Ok, some people probably get my intro, others may need an explanation. Some of you may remember back in the early 90s Nickelodeon started up a group of shows called Nick Toons, it included Doug, Rugrats and Ren and Stimpy. Now, while Rugrats and Doug, were pretty standard kid programs, Ren and Stimpy, not so much, looking back it was a pretty messed up show, and probably shouldn't have been aimed at kids, but back in those days, anything that was animated was pretty much considered kids shows, which is why The Simpsons actually got a lot of controversy when it first came out. Anyway, eventually Nick moves it to Snick, which was aimed more towards tweens, but then when it was canceled, they ended up moving it over to MTV, and aired some episodes that were deemed inappropriate for kids and never aired on Nick. Spike TV then tried to bring it back in 2003 after South Park and Family Guy and other shows that were aimed more at adults had been successful, so they changed it up a bit and tried to make it Adult oriented, but ultimately it didn't work and was canceled. Anyway, they had fake commercial in the show for a toy called Log, here it is:
and actually this was a take off of the original commercial for Slinky:
Oh man, I want a slinky Hippopotamus.
Well, game 5 sucked, but as has been clear so far in this series, Home Ice matters, so now the Bruins need to come back tomorrow and play like they did in games 3 and 4, but they are gonna have to win in Vancouver in game 7 to win the cup, and clearly they have not gotten the job done up there, but all 3 games were close and they can get it done. Cup will be in the Garden tomorrow night, but don't worry, it's just getting a little sneak peek of what is has in store for it when it comes back on Thursday. No matter what happens it will be my last trip to the Garden until the Fall, been a fun time and tomorrow should be a good time, cause they Bruins aren't gonna let a team skate around their building with a cup, not happening.
So, Red Sox, huh? playing pretty well right now, remember when they were 2-10, and everyone was wondering what was going on and what was wrong with them. Well, Dennis Green knew what was going on:
Ok, so maybe he was talking about the Bears and not the Red Sox, but the bottom line is that they are who we thought they were, it just took them a little while to realize who they were and now they do, and they are kicking some ass.
South Park wrapped up the first half of season 15, and while the first few episodes weren't great, the last 2 kinda saved the season. City Wok vs City Sushi with Butters being blamed for everything was a solid episode, and then the last episode with Stan turning 10 and now hating everything was also a great episode, but the ending was a bit surprising seeing as how it was the last of the first, kinda left it as a cliff hanger sorta, interesting to see where they go with it, but should be good, too bad we have to wait until October.
Watched the movie Cedar Rapids the other night, if you aren't familiar with it, it was a small independent film that came out earlier this year staring Ed Helms, John C Reilly and a bunch of other people. It was pretty good, best part of that Senator Clay Davis from The Wire was in it and kept making references to The Wire. Here's the thing I don't really get about these movies, and in addition to this one, there was a movie that came out called Cyrus last year that was sorta the same type of deal with John C Reilly and Jonah Hill, and then even Will Ferrell had a movie that just came out recently called Everything Must Go. They are all small budget movies that generally don't get much hype or wide release. I don't really understand how these movie happen. I would imagine that anything with Will Ferrell in it would get big hype and do well, but here's a movie that I've never heard of, was release on like 200 screen or something and made no money. Do these guys owe people favors or something, I can't see any of them getting paid much for these, like what the hell is this?
Like, is this a real movie, I have no idea, it is coming out soon, is it gonna be a small independent or a big studio movie, I have no idea.
Alright, so last time out we dove head first into 1994, and there was a lot to work with, so now we move onto 1995, and admittedly not as much to talk about, people were pretty engrossed into the OJ Simpson Trial, I'm not really sure if anything else was really happening that year, but after all the craziness, and circus type atmosphere, the "Dream Team": Johnny Cochran, Robert Shapiro, Alan Derschowitz, F Lee Bailey, Robert Kardashian. Not to mention Judge Ito, Marcia Clark, Kato Kalin, Mark Furhman, Bloody gloves, the Goldmans, it all came down to this:
Yup, not guilty, after all that, course they still have never found the "Real" killer, so I guess this case is still open, and not to jump ahead, but there seem to be a lot of high profile murders from the 90s that haven't been solved. Well, lets start there, cause the war between East coast and west coast rap was starting to really heat up, and at the forefront was 2Pac:
and Notorious BIG:
Now, speaking of dead people, craziest thing, after my last post when I mentioned that in 1994 that band known as AxCx, which stands for something if you really want to know, look it up, released their first album, and so I read today that the lead singer Seth Putnam, who is a local boy from Boston, died yesterday from a heart attack at the age of 43. Pretty crazy, I really had no idea who these guys even were until last week, and now the guy is dead, nuts.
