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1996: Doing my boring mailroom gig for the sixth year in a row, still co-renting a second floor walk-up/duplex with the other crazy cat lady.
Not much else sticks out in my mind. I would have been buying alternative comics, still, but no superhero stuff. I would have been trying to draw and write comics, most of which are mercifully consigned to the trash now.
I was still buying old music on cassette. I don't even think I had my own CD player until after I co-purchased my first house. That was still a year off.
My consuming passion at this time was MST3K, along with re-watching WB cartoons on Saturday morning. I probably heard some of these songs in the mailroom at work, but otherwise I wouldn't have paid them much attention.
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You'll have to excuse Ric here Lashie...he's still recovering from the new seat in the bathroom.
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In 1996, I was the title character of the Morrissey song "The Girl Least Likely To," writing furiously but getting nowhere, with an unhealthy aversion to criticism and an even more unhealthy aversion to socializing. I wanted to break into comics, but at the same time I was repulsed by what was happening in comics at the time. Little did I know that everything would come crashing down around me the next year, leaving the rest of the 90s to a slow, gradual recovery and a re-acquaintance with the world outside.
The only songs on those lists that I liked are the ones by Garbage.
quote:Originally posted by lowercase mllash: MTV Top 100 of 1996
13. Always Be My Baby -- Mariah Carey 15. Macarena -- Los Del Rio 45. Counting Blue Cars -- Dishwalla 63. It's Coming Back to Me Now -- Celine Dion
I first encountered Always Be My Baby because of American Idol's David Cook. I never actually bothered to listen to Mariah Carey's version until now... And I prefer David Cook's.
Ah, the Macarena. Considering all the local shows at that time had all their celebrities dancing to it... Sigh.
Of course I know Celine Dion's song... it pops up every so often when we do karaoke.
The only reason I know Counting Blue Cars is because this girl I used to like recommended it to me. Nothing came out of that, though.
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At Pyponte, Le Parc, and Ah, we don't chase the ambulances, we let the ambulances chase us!
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Lots of cool Garbage, No Doubt, Smashing Pumpkins and Red Hot Chili Peppers on that first list. The second, not so much...
Tha Crossroads by Bone Thugs & Harmony is one of my favorite rap songs. Funky video, too.
I had almost forgotten Hootie & the Blowfish even existed. I remember an interview with Garbage asking where they had gotten their name, and they joked that it was the only one left, that the recording company makes a list of names each year, and everyone they sign has to choose one of them, and when they got there to sign, all that was left was 'Garbage' and 'Hootie & the Blowfish,' and (at the time, Hootie was super-popular), 'they apparently chose the wrong one.'
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