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...there's never enough time.Thursday, November 02, 2000
Anthem For the Year 2000
I hate every single one of these songs.
Well…almost.
These songs actually mean a lot to me. If these songs, don’t in some way, take you back to a time, when you had your whole life a head of you, when you were at the top of the world, when you were still in high school…then you didn’t graduate in the year 2000.
Ever since my first day of school, my first day of school, I was told that I was special. Mrs. Packard, my kindergarden teacher, also told me that our class was special because we would be graduating in the year, 2000! Holy shit! 2000? Is that even a year? Shit, by the time I graduate, we’ll be flying around in our cars and jumpin’ on hover boards and our 3 square meals a day will come in easy to swallow gel-caps.
Well, not exactly…by the year 2000, we were flying around in our cars, but we were still on the ground, just driving a lot faster. Our meals didn’t come in easy to swallow gel-caps, but rather, neatly wrapped paper, ie: Burger King and McDonnald’s. And I’m still pissed that the whole hover board thing from Back to the Future II was as about as true as the flux capasitor.
Either way, the year 2000 sure was one hell of a year.
But this cd is not about the year 2000, rather, the graduating class of it.
If you’re up to date on your memories, then you’ll know every single one of these songs, and chances are, you know all the words too. You’ll be able to think back, to maybe not the first time you heard the song, but close enough.
I started the cd with a song that not too many people will know of, but I felt oddly compeled to use it…Hova Song…pretend I’m the Jigga.
Then of course we move right into one of the worst songs to come out of our senior year…Back That Ass Up. This song is my tribute to Jimmy Stading. If you don’t know why, IM me and maybe I’ll tell you, cos I know I won’t be getting any phone calls about that one…
The Bad Touch of Blue mix is the product of my evening spent at The Attic, in Myrtal Beach. I go away on vacation with the two sexiest sons-a-bitches ever to come out of that high school, and us three, (know as ATM, to a few girls living in Michigan and one on Long Island) wanted to bless The Attic with not only or amazing dancing ability, but we also wanted to met some Southern Bells we kept hearing about. We pay our 10 and in we go. If I would’ve know it was going to be a high school dance I would’ve stayed in my tent. I knew more people there, then not. Bad Touch of Blue is my gift to those bastards I saw there that night…thank you for cramping our style.
There was a time when I actually knew What A Girl Wants, but then I met Kelly Paterson…anyway…
Try Again, has no actually memory tacted on to it, just a general time frame in the past…late February, early March.
I’m not sure if it’s been done before…but when I went to snowball 2000, I had five dates, and I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but beep beep man…The song, Man, I Feel Like A Woman, was going to go on the cd, mostly because of Crystal’s ability to skank now thanks to me, but instead Better Off Alone made the cut. I’m not sure why…
Take A Picture, Otherside, and Kryptonite are the best main stream rock of our senior year…actually I do believe that those songs were the only main stream rock songs worth of placement on this cd. Sure, there was Blink-182, and Papa Roach (“cut my doughnut into pieces…”) and lest we forget Limp Bizit (yes, Bizit). But they just plain suck. Sorry.
Jumpin’ Jumpin’ makes me jump. Everytime I hear that damn song, it doesn’t matter if I’m on the subway in New York and some thug’s got their ten year old boombox sittin on their lap, I just need to jump.
If my memory serves me right (most of the time, it doesn’t) Party Up came out at the ass end of our senior year. I was torn between that and What’s My Name but once the sound clip was infront of it, Party Up was the obvious choice.
Forgot About Dre…If you were ever around me and David D’Amico while we were stoned and the song came on, you were treated to our very own rendition of it. My name is Slim Shady, and David, I swear the kid’s half outta Compton.
Why Big Pimpin? If you don’t know, stop reading this right now and I want you to just take the cd out of the cd player, throw it on the ground, and stomp on it, cos you’re a dammed idiot. Dustin Bow said it best, “It’s just an undeniable beat…” If you’re still clueless, lemme refresh your memory. Senior skip day…deep into Letchworth State Park…and all that naked swimming that went on. But of course, the real songs from that day are neither Top 40, nor to they contain any English words spoken…think real hard, you’ll figure ‘em out.
Which brings us to the “end” of the cd. Graduation Song, a rather stupid song, but since it was the last song played at prom, and it was the song for the class of 2000, it was a no brainer to put it on the cd.
