It’s official – I’m getting old. It won’t be long until my balls are hanging by a thread down by my swollen cankles. It didn’t hit me until a couple months ago at a University of Georgia college bar after the Florida vs. Georgia college football game.
I was sitting at a table, watching some guy in jorts make fun of Tim Tebow. That’s when “Hard to Handle” by the Black Crowes came on the jukebox and the entire bar went absolutely nuts. You know what it reminded me of? It was like when “Sweet Child O’Mine” used to come on the bar jukebox when I was in college. It was complete mayhem – hot girls were inexplicably grinding on chubby guys, everyone was screaming the lyrics as loud as they could, and I started craving a Zima with a Jolly Rancher.
And that’s when it hit me – are the 90’s the new 80’s? I know the fact that the Black Crowe’s are from Georgia may have had something to do with the hysteria, but do today’s college kids look back on 90’s music much the same way people in their late 20’s/ 30’s regard 80’s music?
I’m not sure, but it did prompt me to ponder some of the great 90’s radio music that I listened to, long before I was listening to indie music and crushing ass as a blogger at HearYa. I later had a discussion with my buddy at the Avett Brothers show and we both professed our mutual love for Spacehog’s “In The Meantime,” the timeless brilliance of Third Eye Blind, and the under-appreciated mastery of Crash Test Dummies. The mere thought of Candlebox’s opening guitar riff to “Far Behind” still sends blood flowing toward my groin area, similar to the No-Reason-Boners (NRBs) I used to get in Mrs. Rinema’s social studies class, which eventually forced me to switch from wearing mesh shorts to school everyday to much sturdier khakis. Ahhhhh….the 90’s. They were a wonderful time.
Enjoy a few of these choice 90’s tracks, and be sure to check out a few of my favorite sites that occasionally feature 90’s music: 1) Can You See the Sunset has a phenomenal running feature called “It Came from the 90’s” and 2) Captain’s Dead has an awesome “Top 60 tracks of the 90’s” post here.
Enjoy a couple of my favorite 90’s tracks below:
Spacehog – In The Meantime (from Captains Dead)
Candlebox – Far Behind (from Captains Dead)
Crash Test Dummies – Afternoons & Coffeespoons (from Lost In Your Inbox)
