is reckless underrated? nobody talks about it. but, it really fits in nicely somewhere between billy idol and simple minds. it's not really the 70s rock people write it off as, it's more like post-punk stripped down to it's lowest common denominator. meaning, yeah, it's poppy, sure - but it's high quality pop.
canadian kid. of course. canadian broadcasters at the time had content requirements (i don't know if they still do) which required them to play a certain amount of music by canadian musicians. bryan adams really benefited from this. and, it meant he was on the radio all the time in the late 80s and early 90s. it would have been nearly impossible to avoid him, even if this record didn't sell well outside the country.
it could be a little bias on my behalf, but i do put my old tape of this on from time to time and the basic simplicity of it still manages to cut through like a...err...no...not doing that...
sorry to burst your bubble of the 90s, kids. you might have never heard of this guy. but this was what 90s pop actually sounded like.
you're upset. i know. you've been lied to. you thought the 90s were the era of grunge and idm. it's at best a myth.
blame it on the rain.
top selling singles of the 90s. you've probably never heard most of them, and you're not missing much. that bryan adams song is the closest thing to grunge, and it's not very close.
1. "How Do I Live" - LeAnn Rimes
Hot 100 Peak Position: 2, Peak Date: December 13, 1997
2. "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" - Los Del Rio
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: August 3, 1996
3. "Un-Break My Heart" - Toni Braxton
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: December 7, 1996
4. "Foolish Games/You Were Meant For Me" - Jewel
Hot 100 Peak Position: 2, Peak Date: April 19, 1997
5. "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" - Bryan Adams
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: July 27, 1991
6. "I'll Make Love To You" - Boyz II Men
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: August 27, 1994
7. "Too Close" - Next
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: April 25, 1998
8. "One Sweet Day" - Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: December 2, 1995
9. "Truly Madly Deeply" - Savage Garden
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: January 17, 1998
10. "Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight" - Elton John
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: October 11, 1997
11. "End Of The Road" (From Boomerang) - Boyz II Men
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: August 15, 1992
12. "The Sign" - Ace Of Base
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: March 12, 1994
13. "The Boy Is Mine" - Brandy and Monica
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: June 6, 1998
14. "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)" - Stevie B
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: December 8, 1990
15. "Whoomp! (There It Is)" - Tag Team
Hot 100 Peak Position: 2, Peak Date: July 31, 1993
16. "Rush Rush" - Paula Abdul
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: June 15, 1991
17. "You're Still The One" - Shania Twain
Hot 100 Peak Position: 2, Peak Date: May 2, 1998
18. "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: November 28, 1992
19. "Gangsta's Paradise" (From Dangerous Minds) - Coolio Featuring L.V.
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: September 9, 1995
20. "Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinead O'Connor
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: April 21, 1990
there may have been some specialized "modern rock" stations in larger markets. but, broadly speaking, 90s rock was really kept alive by classic rock programmers looking for something new. the rise of soundgarden and pearl jam had as much to do with the decline of led zeppelin and pink floyd as it did with anything else. they needed content, and could hardly keep playing wish you were here over and over again into perpetuity.
where i grew up, in ottawa, there were two classic rock stations (separated by .8 on the dial) and zero modern rock stations. i got my pumpkins and nirvana and cure and offspring in between shots of rush and sabbath and beatles and zeppelin and floyd. and, it's probably the reason i can have these conversations about rock history - it came at me as a whole, rather than as a generational piece meal sort of thing. that separation didn't exist.
but, it's important to understand that it wasn't the mainstream. if you tried to play something like that at a high school dance, the room would clear. the mainstream was entirely pop-oriented.
and, unless you lived in specific parts of britain, i suppose, idm was just obscure. you had to go combing through usenet just to figure out what it even was.
it's really not that different than today. twenty years from now, people will not remember today's pop icons. but, they will remember some of the music on the margins. muse will have a much longer shelf life than justin bieber.
the alcohol v marijuana part is the thing people need to get their head around. it's just a small part of it; you don't hear about violent potheads very often. if we were basing our policies on science, pot would be legal and alcohol would be banned.
these old chomsky videos are really refreshing.
the actual truth is that this is a good example of why gdp is a poor measure of economic growth. that doesn't mean harper's "strong leadership" has been good at "managing the economy" - far from it. we should have been diversifying, and his high dollar policy (whether actively or passively) really stunted that. but, when oil crashes in a petro-state, you get shrinking gdp. there's no way around this. and, his relegation of manufacturing to a second-tier concern should give ontarians pause as to where his priorities are. well, i say that like it wasn't already obvious...
Arch from MTL One step at a time. The Liberals will make huge gains back in Montreal.
They go from 7 to 21 seats they form a minority government.
