Smells Like Jop

1. SBD '91: Geto Boys - Mind's Playing Tricks (second place in this category but no tick for Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style).

HSR '91: PM Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss (known to me as the dreamy "dah dah-dah daaaaah dahh" song); Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (known to me as the "la da dee, la da dow" song); Prince - Gett Off (known to me as the first and possibly only Prince song I ever heard as a kid); 3RD Bass - Pop Goes the Weasel (known to me as "Pop goes the weasel and the weasel goes POP" song, which I could recite in grade school without to my knowledge ever hearing the song. Very much not liking it.)

I lied big time...the answer to any question of most important or biggest or bestest or whatever else is NIRVANA and I didn't pick it because...I didn't feel like it (I went with LL because that's what I wanted to listen to this morning). Semi-contrarian move on my part...I haven't listened to any other song more often on that list (maybe "Enter Sandman"). I said Pavement for "most important" because their influence on indie seems to loom much larger than Nirvana's. (Anyway, I remember the "grunge divide" being between Nirvana and Pearl Jam -- are they next year or something? -- with PJ winning out in terms of influence by the mid-90s.)

Hard to remember a lot from this period of of my life (~6-9 or so), not many memories of current pop music. I remember watching the premiere of the "Black or White" video and thinking the car-smashing was some weird joke or a mistake; watching Victor Borge (a lot) in my parents' room (not sure if this qualifies as "pop," but it coincides in this video with the Muppets, who are definitely pop); more MTV-sneaking, where I would get my first exposure to LL Cool J and Nirvana and Prince (I think...the melodic hook from "Gett Off" goes way back).

2. Uh, wish I had something else to say today. Teenpop Covers feature will be 00's-only to make it a little more manageable.

3. Oh yeah, Post 2 of 2 on Paris over at Mincetapes. More on this later, maybe? Or in the comments section.

4. Oh yeah (again), didn't get a chance Friday but the first Skye song from the Sound Soldier sessions surfacesssssssssssssss....er, it's by Belinda, "Quien es Feliz," originally "Remember Me." By Skye and Shakira collaborator Lester Mendez. You can stream it at Belinda's Myspace...wasn't hugely into it at first but coming around to it now, I can imagine a bigger voice on the chorus. Also check out the video to Belinda's "Angel."