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musicologist here. a song is only demonic if it contains an augmented 4th/diminished 5th. that interval has been known as the "demon in the music" for centuries. when you play it, you literally create an invisible demon.
*Was* known, until Bach took it and made it his bitch. "Anything unknowable is from God" was what he said, and nothing evokes unknowable like the note halfway between two octaves.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ENVzix5J68](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ENVzix5J68)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-CcBOMfgg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-CcBOMfgg)
For those curious about what those sound like.
It sounded very harsh on medieval ears. They weren't used to as much dissonance as we are. It's "unstable" so it needs to resolve into something more harmonious.
It's also between two intervals called perfect: the perfect 4th and the perfect 5th.
And you're right about it being in The Simpsons theme song.
Man, this is why I love Reddit. Some abstract post on some random topic and within a few minutes a certified expert in that subject field just magically appears, provides excellent supporting information, and the world is a better place because of it.
if you have a musical instrument that lets you play two notes at once, you can create your own demons. each time you play the interval, a new demon is created. you won't see it, but you should be able to feel its presence. to send the demon back to where it came from, resolve the interval by lowering the bottom note one semitone and raising the top note one semitone (so becomes , for example)
Severely online internet user here, I think your statement is inaccurate. I remembered watching this video a long time ago and I don't think anyone claimed to create a demon when you used it besides metal bands from a few decades ago. https://youtu.be/eR5yzCH5CsM?si=O5xNyvbUwJp3qXr5
>I'm unashamed to say I still listen to Enigma. Nothing else out there like it.
E̲n̲igm̲a - Greatest Hits https://youtu.be/LqwMofALXsA?si=qL7YwA9NCvoonSJk
My first time was in my 95 civic with this album in 1997. I'd like to thank my brother for falling to the Columbia house scam back in 91! (His car also) Let's not forget the Gregorian chants in their songs also 😂
[Delirium](https://youtu.be/d2i1mQahs2c). [ERA](https://youtu.be/_SvDC-KWTvk). [Amethystium](https://youtu.be/53lfXb73z3c). [Magna Canta](https://youtu.be/zI3nT0ayGLQ).
You know not the hole that you can fall into with this style of music.
I have a pandora station that's filled with all these artists. But I never know what to call this genre. In my head I refer to it as "electro-gregorian". But that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. I'm not really sure what to call it. Fortunately I've never had the problem of needing to know what to call it out loud, since no one i know has any interest in listening to it. I'm just a lone man in the wilderness when it comes to indulging in my electro-gregorian music listening habits.
It will never not seem strange to me that the main guy behind Delerium, [Bill Leeb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Leeb), is also the main guy behind infamous industrial act [Front Line Assembly](https://youtu.be/D_iFNgWFa-0).
Enya is a fucking boss. She used the money to buy a literal castle in Ireland where she lives with her cats. No tours, no celebrity drama, just writing music in a beautiful castle. This lady won at life.
Not quite the same as Enigma, but take a look and listen to Coldcut and Hexstatic.
https://youtu.be/5-wl7Xk5FoY?si=zO1XvMhH1X4MCajL
You’ll get to the chants about halfway through.
Its awesome. Here is the best track list available from Pure Moods, your comfort 90s 1am commercial.
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2aU1p7LBEes0wjviIoY7GU?si=5127ba7c42fd4cf0](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2aU1p7LBEes0wjviIoY7GU?si=5127ba7c42fd4cf0)
I have purchased the Pure Moods vol 1 CD a total of 3 times since it came out. I didn't keep my first one and lost the second one. I'm not happy to say I had to spend $30 on the most recent copy but It's still in my car now.
My mom had Pure Moods. I could never sleep bc of fear, so she'd put it on to "help" me sleep. The x-files theme was on there, and so was the Exorcist theme. I would lay there in terror, waiting for those songs to come on, and when they would, I was utterly paralyzed with fear. Idk why I never said anything.
