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Resource: top100 lists, 1955-75
This is just an experiment in placing my own musical history in context next to my histories of rock [qv] and jazz [qv].
My earliest musical memories include every genre except rock. My father ran a weekly folk dance using authentic 78s (mostly) of Japanese (Tankobushi), Greek (Miserlu), English (Drops of Brandy), hillbilly (Salty Dog Rag), Russian (Troika), Israeli (Mayim), and some kind of Schottische, and something whimsical called Seven Jumps, along with many others.
At home we mostly played records of Broadway musicals like Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma, West Side Story, Oliver, and The Music Man. I think the first record I tried to buy was an instrumental version of 'Never On Sunday'. We even knew Threepenny Opera before Bobby Darin's version of 'Mack the Knife'.
The radio played classical, and we owned Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite". We had folk from the Chad Mitchell Trio's Mighty Day on Campus and the Kingston Trio's Xmas album including Bye Bye Thou Little Tiny Child (a formative early religious inspiration, I think), and jazz from Django Rheinhardt, Dave Brubeck, and the Modern Jazz Quartet.
The Rat Pack led a lounge fad that included songs like Mack the Knife (1959), Volare (1960), Artificial Flowers (1960), Hello Young Lovers (1960), Do the Twist (1960), Blue Velvet (1963), and the scandalous 'Stripper' (1962). Sammy Davis Jr still had class.
Southern Ohio-- outside of Yellow Springs (where Antioch College kept everyone pretty hip)-- favored hillbilly and country: Elvis, Everly Brothers, Jimmy Rodgers, Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash. Jukeboxes and PA systems blared top 40 hits everywhere. County fairs and horse shows and skating rinks had their own variations on the general hillbilly esthetic.
I saw black music mostly as the private territory of my black classmates. The playground rhymes of "Clapping Song" and "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis were huge with them in 1965.
My early sort-of-rock memories were the novelty songs that appealed to my classmates like Witch Doctor (1958), Charlie Brown (1959), Purple People Eater (1959), Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini (1960), You Talk Too Much (1960), Mr. Custer (1960), Big Bad John (1961), The Lion Sleeps Tonight (1961), Monster Mash (1962), Ahab, The Arab (1962), Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow (1962), Sherry and Big Girls Don't Cry (1962), Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (1963), Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport (1963), Love Potion Number 9 (1964), Wooly Bully (1965).
Like Mad Magazine, rock was sort of fun but definitely self-indulgent and disreputable, tasteless, something to be outgrown rather than embraced. Dancing was nothing close to a ritual of Dionysian frenzy-- at best self-conscious twist-ing and swim-ing. I don't rememer being conscious of Buddy Holly in any form.
1963
I think we must have gotten our first transistor radio in 1963, and I started listening to WING in Dayton (1410 AM).
A song I still really like from 1963 was Andy Williams' Can't Get Used To Losing You which had interesting rhythms and melodic bits (that Amazon sample hits them perfectly). Other pop hits that made a deep impression: The End Of The World by Skeeter Davis; Swinging On A Star by Big Dee Irwin and Little Eva; I Will Follow Him by Little Peggy March; and "It's My Party" by Lesley Gore (my sister bought her album, along with Barbra Streisand, and Dr Kildare's Richard Chamberlain's first single). (The part where she sings "Judy and Johnny just walked- thru- the- door..." still knocks me out.)
Folk-ish hits that year included "Dominique" by the Singing Nun; "Blowin' In The Wind" and "Puff The Magic Dragon" by Peter Paul and Mary; "If I Had A Hammer" by Trini Lopez; and Walk Right In by The Rooftop Singers.
Inescapable rock included "My Boyfriend's Back", "Heat Wave", and "The Bird's The Word". The Beatles' "Please Please Me" didn't hit till the next year, but my sister was an early fan of Bob Dylan, whose second album came out in 1963.
