I'm risking ridicule for the cheese factor on this song, but I like it anyway. This is partly a nostalgia post, but I also genuinely like the song even though I don't care for the band much.
One of my greatest regrets of 1999 is dropping a huge box of videocassettes into a dumpster, each cassette containing three episodes of MTV's 120 minutes from the years 1989-1996. It was more or less a complete set. I had moved into an apartment with three people on Mendenhall, and I had a tiny room. I had to toss a lot of stuff out. But why did I lose that box? 120 Minutes truly was the best show available for music lovers (other than a weird cable access show called JBTV that broadcast out of Chicago. Somehow a local affiliate picked it up at 3 a.m. on weekends; I saw Richard Thompson, a Gish record release party, and the CroMags on the same show!)
On 120 Minutes, I saw live performances by PJ Harvey, Babes in Toyland, Concrete Blonde (doing Everybody Knows!), Lunachicks.....as you can tell from the brief list, this was the one place female artists could really get attention. Anyway, I'll be talking about that show a lot over the next few weeks. For some reason, I've been seeing random videos from that era in my dreams lately. Last night, I saw Inspiral Carpets' "Two Worlds Collide." I remember seeing the video on some BritPop spotlight along with Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Ride, Lush, and some others. I know nothing about the band, but I seem to recall hearing another song by them that I did not like. For some reason, though, I just love this song. The singer and lyrics are totally serious, including some wicked "whoo-hoo's" between chorus and verse. The video is an acid trip, too.
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I found it kind of hard to get past the lead singers teeth, but he is British after all.
ReplyDeleteThat is a shame about the 120 minutes tapes. For a time, it really was one of the best places to learn about new music.