The Last Episode is what started this whole thing. I was bored one night, and a little stoned, and I had this great idea to somehow mix a Dr. Dre song with Britney Spears…as best as I could “mix” two songs together. And what a better song then Oops!…I Did It Again. Who can forget that delicious red body suit… Anyway, what you hear is what I did, that night, and by the time I had mixed the two songs I was also 3 quarts drunk. I don’t know how, but it came out pretty good, if I don’t say so myself. Part III of The Last Episode could’ve been The Real Slim Shady, but that would’ve just been stupid. Criminal was picked for two reasons… One, the intro works well with the song prior, and two, Ben Buholts. I can’t remember how many people were there that night, but Ben sang to Matt Cippilone, and it was the most amazing thing I had ever heard. Then Terri cut Ben off.
Always by Dave Matthews (a.k.a. #40) mean a lot to me. It’s the most meaningful song on the cd. Why? Listen to the lyrics. And, right as Dave finishes saying “always” for the last time in the song, listen carefully to the guy in the crowd that yells something over the rest of the 50,000 screaming fans…it sends chills down my spine everytime.
And so, this brings us to, what seems at first to be the most of out place song on the cd, God Only Knows. As you may know, is a song by the Beach Boys. Written by the one and only Brian Wilson, taken from the album “Pet Sounds.” It was used also in the film Boogie Nights, directed by the great Paul Thomas Anderson, but that has no relivance here. I’m going to leave it up to you guys to decide why it’s the final track on the cd.
When the cd is looked at as a whole, it’s rather confusing. It feels complete, but at the same time, it feels as if there is a lot missing. The great thing about Top 40 radio is that there are 40 songs…and those 40 change, for the most part, weekly. But reguardless of what kind of music you love, be it Jurassic 5, Zap Mama, Critters Buggin’, The Encrica Slavata’s Fun Time Trio, or The Burns…there’s just something about Top 40 that sticks with you. Maybe it’s the mindlessness and the repition of it all. But I think it’s the memories that are hidden within the syntax of each song that make the songs what they are.
Then again, I could just be reading to far into it all.
Well…almost.
These songs actually mean a lot to me. If these songs, don’t in some way, take you back to a time, when you had your whole life a head of you, when you were at the top of the world, when you were still in high school…then you didn’t graduate in the year 2000.
Ever since my first day of school, my first day of school, I was told that I was special. Mrs. Packard, my kindergarden teacher, also told me that our class was special because we would be graduating in the year, 2000! Holy shit! 2000? Is that even a year? Shit, by the time I graduate, we’ll be flying around in our cars and jumpin’ on hover boards and our 3 square meals a day will come in easy to swallow gel-caps.
Well, not exactly…by the year 2000, we were flying around in our cars, but we were still on the ground, just driving a lot faster. Our meals didn’t come in easy to swallow gel-caps, but rather, neatly wrapped paper, ie: Burger King and McDonnald’s. And I’m still pissed that the whole hover board thing from Back to the Future II was as about as true as the flux capasitor.
Either way, the year 2000 sure was one hell of a year.
But this cd is not about the year 2000, rather, the graduating class of it.
If you’re up to date on your memories, then you’ll know every single one of these songs, and chances are, you know all the words too. You’ll be able to think back, to maybe not the first time you heard the song, but close enough.
I started the cd with a song that not too many people will know of, but I felt oddly compeled to use it…Hova Song…pretend I’m the Jigga.
Then of course we move right into one of the worst songs to come out of our senior year…Back That Ass Up. This song is my tribute to Jimmy Stading. If you don’t know why, IM me and maybe I’ll tell you, cos I know I won’t be getting any phone calls about that one…
The Bad Touch of Blue mix is the product of my evening spent at The Attic, in Myrtal Beach. I go away on vacation with the two sexiest sons-a-bitches ever to come out of that high school, and us three, (know as ATM, to a few girls living in Michigan and one on Long Island) wanted to bless The Attic with not only or amazing dancing ability, but we also wanted to met some Southern Bells we kept hearing about. We pay our 10 and in we go. If I would’ve know it was going to be a high school dance I would’ve stayed in my tent. I knew more people there, then not. Bad Touch of Blue is my gift to those bastards I saw there that night…thank you for cramping our style.