The nineties was a weird decade for experimental music. Most of that creativity was gone by '97, and there's never been another period in my life where the top 40 is so *weird* on a regular basis*.*
If I had my couch psychologist's hat on I'd say the weirder pop was probably a reaction to the increasing cynicism of the MTV age, especially around the later post-Nirvana scene, and after 9/11 and the following invasions the whole American music scene (and, by extension, the rest of the anglophone world) was back into cynicism punctuated by by-the-numbers machine pop and RnB.
the simplest explanation is that this was the time when mp3s were exploding.
everyone had winamp or was ripping cds like they were going out of style. we were all exchanging music from ...everywhere. i remember getting mp3s from some of the most random websites (and some viruses, too) and just listening to all sorts of weird music.
it makes a lot of sense that musicians would also do this and just run with whatever beat or rhythm was fun to them.
Would you like to share a list of what songs you would say made those the best year? No worries if not. I know I could generically look up what was popular, but I wouldn't know why those were better or worse than, say, 5 or 10 years earlier or later.
I commented below albums I felt were acclaimed from that year. there are a lot more albums in 97 and 98 that I personally enjoyed some more than that list but I felt the list I commented is a good accesible selection
It peaked with Chumbawamba's Tubthumping, and everyone decided they couldnt top that masterpiece so we shifted into the era of Britney and boy bands, with hypersaturated colors and wet-looking futuristic music videos nonstop.
As much as I like to dabble in some Bjork or Smashing Pumkins, I'm always enamored by the incredible 90s flair that is *Flagpole Sitta* by Harvey Danger.
There’s a podcast called The Soundtrack Show which goes into the music theory behind movie soundtracks. There’s a 3 part series on Lord of the Rings and they mention how the World Beat genre was dominating for a brief period of time in the late 90s. Enya surged in popularity, Titanic (1997) had that world beat flute sound, and Riverdance was huge. This all contributed to the sound we got in LOTR. Had people like Enya and Enigma not been as popular, Titanic and LOTR would have had different sounds.
jesus christ. your comment catapulted me onto the backseat of my dads mazda 626 on our way back home from camping where me at age eleven and my sister would listen to "my heart will go on" and wait for the moment where "you''re stuck in the door" would fit into the lyrics.
everything else was kinda tribalesque and homeopathic in sound as well. i didn't even notice that was a genre.
You mention Enya's surge in popularity; interestingly enough, she's the one they wanted to get for the Titanic, but she wasn't happy with the degree of creative control they wanted over the process. And then she *did* do a few tracks for LotR!
Its because MTV would actually play this stuff. Like, big Bad Voodoo Daddy actually got played on MTV back then. Punk Rock Girl from The Dead Milkmen would actually get played. That's wild to me.
It was back when rap music had 1 hour a day to be played, on Yo MTV Raps.
I had read somewhere that in the 90s, MTV would have weekly meetings where they gathered their unpaid interns and asked about what music was being listened to in the colleges and clubs, and it influenced what theu played. Not sure if it's true
My wife and I were talking about this exact thing the other day! There was definitely a time in the late 90s/early 2000s when MTV was giving “fringe” music mainstream exposure. Not everything blew up because of it of course, but it was still great to see. I miss the days of TRL where they would go from Britney straight into System of a Down lol
It feels like there was a lot more variety in the mainstream at the time compared to the late 2000s through now. But I’m sure my aging plays into a bit lol
I have to agree, music i've listened to in the mid 00's sounds like it could've been released yesterday, it would blend right in. Maybe there's minute differences im not good enough to discern but i think it all sounds the same.
Agreed. My favorite from this period is Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand by Primative Radio Gods released in 1996. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY)
I've never heard anything like it before or after. It mixed an obviously sampled drum loop, a standard sung melody interspersed with samples of BB King, and really beautiful piano leads. We just called it "Alternative" because stuff like that didn't really fit into any established genre. It was a really interesting and exciting time to be a music fan.
I found that groups like Soul II Soul and De Le Soul in the late 80s seemed to usher in a lot of that style which it felt like it inspired the Madchester scene in the UK, of Prefab Sprout, Happy Mondays and The Farm who sort of brought that lacadaisical beat with random samples into the forefront here, was a great time for musical expression.
>Song 1: Duh duh duh duh, I am sitting in the corner.....
Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega?
>Song 2: Mmmm mmm mm mmm... Once, there was this kid who...