Jessica Murray this is likely not far from accurate. papers pessimistically yell that the liberals are only at a measly 25% in quebec. but they forget to mention that they only got 12% in 2011. that's going to be disproportionately located in montreal. and, if they're running in the mid to high 20s, they could also be competitive in some of the areas around ottawa.
the polling seems to indicate that ndp support is broad, but soft. it's less that the polling is wrong - if an election were held right this very moment, they could very well win that many seats. it's more that it's pragmatic in nature and could alter if the situation is seen to change.
the actual truth is that liberal support in the mid-20s suggests mulcair's own seat is far from safe.
listen. i try and be open-minded and everything. but i can't for a minute understand *why* she would think anaconda ought to be up for 'best music video'. it's just an absurd position.
that said, i don't think anything that was nominated this year should have been nominated, either. and i understand the culture has gotten very stupid over the last fifteen years. but, let's take a look at some of the videos that were nominated or won in the 90s:
smashing pumpkins - tonight, tonight nine inch nails - the perfect drug beck - the new pollution foo fighters - big me weezer - buddy holly rem - everybody hurts pearl jam - jeremy peter gabriel - digging in the dirt
even acknowledging how mindless and stupid music videos are across the board nowadays, does she really think the video deserves that kind of recognition? due to what, exactly? the choreography?
if you're young, google some of those. that's what a 'best video' ought to look like.
molari smith
Typical HuffPost Liberal party BS partisanship..
She practically discovered that the NDP "will be" a prudent fiscal government when making budget decisions. lol
Can Huffpost get more ridiculous with more petty partisanship attacks against NDP?
Brent koroll
You should try living in a province with an NDP government. Saskatchewan was a nightmare with Thonson as finance minister. No jobs at all and pizza delivery was a quality job for the NDP. I had to work in Alberta. There is a reason why the NDP won't return to power any time soon in Saskatchewan and Thomson had a lot to do with that. He savaged public transit, leaving many towns without public transit, shut hospitals. if this is any indication on how Canada would be run don't vote Dip as the nightmare won't end.
jessica amber murray
brent is speaking the truth. we saw it with bob rae in ontario, they saw it with darrell dexter out in nova scotia: the ndp consistently governs on the far right.
Marcus r davies
Typical Liberal approach: mimicking the Con distortion tactic at their first opportunity. Are the Liberals saying that every single dollar in the Harper budget is sacred? If so, just sign on to it like you did C-51. What this experienced finance minister said is that if something isn't a priorty, then it will go in order to protect our priorities. For the Libs to say this means "massive cuts to health care" is the same kind of BS hyperbole Canadians are in the process of rejecting from Harper. Smarten up Liberals. You're supposed to wait til you're elected before you act like Conservatives.
Douglas Sinclair
I can think of a number of Conservative boondoggles to be cut to the tune of 100's of millions if not more. A very incomplete list:
- the monuments to 'Victims of Communism' and the "Mother Canada' monstrousity in Cape Breton
- F-35's
- most outside lawyers hired by fed. gov. (to fight constitutional and other challenges of abuse of rights and power)
- most consultants hired by fed. gov.- (often a consultant's first reccomendation is that you need more consulting)
- most gov. pre-election partisan advertising
- most of the PMO
jessica amber murray
the ndp is in support of an increase in military spending. this is just one of the many things about the ndp that is different this election, and that voters should take the time to inform themselves about.
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Dm
Folks, remember, Mr. Mulcair was very fond of Margaret Thatcher style of government. Thatcher, Mulroney and Reagan were quite fond of crippling the middle class. You want that, vote for Mulcair.
jessica amber murray
the thatcher comments may be silly to jump on too strongly. but, his admiration for tony blair is something to really draw attention to. this is exactly what tony blair did: he swung labour a smidgen to the left of the thatcher tories, then carried on with thatcher's programs. everything seems to suggest we can expect this from the ndp of today, down to mulcair's explicit claims that the new labour government is the model he's using to reposition the ndp. is that really what ndp voters want? recycled new labour thatcherite neo-liberalism?
they won't even vote against free trade anymore....
you could use harper's gesture to demonstrate how much further to the left of himself that mulcair is trying to position himself.
yup. same old slash and burn ndp.
he'll reverse the cuts a week before the next election - or, if he thinks he can get away with it, make it a promise for the next election.
the ndp is very good at cutting services to balance the budget. they've cut more services and balanced more budgets at the provincial level than any other party. you can believe him.
Anthony Serocco
Imagine an army of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens. That's the NDP.
deathtokoalas +Anthony Serocco
that was the ndp in the 70s.
nowadays, they're closer to "if rand paul and hillary clinton mated".
a lot of people are arguing that the liberals are consistently to the left of the ndp at both levels, nowadays. the last provincial election in ontario was probably the first election i've seen where it was obvious, to the point that there was a mild uproar, with prominent people writing open letters mourning the death of the ndp. i think it's laying itself down, however slowly, at the federal level, as well.
which is not to suggest that the liberals have become socialists. it's more a commentary on how dramatically far to the right the ndp has moved, and pretty much across the board.
somebody like jill stein would actually be a better representation of a canadian liberal. warren would be on the left of the party, but firmly in it. sanders would have never been a liberal, here, always a dipper. the idea of comparing the liberals to the democrats is really very badly off-base.