There was a time when I actually knew What A Girl Wants, but then I met Kelly Paterson…anyway…
Try Again, has no actually memory tacted on to it, just a general time frame in the past…late February, early March.
I’m not sure if it’s been done before…but when I went to snowball 2000, I had five dates, and I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but beep beep man…The song, Man, I Feel Like A Woman, was going to go on the cd, mostly because of Crystal’s ability to skank now thanks to me, but instead Better Off Alone made the cut. I’m not sure why…
Take A Picture, Otherside, and Kryptonite are the best main stream rock of our senior year…actually I do believe that those songs were the only main stream rock songs worth of placement on this cd. Sure, there was Blink-182, and Papa Roach (“cut my doughnut into pieces…”) and lest we forget Limp Bizit (yes, Bizit). But they just plain suck. Sorry.
Jumpin’ Jumpin’ makes me jump. Everytime I hear that damn song, it doesn’t matter if I’m on the subway in New York and some thug’s got their ten year old boombox sittin on their lap, I just need to jump.
If my memory serves me right (most of the time, it doesn’t) Party Up came out at the ass end of our senior year. I was torn between that and What’s My Name but once the sound clip was infront of it, Party Up was the obvious choice.
Forgot About Dre…If you were ever around me and David D’Amico while we were stoned and the song came on, you were treated to our very own rendition of it. My name is Slim Shady, and David, I swear the kid’s half outta Compton.
Why Big Pimpin? If you don’t know, stop reading this right now and I want you to just take the cd out of the cd player, throw it on the ground, and stomp on it, cos you’re a dammed idiot. Dustin Bow said it best, “It’s just an undeniable beat…” If you’re still clueless, lemme refresh your memory. Senior skip day…deep into Letchworth State Park…and all that naked swimming that went on. But of course, the real songs from that day are neither Top 40, nor to they contain any English words spoken…think real hard, you’ll figure ‘em out.
Which brings us to the “end” of the cd. Graduation Song, a rather stupid song, but since it was the last song played at prom, and it was the song for the class of 2000, it was a no brainer to put it on the cd.
The Last Episode is what started this whole thing. I was bored one night, and a little stoned, and I had this great idea to somehow mix a Dr. Dre song with Britney Spears…as best as I could “mix” two songs together. And what a better song then Oops!…I Did It Again. Who can forget that delicious red body suit… Anyway, what you hear is what I did, that night, and by the time I had mixed the two songs I was also 3 quarts drunk. I don’t know how, but it came out pretty good, if I don’t say so myself. Part III of The Last Episode could’ve been The Real Slim Shady, but that would’ve just been stupid. Criminal was picked for two reasons… One, the intro works well with the song prior, and two, Ben Buholts. I can’t remember how many people were there that night, but Ben sang to Matt Cippilone, and it was the most amazing thing I had ever heard. Then Terri cut Ben off.
Always by Dave Matthews (a.k.a. #40) mean a lot to me. It’s the most meaningful song on the cd. Why? Listen to the lyrics. And, right as Dave finishes saying “always” for the last time in the song, listen carefully to the guy in the crowd that yells something over the rest of the 50,000 screaming fans…it sends chills down my spine everytime.
And so, this brings us to, what seems at first to be the most of out place song on the cd, God Only Knows. As you may know, is a song by the Beach Boys. Written by the one and only Brian Wilson, taken from the album “Pet Sounds.” It was used also in the film Boogie Nights, directed by the great Paul Thomas Anderson, but that has no relivance here. I’m going to leave it up to you guys to decide why it’s the final track on the cd.
When the cd is looked at as a whole, it’s rather confusing. It feels complete, but at the same time, it feels as if there is a lot missing. The great thing about Top 40 radio is that there are 40 songs…and those 40 change, for the most part, weekly. But reguardless of what kind of music you love, be it Jurassic 5, Zap Mama, Critters Buggin’, The Encrica Slavata’s Fun Time Trio, or The Burns…there’s just something about Top 40 that sticks with you. Maybe it’s the mindlessness and the repition of it all. But I think it’s the memories that are hidden within the syntax of each song that make the songs what they are.
Then again, I could just be reading to far into it all.
posted by This Old Man # 12:35 AM 
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