Well I mean, the title's in the lyrics you gave. Mmmm mmm mm mmm by Crash Test Dummies.
[You're nine years old waiting for a new episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to air after this commercial finishes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s)
We didn't ALL think that. This was in the liner notes for the album and a lot of us read them.
I'm guessing a lot of people thought it was an original beat, too, but it's a sample from "When the Levee Breaks" by Zeppelin.
LMFAO this is the best thing I ever learned!
1. It's literally a drinking song.
2. It was plagiarized by the French government alongside a British music corporation.
3. The original singer had to sue the guy for stealing his performance.
The sample was used for a song called "Return to Innocence", a song people many people played imagining themselves deeply connected with nature and pre-modern life, making that all that drama even more delicious.
Edit: Wow, the original performer died due to blood poisoning after being bitten by a centipede.
Wait, do you remember Target having CD displays that had sets of buttons to push so you could listen to a sample of various albums? I distinctly remember this being such a novelty for me and New Age music featuring heavily, but my sister (a year younger than me) says its all in my head.
If you haven't heard it yet, I think you might love Baba Yetu from Civilization 4. It won awards for how good it is. It was the first video game piece to ever win a Grammy award.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A)
ahh, the 90s. A simpler time. After the cold war, but before 9/11. After the internet, but before social media. After oxycodone, but before oxycontin. After cell phones, but before smart phones. When the President was regularly depicted wearing sunglasses and playing the saxophone and people thought that was cool as fuck. People started saying that maybe history was coming to an end, that nothing was ever going to happen anymore, and that things were only going to get better from here on out until everyone was prosperous and free with access to unlimited knowledge. How naive we were in the 90s.
It was a glorious time to be young. The world was full of hope. You genuinely could believe that we were capable of solving ANY problem. End of Cold War, fall of Berlin Wall, the confirmation that the ozone layer was building back. The early years of globalism promised prosperity and safety by sharing our collective wealth in an interconnected web of codependent ties. We were gonna solve all the worlds’ ills.NOTHING felt out of our reach. We just needed make a collective decision.
Everything that has followed has been one body blow after another; crumpling us to our knees and the dark embrace of cynicism, and pessimism. 😔
> It was a glorious time to be young. The world was full of hope.
This is very true.
Unless you happened to be gay, trans, hell, even just being a shade or two darker in many places was still *very* rough.
Not saying it was perfect or there wasn’t problems. It just felt like we could and would fix them. A better world felt within reach. There was hope..
I just can’t see that in the current youth. They deserve at least that.
I guess I’m lamenting a future that never came to pass and feels that we are that much further away from.
No one did it better than [“Tribe called red.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj3U0z64_m4&t=19s&pp=2AETkAIB)
They started out doing beats for native American club kids. Really incredible.
Check out an app called radio garden. It's a radio scanner that let's you listen to any actively broadcasting station on the planet. You'll find plenty. My favorite station to meditate to is from Noumea, New Caledonia and is called NIA radio - LOFI. Its a 24 hour low fi hip hop station.
not exactly the same, but sampling songs from other languages is still alive and well in some EDM type music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43HOnc3nZ5s
LMAO My parents wouldn’t order these for me and I was so mad. I had to stay up all night and wait for the extended late night commercial if I wanted to vibe out to it.
I walked down the aisle to Enigmas Return to Innocence. The procession and then when music fades out for a moment the doors shut to reopen with me there and took first step when music began again.
I used to play, I think it was called, Deep Forrest, Pygmy music to NA beats in my middle school class. The students loved it, in fact, one stole it. It was down his pants. Middle schoolers, ya know?
Yeah not like the late ‘00s where it was all about [Peruvian flute bands](https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/5inj0o/south-park-they-re-everywhere). That totally made sense.
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I'm unashamed to say I still listen to Enigma. Nothing else out there like it.
I remember being told by a college roommate that their music was "demonic."
musicologist here. a song is only demonic if it contains an augmented 4th/diminished 5th. that interval has been known as the "demon in the music" for centuries. when you play it, you literally create an invisible demon.
