Sometimes I think that you are going trough my 70's, 80's and rock and metal playlist as allmost all the songs you react to are in one of them playlists Keep doing what you're doing, I love you're positive vibe. 😉
The lead singer is named Linda Perry. She wrote Beautiful by Christina Aguilera, Get the Party Started by Pink, and What You Waiting For by Gwen Stefani among many, many others.
She's written big pop hits, and I can't blame her for going where the money has been for the last ten or fifteen years, but she used to genuinely rock. I liked her songwriting better in those days. 4 Non Blondes was a good band from the days before pop and commercial hip-hop took over with young listeners. I love rock, metal, and some hardcore hip-hop, but pop radio stuff, not so much.
“I’m done with y’all!” 😂😂😂 Now THAT is what I call a reaction. Love your videos, brother. One of best female vocal performances to come out of the alternative/grunge area. Great video!
I want to dedicate this to my good friend Jay Bird who died suddenly 9 years ago. I knew him since the mid 70's. Besides being my friend he also worked for me. When this song would come on the radio he would sing this at the top of his lungs. Needless to say it drove everyone crazy. When he first past and I would hear this I would have to change the station or start bawling like a baby. Now when I hear this I always make sure I call his sisters and make sure they are doing okay. Just like me this song reminds them of how obnoxiously funny he was when he would sing songs like this. Miss you brother...
Blees your big heart man. And your dog.! How would we live without music and the emotions it reaches deep in us. By the way Jamel, you got some good chops on you, 😂👍🏻!! ❤️❤️
I'm 45 now, but when I hear this I am 16 again. This one one of those super massive hits from the early alternative rock explosion from 1992-94. I'll never forget it.
@@anthonysalvaro2979 I agree, the song sucks. Funny how many people get upset when you disagree with their taste in music. Grow up. Not everybody likes the same things.
This song was an absolute banger. I knew that she went on to write songs for other artists and was also was a producer but I thought it was such a waste that someone with such an amazing voice and talent didn’t release more of her own material.
Another criminally underrated band. Just loaded with raw talent! I remember running out to buy this cassette as soon as I heard this song. I still have it. It's like 30 years old.
I was working an overnight shift, listening to the radio when this came on. The dj didn't give the name of the band, so I called the station, to find out about this amazing song! Bought the CD the next day. We've come a long way 😄
I'm going to recommend an almost unknown song. Linda Perry helped compose, produce and play several instruments on the song. The first time I heard it was when I was a premastering technician for a CD/DVD facility. The chief sound tester was stationed in the masters vault with me. He played a song and I knew that it wasn't Linda Perry singing, but I also couldn't shake the Linda Perry feel. When I got off work, I had to look uo the song information. Yep, there was Linda Perry's name. It is called "Copper Red" by Sierra Swan. (Daughter of Billie Swan) Linda also cowrote songs and produced Pink's monster hit 2001 album "Missundaztood."
Songs like this make me really miss the 90's. So many great songs and sadly many are forgotten, but thankfully never gone. Keep up the good work and keeping the music alive!
This song came out my sophomore year of high school. Great memories to this tune through high school and college. Thanks for the reaction!!! Today Linda Perry is one of the most renowned songwriters and producers in the music business. She traded being the lead singer of a band for running a recording studio. She’s produced #1 hits for Christina Aguilera, Pink, Gwen Stefani, and Katie Perry. She’s still doing it to this day but has long since quit touring in a band.
Love Linda Perry. Was fortunate enough to see her play acoustic at a small bar with probably 15 people there. She was GREAT! Nice person, signed a couple of my CDs. 👍🏽
My go to karokee song. When I finally got up the nerve to sing i sang this and blew the roof off cuz i can do the range but i didn't expect the live reaction. It was one of the best moments of my life!!!!
She is a composer. When this album came out it was very popular. She gave all the money from the album to people because she didn’t want it. Her name is Linda Perry. Thank you Jamel!
I remember when, at 25, I finally moved out of a small town into the city. I definitely got that little fish in a big sea feeling. I felt small, unsure, but at the same time I felt free -- for the first time in my life, and hungry to make something of myself. I had heard this song before but I don't think that I ever really understood it until then. It was my anthem, always playing somewhere in the back of my head during that first summer. I was renting a room near college and it was also a short walk to a large park overlooking a river. I would go there late at night to smoke grass, humming this tune along the way, thinking about 10 years of wasted time and wasted love, and I would shout over the bluff into the river "What's going on?" There was no answer. Somehow, the silence in the night was better than words.
