So remember when radio dj’s would play the same songs back-to-back? Next to Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve, perhaps the most overplayed song in the mid ’90s was Smells like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.
And not that I’m on expert on moshing, stage diving, head banging or crowd surfing, but watching this live video of a Nirvana concert is now (18 years later) kind of funny — the guys climbing up from the audience onto the stage prance around like giddy five-year olds.
If I was a performer I’d probably set up bear traps or have them wander through a dimly lit mirror-lined labyrinth behind the stage… that exits into a forest with Captain Tenneal from MXC.
Man, the most over-played song I’ve ever encountered was “One Headlight” by the Wallflowers. It came out in 1996, so I guess its era at least started in the mid-1990’s. I’m sure there have been other, more-overplayed songs since then, but I don’t listen to those stations anymore and I didn’t actually want to hear them, as I did “One Headlight” (at first). The top-40 station in my hometown played that song all the time, for months. It was completely absurd.
Comment by John — March 3, 2009 @ 11:22 pm