1964
I first saw the Beatles on the evening news (probably Walter Cronkite) in December 1963, which emphasized them shaking their moptops, and the crowds of screaming girls. They hit big in the US in February when they played Ed Sullivan. By August, Dylan would have given them their first marijuana.
The movie of "A Hard Day's Night" that year had a huge effect on me. The Beatles were charming but totally impertinent. I had no idea their sound had evolved out of black American R&B.
They delivered some seven albums in '63-64-65: Introducing The Beatles, Meet The Beatles!, The Beatles' Second Album, A Hard Day's Night, Something New, Beatles ´65, Beatles VI, and Help!. "Help" in 1965 was even better for me than HDN. (This was the period when my sixth grade photos were taken.)
I also liked Herman's Hermits. "The House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals was a little rough for me-- I was a notably androgynous child
A song I still love from 1964 was Girl From Ipanema sung by Astrud Gilberto [fanpage] with a sort of cool that foreshadowed New Wave and trip-hop.
My sister dates her discovery of Bob Dylan to a piece by Nat Hentoff in the New Yorker of 24 October 1964, called "Profiles: The Crackin', Shakin', Breakin' Sounds.", She went right out and bought his first three, sound unheard. I grew to love the second.
Roger Miller was the hillbillies' answer to the Beatles, with "King of the Road". (In 1966 Flowers On The Wall by the Statler Brothers was a much lamer white trash anthem.) The lounge scene segued into the spy scene via James Bond, and Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger".
Petula Clark replaced Leslie Gore as #1 songbird with "Downtown". The Supremes were huge. The Rolling Stones' "Get Off of My Cloud" only hinted at their not-at-all-nice anti-Beatles status.
Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" grated on me. 1966 brought the Beatles' hard-to-love period with "Nowhere Man", "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" on Rubber Soul (but I loved Norwegian Wood), "Yesterday" ...And Today, and Revolver (I loved Good Day Sunshine).
I liked a novelty record called They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Ha, and the tv series "Secret Agent" with its theme by Johnny Rivers [Flash tribute] that combined surfer guitar with the James Bond fad. (Bill Cosby was playing a hip CIA agent in "I Spy" [1965-67], and the Smothers Brothers had a hit variety show [1967-69] where they sang folk themselves, but had hip rock guests like Jefferson Airplane. They also launched Classical Gas by Mason Williams and the John-Denverish "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell in 1968.)
I can't remember if I'd switched to an anti-war stance quite yet when "The Ballad of the Green Berets" came out-- I know I had by the end of 1966. I watched the Mike Douglas show and suffered thru his treacly "The Men in My Little Girl's Life". "Ode to Billie Joe" was huge in 1967, and "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron", and I bought the '20s-retro Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band. (I think the latter was a spin-off from Tiny Tim...?)
My sister tells me I came home one day from eighth grade music class and announced that Ravel's Bolero was the greatest music ever written-- I never bought a copy though so maybe she crushed that idea with scorn. (Bo Derek in "10" was still a couple of decades away.)
The Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian was the pinnacle of cool with "Summer in the City", "What a Day for a Daydream", and "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind". I expect the version of "59th Street Bridge Song" that ran thru my head whenever things were going really well over the next decade, would have been Harper's Bazarre's not Simon & Garfunkle's.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album (I loved it all), and Yellow Submarine (mindlessly fun). The Beatles could do no wrong in this period, starting with the Feb67 single of "Strawberry Fields" (my favorite, debuted on Hollywood Palace with the first-ever music video [FAQ]). Apple Records released the angelic Mary Hopkin doing Those Were the Days.
