But I rap all this gangsta stuff – what about all the good days I had?"

Eddie Vedder’s Pearl Jam benefited from Nirvana’s impetus to hit big with first single ‘Alive’ a record of stern power led by Vedder’s grim voice, some stunning guitar work from Mike McCready and a LOLfest of a lyric about incest and mistaken parental identity.It took eons for Evan Dando to become a star but when grunge and the dawn of Generation X opened the door he shambled right in with a fifth album that surfed the laidback slacker wave. 30 …

Breathtaking not only in its sonic scope (from Loz Colbert’s drumming to the string quartet featured on the outro) but also in the sullen vocal of Mark Gardener which suggests all sorts of sadness bubbling under the surface. If hell has a honky-tonk lounge, this is the song on the jukebox at closing time, with David Berman crooning his fractured barstool philosophy.
Mobb Deep were the hardest of all the mid-Nineties East Coast crews, and their definitive hit hasn't gotten any less chilling as the years have passed. Someday you will ache like she aches. "Cannonball" was one of the weirdest radio hits of the Nineties – or any decade before it.Trump Says He’ll Seek a Third Term Because ‘They Spied On Me’Run-DMC’s Darryl McDaniels: ‘I Hope Jay Can Finally Rest in Peace’ Following Suspects’ ArrestStores are Misusing Background Music and It’s Costing the Record Industry BillionsHow Rage Against the Machine Created ‘Killing in the Name’ Believe it or not, we thought we had problems in 1993. All the classic BBs elements were in place – shouting the last syllable of each line, clowning around in boiler suits in the video – and they added up to their only UK Top 5 hit.Roping in Dr Dre and Queen Pen to provide some steely-edged raps allowed Blackstreet’s smooth ‘n’ sexy number to romp the charts and gave them Top 10 hits on both side of the Atlantic (including nabbing the top spot in the US). Jigga had just arrived on the scene with A blast of techno sensory bombardment, exploding into mass popularity after it appeared in Butt of course. It was also where we learned the word “crunk.” And it still sounds insane.Prediction nobody would have made on New Year's Eve 1989: "R.E.M. This classic became an accidental epitaph, hitting Number One right after his death – yet making him sound impossibly alive. Vogue - Madonna; 6.

The paranoid Smith was sure he’d nabbed the chord progression and spent hours ringing people up and playing it to them to see if they knew.Quite beautiful but harsh all the same, Elliott Smith’s semi-confessional acoustic hymn to addiction feels like one of many foreshadowings of his death. There is all other karaoke, and then there is "Torn" karaoke. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. Proof that Wu-Tang really Kim Deal emerges from the wreckage of alt-rock heroes the Pixies with her twin sister, Kelley, on guitar and a freewheeling, shaggyheaded, bighearted mess Courtney Love's finest moment. However, its sonic template is given such an almighty shake-up that it becomes an unrecognisably lurid party anthem that’s blessed with the filthiest of swaggers, and still twists your melons 20-odd years on.Two of West Coast hip-hop’s biggest icons joined forces for this ode to their home state, released shortly after 2Pac was released from prison on sexual assault charges. This commenting section is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page. Not that its genesis was all that happy.
By nme. Scary.The Beasties flex their checked heads, with Adam Yauch's shout-out "to all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends." Faster than the speed of sound, faster than we thought we'd go. The crazy-sexy-cool Atlanta trio close out the decade they owned with a hilarious rant that takes on street harassment, though it doesn't stop there. Neither did anyone else.

Klein owned the rights to Andrew Oldham’s arrangement of The Rolling Stones’ ‘The Last Time’ from whence they were lifted, and he sued Richard Ashcroft and co to within an inch of their royalties. "Rebel Girl" is an anthem for the neighborhood girl with the revolution in her hips. Then her guitar actually does just that, while Timony sings her hilariously deadpan kiss-off lines: "My heart is a cab…your love is a fad…and you're a Foxy: "I'm 2 live, nasty as I wanna be." Of course there was a lot of chat about Wire and The Stranglers, but on debut single ‘Stutter’ Elastica’s spiky allure sounds brand new, Frischmann belittling some poor fellow to the strains of their most killer chorus.It’s hard not to read volumes into ‘Lithium’ as it struggles to keep a grip on life in the face of pain, neuroses and general bad vibes. Her “people” went ballistic but Kylie, a long time admirer of Cave, agreed.