Red Mosquito

stip wrote:I'm as surprised as the rest of you, if this song is so iconic

At a brief Google:

#1 on NME's 100 Best Songs of the 1990s

# 2 on Pitchfork's Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s

The song's (unranked) entry in Time Magazine's All-Time Top 100 Songs

Birds in Hell wrote:This thing didn't really shuffle along very much while I was asleep, hey?

Yeah, wtf?

It was good enough for William Shatner to cover.

stip wrote:I don't know if I knew that song. It was good. Nice pick

Yeah, wtf?

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:I'm as surprised as the rest of you, if this song is so iconic

At a brief Google:

#1 on NME's 100 Best Songs of the 1990s

# 2 on Pitchfork's Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s

The song's (unranked) entry in Time Magazine's All-Time Top 100 Songs

I meant at the time.

It was a 120 Minutes staple.

I tended to shy away from britpop stuff at the time ( and still largely do ) so unless it's presence was pretty ubiquitous it would have been easy to miss.


I just glanced at that pitchfork top 10. Our lists would diverge slightly

Well, color me surprised, then.

I freakin' hate Pitchfork.

Lament wrote:It was a 120 Minutes staple.

Which really makes my david bowie mistake all the more mind blowing. I saw this video plenty of times in the mid 90s, and had to have been well aware that it was some other band that wasn't bowie. But some time after that, in the late 90s/early aughts I forgot who this was and in my mind just assumed it was some random bowie track. It wasn't til Shatner covered it in the mid aughts that I realized it wasn't.

And for years I kept this mistake to myself. I tweeted it once over the last year and Lament was all "wtf? I guess I can see it but wtf"

ABNorman wrote:I freakin' hate Pitchfork.

Yeah, fuck them and their fantastic writing.

I'll give it another listen after the girls can go to bed when no one is fussy and grabbing at me.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

ABNorman wrote:I freakin' hate Pitchfork.

Yeah, fuck them and their fantastic writing.

You say tomato.

stip wrote:I tended to shy away from britpop stuff at the time ( and still largely do ) so unless it's presence was pretty ubiquitous it would have been easy to miss.

How did you end up a James fan, out of curiosity?

I'm fully prepared for the onslaught, but(and?) I don't think Common People is all that great.

There are 2 or 3 better songs on that album... that's about as much as I can give you.

You'll never live like common people, Kaius.

Seeing Pulp blow the roof off of Radio City Music Hall during Common People a few years ago was one of my favorite concert-going moments ever.

I never really cared for Pulp. In my OJ.

I'm rich on the inside.