Such a great talent she was, if she hadn't gone off the rails not long after this video, no telling what the bands career would have been. She fortunately came out the other end of the drugs and alcohol. The only good that came from it was all the trials she went through, it made her a great songwriter.
Oh that's a whole new rabbit hole, certainly one of my all time favorite bands. "Hungry for Stink" is my favorite, but "Bricks Are Heavy" is the disc that was in my player on days when I'd had enough of an employer or particular project. If I came in with that pounding, you knew there was going to be trouble and either lay me off or fire me, but I was gone. They have a lot of names for what they do musically, but I like "PMS Rock". First song of theirs I heard was "One More Thing"...There was no turning back.
The Walk Off! Very rare but very much appreciated, enjoyed and justified. That light bulb goes off and you always shoot straight with us when you recognize something. Love it.
Thank you for bringing what's up to so many people. I also had suggested the song to you. :) Dear Mr. President is another song by the 4NonBlondes that you may have heard before. Almost 30 years old and the lyrics still apply today.
Also "Deja Voodoo" is a jam!!!! Great, great blues guitarist!!🎸 Kenny Wayne Shepherds father was a radio personality and he met Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was 7. He said it changed his life from listening to punk music to Blues after meeting Stevie Ray Vaughan. He never took a guitar lesson! Amazing guitarist you have to check out!🎸🎸
Now that we're starting that Linda Perry train, can I get a little love for Johnette Napolitano to go with? She's another *_criminally_* underrated 90's voice, especially her stuff with Concrete Blonde (The song "Joey" is their most famous track, but it is nothing like the rest of their [imho, much better] songs from the "Bloodletting" album), Pretty & Twisted, or even her 2000s solo stuff. Both I.R.S. Records and Warner kinda crapped the bed by pushing all of her projects _least_ interesting stuff... I'd start with either "Bloodletting" or "The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden" off of Bloodletting.
I think that this song is just really RELATABLE. Haven't we all felt this way, from time to time, "..and I am feeling...a little peculiar"? It's a personal favorite.... Always picks me up. "It's not just me....the world is nuts."
I am shocked that this song only got to number 52 all the Billboard chart as here in the UK, it got to number 2 in June 1993. Sadly it was only a one hit wonder if other people have commented, Linda Perry has written so many brilliant hits songs over the last 25 years that thankfully we have those and hopefully many more to come. 🙂
If this isn't on the top of a list for one of the greatest songs ever written and sung the there's something wrong in the world... "What's going On' for the modern age. I've owned this album since it came out and still crank this song up when it comes on...
I feel so blessed and thankful to have been born in the early 70's. High school and college in the 90's was such an amazing time for music and life in general. I loved this song when it came out and will never tire of it.
Linda Perry, I bought the CD when it came out for my GF , only to take it back because I liked just about every song on there ( I did buy her another one )
One of the all time get the crowd to swaying back n forth together at a party songs ever written. Nobody could deliver a more powerful delivery of the vocals !!!
Lived for this back in the day. My mom caught me dancing in the backyard in the rain in my drawers, as you’d say, to this lol she was not pleased, but when you’re moved, you’re moved. 💁🏻♀️ Singer Linda Perry was married to actress Sara Gilbert, most know for playing Darlene on “Roseanne.”
Oh dear, the picture in my head of your dancing in the rain to this song has me thinking of Blind Melon's Bee Girl video for some reason. My mom wouldn't have been too pleased, either
@@jitkasuarez haha totally. That was the vibe 🐝🌦 (love that one, too ☺️) and I get it lol, although the backyard was totally private, and my dad/relatives were from Finland - so I grew up going to sauna and being outdoors as such. My Non-Finnish mama bear did not quite feel the same way, though, haha. Now I can’t get “No Rain” out of my head :P “dooo doooo dooooo”
No Rain was such an iconic song that takes me instantly back to college! On my heavy rotation playlist, so I hear it all the time, and it never gets old! ❤
Been waiting for this one by 4NB. Awesome. Definitely check out Blind Melon. No Rain a must. My fave though is Change. And the acoustic live version ruclips.net/video/rZOsIfRJGKU/видео.html
Every time I hear this song it brings me back to a simple time when I was in my early 20's and thought I had the world by the balls. It also brings me to tears at times as I think of all those from that time that are no longer here that made that time such fun. Either way, I enjoy it as it is a damn good tune.