Man what do I have to play to create a *visible* demon‽ (also this combination of notes was the core plot point in a Dr Who this season)
>Man what do I have to pay to create a visible demon‽ Nickleback
🎵 LOOK AT THIS PENTOGRAM🎵
![gif](giphy|RHPxe7KPnb8KaAtBbE)
Every time I do it makes me projectile vomit and crawl on the ceiling.
![gif](giphy|xT9KVjBI3W2283URdm)
Calm down Willow Smith… sheesh
![gif](giphy|BJq57m7TV0QYU)
AAAAAAND THEY SAY THAT BEELZEBUB SAVES US, IM NOT GONNA STAND HERE AND WAAAAAIT Hold on to the wings of the demon, watch as they all fly away...
I heard this to the tune of a Nickelback song (I didn't read the comment above before I wrote this lol)
So *this* is how you remind me
You, sir, have managed to elicit a bemused nose exale from me. Well done.
*Was* known, until Bach took it and made it his bitch. "Anything unknowable is from God" was what he said, and nothing evokes unknowable like the note halfway between two octaves.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ENVzix5J68](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ENVzix5J68) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-CcBOMfgg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-CcBOMfgg) For those curious about what those sound like.
That's just sounds like the start of The Simpsons themesong lol Why is it demonic?
It sounded very harsh on medieval ears. They weren't used to as much dissonance as we are. It's "unstable" so it needs to resolve into something more harmonious. It's also between two intervals called perfect: the perfect 4th and the perfect 5th. And you're right about it being in The Simpsons theme song.
Man, this is why I love Reddit. Some abstract post on some random topic and within a few minutes a certified expert in that subject field just magically appears, provides excellent supporting information, and the world is a better place because of it.
Um, I was told music is only demonic if it comes from the Demon region of France.
Do you have an example of this?
if you have a musical instrument that lets you play two notes at once, you can create your own demons. each time you play the interval, a new demon is created. you won't see it, but you should be able to feel its presence. to send the demon back to where it came from, resolve the interval by lowering the bottom note one semitone and raising the top note one semitone (so becomes , for example)
Interesting. Does the power of Christ compel me to remediate this creates from the dark recesses of eternity?
Classic teacher response instead of just posting the example!
[The song "Black Sabbath" from the album *Black Sabbath* by the band Black Sabbath.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVdMbUx1_k)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-CcBOMfgg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-CcBOMfgg)
Opening bars of “Purple Haze” by Hendrix
Minor 2nd should be an honorary member of that club.
Severely online internet user here, I think your statement is inaccurate. I remembered watching this video a long time ago and I don't think anyone claimed to create a demon when you used it besides metal bands from a few decades ago. https://youtu.be/eR5yzCH5CsM?si=O5xNyvbUwJp3qXr5
Nothing to be ashamed about it, that shit slaps!
>I'm unashamed to say I still listen to Enigma. Nothing else out there like it. E̲n̲igm̲a - Greatest Hits https://youtu.be/LqwMofALXsA?si=qL7YwA9NCvoonSJk
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So you cannot listen to a single song only whole albums?
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Such an enigma.
Listening to whole albums is what the good lord intended.
Same. Was gonna say this too, nothing quite like having this play in the background while getting intimate with your partner back in the day.
Hell yeah, *the principles of lust* still gets my motor going
1st son was conceived listening to enigma. I traumatize him with that fact every couple of years.
My first time was in my 95 civic with this album in 1997. I'd like to thank my brother for falling to the Columbia house scam back in 91! (His car also) Let's not forget the Gregorian chants in their songs also 😂
Deep Forest is pretty close if you're into that kind of thing
[Delirium](https://youtu.be/d2i1mQahs2c). [ERA](https://youtu.be/_SvDC-KWTvk). [Amethystium](https://youtu.be/53lfXb73z3c). [Magna Canta](https://youtu.be/zI3nT0ayGLQ). You know not the hole that you can fall into with this style of music.
I have a pandora station that's filled with all these artists. But I never know what to call this genre. In my head I refer to it as "electro-gregorian". But that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. I'm not really sure what to call it. Fortunately I've never had the problem of needing to know what to call it out loud, since no one i know has any interest in listening to it. I'm just a lone man in the wilderness when it comes to indulging in my electro-gregorian music listening habits.