My sister introduced me to Jefferson Airplane's mystical Surrealistic Pillow (Comin' Back To Me was my fave), and freaky After Bathing At Baxter's. I loved Donovan's albums Sunshine Superman and "Mellow Yellow" [tracks- oop] but by 1968's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" he was already off the track, into self-parody. (If you've only heard his hits, you've missed his best.) Cat Stevens' littleknow (and angry!) first album Matthew & Son. Cream's Disraeli Gears. The Who Sell Out
Laura Nyro was writing some incredible music, like "Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Stony End" (other samples) (recent tribute album)
Bubblegum rock grew out of the Monkees, with "Yummy Yummy Yummy" by the Ohio Express and "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies. Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach ruled the radio, eg with "Do You Know the Way to San Jose". The Cowsills inspired a very MOR sort of family-oriented rock, including Bobby Sherman, the Partridge Family, and the early Jackson Five..
Dylan emerged from his motorcycle-accident hiatus with a smoother sound I liked much better-- John Wesley Harding in 1968, Nashville Skyline in 1969, and New Morning in 1970 (samples from all three). The Band's 1968 Music from Big Pink and 1969 The Band. Blind Faith was another favorite from 1969.
Abbey Road was a masterpiece, Hey Jude (the album) was odds and ends, Let It Be seemed posthumous, but Across the Universe still blew me away.
Jefferson Airplane did an unforgettable version of Lather on the Smothers Brothers show.
I loved the music from Hair, which took sexual lyrics to a new level. There was an evolution of psychedelic-macho street-cred from Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints" to The Zombies "She's Not There" and "Time of the Season", the Troggs' "Wild Thing" to Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride", thru Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale" and Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" and "White Room", Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit" and the Doors' sinister "Light My Fire", "People Are Strange", "Hello I Love You" and "Touch Me". The Rolling Stones were briefly psychedelic with their Satanic Majesties Request album (the only Stones I ever really liked). Kenny Rogers may have fooled some people with his pseudo drug-nightmare Just Dropped In.
By 1970 it was starting to look like the wages of rock credibility was death. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones drowned in July 1969. In December 1969 there was the Hell's Angels murder at the Altamont rock concert, and that same month Manson's hippie commune was arrested for the Sharon Tate murders. In May 1970, Nixon's goons killed four peace protestors at Kent State. In September Jimi Hendrix OD'd, followed in October by Janis Joplin, and the following July by Jim Morrison.
Radio in 1969 and 70 was dominated by the Three Dog Night/ Creedence Clearwater Revival/ Blood, Sweat and Tears macho street cred but mostly NON-psychedelic sound, which was pleasant enough in its way. Randy Newman's "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by Three Dog Night and "Looking Out My Back Door" by Creedence Clearwater Revival were my favorites.
Badfinger made amazing music with Come And Get It, No Matter What, "Day After Day" and Baby Blue. I associate Badfinger with my high school senior lounge [memoir].
McCartney's cherries album remains one of my alltime faves. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Deja Vu was a small miracle.
For me, 1970 was a banner year for pop rock. Indiana Wants Me by R. Dean Taylor still seems like brilliant songwriting to me. Other hits that have held up well: "Spill the Wine", "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry, "Reflections of My Life" by Marmalade, "Ooh Child" by The Five Stairsteps, "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor, "Lay Down" by Melanie, "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "He Ain't Heavy; He's My Brother" by The Hollies, and the inescapable "Snowbird" by Anne Murray.
Even the shlock that was unbearable at the time has some credible sincerity in retrospect: "We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters; "Cracklin' Rosie" by Neil Diamond; "Candida" by Dawn; "Patches" by Clarence Carter; and "I'd Like to Make it With You" by Bread.
For some reason, practically the only band I ever saw in concert was Jefferson Airplane, on many occasions, doing their rabble-rousing Volunteers stuff. The Woodstock soundtrack was another of my faves, and the Who's Tommy.
Warner-Reprise did a series of 'loss leader' anthologies [background] [tracks] starting with 1969's 'Songbook' (for $2 postpaid!) which introduced me to Zappa, the Fugs, Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, and many many other artists.
I visited my sister at college during the first Earth Day (May 1 1970) where she introduced me to the Firesign Theatre's "Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him" (not at Amazon!??) and How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere At All. (1970's "Don't Crush that Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers" and "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus" also seem to be oop!??)
