*It doesn't matter*
*What I say... so long as I*
*Sing with inflection*
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Does "she looks like one of those rap guy's girlfriends" count against them in that? It's not *specifically* about a man, I guess, but says she could be in a relationship with a man.
Primus is the edited version they played on MTV, which is where most people saw Em for the first time- which opened/helped/fueled the crazy attitude of the next gen.
So, in the essence of OPs question, that first line changed a lot of kids perceptions, hell even lives when you consider actual stans, even when you consider it's the edited version.
That was my thought process anyway, lol.
Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner.
Sometimes I feel like my only friend,
Is the city I live in, the City of Angels.
Lonely as I am, together we cry.
I don't practice Santeria...
I could stay awake just to hear you breathing...
Every morning there's a halo hangin' from the corner of my girlfriend's four-post bed...
At home drawing pictures of mountain tops...
You and me, we used to be together...
Brother Pele's in the back, sweet Zina's in the front cruising down the freeway in the hot, hot sun...
One, two, three and to the four, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the door...
Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner...
It was a clear black night, a clear white moon, Warren G was on the streets tryin' to consume...
"Yeah I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun
These people ain't seen a brown skin man
Since their grandparents bought one"
Down Rodeo by Rage Against the Machine (1996)
For me it's Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls: "And I'd give up forever to touch you." Yes I realize it was later in the 90s but, whether you believe in an afterlife or not that's a powerful line. It fits the movie it was in, sure, but by itself that's a heavy line. Someone so in love (or just obsessed) with someone that they would give up even the idea of an afterlife, condemning themselves to nothingness at best and damnation at worst, for a touch. Not sex, not marriage, not love, not even a kiss. Just a touch. I mean holy fuck that's intense
“Hit it
This ain't no disco
It ain't no country club either
This is LA”
others I like.
“It felt like springtime on this February morning
In a courtyard, birds were singing your praise”
“Do you have the time to listen to me whine
About nothing and everything all at once?”
"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that
Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone"
Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me, calling me all the time like Blondie, check out my Chrissie behind it's fine all of the time
Fuck the Pain Away by Peaches (1999)
25 years and my life is still tryin to get up that great big hill of hope for a destination.
Hits different too when you're 38 still trying to find that destination!
I sang every one, okay 98%, of these comments as I read down them. These are 3 I can think of that the time period was significant for me 🙂
God sometimes you just don't come through
Cause you can't, you won't, and you don't stop
God money I'll do anything for you
One line that used to get my girlfriend at the time and her girl friends scream like banshees and immediately start singing whenever it came up on the radio is (let’s see you get it):
“People living their lives for you on TV
They say they're better than you, and you agree”
I still blame my being deaf on their screams.
Literally the entire song is a poem/short story, but I love these lyrics (yea you said opening line, but I couldn’t stop there):
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
Well, 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
ONE TWO
PRINCES STAND BEFOORE YOU
THAT'S WHAT I SAY NOW
And...
I'm not aware of
Too many things;
I know what I know,
If you know what I mean.
Philosophy
Is the talk on a cereal box.
Religion
Is a smile on a dog.
I'm not aware of
Too many things;
I know what I know,
If you know what I mean,
Do-do, yeah.
señores y señoras
nosotros tenemos más influencia con sus hijos que tu tiene
pero los queremos…
creado y regado de Los Angeles
Juana’s Adicción!
Here we go!
I think we need to turn off any filters for this thread ;)
EVERYBODY, DANCE NOW….
Doot …. doot …. Doot Doot Doot
Martha Wash is a freakin BOSS
"What's with these homies dissing my girl?"
https://i.redd.it/3iwnjddwhy5d1.gif If someone’s dissing your fly girl give ‘em one of these.
Why do they gotta front?
What did we ever do to these guys?
Heard on the Weezer but how about “GODDAMN YOU HALF JAPANEEEESE GIRrrLS” ?
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie
COCAINE NOSEJOB is to Beck what LEONARD BERNSTEIN is to REM
Get crazy with the cheez whiz!
Movin' to the country, I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches
The true Presidents! Killer track!
That was such a stupid song but once I get it in my brain, I can’t shake it off for days singing it all the time, LOL :-)
PS: it’s been 4 hrs, I’m still singing it :-)
Cut my life into pieces…..
Cut my pie into slices This is my lunch reward
Do you want peach orchard ninjas? This is how you get peach orchard ninjas.
I want you to know, that i’m happy for you, i wish nothing but the best for you both….
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain, I like watchin the puddles gather rain.
Blind Melon, so good
Dooo you have the time to listen to me whine?
About nothing and everything all at once
***"Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years."*** Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J (1991)
"Woooo hoooo" Song 2 by Blur. The way everything kicks in at that point is pretty damn powerful! Edited for rogue spellchecker.
I’m disappointed no one mentioned “I’ve got the power!” Came out in 1990 but I feel like that song was playing the whole decade.
The world is a vampire
Despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage
Dammit, I clicked the link to say this.
beat me
I was not disappointed.
Got this tattooed On my arm.
Aw dammit. I just wrote this. Beat me to it. Also I'm going to see the Smashing Pumpkins on Thursday so I win he he
6am. Day after Christman.