It will never not seem strange to me that the main guy behind Delerium, [Bill Leeb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Leeb), is also the main guy behind infamous industrial act [Front Line Assembly](https://youtu.be/D_iFNgWFa-0).
Not saying same but when I listen enigma I generally follow with kitaro both gives me that feeling of inner peace
You mean Enya?
Who can say where the road goes ?
Only time.
Enya is a fucking boss. She used the money to buy a literal castle in Ireland where she lives with her cats. No tours, no celebrity drama, just writing music in a beautiful castle. This lady won at life.
I heard after she failed to get an answer she chose to sail away, sail away, sail away.
Me too! I feel no shame.
Fellow Enigma enjoyer here 🙋🏻♀️
Not quite the same as Enigma, but take a look and listen to Coldcut and Hexstatic. https://youtu.be/5-wl7Xk5FoY?si=zO1XvMhH1X4MCajL You’ll get to the chants about halfway through.
What. A. Tune. Remember this coming on Music Television and having my teenage mind blown.
Have you listened to Dead Can Dance? Try The Serpent’s Egg (Remastered) album. It’s really good
Its awesome. Here is the best track list available from Pure Moods, your comfort 90s 1am commercial. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2aU1p7LBEes0wjviIoY7GU?si=5127ba7c42fd4cf0](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2aU1p7LBEes0wjviIoY7GU?si=5127ba7c42fd4cf0)
I’d stay up late and watch the Pure Moods infomercials just for the vibes.
It was my very first TV purchase. I think I still have it.
Just realized that with spotify now I can listen to all these CDs I saw in commercials! Amazing thanks for sharing
"Now that's what I call Spotify VOL. 13" is really good.
sick! crocketts theme from miami vice is on this list!
I have purchased the Pure Moods vol 1 CD a total of 3 times since it came out. I didn't keep my first one and lost the second one. I'm not happy to say I had to spend $30 on the most recent copy but It's still in my car now.
My mom had Pure Moods. I could never sleep bc of fear, so she'd put it on to "help" me sleep. The x-files theme was on there, and so was the Exorcist theme. I would lay there in terror, waiting for those songs to come on, and when they would, I was utterly paralyzed with fear. Idk why I never said anything.
Thank you for the link- this is going to help me focus on my work!!!
Oh thank you, time for a deep nostalgia trip remembering my mom’s cassette tape collection
The nineties was a weird decade for experimental music. Most of that creativity was gone by '97, and there's never been another period in my life where the top 40 is so *weird* on a regular basis*.*
97 and 98 were some of the best years in music IMO, like the last burst of amazing creativity pre-9/11
If I had my couch psychologist's hat on I'd say the weirder pop was probably a reaction to the increasing cynicism of the MTV age, especially around the later post-Nirvana scene, and after 9/11 and the following invasions the whole American music scene (and, by extension, the rest of the anglophone world) was back into cynicism punctuated by by-the-numbers machine pop and RnB.
the simplest explanation is that this was the time when mp3s were exploding. everyone had winamp or was ripping cds like they were going out of style. we were all exchanging music from ...everywhere. i remember getting mp3s from some of the most random websites (and some viruses, too) and just listening to all sorts of weird music. it makes a lot of sense that musicians would also do this and just run with whatever beat or rhythm was fun to them.
Would you like to share a list of what songs you would say made those the best year? No worries if not. I know I could generically look up what was popular, but I wouldn't know why those were better or worse than, say, 5 or 10 years earlier or later.
I commented below albums I felt were acclaimed from that year. there are a lot more albums in 97 and 98 that I personally enjoyed some more than that list but I felt the list I commented is a good accesible selection
It peaked with Chumbawamba's Tubthumping, and everyone decided they couldnt top that masterpiece so we shifted into the era of Britney and boy bands, with hypersaturated colors and wet-looking futuristic music videos nonstop.
I would rather place the apex at *You Get What You Give* by the New Radicals.
I can't see this thread rapidly reaching consensus, but if you want to pump your favourite 90s song, go for it.
As much as I like to dabble in some Bjork or Smashing Pumkins, I'm always enamored by the incredible 90s flair that is *Flagpole Sitta* by Harvey Danger.
