If you are anywhere near my age, you probably remember the countless number of one hit wonders that constituted our pop daily bread and butter back in the day. I mean, is it just me or did pop music in the early-mid 90's, before the corporate boy bands, before the manufactured teenaged girl singers , make for a really diverse breadth of styles, influences, and all around wacked out weirdness? "Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow?" "I smell sex and candy?" "I could never be your woman?" This stuff is pre AND post sanjaya.

But most importantly, these were POP songs! These are the songs you still remember the lyrics to! The songs that soundtracked your first dates! The voice cracking! Uh, etc.! This 1990's JAM mix below should either start making you smile uncontrollably ear to ear, or gag. To me, it's a little mix of both.

01. "99 Red Balloons" Nena
02. "Steal My Sunshine" Len
03. "Brimful of Asha" Cornershop
04. "How Bizarre" OMC
05. "Lovefool" Cardigans
06. "Ghetto Supastar" Pras Michel feat. Mya, ODB
07. "Your Woman" White Town
08. "Friends of P" The Rentals
09. "Sex and Candy" Marcy Playground
10. "No Rain" Blind Melon
11. "In the Meantime" Spacehog
12. "Standing Outside a Phonebooth with Money in my Hand" Primitive Radio Gods
13. "Drinking in L.A." Bran Van 3000
14. "Pepper" Butthole Surfers
15. "Peaches" Presidents of the United States of America


(As a side note, in making this list, I realized middle school nostalgia could go on forever. So, these are the true one hit wonders; not the Alanis Morseitte, the Green Day, the STP songs, etc., that seemed to be everywhere too. Also, songs like "Feel So Good" by Mase should really stay in the past. Nostalgia must be diligent.)

Official Best Songs to Run to (in order):

05. "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues" Mclusky
So this is probably the most intense song. Ever. RIP Mclusky
04. "Decepticon" Le Tigre
This really works best tailing 02, specifically sequenced by a feller named Diplo.
03. "Rock & Roll" Daft Punk
Most everything from these guys will get your blood flowing. But the brutal simplicity of this is pretty undeniable. Makes you kinda wish you were a robot. No, a Transformer. I'm pretty sure this is the sound of Optimus Prime's adrenaline. (Deyoung, where are the DP/Transformers videos?!)
02. "B.O.B." Outkast
Apart from the 5 minutes and 4 seconds of pure aural assault this song constitutes, the video features Andre 3000 running down a purple hill being chased by kids.
01. "Yeah (Crass Version)" LCD Soundsystem
If this doesn't get your pulse moving, i.e., make you want to explode in a flaming chernobyl fireball of energy, then you are probably dead. If so, sorry about being dead and all.

Okay so I'm bad at updating. Will fix that. I'm back in the U.S.A. and I've got a variety of projects to work on, so hopefully this productivity will reflect back here. But for the meantime, spring(!) is blossoming and that can only mean one thing: awesome spring music. This mix is heavily indebted to O-dub, so if you don't already check out his site, you are a crazy person. Here's the tracklist:

1. "Smile ft. Wale (Mark Ronson DC remix)"-- Lily Allen
2. "Valerie ft. Amy Winehouse" -- Mark Ronson
3. "International Playa's Anthem"-- UGK ft. Outkast
4. "Mr. Big Stuff"-- Lynn Collins
5. "Kick out the Chairs"-- Munk & James Murphy
6. "D.A.N.C.E."-- Justice
7. "Ice Cream"-- Muscles
8. "The Troglodyte Wins"-- Busdriver
9. "Air"-- Clutchy Hopkins
10. "I Don't Know How"-- The Superlatives
11. "Funky Hi-Life"-- C.K. Mann
12. "Check Yo Bucket"-- Eddie Bo
13. "Peggy"-- Toots and the Maytals
14. "Crimson and Clover"-- The Uniques
15. "Bika Nzanga"-- Le Likembe Geant