Her voice is so POWERFUL! I love it! I know they're pretty much a one hit wonder, but I truly love this song. I would've love to see what they could do if they stayed together. Linda Perry is awesome!
I remembered the song, never thinking much of it when it originally came out. Only after watching the Netflix series 'Sense8' did I fall in love with the song. The song is so integral to the primary 8 characters of the series, the sensates (Kala, Wolfgang, Capheas, Nomi, Lito, Will, Sun, and Riley) all sing along to it a couple of times. The show was created by the Wachowskis (The Matrix Trilogy) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), and lasted for all of two seasons...but they were AMAZING! This song just makes me want to watch the show yet again!!!
I was in a random bar. In Pittsburgh on the south side. Chick comes up to the mic. Clearly drunk, she says she wanted to sing a song. It was Linda Perry. She had an acoustic guitar and belted out this song. Thanked everyone, and left the stage. Pretty magically moment.
After all these years I can sti'll remember the first time I heard this on the radio. When she hit the 'and I cry, OMG do I cry' part she had me hooked and I tried for a very long time to figure out who they were. Back then it was rare for the radio stations to announce the artist. What a marvelous emotional song. It was enjoyable listening to it with you!
This is one of those songs that makes me so nostalgic for my formative years. Another great, mostly female band from then I think you’d appreciate is The Breeders. Cannonball is their main hit that most folks would recognize, but they are definitely worth diving into.
The lead singer is a very prolific song writer she has written songs with Pink and she wrote Beautiful for Christina Aguilera she not only sing she has mad writing songs skills love her🤘❣️
Yesss!! More 90s tunes please! Any of these gems would be rad for you to react to; - I'll Be by Edwin McCain - Don't Speak by No Doubt - I Swear by All-4-One - I Want It That Way by The Backstreet Boys - I Love You Always Forever by Donna Lewis - You Gotta Be by Des'ree - Fast Car by Tracy Chapman - Constant Craving by k.d. lang - Ironic by Alanis Morissette - A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton - Hold On by Wilson Phillips - Roll to Me by Del Amitri - Kiss From a Rose by Seal - Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls - Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman by Bryan Adams - Change the World by Eric Clapton - You & Me by Lifehouse - Believe by Cher - Only Wanna be With You by Hootie & The Blowfish
@@wdrauch I remember hearing it on the radio a ton in the 90s so it felt like a 90s song to me. Good to know! Give Me One Reason was another banger she did and that was ‘99 😎
The Bass Guitarist Christa Hillhouse was a really close friend of mine in San Francisco in the 90's. I met her RIGHT after they won their big Grammy while she was on her first tour. She wasn't on the road the whole time. She'd play a bunch of shows and then come home for a week or so and then back on the road. She helped to save my life, no exaggeration. Like I might not be alive to type this if she hadn't befriended me when and how she did. They were very very popular in SF's small club scene before they got famous. When they did blow up, Christa was going through some heavy stuff (how I met her) and she went on tour despite having to overcome some insane obstacles. (I'm being vague on purpose) No they never performed at the painted ladies. That's a residential neighborhood with a quiet park. No concerts. However the last house in the row, with the amazing butterfly wrought iron gate, was (is?) Alice Walker's house.
I LOVE your reactions! That part of the song was used in so much 😉 I was in high school when this came out! My girlfriends and I would walk through the halls singing this at the top of our lungs ❤
Such a coincidence...I was just reminiscing about when I saw Aerosmith in concert while watching your reactions...and 4 Non Blondes opened for them! It was late in 1992. Thanks for the memories 😘
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Sometimes I think that you are going trough my 70's, 80's and rock and metal playlist as allmost all the songs you react to are in one of them playlists
Keep doing what you're doing, I love you're positive vibe. 😉
❤️ listening to great music ❤️ awesomeness
The lead singer is named Linda Perry.