The first Incredible String Band albums I bought were "I Looked Up" and "U" (both oop?) but I quickly caught up with their classic 1966-69 stuff: first album with Clive, 5000 Spirits, their masterpiece Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, the double album "Wee Tam & the Big Huge" (oop?), and Changing Horses. All of these have songs that made enormous impressions. [my ISB fanpage]
The Jesus-freak fad was anticipated by 1969's "Oh Happy Day" and Norman Greenbaum's 1970 Spirit in the Sky, but really took off in 1971 with "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Put Your Hand in The Hand". 1972 brought "Godspell", and Seals and Croft's "Summer Breeze" (actually Baha'i).
John Lennon blew me away in 1970 with his first solo album, which I always think of as the Primal Scream album.
rock's identity crisis
"My Sweet Lord" George Harrison (1971) "Peace Train" Cat Stevens (1971) "Treat Her Like a Lady" Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose (1971) "Imagine" John Lennon (1971) "I Am, I Said" Neil Diamond (1971) "I'll Take You There" Staple Singers (1972) "Live and Let Die" Wings (1973) "Give Me Love" George Harrison (1973) "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" John Lennon (1974) "Cat's In the Cradle" Harry Chapin (1974) "Haven't Got Time For The Pain" Carly Simon (1974) "No No Song" Ringo Starr (1975)
"Instant Karma" John Lennon (1970) "Cecelia" Simon and Garfunkel (1970) "Holly Holy" .Neil Diamond (1970) "Give Me Just a Little More Time" The Chairmen of the Board (1970) "No Time" The Guess Who (1970) "25 or 6 to 4" .Chicago (1970) "It Don't Matter to Me" Bread (1970) "Up the Ladder and to the Roof" The Supremes (1970) "Take a Letter Maria" R. B. Greaves (1970) "Tears of a Clown" .Miracles (1970) "Montego Bay" Bobby Bloom (1970) "My Baby Loves Lovin' " White Plains (1970)
Of all the great music of 1970, my favorite was probably Fraser & DeBolt's first album (aka "With Ian Guenther") which went out of print soon after I wore out my first copy. It was blisteringly passionate Canadian art-folk-rock that I discovered via a concert video on Canadian TV. Daisy DeBolt has a homepage including some current songs. Allan Fraser has been pretty quiet.
"It's Too Late" Carole King (1971) "I Feel the Earth Move" Carole King (1971) "That's the Way I've Always Heard it Should Be" Carley Simon (1971)
Sep 1971 Bark
1971 "American Pie" released (reached #1 in 72)
Aug 71: Concert for Bangla Desh
1971: Carole King's Tapestry
1972: Alice Cooper
F&D's second album
Incredible String Band Liquid Acrobat As Regards The Air (1971) Earthspan (1972)
Michael Hurley Armchair Boogie (1971) Hi Fi Snock Uptown (1972)
Joni Mitchell Blue (1971)
Song Cycle (1968)
Neil Young 1969 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 1969 After The Gold Rush 1970
For the Roses (1972)
"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" Paul McCartney (1971) "Lonely Days" The Bee Gees (1971) "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" Joan Baez (1971) "Chick a Boom" Daddy Dewdrop (1971) "Me and Bobby McGee" Janis Joplin (1971) "Mr. Bojangles" Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1971) "Won't Get Fooled Again" The Who (1971) "If You Could Read My Mind" Gordon Lightfoot (1971) "Another Day" Paul McCartney (1971) "American Pie" Don McLean (1971) "Signs" Five Man Electrical Band (1971)
"Alone Again (Naturally)" Gilbert O'Sullivan (1972) "Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard" Paul Simon (1972) "Mother and Child Reunion" Paul Simon (1972) "Vincent" Don McLean (1972)
"Candy Man" Sammy Davis, Jr. (1972)
