{"id":299,"date":"2009-03-02T00:04:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T07:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2009-03-16T23:30:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T06:30:47","slug":"favorite-video-of-the-week-two-songs-from-the-early-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Video of the Week: Two songs from the early 90s"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we reach the end of the 2000s, it’s time for the retro nostalgia to begin for the previous decade. Isn’t that how it works? Well, I thought I’d kick it off with some of my favorite songs of the 90s.<\/p>\n

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\nManchild-Neneh Cherry
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Neneh Cherry<\/a> is one of those artists who quietly influenced popular music and culture<\/a> without receiving her due credit. There would be no M.I.A.<\/a> without Neneh Cherry. Cherry’s album Homebrew<\/em> was one of those records I listened to when nothing else seemed to satiate my musical hunger but it’s this song, Manchild<\/em> from her first album Raw Like Sushi<\/em> that is among my all time favorites. By the way, there’s a connection to last week’s favorite videos<\/a>, Cherry (her step-dad is Jazz musician Don Cherry) collaborated musically with Ari Up of The Slits and was even a member of the band at one time. [BTW, I know I’m cheating, this song came out in 1989 but it’s sooo 90s]
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\nUnfinished Sympathy-Massive Attack<\/strong><\/p>\n

I lack the skills to do a proper music review so I’ll leave this one to the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mention \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unfinished Sympathy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to anyone who has ever visited a nightclub and the chances are their eyes will immediately mist over. More than a decade after its release it remains one of the most moving pieces of dance music ever, able to soften hearts and excite minds just as keenly as a ballad by Bacharach or a melody by McCartney…\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unfinished Sympathy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d starts with a simple, footstep-like beat reminiscent of the Pet Shop Boys\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153West End Girls\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but then bursts into life with a Spector-esque wall of strings and percussion. Shara Nelson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wonderful rich vocals rise above the simple ascending\/descending chord structure and make it clear that while this may be electronic music, it has just as much soul as anything to have ever come out of Detroit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All I know is when I first heard this song on the radio, I was floored. It was unlike anything I’d heard before and I was completely enchanted by it. The video<\/a> is also a nice treat, capturing a small bit of early 90s Los Angeles ambiance as singer Shara Nelson walks down Pico Blvd. It was ground breaking for being filmed in one continuous shot and produed a charmless imitation<\/a> a few years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we reach the end of the 2000s, it’s time for the retro nostalgia to begin for the previous decade. Isn’t that how it works? Well, I thought I’d kick it off with some of my favorite songs of the 90s. Manchild-Neneh Cherry Neneh Cherry is one of those artists who quietly influenced popular music … Continue reading Favorite Video of the Week: Two songs from the early 90s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}