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My Life Is A Song #87

December 16, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Before Nirvana became the de facto posterchild of nineties rock, the biggest new act was easily The Black Crowes.  Their debut album was huge!  A seemingly endless stream of hits from that record made 1990 the year of the Crowes, in my mind anyway. Here’s the odd thing, as great as that album was and […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Black Crowes, blues, Nineties, Nirvana

My Life Is A Song #86

December 9, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Back to 1995, months before my aforementioned unfortunate diversion into “new country”, I was still very much a fan of blues based, guitar driven rock music.  The nineties was also a time when we were fascinated by the concept of black musicians being able to play rock ‘n’ roll music.  You know, the stuff they […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: CanCon, Nineties, one hit wonder

My Life Is A Song #63

July 1, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Oh look, more mid-eighties music you either forgot or never knew in the first place.  This time it comes courtesy of hard blues rock Canadian indie band, The New Meanies.  You know the story by now, this is when I was hearing new music and actually spending money on actual CDs.  This is how I […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: blues, CanCon, Nineties, rock

My Life Is A Song #62

June 24, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Every few years a hit song will come along that although very catchy and providing me much joy, leaves me wondering how is it not plagiarizing some other work?  Not being a musician myself, or a copyright expert, I suspect there may be some guitar riffs so basic they are considered public domain.  How else […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Everclear, Nineties, rock

My Life Is A Song #61

June 17, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

This is going to sound terribly un-PC but whatever happened to chick rock?  Maybe it’s just my lack of attention since the turn of the millennium, but I just don’t hear about girl bands kicking ass anymore.  In the nineties there were a few years where some really awesome women hit the rock/punk scene with […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Nineties, rock, women

My Life Is A Song #53

April 22, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I often make mention about being an Eighties kid both because it’s true and because there’s a certain cachet to it.  The Eighties are kind of the “it” decade right now as the suddenly cool geek culture has shone a spotlight, with a smirk, on Eighties pop culture.  But if you were an Eighties kid […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Eighties, elastica, Nineties, rock, stutter

My Life Is A Song #49

March 25, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Ah, yes, more rarities from a very brief period in the mid-nineties when I actually explored music a bit.  That exploration led me to own a handful of ultimately one hit wonder albums, some of which say less about the quality of the bands and far more about the fickleness of listeners. This band also […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Nineties, rock, spacehog

My Life Is A Song #47

March 11, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I haven’t done a one hit wonder in a while.  This band certainly qualifies.  They were impossible to miss during the spring and summer of 1996.  Their one hit was everywhere on the radio dial thanks to a catchy tune and memorable lyrics that invoked Captain Jean Luc Picard of the United Federation of Planets.  […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Nineties, Star Trek, the refreshments

My Life Is A Song #18

August 21, 2015 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I’m not a music connoisseur.  My tastes, save for the odd novelty brought to my attention by a friend or family member, remain fairly bland and mainstream.  I’m not an aficionado of a particular genre nor do I have an accompanying vault of albums encompassing the spectrum from best seller to niche obscurity.  The biggest […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: hillbilly, Nineties, SCOTS

My Life Is A Song #16

August 7, 2015 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

This song was apparently a minor hit in Canada when it was first released back in 1989.  I don’t remember it at all.  In fact, I don’t think I recall ever hearing it until 1996 and I’m not sure I even heard it in 1996.  That summer I’d graduated university but had not gotten a […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: CanCon, Eddie Vedder, Indio, Nineties, one hit wonder

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