"Horse With No Name" America (1972)
"Brandy" Looking Glass (1972)
"Nights In White Satin" The Moody Blues (1972)
"Heart of Gold" Neil Young (1972)
"I Am Woman" Helen Reddy (1972)
"Song Sung Blue" Neil Diamond (1972)
"Sylvia's Mother" Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show (1972)
"School's Out" Alice Cooper (1972)
"Morning Has Broken" Cat Stevens (1972)
"Taxi" Harry Chapin (1972)
"Killing Me Softly With His Song" by Charles Gimble and Norman Fox (written about McLean) was a hit in 1973 for Roberta Flack
1973: Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"
"Killing Me Softly With His Song" Roberta Flack (1973) "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" Elton John (1973) "All I Know" Art Garfunkel (1973)
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" Dawn (1973) "Crocodile Rock" Elton John (1973) "You're So Vain" Carly Simon (1973) "Frankenstein" The Edgar Winter Group (1973) "Daniel" Elton John (1973) "Dueling Banjos" Deliverance Soundtrack (1973) "Kodachrome" Paul Simon (1973) "Stuck In The Middle With You" Stealers Wheel (1973) "Will It Go Round in Circles" Billy Preston (1973) "Rocky Mountain High" John Denver (1973) "Reeling In The Years" Steely Dan (1973)
"Bennie and the Jets" Elton John (1974) "The Entertainer" Marvin Hamlisch (1974) "Tell me Something Good" Rufus (1974) "When Will I See You Again" The Three Degrees (1974) "Midnight at the Oasis" Maria Muldaur (1974) "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" Steely Dan (1974) "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" Elton John (1974) "I Can Help" Billy Swan (1974)
"Band on the Run" Paul McCartney and Wings (1974) "Mockingbird" Carly Simon and James Taylor (1974) "Help Me" Joni Mitchell (1974)
"Lovin' You" Minnie Riperton (1975) "Have You Never Been Mellow" Olivia Newton-John (1975) "I'm Not In Love" 10 cc (1975) "Jackie Blue" Ozark Mountain Daredevils (1975) "Heat Wave" Linda Ronstadt (1975)
I'm a total sucker for the sound of Toni Tenille's anti-gravity vocal on Muskrat Love (non-streaming complete)
"When Will I Be Loved" Linda Ronstadt (1975) "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" John Denver (1975) "Wildfire" Michael Murphey (1975) "Miracles" Jefferson Starship (1975)
Blue Oyster Cult Don't Fear The Reaper (non-streaming complete) still seems to me a proof of Rilke's association of death and beauty.
No Ruinous Feud
(1973)
Hard Rope & Silken Twine
(1973)
Court and Spark
(1974)
Paul Simon
Cleo Laine's romantic 1973 "I Am a Song"
The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)
1974: Bob Marley "Natty Dread"
1975: Bowie "Fame"
1976? Springsteen on both Time and Newsweek
1976 Stevie Wonder "Songs in the Key of Life"
1975
Have You Never Been Mellow ~ Olivia Newton-John
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) ~ The 4 Seasons
Love To Love You Baby ~ Donna Summer
You Light Up My Life ~ Debbie Boone
Long Journey (1976)
Country and Jimmy Carter
"And I have not been known as the Saint of San Joaquin... come over closer now, and let me show you what I mean."
Six Days on the Road
As a guy who loves to sing along with Joni Mitchell, I appreciated Michael Franks' androgynous vocals on The Art of Tea ("Popsicle Toes" and "Monkey See Monkey Do" were my faves).
Bob Welch's songs on Fleetwood Mac's Mystery to Me (Emerald Eyes, Hypnotized)
1977: Hotel California - Eagles
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Jamestown (NY) Food Co-op crowd got together on Saturday nights to watch SNL, including Rickie Lee Jones' and Kate Bush's US debuts.
We also followed a local bluegrass band that inspired much wild dancing.