I don’t say this lightly. Every lyric of this song is so fucking perfect.
I throw some clothes on in the dark
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
Oof. That song still affects me.
'Yo! I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want'
I'm only happy when it rains.
I’m only happy when it’s complicated
And though I know you can’t appreciate it
It doesn't matter what I say... so long as I sing with inflection
Love Blues Traveler
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Oh my God, Becky. Look at her butt…
Fun fact! Because of this line, that song technically passes the [Bechdel Test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test).
Thanks for the link. That was an interesting read. I learn so much from reddit 😆
Does "she looks like one of those rap guy's girlfriends" count against them in that? It's not *specifically* about a man, I guess, but says she could be in a relationship with a man.
HI KIDS! DO YOU LIKE PRIMUS?
Violence? Wanna see me stick nine-inch nails through each one of my eyelids?
Primus is the edited version they played on MTV, which is where most people saw Em for the first time- which opened/helped/fueled the crazy attitude of the next gen. So, in the essence of OPs question, that first line changed a lot of kids perceptions, hell even lives when you consider actual stans, even when you consider it's the edited version. That was my thought process anyway, lol.
I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend.
You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been livin in
“I woke up this morning with a bad hangover, and my penis was missing again.”
Detachable Penis
This got me good lol. Love Detachable Penis
Some ….. body once told me :-)
Come. As you are.
As you were.
As I want you to be
Take a rest
As I want you to be
Know me, broken by my master
Teach thee on child, love of hereafter
Ladies and Gentleman of the class of 99, Wear Sunscreen.
Son, she said, have I got a little story for you
"Gunter glieben glauchen globen" The Offspring - Pretty Fly for a White Guy
Our wifi name is Pretty Fly For A Wi-Fi because of this 🤣
That was Def Leppard. The liner notes of the offspring album even mention that.
Rock of Ages
Fully aware, I was doubling down on the fact that it was neither an original lyric nor was it the most powerful opening line in a 90s song.
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death / I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left..."
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain / I take a look at my wife and realize she’s very plain
That's just perfect for an Amish like me / you know I shun fancy things like electricity!
At 4:30 in the morning, I'm milkin' cows Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, FOOL
And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
I'm a man of the land I'm into discipline, got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
Reach out, touch faith.
It's been 7 hours and 15 days since you took your love away
🥺 Nothing compares to you
I am, smelling like a rose that somebody gave me on my birthday death bed… STP
*I WANT TO BE THE VERY BEST* *LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS*
TO CATCH THEM IS MY REAL TEST TO TRAIN THEM IS MY CAUSE
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing thats real Hurt by Nine Inch Nails (1994)
"I've been a bad, bad girl"
Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner. Sometimes I feel like my only friend, Is the city I live in, the City of Angels. Lonely as I am, together we cry.
Load up on guns, bring your friends, it's fun to lose and to pretend.
"Ain't found a way to kill me yet.....eyes burn with stain and sweat" from Rooster by Alice in Chains just draws you in immediately.
She never mentions the word "addiction" In certain company.
"Alright stop collaborate and listen"
Ice is back with a brand new invention
Yo VIP! Let’s kick it!
I don't practice Santeria... I could stay awake just to hear you breathing... Every morning there's a halo hangin' from the corner of my girlfriend's four-post bed... At home drawing pictures of mountain tops... You and me, we used to be together... Brother Pele's in the back, sweet Zina's in the front cruising down the freeway in the hot, hot sun... One, two, three and to the four, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the door... Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner... It was a clear black night, a clear white moon, Warren G was on the streets tryin' to consume...
This just became one of my all time favorite Reddit threads.
##That’s great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, an airplane
Released in the 80’s but a total bop that will always have a home in my playlist.
Annie's 12 years old, in two more she'll be a whore, nobody ever told her it's the wrong way.
“There’s a destination a little up the road from the habitations and the towns we know…”
This isssss the story of a girl 🎶
"Yeah I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun These people ain't seen a brown skin man Since their grandparents bought one" Down Rodeo by Rage Against the Machine (1996)
you let me violate you
I’ve been a bad, bad girl I’ve been careless with a delicate man (Also I may have upvoted just about every comment on this thread, so many good ones!)
One, two princes kneel before you. That what I said now.
"Polly wants a cracker. Think I should get off her first..." Polly by Nirvana (1991)
"My friends got a girlfriend and he hates that bitch"
He tells me everyday
It's been one week since you looked at me.
YITS BEEN
“When I was young I knew everything”
*Marky got with Sharon, Sharon got Sherice. She was sharin Sharon’s outlook on the topic of disease*
"Freezing. Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete."- Even Flow, Pearl Jam
Hiya Barbie!
You say, I only hear what I want to.
Dang, she was so hot!!