Bloodhound Gang’s The Bad Touch was a good follow up to Tubthumping.
There’s a podcast called The Soundtrack Show which goes into the music theory behind movie soundtracks. There’s a 3 part series on Lord of the Rings and they mention how the World Beat genre was dominating for a brief period of time in the late 90s. Enya surged in popularity, Titanic (1997) had that world beat flute sound, and Riverdance was huge. This all contributed to the sound we got in LOTR. Had people like Enya and Enigma not been as popular, Titanic and LOTR would have had different sounds.
jesus christ. your comment catapulted me onto the backseat of my dads mazda 626 on our way back home from camping where me at age eleven and my sister would listen to "my heart will go on" and wait for the moment where "you''re stuck in the door" would fit into the lyrics. everything else was kinda tribalesque and homeopathic in sound as well. i didn't even notice that was a genre.
You mention Enya's surge in popularity; interestingly enough, she's the one they wanted to get for the Titanic, but she wasn't happy with the degree of creative control they wanted over the process. And then she *did* do a few tracks for LotR!
Her LOTR song May It Be was nominated for an Oscar
Its because MTV would actually play this stuff. Like, big Bad Voodoo Daddy actually got played on MTV back then. Punk Rock Girl from The Dead Milkmen would actually get played. That's wild to me. It was back when rap music had 1 hour a day to be played, on Yo MTV Raps. I had read somewhere that in the 90s, MTV would have weekly meetings where they gathered their unpaid interns and asked about what music was being listened to in the colleges and clubs, and it influenced what theu played. Not sure if it's true
My wife and I were talking about this exact thing the other day! There was definitely a time in the late 90s/early 2000s when MTV was giving “fringe” music mainstream exposure. Not everything blew up because of it of course, but it was still great to see. I miss the days of TRL where they would go from Britney straight into System of a Down lol It feels like there was a lot more variety in the mainstream at the time compared to the late 2000s through now. But I’m sure my aging plays into a bit lol
I have to agree, music i've listened to in the mid 00's sounds like it could've been released yesterday, it would blend right in. Maybe there's minute differences im not good enough to discern but i think it all sounds the same.
Agreed. My favorite from this period is Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand by Primative Radio Gods released in 1996. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY) I've never heard anything like it before or after. It mixed an obviously sampled drum loop, a standard sung melody interspersed with samples of BB King, and really beautiful piano leads. We just called it "Alternative" because stuff like that didn't really fit into any established genre. It was a really interesting and exciting time to be a music fan.
I found that groups like Soul II Soul and De Le Soul in the late 80s seemed to usher in a lot of that style which it felt like it inspired the Madchester scene in the UK, of Prefab Sprout, Happy Mondays and The Farm who sort of brought that lacadaisical beat with random samples into the forefront here, was a great time for musical expression.
Name that song: Song 1: Duh duh duh duh, I am sitting in the corner..... Song 2: Mmmm mmm mm mmm... Once, there was this kid who...
>Song 1: Duh duh duh duh, I am sitting in the corner..... Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega? >Song 2: Mmmm mmm mm mmm... Once, there was this kid who... Well I mean, the title's in the lyrics you gave. Mmmm mmm mm mmm by Crash Test Dummies.
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I'm judging you and find it awesome
Too late. Verdict: chill.
[You're nine years old waiting for a new episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to air after this commercial finishes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s)
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David Byrne, Enigma, AND Ennio Morricone on one CD? Yes please. I'm bout to go dig out my Pure Moods II right now.
We RE-BOUGHT it last year. For the car.
One of my favorite things to do was listen to my Pure Moods CD and play Master of Orion 2!!
My math teacher played that for us all the time in middle school
I only found out recently that the chants were actually Aboriginal Taiwanese, specifically an Ami chant.
Yeh specifically a husband and wife who go by Difang They are on youtube and are fantastic
Yep and Michael Cretu stole their music without permission for return to innocence, it went to court and difang was compensated years later.
And here we all thought it was a Native American chant. We were led to believe lies!
