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Printabledammme said: All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watchin' the puddles gather rain And all I can do is just pour some tea for two and speak my point of view But it's not sane, It's not sane I just want some one to say to me I'll always be there when you wake Ya know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today So stay with me and I'll have it made And I don't understand why I sleep all day And I start to complain that there's no rain And all I can do is read a book to stay awake And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape escape.....escape.....escape..... All I can say is that my life is pretty plain ya don't like my point of view ya think I'm insane Its not sane.....it's not sane  went on to overdose on the nineties  | |
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Now, even though I love the Counting Crows, I'll admit that they're one of the biggest downer bands of all time.
Anybody that opens their debut album with a song like "Round Here" probably needed a Prozac or two. Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white. And in between the moon and you the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right. I walk in the air between the rain, through myself and back again. Where? I don't know Maria says she's dying. Through the door, I hear her crying Why? I don't know Round here we always stand up straight Round here something radiates Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus She parks her car outside of my house, takes her clothes off, Says she's close to understanding Jesus She knows she's more that just a little misunderstood She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous Round here we're carving out our names Round here we all look the same Round here we talk just like lions But we sacrifice like lambs Round here she's slipping through my hands Sleeping children got to run like the wind Out of the lightning dream Mama's little baby better get herself in Out of the lightning She says, "It's only in my head." She says, "Shhh....I know it's only in my head." But the girl on the car in the parking lot says: "Man, you should try to take a shot Can't you see my walls are crumbling." Then she looks up at the building and says she's thinking of jumping. She says she's tired of life; she must be tired of something. Round here she's always on my mind Round here I got lots of time Round here we're never sent to bed early Nobody makes us wait Round here we stay up very very late I'm the first mammal to wear pants. | |
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Very cool thread. I had never looked at ALL the 90's as a forlorn downer, but the evidence is convincing.
But being a child of the 80's, I wonder how much of what I liked in the 90's was a reaction: 'getting beyond' and leaving behind my saccharine leanings. I craved something serious, sometimes something threatening. That's my theory. A generation of people who, unlike their parents, never 'let go' of compulsively buying music... "I got the devil in me, girl." - 'John the Baptist', Afghan Whigs
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Remember when Bon Jovi, Motley Crew, Skid Row, and Warrant all went "grunge"?
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Axchi696 said: Now, even though I love the Counting Crows, I'll admit that they're one of the biggest downer bands of all time.
I think the line labelled "CDs" in this graph is actually Prozac sales. Counting Crows must have been shareholders.  | |
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Axchi696 said: Remember when Bon Jovi, Motley Crew, Skid Row, and Warrant all went "grunge"?
No one could escape that spell.  | |
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The two t-shirts eveyone in my school had in 1996:
I couldn't really find the exact 311 t. It was pretty much just the cover of their self-titled album. I'm the first mammal to wear pants. | |
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Even David Bowie couldn't escape it...
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Axchi696 said: sooo oppressive! | |
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Cinnie said:[quote] Axchi696 said: Remember when Bon Jovi, Motley Crew, Skid Row, and Warrant all went "grunge"?
and Metallica "Todo está bien chévere" Stevie | |
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Cinnie said: Axchi696 said: sooo oppressive! Emptiness is loneliness And lonliness is cleanliness And cleanliness is godliness and God is empty JUST LIKE ME I'm the first mammal to wear pants. | |
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311 being the medical code for Depressive Disorder, and everyone has the tshirt.
PeteZarustica said: the evidence is convincing | |
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Axchi696 said: Cinnie said: sooo oppressive! Emptiness is loneliness And lonliness is cleanliness And cleanliness is godliness and God is empty JUST LIKE ME I remember all that shit too well. So subversive! | |
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PeteZarustica said: Very cool thread. I had never looked at ALL the 90's as a forlorn downer, but the evidence is convincing.
But being a child of the 80's, I wonder how much of what I liked in the 90's was a reaction: 'getting beyond' and leaving behind my saccharine leanings. I craved something serious, sometimes something threatening. That's my theory. A generation of people who, unlike their parents, never 'let go' of compulsively buying music... so it's gen X's fault  | |
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(as "Fake Plastic Trees" is playing) "Yuk the maudlin music of the university station." (Fake Plastic Trees continues) "Waa-waa-waa. What is it with college and cry-baby music"? I'm the first mammal to wear pants. | |
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By the way, I'm loving this. I'm listening to STP right now and re-living the 1990s.
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I'm the first mammal to wear pants. | |
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Axchi696 said:
(as "Fake Plastic Trees" is playing) "Yuk the maudlin music of the university station." (Fake Plastic Trees continues) "Waa-waa-waa. What is it with college and cry-baby music"? | |
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I'm Miss World, somebody kill me. I'm the first mammal to wear pants. | |
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Axchi696 said: By the way, I'm loving this. I'm listening to STP right now and re-living the 1990s.
be careful!  it's very miserable back there!
the 90s are like a sleeping pill | |
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Axchi696 said:
I'm Miss World, somebody kill me. KILL ME PILLS 
 nooooo one cares my fraaayyyyunnd | |
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like, wtf y'all /  | |
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@ "fraaayyyyunnd"
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Her placenta falls to the floor  I'm the first mammal to wear pants. | |
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Axchi696 said:
Her placenta falls to the floor
more grotesque shit ...only from the 90s! [Edited 10/24/07 10:23am] | |
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At least the Spice Girls came and changed everything
 You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
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depression? bondage? (all forms, figurative and literal?)
PAIN!!! sounds like the makings of another 90s hit!  | |
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ehuffnsd said: At least the Spice Girls came and changed everything
too bright! *shields 1990s eyes* and cheery! | |
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we really ate up titles like this | |
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Even Bono got in on the action... I'm the first mammal to wear pants. | |
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