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March 16, 2005
Top 5 Favorite Songs (c. 1995)
I was listening to the radio this morning while catching up on my email. I'm not sure if this happens to other people, but it seems that whenever I tune into KROQ they're always playing some song from 10 years ago! It always turns into a flashback lunch for me - even if it's not lunchtime. I mean jeeze-louise, when will they ever have time to play more than two new songs in a row if they're always throwing on "Give It Away" and " and "All Mixed Up"? ... But today listening to these tunes put me in kind of a wistful mood. Then I started thinking about what I was doing 10 years ago ... the ways in which my life was so different but how in some cases it's exactly the same... 1995 was the year I moved to LA from New York (without a car but with a sickening amount of hope). Back then I shared an apt with my cousin, lived mostly on coffee and Campbell's soup and commuted to the South Bay everyday on the bus to this crazy job at Nash Editions. It's almost inexplicable how I managed to meet some of the most interesting people in the world, right here, while simultaneously spending 40hrs a week doing the most mindless job (i.e. checking ink jet prints for flaws)! 1995, a time when being able to listen to the radio (loud) at work was arguably the best part of my professional life.
5 Faves c. 1995:
Interstate Love Song (STP)
Self Esteem (Offspring)
Give Me one Reason (Tracy Chapman)
1979 (Smashing Pumpkins)
Brain Stew (Green Day)
Bonus: The Sweater Song (Weezer)
Posted by lk at March 16, 2005 03:44 PM
Comments
Ani DiFranco came out with Dilate in 96 does that still count? Mid 90's I left the Northwest (thus the affection for overemotional grunge princesses) for SLC Utah. What a trip that was. I'm in a different city now but I've got pretty much the same questions.
Posted by: butter gun at March 16, 2005 09:20 PM