The reason I found this out was cause it was posted by Pantera on their facebook page, which features another guy who is dead, but Pantera had a big hit in 1995, but it was another one of those situations where a band had a song that was released and then a few years later decided to re-release it, as Pantera decided to edit up one of their earlier song Cemetery Gates and throw it on the Tales From The Crypt Presents: Demon Knight soundtrack and call it Cemetery Gates (Demon Knight Edit):
The Demon Knight soundtrack actually would produce a couple other hits off of it, including this song by Filter:
and a song that didn't really fit in with the rest of the songs that were on the soundtrack, after Pantera, Megadeth, Biohazard, Sepultura, what other way would you end the soundtrack then with some rap from the Gravediggaz?
This version is actually not the original version at all, basically the real version wouldn't have gone over too well given it's violent content, so they changed up the lyrics quite a bit for the single release. But speaking of soundtracks from 1995, there was a pretty big soundtrack that came out for a pretty big movie in the summer of 1995, Batman Forever came out, and at the time set the record for biggest opening weekend of all time, it has since been broken many times, however Batman still owns the record. The soundtrack had a couple big hits on it including this one:
But the biggest song of that soundtrack was of course this song:
The whole punk thing from the 90s was still going strong Offspring was still capturing success off of their album Smash:
The Offspring - Gotta Get Away by epitaphrecords
Green Day released a new album, which wasn't quite as successful as Dookie, but still pretty good:
Then a couple more bands came along that kinds fit the punk mode, weather they really were or not was probably another debate, but whatever:
and these guys too:
TLC followed up their number 1 hit from the year before with another one and also the video that would go on to win the VMA for video of the year:
But in terms of songs of the year, this next song was probably the winner for that, and it was also was featured on the Higher Learning sountrack:
And while we are back on Soundtracks, this song was also featured on a soundtrack in 1995:
Hey, remember Montell Jordan? No, well he debuted in 1995 and had his biggest hit:
Now, moving into another direction, wussy rock was still rocking in 96 and gaining momentum. Hootie had a big year and even got Dan Marino involved for some reason:
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Then these guys came along:
and just to go all international with wussy rock, these guys had a breakout year:
Speaking of bands from across the pond, these guys made a big splash in 1995:
and strangely enough this group also made a big impact in 1995:
People may say mistakenly that that is Ironic, but it really isn't but that is thanks in part to the next artist, who confused everyone about what ironic actually is, but before that she was telling us what we oughta know, or maybe it was Dave Coulier, or maybe not, she told Larry David once
White Zombie was back in 1995, and had a big hit with this song:
I'm not really sure what to make of this next band, but they had a big hit in 1995, and that was pretty much it:
Also having a pretty big 1995 and that was about it were these guys from Austrailia:
1995 was a decent year for these next 2 bands who were coming back after being gone for a few years:
And not to be outdone, these guys were back with more sexual innuendos:
Now, Kurt Cobain was dead, Pearl Jam still wasn't doing MTV, so grunge was kinda on the downturn, but it wasn't over yet, Soundgarden was still having hits off Superunknown, and released a video for Fell on Black Days which featured a different version of the song:
and Alice In Chains released a new album despite Layne Staley's irratic behavior:
Layne Staley was also busy with a side project with some of the guys from Pearl Jam and Screaming trees called Mad Season:
With Kurt Cobain dead and Nirvana no more, Dave Grohl decided to use some of the music that he was writing for Nirvana and changed it around and record it all by himself and that was how Foo Fighters came along and in 1995 the debut album came out and had some hits:
Tom Petty was telling us that we don't know how it feels:
Tom Petty - You Don't Know How it Feels by PigLips
and finally speaking of feelings, Nine Inch Nails had a hit with there song Hurt, which actually became a big hit later too with the cover by Johnny Cash. I remember reading somewhere that Johnny Cash's version was voted the best cover song of all time in some list, and while it was good, I don't know about best of all time, personally I think the best cover of all time was Jimi Hendrix cover of Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower, but whatever that just my opinion. Anyway here's the video for Hurt, which was actually a live version:
Well folks, hope you enjoyed your trip back in time to 1995, have a good week, Go Bruins.
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