what's your favourite cheesy 90s hit

william_kent

william_kent

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@Corpsey asked me this question " what's your favourite cheesy 90s hit?"

I immediately replied with



Praga Khan - Injected with a Poison ( 1992 )

maybe if I thought for a while I would have come up with something more credible but this is probably true

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE CHEESY 90s HIT ( @TM @Corpsey )? / asking for a forum friend

don't think - just post as soon as you see the question

NO LIES
 
william_kent

william_kent

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criteria: top ten or twenty in UK, EU or USA
criteria: more cheese than cred
criteria: was a hit in the 90s

aka: it was a cheesy hit in the 90s
 
william_kent

william_kent

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thirdform said:
I'll endorse this. plus it still has enough belgian techno ruffness.
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I was indoctrinated to this by the many white label instrumental plays by the 808 State lads on local radio,

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so when the vocal version hit the stores I was HORRIFIED

but you can only laugh at "INJECTED WITH A POISON" being announced on British state television ( top of the pops on BBC ) so the version of the tune in the first post occupies a special space in my heart
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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pretty obvious choice. but it's still glorious. amazing for me coz it has that nostalgic sheen from when i was seven years old. memories of hearing it at discos my parents went to - all the children making a gang and messing around outside exploring buildings - football club annual parties and that kind of thing. the beats still hold up, they are pretty aggressive. amazing vocal as well and a jungle piano (still one of the best sounds). you can hear the rave fields and ecstacy seeping through onto the radio after marinading for five years. a lot of euphoria in this one. that uh huh yeah is so full of feeling - i can hear a kind of acceptance or resignation in it. i hate foghorn vocals but this one sounds forceful without showing off
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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trying to resist the temptation to go on about 90s pop(ular) music in this thread. i'd go out to bat for it i think. for a while i'd be on long flights to and from dubai all the time and one of the things they had installed in the screens was every UK number one since about 1960. also i was a child so had a better lay of the musical land, and it was pre-fragmentation so easier to get your head around anyway. through the 90s you get these echoes of what came just before in pop(ular) music. there's rap snares and rap drums everywhere. ny hardcore distortion and 80s us alt rock songwriting and the aforementioned mdma pianos. production starts to be computerised but it's not like you're listening to a machine. the peak rnb period as well towards the end of the decade. around 2000 you can already hear everything start to break down, particularly production-wise. it all becomes infertile somehow. and lyrically more cynical and degraded. the timbaland influence is purely negative i think. everything becomes sharp and brittle

90s music has a kind of innocence emotionally speaking. it's way way less pornographic. and somehow less optimised as well. a weaker tincture really. what happened to americans in the 00s? feels like they were looking for the hard stuff.
 
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