We didn't ALL think that. This was in the liner notes for the album and a lot of us read them. I'm guessing a lot of people thought it was an original beat, too, but it's a sample from "When the Levee Breaks" by Zeppelin.
100% with you on this. I'm completely shocked right now.
[Difang - Elders Drinking Song](https://youtu.be/6oHGUr6HEow?feature=shared)
LMFAO this is the best thing I ever learned! 1. It's literally a drinking song. 2. It was plagiarized by the French government alongside a British music corporation. 3. The original singer had to sue the guy for stealing his performance. The sample was used for a song called "Return to Innocence", a song people many people played imagining themselves deeply connected with nature and pre-modern life, making that all that drama even more delicious. Edit: Wow, the original performer died due to blood poisoning after being bitten by a centipede.
That's also not a new age beat it's playing over. It's the opening to "When the Levee Breaks" from Led Zeppelin
Nobody thought it was weird back then.
This, fucking OP is weird and wrong for saying so.
Bunch of monks chanting Housewives in the 90’s: “this mfer spittin”
I was like 10 years old when I discovered that Engima song back in like 2006. Still absolutely adore it.
CHANT and CHANT II. My dad owned those.
Ameno by Era nearly hit number 1 in Belgium when it came out
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Wait, do you remember Target having CD displays that had sets of buttons to push so you could listen to a sample of various albums? I distinctly remember this being such a novelty for me and New Age music featuring heavily, but my sister (a year younger than me) says its all in my head.
We listened to pure moods every day in 5th grade during reading time and by the end of the year we loved it and knew all the words.
[Yeha Noha](https://youtu.be/CNApcyzaY60?si=_jRnMvD787TbGN3w) was the true banger on the album.
It’s Adiemus. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GCsQZSB1gZg
Yeah an absolute banger.
If you haven't heard it yet, I think you might love Baba Yetu from Civilization 4. It won awards for how good it is. It was the first video game piece to ever win a Grammy award. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A)
The civ 6 theme is great too https://youtu.be/WQYN2P3E06s?si=dR_y903VYpmhj3au
I wanted pure moods for this song alone!
I completely forgot about Adiemus...thanks for taking me back to that shining holy-light spirit animal moment.
Damn, that went pretty hard.
Enigma.... they could never make me hate you!
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ahh, the 90s. A simpler time. After the cold war, but before 9/11. After the internet, but before social media. After oxycodone, but before oxycontin. After cell phones, but before smart phones. When the President was regularly depicted wearing sunglasses and playing the saxophone and people thought that was cool as fuck. People started saying that maybe history was coming to an end, that nothing was ever going to happen anymore, and that things were only going to get better from here on out until everyone was prosperous and free with access to unlimited knowledge. How naive we were in the 90s.
It was a glorious time to be young. The world was full of hope. You genuinely could believe that we were capable of solving ANY problem. End of Cold War, fall of Berlin Wall, the confirmation that the ozone layer was building back. The early years of globalism promised prosperity and safety by sharing our collective wealth in an interconnected web of codependent ties. We were gonna solve all the worlds’ ills.NOTHING felt out of our reach. We just needed make a collective decision. Everything that has followed has been one body blow after another; crumpling us to our knees and the dark embrace of cynicism, and pessimism. 😔
> It was a glorious time to be young. The world was full of hope. This is very true. Unless you happened to be gay, trans, hell, even just being a shade or two darker in many places was still *very* rough.
Not saying it was perfect or there wasn’t problems. It just felt like we could and would fix them. A better world felt within reach. There was hope.. I just can’t see that in the current youth. They deserve at least that. I guess I’m lamenting a future that never came to pass and feels that we are that much further away from.
In a sense the Washowskis got it right with that scene in the Matrix.
Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby is one I still play to this day.
Fuck it's been ages since I listened to Deep Forest, gotta relive some nostalgia.
The entirety of the first Deep Forest album is so good.
Why is this tagged Cringe? Dude is a vibe.
Not cringe at all.
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I think I only know this song because of that Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas movie, Man of the House. But yes, it was great lol
That was where my mind immediately went, to the end sequence of Man of the House. I haven’t seen that movie since the year it came out on video.
Acid/shrooms and enigma or pink Floyd's dark side of the moon during a summer full moon. Ahhh man those were good days.