She wrote Beautiful by Christina Aguilera, Get the Party Started by Pink, and What You Waiting For by Gwen Stefani among many, many others.
She also produces
Wow. Talking about ghost writing skills. Safe to say she's living good! Good for her, she deserves it. Way too talented to fall by the wayside.
She's written big pop hits, and I can't blame her for going where the money has been for the last ten or fifteen years, but she used to genuinely rock. I liked her songwriting better in those days. 4 Non Blondes was a good band from the days before pop and commercial hip-hop took over with young listeners. I love rock, metal, and some hardcore hip-hop, but pop radio stuff, not so much.
Thanks, I always wondered what happened to them..
She's Pink's manager, too.
Her voice still gives me chills every time I hear this song.
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Me too. This was my jam back in the day.
"Knock me out "- Linda perry and Grace Slick = soul wrenching
Me too
Ohhh absolutely!!!!
Jamel is by far my favourite of the "reacters". He seems to really appreciate the music and doesn't go way over the top like so many others.
Agreed. His reactions are sincere and honest. One of the few reactors worth visiting over and over just to rediscover a smile.
“I’m done with y’all!” 😂😂😂 Now THAT is what I call a reaction. Love your videos, brother. One of best female vocal performances to come out of the alternative/grunge area. Great video!
I loved that too, so funny. lol
I want to dedicate this to my good friend Jay Bird who died suddenly 9 years ago. I knew him since the mid 70's. Besides being my friend he also worked for me. When this song would come on the radio he would sing this at the top of his lungs. Needless to say it drove everyone crazy. When he first past and I would hear this I would have to change the station or start bawling like a baby. Now when I hear this I always make sure I call his sisters and make sure they are doing okay. Just like me this song reminds them of how obnoxiously funny he was when he would sing songs like this. Miss you brother...
Sorry for the loss of your friend. This song helped me recover from my first husband's death in 94.
Blees your big heart man. And your dog.! How would we live without music and the emotions it reaches deep in us. By the way Jamel, you got some good chops on you, 😂👍🏻!! ❤️❤️
Thank you for sharing. You are the best kind of friend. :)
♥️
I knew a Jaybird that sounds a LOT like yours. He too passed on about 10 years ago. Bass player. ✌️
This song takes me straight back to my teens in the 90`s...
rolling shwag joints, and swigging off of the boones farm strawberry hill,... :)
@@michaeldwalker8055 Nah, I grew up in South Africa, we had Sativa on tap and Old Brown Sherry..hahaha
used to make me feel young and unstoppable.... lets me know I am now casting long shadows.....still love it though...
I was in my 20's, but still!!!
I'm 45 now, but when I hear this I am 16 again. This one one of those super massive hits from the early alternative rock explosion from 1992-94. I'll never forget it.
When this comes on, I suddenly turn into a rockstar! I don't just sing along - I perform!! 😂😂😂
One of the quintessential 90’s tunes imo. Such a nostalgic feeling to this song
I'm 45 now, but when I hear this I am 16 years old again!
One of the best drive-with-the-windows-down-and-belt-along songs
can’t believe this came out 29 years ago.
The '90s were an amazing time. The brief time part of the popular media broke free from the managed programming inherent before & definitely since.
Yeah you know your old when you see this song and its filed in the newish songs in the back of your mind but its that old
Hush your mouth. 😅
I was 26 years old then. Yeah, it seems like last week.
And it still goes just as hard as the day it dropped
this song is a masterpiece
more like a nightmare
@@anthonysalvaro2979 yours must be better with your one subscriber what a hater
@@joshsims2016 😅🤣😆😂
Haha. Chat shit, get banged
@@anthonysalvaro2979 I agree, the song sucks. Funny how many people get upset when you disagree with their taste in music. Grow up. Not everybody likes the same things.
This song was an absolute banger. I knew that she went on to write songs for other artists and was also was a producer but I thought it was such a waste that someone with such an amazing voice and talent didn’t release more of her own material.
Another criminally underrated band. Just loaded with raw talent! I remember running out to buy this cassette as soon as I heard this song. I still have it. It's like 30 years old.
