It was karaoke night, which it somehow almost always is there, and sometime around midnight we all heard the opening chords to “Lightning Crashes.” “Oh, dear God,” I said. True story: Just after I’d moved to Los Angeles a decade or so ago, I met some friends for drinks at Barney’s Beanery, a giant, noisy West Hollywood bro-bar that smells like how they describe Valerie Cherish’s trailer on the new season of The Comeback. (My money was on “ Best of What’s Around,” and this is why I rarely bet.) It’s hard to remember a time before human hemp necklace Dave Matthews was a part of our lives, and harder still to imagine that this is the song that broke him. Watch this video and reflect on all the Chandler Bing shirts you have worn.ģ8. Smoking Popes were a punky-poppy Chicago band whose lead singer sounded like Mel Tormé, and who might have gotten somewhere if their label had supported them (and if they looked 40 percent less like your co-worker’s improv team). 1995 was weird.īut listen: If it gets a song like this on commercial radio, then throwing everything against the wall is an excellent strategy. Hence this song - by my calculations exactly as provocative as a Kelly Ripa Electrolux commercial - got some spins alongside the Butthole Surfers. Modern rock radio didn’t really know what it was in the post-Cobain, pre-Durst landscape of 1995, so it simply played whoever was new and white.
There is much to love! There is also Chris Berman doing comedy. Cheryl seems like an alternative kind of gal to me, so this week, let’s hop in my DeLorean GIF and take a gander at the Billboard Modern Rock charts from the week of July 16, 1995. In the summer of 1995, Cheryl Strayed pulled on her boots and took off for some kind of long, important hike (spoiler alert!) that provided the basis for her Oprah-endorsed book Wild, and the Reese Witherspoon film adaptation that opens this weekend.
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