1977: We Are The Champions - Queen
1977 Elvis Presley dies
1977 Cat Stevens converts to Islam
The winter of 77-78 I was working in the soy dairy at the Farm, and the radio was always on with the commercial Nashville album-oriented station-- Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steely Dan, Tom Petty, Foreigner, Billy Joel, Jackson Browne
Baker Street ~ Gerry Rafferty. mp3 at 70-ies.
Elvis Costello
1978 BeeGees "Saturday Night Fever"
1978: The Band's Last Waltz
1978: Village People "Macho Man"
1979: Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
1978: Elvis Costello's "Watching the Detectives"
Joe Jackson, Graham Parker
Squeeze
Hejira
(1976)
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
(1977)
Mingus (1979)
Jump! (1984)
Roches
You're the One That I Want ~ Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta
In 1979-80 I was living in a black neighborhood in Buffalo.
Heart of Glass ~ Blondie
My Sharona ~ The Knack.
Another One Bites the Dust ~ Queen
Funkytown ~ Lipps, Inc.
Breakdancing was spawning early rap, that was so lame and nursery-rhyme-ish I thought it was a doomed aberration.
(Just Like) Starting Over ~ John Lennon
Double Fantasy, Lennon shot
Devo, B-52s
haircut bands, Boy George
Bette Davis Eyes ~ Kim Carnes
In the early 80s I had MTV for a year or two.
Rapture ~ Blondie
The Tide Is High ~ Blondie
Woman ~ John Lennon
Centerfold ~ The J. Geils Band
Jack & Diane ~ John Cougar
All Night Long (All Night) ~ Lionel Richie Billie Jean ~ Michael Jackson Every Breath You Take ~ The Police
Pretenders
Flashdance... What a Feeling ~ Irene Cara
1982: Michael Jackson's Thriller
1982: Rock The Casbah - Clash
I also played host to some Deadheads for an eye-opening week.
1983: 1999 - Prince
1983: Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Relax"
Smart Bar
Never Say Never
1984: Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
1984: Like a Virgin Madonna
1984: Julian Lennon "Valotte"
Money For Nothing ~ Dire Straits
Straight Up ~ Paula Abdul
Cyndi Lauper
July 85: Geldorf's Live Aid
1986: Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
Kate Bush
Hal Willner
My first introduction to Hal Willner happened in the middle of the night in the middle of the Eighties, listening to Northwestern's WNUR radio station. They were playing an instrumental track that turned out to be a Thelonius Monk composition called "Work" played brilliantly by Chris Spedding and (!) Peter Frampton, off a tribute album for Monk called "That's The Way I Feel Now" ...produced by Hal Willner.
1987: With Or Without You - U2
Get Me High jazz club
Jenny Magnus
1989 Straight Up - Paula Abdul
Amy Denio
dance parties, mix tapes, Siberry epiphany
Tori Amos
Stewart/Gaskin
Mary Coughlan
Marta Sebestyen
The Prisoner's Song (1989 w/Muzsikas)
Muzsikas (1990 w/Muzsikas)
Blues for Transylvania (1991 w/Muzsikas)
Apocrypha (1992)
Tired and Emotional (1985)
Under the Influence (1987)
Meat Puppets
Suzanne Vega
The Monk tribute was 1984, three years after a now-out-of-print tribute to Fellini's wonderful collaborator Nino Rota, called "Amarcord".
1988 brought a tribute to Disney film tunes, "Stay Awake"
"Lost in the Stars", a devastatingly harrowing Kurt Weill tribute.
1991: Smells like Teen Spirit Nirvana
1992: Sinead rips up Pope pic on SNL
Jellyeye and Family Problem
1992 brought "Weird Nightmare", a Charlie Mingus tribute
1994 Cobain's suicide
trip-hop
1995 Alanis
Trent Reznor
1997: first Lillith tour
1998: Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Hedningarna
Elliott Smith
Pinetop Seven
Little Red Car Wreck
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