"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.
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.