Music Break 3
Posted by doctorhuh on September 27, 2007
Time for a break, what a better way to spend it than listening to what’s randomly playing on my Zen Vision: M mp3 player! Here’s what’s playing!
Jump Around by House of Pain…. This song reminds me so much of 1993 that it’s not even funny. It was during the big Beastie Boys redux and everyone seemed to be into this new kind of hip hop/rock thing that went way beyond what Run DMC and Aerosmith did years before. Once again, music from the high school days seem to kinda run a soundtrack to your life and this song popped up right between my Junior and Senior years. Aside from this song I wasn’t really a fan, but it was fun and obnoxious and loud at when ur 17 that’s all you really need. Though I did kinda like what the one guy did later on when he came out w/ his solo rap whatever album. Whitey or something, right? I dunno…
Foolish Beat by Debbie Gibson…… Ah, Ms. Gibson, what I wouldn’t have given up for you when I was 12 years old. Now she’s Deborah and still totally hot and I’m not ashamed of any of it! My friend Richard and I actually split the cost of the cassette of this album (Out of the Blue, for you too young or too ashamed to admit you know) and promptly copied it and he got the copy and I got the original. So I was sharing music way before the internet made it cool and accessible. I wonder if the RIAA knows about this and is going to come to take back my tape collection. Anyhow, in the Tiffany/ Debbie debates I always went w/ Debbie. She wrote all of her own songs you know!! Not bad for a 16 or 17 year old or whatever she was at the time. Anyhow, Debbie, you always have a special pre-pubescent place in my heart, which is beating to some Foolish Beat right now.
Hand In my Pocket by Alanis Morrisette….Okay, so not only is Alanis really God, she rocks. If you don’t get that, go see Dogma, duh! I’m sure everyone and their mother had a copy of Jagged Little Pill, and though my mother actually didn’t, I did. And despite everyone claiming that her album was full of angry woman rants, I found it quite mellow in places. And this one was supposed to be about masturbation, which is why I guess her hand is in her pocket. Though you think she’d find a better time for that than when she’s hailing a taxi cab, but to each their own. If so, this song goes in the same category as She Bop and Dancin With Myself and Turning Japanese, all songs supposedly about that, but apparently, not. Is this the video where she’s naked? If not, I still like that video. I’ve always thought Alanis was hot and having her being even blurry naked was cool. I listened to this album a whole bunch of times before I sold the CD to help pay for rent many moons ago. Did you know that a CD you buy for ten bucks will only give u a return of about fifty cents? And no, not 50 Cent’s new CD, actually two bits. Which personally is about what I think the value of any of 50 Cent’s CD’s to be worth. But I digress.
Morning Train by Sheena Easton…..Before Sheena became Prince’s personal sex slave, she was sweet and innocent and just waiting for her man to come home from a hard day’s work so she can feed him, give him his purple robe, and listen to what it sounds like when dove’s cry together. This was a straight from the back of my subconscious 80’s tune that I don’t mind listening to over and over. It reminds me of simpler days of my youth, for some reason memories of being at the local ballpark, which is funny since I hated playing baseball. But I still hung out down there since everyone else did, and I could buy candy and it was probably playing in the background over and over that year, in 1980. Wait, in 80 I was six, so maybe it was a few years later. Who knows. Oh and apparently Sheena Easton is the only artist seen performing the song in the title sequence of a bond movie, with For Your Eyes Only. Thank you, Wikipedia.
Time’s up, more next time!
