MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

It’s Spring.

And back on March 25th of 1993…

it was Spring too.

But we’re still talking about Snow
and his fast-rising hit
“Informer.”

(Music Cut #2)

A global hit.

All over radio.

And – all over MTV.

(Music Cut #3)

But, Snow wasn’t out celebrating.

Instead, he was watching himself become a star-

on a communal TV
with the other inmates.

Because he was in jail.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“A licky boom boom down.” – Snow

(By the way – that’s slang for ‘police siren’)

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1 – opening of “The Statue Got Me High”)

We’re sticking with the weird side of the ’90s.

On March 24th of 1992…

They Might Be Giants released their fourth album—

Apollo 18.

(Music Cut #2 – hook for “The Statue Got Me High”)

Yes – the album was named after the canceled mission.

AND – the band was even named NASA’s “musical ambassadors” that year.

(Music Cut #3 – “Fingertips”)

But the strangest part is how the album ends.

The final track isn’t one song.

It’s 21 tiny tracks –

some just a few seconds long –

They called it:

“Fingertips.”

(Music Cut #4 – “Fingertips”)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Something grabbed ahold of my hand
I didn’t know what had my hand
But that’s when all my troubles began.” – TMBG “Fingertips”

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

By March 23rd of 1993…

one band was showing just how weird the ’90s could get.

Primus
and their song
“My Name Is Mud.”

(Music Cut #2)

The title sounds simple.

Almost silly.

“My Name Is Mud.”

But the song is more like—

a five-minute bass-driven story

about a backwoods murder.

(Music Cut #3)

It follows a character named Mud,

who kills a friend

over what he calls

a “common spat.”

And at the end, you hear:

“Where you goin’, city boy?”

That’s a sample

from the film
Deliverance.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Not to be confused with Bill or Jack or Pete or Dennis
My name is Mud, it’s always been.” – Primus

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

By March 22nd of 1996…

climbing the charts was the

Dave Matthews Band

with their song:

“Too Much.”

(Music Cut #2)

It became one of the most played songs of 1996.

But it didn’t win the Grammy.

That went to another Dave Matthews Band song—

“So Much to Say.”

(Music Cut #3 – “So Much to Say” cut)

Fans, DJs, lots of people still mix up the two today.

Both deal with excess—

but “Too Much”

has become the bigger live song.

Often being the concert closer for the night.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much.” – Dave Matthews Band

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

By March 21st of 1994…

Warren G and Nate Dogg’s
“Regulate”

was taking over radio.

(Music Cut #2)

That smooth, laid-back groove –

instantly recognizable.

All built on a yacht rock sample.

(Music Cut #3 of “I Keep Forgettin’)

Michael McDonald’s

“I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)”

A soft rock song

from the early ’80s—

was turned into one of the defining sounds

of West Coast hip-hop.

(Music Cut #4 – back to a cut of “Regulate”)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Earn your keep
Regulators, mount up.” – Warren G & Nate Dogg

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

By the first day of Spring 1998…

this song was blaring out of car windows everywhere.

Harvey Danger’s
“Flagpole Sitta.”

(Music Cut #2)

It became the paranoia anthem of the late ’90s.

And the band?

Mostly students and journalists,

treating it like a side project

until they suddenly found themselves on MTV.

(Music Cut #3)

Even the name—

Harvey Danger—

came from a piece of graffiti

near the University of Washington’s student paper.

They just thought it looked cool.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“I’m not sick, but I’m not well…” – Harvey Danger

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

On March 19th of 1990…

Depeche Mode released

their 7th and most successful album –

Violator.

(Music Cut #2)

One of the songs on the album “Personal Jesus” marked a shift –

built around a guitar riff

instead of a synthesizer.

But the way they introduced the song…

that was even stranger.

(Music Cut #3)

Before the song was released,

the band placed a classified ad

in UK newspapers.

It simply read:

“Your own personal Jesus.”

And included a phone number.

If you called it—

you heard the song.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Lift up the receiver, I’ll make you a believer
I will deliver, you know I’m a forgiver.” – Depeche Mode

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

By March 18th of 1998…

Marcy Playground’s
“Sex and Candy”

was sitting at the top of alternative radio.

(Music Cut #2)

The song has almost has a hippie-like feel to it.

And that goes back to how lead singer John Wozniak grew up.

His father was a psychologist,

and his parents were deeply involved

in the spiritual movement of the 70s.

(Music Cut #3)

So as a kid,

it wasn’t that strange for him

to walk into the kitchen at 2:00 AM—

and see a monk, medicine man, or shaman

standing at the counter

with a spoon

and ajjar of Skippy.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Hanging ’round
Downtown by myself
And I had too much caffeine.” – Marcy Playground

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

With St. Patrick’s Day here…

it feels like the perfect time to talk about

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

(Music Cut #2)

In March of 1997,

just days after releasing
Let’s Face It,

they were breaking through

with “The Impression That I Get.”

(Music Cut #3)

So yeah… they were probably playing it

on St. Patrick’s Day.

But one thing they weren’t doing –

wearing green.

They stuck to their signature plaid suits

which Dicky Barrett once called it

“the punk rock version of a family crest.”

As for green?

That was for amateurs.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Have you ever had the odds stacked up so high
You need a strength most don’t possess?” – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

By March 16th of 1993…

Cypress Hill’s
“Insane in the Brain”

was on every radio station – rock, alternative, hip-hop

Maybe not country.

(Music Cut #2)

The song came from their second album,

Black Sunday.

And it had a sound

that helped introduce a lot of alternative rock fans

to hip-hop.

(Music Cut #3)

But the most recognizable sound in the song—

that high-pitched screeching wail—

is actually a horse neighing.

Producer
DJ Muggs
pulled the sample from the 1968 song
“Melting Pot”

by Booker T. & the M.G.’s.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Crazy insane, got no brain
Insane in the membrane.” – Cypress Hill

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