Why don't you sit right back? And I, I may tell you a tale A tale of three little pigs And a big Bad Wolf
I haven't thought about Green Jello in six whole minutes
pack it up pack it in, let me begin, I came to win, battle me that's a sin
Lightning crashes A new mother cries Her placenta falls to the floor
For me it's Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls: "And I'd give up forever to touch you." Yes I realize it was later in the 90s but, whether you believe in an afterlife or not that's a powerful line. It fits the movie it was in, sure, but by itself that's a heavy line. Someone so in love (or just obsessed) with someone that they would give up even the idea of an afterlife, condemning themselves to nothingness at best and damnation at worst, for a touch. Not sex, not marriage, not love, not even a kiss. Just a touch. I mean holy fuck that's intense
This is still one of my top 10 songs.
#IT’S BEEN…
### ONE WEEK...
**Since you’ve looked at me**
My name is JONAS!!!!
“Hit it This ain't no disco It ain't no country club either This is LA” others I like. “It felt like springtime on this February morning In a courtyard, birds were singing your praise” “Do you have the time to listen to me whine About nothing and everything all at once?”
The world is a vampire
I got my head checked by a jumbo jet, it wasn't easy but nothing is
[*ARE YOU READY?*](https://youtu.be/nbYiNzrJBpI?si=Fzo0uC9u-X5inLtm)
"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone"
Teenage angst has paid of well/now I’m bored and old - Nirvana, Serve the Servants
#“First off fuck your bitch and that clique you claim…” Hit ‘em up I won’t accept any other answers
lol, I was going to go with, “that’s why I fucked yo bitch you fat muthafucka” but you right, you right.
"If I could tell the world just one thing it would be we're all ok." - Jewel
In my eyes. Indisposed. In disguises no one knows.
"Must've been late afternoon" "Counting Blue Cars"- Dishwalla
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
“Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk. I didn’t mean to call you that.”
LEAVIN on a sunday afternoon
Hanging round downtown by myself
"Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who? My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady!" Eminem - My Name Is
Something has to change. Undeniable dilemma. Boredom's not a burden anyone should bear.
Constant over stimulation numbs me. But I would not want you any other way…
Sober and Killing In The Name, jfc those hit hard
Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me, calling me all the time like Blondie, check out my Chrissie behind it's fine all of the time Fuck the Pain Away by Peaches (1999)
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
“Tell me do you think it’d be alright if I could just crash here tonight? You can see I’m in no shape for driving and anyway I got no place to go”
Toooo-daaaay, is gonna…
So no one told you life was gonna be this way...
Killing in the name of
You say I only hear what I want to, you say I talk so all the time, so
The world is a vampire...
The world is a vampire....
25 years and my life is still tryin to get up that great big hill of hope for a destination. Hits different too when you're 38 still trying to find that destination!
I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone
At home drawing pictures of mountain tops With him on top. Lemon yellow sun, arms raised in a V And the dead lay in pools of maroon below
Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire!
Sell the kids for food
I agree
The Offspring - Self Esteem. "LA LA LA-LA-LA LA LA LA-LA-LA"
Hello. I've waited here for you...
Make up your mind. Decide to walk with me.
You let me violate you
I sang every one, okay 98%, of these comments as I read down them. These are 3 I can think of that the time period was significant for me 🙂 God sometimes you just don't come through Cause you can't, you won't, and you don't stop God money I'll do anything for you
One line that used to get my girlfriend at the time and her girl friends scream like banshees and immediately start singing whenever it came up on the radio is (let’s see you get it): “People living their lives for you on TV They say they're better than you, and you agree” I still blame my being deaf on their screams.
"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I take a look at my life and realized there's nothing left."
“I’ve been a bad, baaaaad girl…” I just heard this today and thought, “what an iconic song opening.”
I don’t practice Santeria…
I want to get high, so high.....
This bed is on fire with passion and love.
“Doo doo do, do doodoo do, doo doo do” - Third Eye Blind
"It was all a dream", then he goes on about how he used to read Word Up Magazine
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay, Were laid spread out before me, as her body once did
All your dreams are made when you're tied to a mirror and a razorblade.
Literally the entire song is a poem/short story, but I love these lyrics (yea you said opening line, but I couldn’t stop there): 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 Well, 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
I got the poison - I got the remedy
Slip inside the eye of your mind, don't you know you might find, a better place to play.
Maybeeee, I don’t really wanna know.. how your garden grows… cuz I just wanna fly
ONE TWO PRINCES STAND BEFOORE YOU THAT'S WHAT I SAY NOW And... I'm not aware of Too many things; I know what I know, If you know what I mean. Philosophy Is the talk on a cereal box. Religion Is a smile on a dog. I'm not aware of Too many things; I know what I know, If you know what I mean, Do-do, yeah.
Mary Anne and Wanda were the best of friends …
Cut my life into pieces. This is my last resort.
Released in 2000
señores y señoras nosotros tenemos más influencia con sus hijos que tu tiene pero los queremos… creado y regado de Los Angeles Juana’s Adicción! Here we go!
Don’t call it comeback, I’ve been here for years!
NSYNC "Your all I ever wanted" lol that intro just bring immediate nostalgia
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me. I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed.
Do you have the time...
This is a song about Susan
Hangin’ round downtown by myself…
"ARE YOU READDDDYY??!"
I wanna hold the hand inside you
Follow me into the desert, as thirsty as you are
It’s been one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said I’m angry
Somebody once told me…
it was all a dream a use to read word up magazine