Dylan “Born In Time” / Hothouse Flowers “Give It Up” / Midnight Oil “Blue Sky Mine” / Rod Stewart “Downtown Train” / Cher “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)” / Elton John “Club at the End of the Street” / Kylie Minogue “Better the Devil You Know” / Rob N’ Raz featuring Leila K “Got to Get” / 2 In A Room “Wiggle It” / Technotronic “Get Up” / Intelligent Hoodlum “Black & Proud” / X-Clan “Raise the Flag” / YZ “Tower with the Power” / Pop Will Eat Itself “Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina” / The Lightning Seeds “Pure” / The Clean “Draw(in)g to a (W)hole” / McCarthy “And Tomorrow the Stock Exchange Will be the Human Race” / Manic Street Preachers “New Art Riot” / Social Distortion “Ball and Chain”

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Big Audio Dynamite II “Change of Atmosphere” / Jesus Jones “Real Real Real” / Pet Shop Boys “The End of the World” / En Vogue “Hold On” / Kid N Play “Funhouse” / Calloway “I Wanna Be Rich” / Yngwie Malmsteen “Making Love” / Anthrax “Got the Time” / The Jesus Lizard “Killer McHann” / Helmet “Repetition” / The Fatima Mansions “Look What I Stole for Us, Darling” / Prong “Lost and Found” / Flotsam and Jetsam “Deviation” / Bob Mould “It’s Too Late” / The Boo Radleys “Eleanor Everything” / Superchunk “Sick to Move” / Big Dipper “Love Barge” / L7 “Shove” / Afghan Whigs “Retarded” / Bad Religion “21st Century (Digital Boy)” / The Posies “Suddenly Mary” / Traveling Wilburys “She’s My Baby” / Mary Chapin Carpenter “Down at the Twist and Shout” / The Beautiful South “A Little Time” / The Cannanes “Vivienne” / Björk “Gling Gló” / James Ingram “I Don’t Have the Heart” / Michael Bolton “How Am I Supposed To Live Without You” / Bette Midler “From A Distance”


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