I’m a grown ass man , but this song has a little magic to stick it to the heart . 🖤
From 1 grown ass man to another, I concur.👍
☮️💜👍
@@jonrhythm3686 ME, I think I might be a lesbian!
at 55 this still floats around in my music rotation and it still sounds a relative as it did at 27
It's a song that when it comes on, gets played way too loud. Love it from a 54 yr old.
The lead singer was married to Sara Gilbert aka Darlene Conner from Roseanne
Also pinks vocal coach.
@@adammeredith7194 And manager
Wow. I didn't even know that!
Faux "marriage."
@@greglegakis4177 They were legally married, nothing faux.
I was working an overnight shift, listening to the radio when this came on. The dj didn't give the name of the band, so I called the station, to find out about this amazing song! Bought the CD the next day. We've come a long way 😄
Linda is a complete freak and I love her!. She's an awesome song writer, musician and human being. Not forgetting to mention absolutely gorgeous.
She named this "What's Up" instead of "What's Going On" as to not confuse it with Marvin Gaye's tune of the same name, and similar message.
Wow I never knew that. I remember when this song came out about 30 years ago and always thought the title was "What's Going On" lololol
Many of us find ourselves screaming "What's going on?!?" these days.
Listen to "Closer To Fine" by the Indigo Girls
And Galileo!
Closer to Fine makes me cry every time.
I'm thinking of requesting a deep dive of great lesbian revolution songs. Ferron for sure.
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I’ve been waiting for him to react to Indigo Girls Closer to Fine for so long!
I'm going to recommend an almost unknown song. Linda Perry helped compose, produce and play several instruments on the song. The first time I heard it was when I was a premastering technician for a CD/DVD facility. The chief sound tester was stationed in the masters vault with me. He played a song and I knew that it wasn't Linda Perry singing, but I also couldn't shake the Linda Perry feel. When I got off work, I had to look uo the song information. Yep, there was Linda Perry's name. It is called "Copper Red" by Sierra Swan. (Daughter of Billie Swan)
Linda also cowrote songs and produced Pink's monster hit 2001 album "Missundaztood."
Songs like this make me really miss the 90's. So many great songs and sadly many are forgotten, but thankfully never gone. Keep up the good work and keeping the music alive!
Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde has a similar voice. Joey was their big hit.
Oh If you haven't reacted to Joey, Jamal, you have to!
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I love their song 'Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)'
I’ve always been partial to Caroline. Love that song
"Tomorrow, Wendy" is also a great song.
This song came out my sophomore year of high school. Great memories to this tune through high school and college. Thanks for the reaction!!! Today Linda Perry is one of the most renowned songwriters and producers in the music business. She traded being the lead singer of a band for running a recording studio. She’s produced #1 hits for Christina Aguilera, Pink, Gwen Stefani, and Katie Perry. She’s still doing it to this day but has long since quit touring in a band.
i was think 8?🤔
Same here! It brings back so many memories!
Love Linda Perry. Was fortunate enough to see her play acoustic at a small bar with probably 15 people there. She was GREAT! Nice person, signed a couple of my CDs. 👍🏽
What a great feel good song…..one of the most underrated songs of the 90s
Bro, you're doing more for keeping great music alive than anybody on the planet. This is something you should be very proud of.
That's why JEMEL_AKA_JAMEL will surpass a million subscribers!!
- That voice blew lots of minds when they came out. She's one of the best out there, truly gifted. That is one really excellent album. I miss it.
Listen to “drifting” on that album. Really showcases her voice!
Great songwriter, too! She wrote some good ish for P!nk and surely others, too.
My go to karokee song. When I finally got up the nerve to sing i sang this and blew the roof off cuz i can do the range but i didn't expect the live reaction. It was one of the best moments of my life!!!!
I would have liked to hear that.
@@jimmwimm i would love to sing it for you. !!! xo
This gets the whole bar up every time!
Their album Bigger, Better, Faster, Now is one of the most underrated albums of all time. Them ending up a one-hit-wonder is still a mystery to me.
Linda Perry is so damn cool.
She is a composer. When this album came out it was very popular. She gave all the money from the album to people because she didn’t want it. Her name is Linda Perry.
Thank you Jamel!
