"Look at all his music post thingies." --My High School Drama Teacher
Q: How many kids with ADD does it take to change a light bulb?
A: You guys wanna go ride bikes?
MP3's
Ok, MP3's on this blog (designated by the links that seem like maybe they're songs) are for sampling purposes. So, if you like something you find on this site go buy some stuff by that artist. Go see a show.
If you're not happy that I put an MP3 up on this blog, just email me to take it down and it'll be down.
All MP3's are up for 10 days. Or when I remember to get take them down.
If you want to email me to say hi, ask me to take something down, ask me to put something up (i.e. bands wanting me to check out their music), or anything else, email me at aodblog@gmail.com. You can remember it because it's the Appetite FOr Distraction blog!"But James, you say, why isn't it afdblog?" The answer is, of course, I didn't pay attention to the letters in the initials of my blog. Le sigh.
Up until this week, I've always tried to get cover pictures that clearly showed the whole band, but I like this picture a lot and I'm going to work more towards depicting bands in action!
Hope you're having a great February!
Countdown #282
***Featuring***
Alabama Shakes
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Foals
Imagine Dragons
Nothing But Thieves
twenty one pilots
Vance Joy
X Ambassadors
13 songs spent 1 week at #1 in 1991. So I've split them in two. These are from the second half of the year. Next week we'll look at the first half.
P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss (11/30)
This song samples Spandau Ballet's "True". Which at the time was only 8 years old. Just like I was. I feel like I would have been really into P.M. Dawn if I was 20 in 1991.
Michael Bolton - When a Man Loves a Woman (11/23)
A cover of a Percy Sledge song that went to #1 in 1966 (for TWO weeks! Take that Michael Bolton!) Also, according to Wikipedia: "This version has the distinction of being the last number one song to chart on the old Billboard Hot 100 charting system which relied on sales and airplay reports before switching over to Soundscan."
Karyn White - Romantic (11/2)
This is the only song this week that I couldn't at least hum a few bars of. Seems like fairly standard early 90's R&B? Who has some cool Karyn White stories?
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featuring Loleatta Holloway - Good Vibrations (10/5)
Feel it, feel it. (Listen to the ad libs that Mark Wahlberg puts into this song. I love them so much)
Paula Abdul - The Promise of a New Day (9/14)
This is a pretty catchy song from the album that also had "Rush, Rush" which is a pretty great song in and of itself.
EMF - Unbelievable (7/20)
It's weird to see them actually performing this. It feels to me like this song has just always existed on the radio and nowhere else.
I believe that this song has gone to #1 because of the release of the video, so that suits us just fine!
I'm not sure what this video is doing because the song finishes and, like, a new video starts. The second video is slightly NSFW (she's wearing a see-through shirt) but it seems like it's the song over again. Weird
***Featuring***
Alabama Shakes
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Foals
Imagine Dragons
Nothing But Thieves
Silversun Pickups
twenty one pilots
Vance Joy
X Ambassadors
The video isn't available with the audio attached. And the audio isn't available with the video attached. But this song was on the A League of Their Own soundtrack and I love that movie and so I love this song a whole lot. Just close your eyes and picture the movie. If you haven't seen the movie, stop reading this blog and go see it! And then come back, changed. :)
George Michael and Elton John - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (2/1)
What feels like it would be kind of an odd pairing today (or maybe not?) was apparently huge 24 years ago :)
Color Me Badd - All 4 Love (1/25)
Gotta admit that my prejudices and biases did not have this as a band of mostly white guys. But I guess that's on me and my lack of awareness of early 90's heartthrob/chest hair idols.
I think the Grammy Awards being on Monday night put Billboard behind a day in publishing their charts, which is understandable. So here's a song from the Top Ten!
It's weird when a featured act from one song shows up on another song. Bebe Rexha was featured on the David Guetta song from this summer "Hey Mama". So that's cool!
This is another in a series of popular r&b/hip hop songs about introversion. Very interesting!
Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle - A Whole New World (3/6)
Back in 1993, Aladdin was where it was AT. A number of Disney movies had these very serious renditions tacked on to their soundtracks. Nothing wrong with that!
Hello! I'm sick. And you can hear it in my voice. And also in my blanking on the term (during the last intro of the show) that I used for the title of the blog post. I substituted the phrase "esteemed ranks" but when you hear me pause before saying that, know that that pause (which i would have normally taken out, but have left in for posterity) is me trying to think of the phrase "rarefied air".
***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Fall Out Boy featuring Demi Lovato
Foals
Imagine Dragons
New Found Glory featuring Hayley Williams
Nothing But Thieves
Silversun Pickups
twenty one pilots
Vance Joy
X Ambassadors
If you came here stoked for an episode chock full of Get Smart quotes and references, I'm afraid you're going to be sorely disappointed with all but the last 30 seconds of the episode....
Fortunately, the rest of the episode is pretty great and I think you'll find your life vastly improved after having listened to it.
***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Death Cab For Cutie
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Nothing But Thieves
Silversun Pickups
Standard Fare
Stevie Wonder
twenty one pilots
Vance Joy
X Ambassadors
WOW what a great set of songs. And they only stayed in the top position for a WEEK? Crazy.
Whitney Houston - Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (11/25)
The first of two songs from a movie this week. I feel like no one talks about the "Movie Soundtrack Song Music Video" genre. It's truly a 90's icon. Show the performance, now clip, now performance, now clip. If you're feeling really bold, have the singer be in some way IN the movie. Perhaps a cameo by a star of the movie? Maybe, like in this one, the singer is actually one of the stars of the movie. Or, like we'll see later, maybe the singer is just belting it out from atop a building in the city where the movie takes place
Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone (9/2)
This song holds a Guinness World Record as the first song in the 37-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 to debut at number one. I actually thought it was #1 for longer than 1 week, but I guess I thought wrong. This is a great song, but get ready for basically no one to be wearing shirts.
Seal - Kiss From a Rose (8/26)
Just a classic song. Meets all the "MSSMV" requirements and also gives me a big injection of nostalgia. Love it.
Pretty straightforward party anthem. Flo Rida isn't blowing anyone away with his amazing rapping, but I think he's really just here to have a good time.
