Filed under: Alternative Music, Flashback Series | Tags: 1971, 1992, 1996, Blind, Fear, Rolling Stones, Susan Boyle, The Sundays, Wild Horses
“Wild Horses” became a hit for the Rolling Stones back in 1971. Ever since then the song has been covered numerous times, including recently by Susan Boyle. While there are many great covers of his song, I’ve always liked the Sundays version of it that was on their 1992 album Blind. I had never even heard of the Sundays or heard the song until I saw the 1996 thriller flick Fear (which is a surprisingly well-made movie.) on TV a couple of years ago, and they had the song playing in the background of one of the more infamous scenes of the movies (It’s best if I don’t go into detail.)
It’s really too bad that this cover never became a hit for this band.
Filed under: ACMs, Country Music | Tags: 1996, 90's, blockbuster, No One Needs To Know, Shania Twain, Twister
This past week, as I was browsing YouTube, I came across Shania Twain’s music video for “No One Needs To Know” which featured clips of the 1996 blockbuster Twister. After watching the music video, I decided to go rent the movie and watch it. While the movie isn’t the most riveting thing to watch, I did enjoy it. I’ve always been a fan of 90’s movies, as I love the 90’s decade. Probably not a surprise since I was born in the 90’s and had a great childhood throughout the decade.
While Twister and Shania’s “No One Needs To Know” have very little in common; I loved the music video and the movie scenes that were featured in it. And as I watched the movie, I couldn’t help but lose my train of thinking, when the song played during the cafe scene.
So this led me to thinking, in the majority of cases; which one(songs or movies) seem to benefit the most out of the whole ordeal?
Filed under: Flashback Series, Pop/Rock Music | Tags: 1995, 1996, Alanis Morissette, Flashback Series, Hand In My Pocket, Ironic, Jagged Little Pill, Top 40 Mainstream Chart, You Oughta Know
Alanis Morissette became a pop/rock icon in 1995 with her album Jagged 
Little Pill, which became the best debut album by a female artist in the U.S. and the 14th best selling album ever.
“Ironic” was released as the 4th single off the album, following up the success of “You Oughta Know” and “Hand In My Pocket”. “Ironic” would go on to be Morissette’s biggest hit in the U.S., becoming her first number one hit on the Top 40 Mainstream Chart.
Interesting Facts:
In 1996, the video won MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video, Best Editing, and Best New Artist In A Video.
Alanis has taken many hits from music critics about her take on irony. Years later she wrote about what she thinks about it: “For me the great debate on whether what I was saying in ‘Ironic’ was ironic wasn’t a traumatic debate. I’d always embraced the fact that every once in a while I’d be the malapropism queen. And when Glen and I were writing it, we definitely were not doggedly making sure that everything was technically ironic. It’s a testament to the fact that we didn’t think it was going to be put under the microscope by 30 million people. For me the sweetest moment came in New York when a woman came up to me in a record store and said, ‘So all those things in the ‘Ironic’ aren’t ironic.’ And then she said, ‘And that’s the irony.” I said, ‘Yup.’ To me it’s a real snapshot of a nineteen-year-old’s definition and version of how life worked at the time. All that ‘Ironic’ touches on spawned all my future inquiries into and current understandings of the mysteries of life.”
Filed under: Flashback Series, Pop/Rock Music | Tags: 1996, 1997, Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Flashback Series, Grammy Awards, Hot 100 Charts, If It Makes You Happy, Sheryl Crow
In 1996, Sheryl Crow released self-titled sophomore album and her first 
debut single was the song “If It Makes You Happy”. The single went on to be a Top 10 hit on the Hot 100 Charts, and as time has gone on become one of Crow’s signature songs. For me, the song is about how the person did something that they thought would always fulfill their happiness but in the end doesn’t. I would go into further depth but I’d like to know what how other viewers of the site interpret it.
Some Facts About The Song
* The track won Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 1997 Grammy Awards.
* According to Crow, the inspiration for the song was her feelings after the massive success of her first album, as her record label and and the media put pressure on her to follow it up.
Below is the link to the video:
