90s Music Monday

The odd thing about 1995's "Batman Forever" - which basically tried its campy damnedest to undo the Gothic vision that Tim Burton's reboot had wrought - was that depite the fact that it was very, very bad (although not as bad as "Batman and Robin" to be fair) the soundtrack was actually pretty good, containing, as it did, offerings from PJ Harvey, Massive Attack, Nick Cave, The Flaming Lips (!!!), The Offspring (pre that whole 'turning into a novelty band' thing) and Michael Hutchence (pre that whole 'dead' thing).

One of the tracks was by Mazzy Star and, apropos of nothing else, I wanted to 'do' that today. But I was oddly shocked that there was no "Tell Me Now" on You Tube. Not even a "Video me and Marcy did for a class project with us just messin around" or a collage of images or a even a shitty web cam version called "Me doing a cover of Mazy Star LOL!1". Is it wrong that I'm weirded out now when that happens? It's kind of like when you go to Wikipedia to look something up and it's not in there and you're all like "Wut?" and then other people are like "Just write something about it" and I'm like "If I knew something about it I wouldn't be going to Wikipedia". Or something.

You "Fade Into You" instead which strongly reminds me of The Sunday's cover of "Wild Horses". There are shitty web-cam cover versions of that on YouTube. Some of them even seem to realise that it was a Stones song first.

Am I alone in wanting mini kilts to make a fashion comeback? Mini kilts and biker boots is a combo that just doesn't seem to get old for me. Oh, it's just me? I'll shut up then.

As an added bonus - do an image search for "Hope Sandoval" - the results pretty much define the phrase "Indie Wistful". You know Hope has read "Wuthering Heights" a whole bunch of times. Probably "Far From the Madding Crowd" too.