Adding notes on more 90s songs

Author: chrisglein

_drafts/2025-02-24-Mus101-U-Cant.md

@@ -13,9 +13,17 @@ series: Music Education
 ### Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice (1990)
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-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Ice_Baby
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-Stolen vs. sampled
+- Actual name Robert Van Winkle
+- From Dallas, implied from Miami
+- Repeatedly claims to be from the streets. In reality not so much.
+- Sees movie Breaking in 1984 and Robert starts break dancing for money and battle rapping. 
+- DJ Earthquake sends Robert beats on cassette for what becomes his first album
+- Tried to deny that song sampled "Under Pressure"
+- Album works better if you’ve never heard anyone else (which was pretty much the case for me)
+- First rap song to top the charts. Not because Vanilla Ice is a good rapper.
+- Had an extreme level of confidence, not necessarily based in reality
+- "Word to your mother" instead of "word to the motherland", a Vanilla Ice edit because he is white.
+- Torn apart [on In Living Color](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx7kzarSwGE) and [on Arsenio Hall](https://youtu.be/C39MIzv-HjY?si=FCgTXv5w_d9Bm0VT), 3rd Bass song and video ["pop goes the weasel"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB5U_9ip_zk).
 
 ### U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer (1990)
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_drafts/2025-03-15-Mus101-Nuthin-But.md

@@ -16,6 +16,17 @@ Samples ["Walk On The Wild Side"](https://open.spotify.com/track/5p3JunprHCxClJj
 - Posse cut (compare to Make 'Em Say Uhh!) by tonight Lil' Kim, Flavor in Your Ear 
 - [Bonita Applebum](https://open.spotify.com/track/5N5fp1lYSORdZbWanACki9?si=aaf8f859f4da4dff) rap love song
 
+### A roller skating jam named Saturday – De La Soul (19XX)
+
+- Stage names of plug 1, 2, 3 based on inputs to a mixer
+- "Me myself and I" from 1989. They hate playing this song.
+- Dismissed as hip-hop hippies
+- Second album in 1991 after their 1989 breakout hit, second album titled _De La Soul is Dead_
+- "The magic number"
+- "I know" sibling, Steely Dan, and Otis Redding
+- "Bitties in the BK lounge"
+- "Millie"
+
 ### Fuck Tha Police - NWA (1988)
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_drafts/2025-06-08-Mus101-Alt-Punk.md

@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ series: Music Education
 ### Basket Case - Green Day (1994)
 https://open.spotify.com/track/6L89mwZXSOwYl76YXfX13s?si=fc9da9b938ad4b78
 
+- Pop punk rises in the grunge aftermath 
+- Song "welcome to Paradise" on second full length album KERPLUNK
+- Sign major label and record Dookie. Lose punk cred about no major labels, with it access to Gilman club. 
+- 10 million copies of Dookie in the US in the 90s
+- "Longview" bass riff, song names for Washington state town where they debuted song
+- "When I come around"
+- "Basketcase" is about anxiety
+- Godzilla mix of brain stew
+
 ### Self Esteem - The Offspring (1994)
 
 ### Pretty fly (for a white guy) – the offspring (1998)

_drafts/2025-08-02-Mus101-Not-A-Pretty-Girl.md

@@ -27,3 +27,14 @@ series: Music Education
 > - Lyrics explore self-discovery and introspection
 > - Became the band's most successful single
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Eye_(Luscious_Jackson_song)
+
+### Fuck and Run - Liz Phair (19XX)
+
+- Album _Exile in Guyville_, response to Rolling Stone's album _Exile on Main Street_
+- Girly tapes
+- "Slave"
+- Radio, friendly "she said" and "supernova"
+- "What makes you happy"
+- Self described as "messy crazy do what I want"
+- Commenting on later albums: can’t make the 26 year-old perspective album at 36 or whatever and still be authentic
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