upon my good timing, i was able to watch a mtv diyes episode featuring the top 10 rock videos of the early 90's. weezer (undone - the sweater song), green day (basket case), collective soul (shine), toad the wet sprocket (all i want), smashing pumpkins (today), lemonheads, kula shaker (govinda), better than ezra (good), red hot chili peppers (soul to squeeze) and gin blossoms (till i hear it from you) were on the list. of those bands, the only one i've never heard of, even just in print, is the lemonheads. all the others are quite resounding names in the music world. and that countdown was a revelation since i now knew that that song by weezer was actually theirs, that kula shaker is not a hiphop/r&b group but a rock band with a rocking song which title i only learned that day, though i've heard that song plenty of times in my whole lifetime (and which made it big in the country but not in the US). and since it was the early 90's list, i was amazed to find out that green day and weezer go a long way back. i'm sure collective soul had their first hit in 1994, when i was eight. so i'm not really sure how "early" the playlist suggests. but as i was just eight back in 1994, so i guess i wasn't really much in the loop back then to be able to recognize those hits. but a great wonder that those bands are still existing up to this day.
if i could just put into the appropriate words all my thoughts regarding various stuffs, i could tell you how videos of the songs (often called MTV) during the 90's differ from the videos being churned out today. i could also probably describe to you the mood offered by the varying MTV, from the use of color, to the themes, to the symbolisms used. but since i'm not appropriately equipped and am ill-fitting to spill out my thoughts, i cannot possibly do so.
one thing, however, i could impart. usually, there are no more than ten people in a video, including the artists themselves. while some prefer the obscurity offered by black and white color, some videos use bright-colored backgrounds or costumes that assumes a carefree attitude, if not, an all-is-well impression of a world that is absurdly wrong.
i was expecting a little bit of low-quality video since technology hadn't equipped those years with the best tools to produce high-quality videos, but watching kula shaker's video kind of surprised me. i knew that song went way, waaaaay back but the video looked like it was just done recently. yes, the wonders of digital technology. yes, even collective soul's shine was a far cry from the www.launch.com video i used to watch. they kinda lose their time stamps there, but then, they look better right?
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this post and the previous one were both written way back early june, but as going back in time is not possible, today is the 5th of July 2005 and it's only now i got to post them.
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