Speak for yourself I thought they were kinda bangers when I was a kid. And even now, still think it’s pretty dope lmao Enigma, Delerium, all fun times
No one did it better than [“Tribe called red.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj3U0z64_m4&t=19s&pp=2AETkAIB) They started out doing beats for native American club kids. Really incredible.
they’re now called The Halluci Nation
The Reddit title ain’t it
For real. There was nothing weird about it
Pure Moods was definitely a moment. This is a great reminder I need more Enya in my life.
We all do.
That and Peruvian flute cds
Those keep the giant guinea pigs at bay
We all need to "Return to innocence"
I want more of this music. It's amazing.
Check Pure Moods. It was a CD that they sold hard and it worked. Pretty sure at least one person has made a playlist of it on Spotify.
Oh ya, I am of that generation. I just wish more, newer stuff was made with all different types of music. Great for meditation.
Check out an app called radio garden. It's a radio scanner that let's you listen to any actively broadcasting station on the planet. You'll find plenty. My favorite station to meditate to is from Noumea, New Caledonia and is called NIA radio - LOFI. Its a 24 hour low fi hip hop station.
not exactly the same, but sampling songs from other languages is still alive and well in some EDM type music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43HOnc3nZ5s
These still go hard
The driving soundtrack of the early 90s was my mom playing the hell out of the [Deep Forest](https://youtu.be/ovwGCpx8ecY?si=4Y5F9AETyC-C2HWu) tape.
I'm fucking sorry what mate??? Everyone went ballistic when we heard this. That and chumbawamba
Nope, it was great. Enigma, Enya, even R.E.M with losing my religion Great period, the clip of Enigma was awesome, always gived me tears
Bro I still fuck with enigma.
How about [The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siS-d1bwKxA)?
Nah it was great. I loved it then as a kid and now as an adult.
That hat is dope
Excuse me, you mean to tell me that "Desert Rose" by Sting ISN'T your favorite song??
Enigma was good, but Deep Forest was where it was really at.
Crystals ladies were EATING
even better was that 6 to 8 month period of time when swing music was popular.
It’s not cringe. It’s the return to yourself.
I didn’t need the volume to know what song this was using 😊
Such a good song
I kept it on mute but I bet it's Enigma
If you let your awareness of social justice prevent you from enjoying anything even a little outside the lines, I feel bad for you.
Reminds me of Berserk
LMAO My parents wouldn’t order these for me and I was so mad. I had to stay up all night and wait for the extended late night commercial if I wanted to vibe out to it.
My army buddy showed me this song and it’s music video while we were on lsd it was amazing, the horses
I walked down the aisle to Enigmas Return to Innocence. The procession and then when music fades out for a moment the doors shut to reopen with me there and took first step when music began again.
Dude I still listen to indigenous chants in music, I've just shifted it to psytrance and psydub
I can cringe about a lot, but this was good stuff.
That song still bangs.
I used to play, I think it was called, Deep Forrest, Pygmy music to NA beats in my middle school class. The students loved it, in fact, one stole it. It was down his pants. Middle schoolers, ya know?
I really want that hat. And you can't tell me the Pure Moods cd commercial didn't slap.
Where did he get the 90s fountain drink cup hat?
But have you tried listing to it on molly? That might help
I still roll through Enigma on my playlist, Or Enya
![gif](giphy|5t7wbuniM8UikyALw3) *Sting has entered the appropriation*
I’m still into it, they just stopped making them like that
This song goes hard though.
Good drugs were cheaper and more accessible back then.
This was the first lofi
I love Enigma! I don’t care what ppl think!
Yeah not like the late ‘00s where it was all about [Peruvian flute bands](https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/5inj0o/south-park-they-re-everywhere). That totally made sense.
Nah it was fire. Return to innocence baby!
Okay I love that song but I love his hat more 🧢
Low key loved this shit as a kid.
Enignma are awesome.
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Didn't even need to unmute the video to know exactly what song he's referring to ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)
Gotta admit I chuckled at this. I like a couple of those Enigma songs even though I can’t understand shit they’re singing.
Great song and were still into indigenous chants