I remember when, at 25, I finally moved out of a small town into the city. I definitely got that little fish in a big sea feeling. I felt small, unsure, but at the same time I felt free -- for the first time in my life, and hungry to make something of myself. I had heard this song before but I don't think that I ever really understood it until then. It was my anthem, always playing somewhere in the back of my head during that first summer. I was renting a room near college and it was also a short walk to a large park overlooking a river. I would go there late at night to smoke grass, humming this tune along the way, thinking about 10 years of wasted time and wasted love, and I would shout over the bluff into the river "What's going on?" There was no answer. Somehow, the silence in the night was better than words.
Check out Natalie Merchant in the official video for "Carnival."
Natalie's song "Wonder" is a good one as well.
one of my all-time favourite songs
10,000 Maniacs were pretty good in the 90s. Did a pretty good version of Patti Smith's Because the Night. Hadn't heard Natalie in ages, great voice.
Keep waiting for someone to react to Natalie Merchant / 10,000 Maniacs.
@@matthewdrake4385 her cover of because the night was amazing tbh
Jamal you may have been thinking of Concrete Blonde who sang "Joey"
Yelp, that was my thought.
I immediately thought he needs to do Concrete Blonde next
That's it! He needs to do a reaction to that one.
Such a great talent she was, if she hadn't gone off the rails not long after this video, no telling what the bands career would have been. She fortunately came out the other end of the drugs and alcohol. The only good that came from it was all the trials she went through, it made her a great songwriter.
I believe she produces music to this day.
Yeah she went of the rails wrote songs for pink and many other female singers ,ohh and she also managers pink so yeah big derailment there huh.
Linda Perry also had a reality show on MTV. Her voice is so unique! And all women in the band is also unique.
Linda Perry is a very prolific songwriter. She wrote a lot of Pink's early music. And they had a falling out. Linda Perry is an icon
She has a super strong voice!. Love this song
I can’t hear this song without thinking of L7 “pretend we’re dead” since they both hit at about the same time
I saw L7 play live in 2000. They were a little tamer than they were prior to that.
Oh that's a whole new rabbit hole, certainly one of my all time favorite bands. "Hungry for Stink" is my favorite, but "Bricks Are Heavy" is the disc that was in my player on days when I'd had enough of an employer or particular project. If I came in with that pounding, you knew there was going to be trouble and either lay me off or fire me, but I was gone. They have a lot of names for what they do musically, but I like "PMS Rock". First song of theirs I heard was "One More Thing"...There was no turning back.
😂😂😂😂
“What’s up with what’s going down
In every city and every town”... hope I got that right been a minute...loved Bricks are Heavy.
@@mrusa75 Spot on!
The Walk Off! Very rare but very much appreciated, enjoyed and justified. That light bulb goes off and you always shoot straight with us when you recognize something. Love it.
Thank you for bringing what's up to so many people. I also had suggested the song to you. :)
Dear Mr. President is another song by the 4NonBlondes that you may have heard before. Almost 30 years old and the lyrics still apply today.
And yes, KEEP GREAT MUSIC ALIVE! ❤️❤️🎵🎵
Kenny Wayne Shepard - Blue on Black please
Or Everything is Broken, same album.
Yes ! It's a must...
Good call!
No...
Also "Deja Voodoo" is a jam!!!! Great, great blues guitarist!!🎸 Kenny Wayne Shepherds father was a radio personality and he met Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was 7. He said it changed his life from listening to punk music to Blues after meeting Stevie Ray Vaughan. He never took a guitar lesson! Amazing guitarist you have to check out!🎸🎸
Now that we're starting that Linda Perry train, can I get a little love for Johnette Napolitano to go with? She's another *_criminally_* underrated 90's voice, especially her stuff with Concrete Blonde (The song "Joey" is their most famous track, but it is nothing like the rest of their [imho, much better] songs from the "Bloodletting" album), Pretty & Twisted, or even her 2000s solo stuff. Both I.R.S. Records and Warner kinda crapped the bed by pushing all of her projects _least_ interesting stuff...
I'd start with either "Bloodletting" or "The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden" off of Bloodletting.
For me, she has the most haunting and iconic voice in rock history.
We played this at our highschool pep rallies. Still a banger.
Such a simple tune you can start it in a crowd Acapella... It's amazing
Another song that was big around this time was Shawn Colvin, “Sunny Came Home”.
I love the whole album "Bigger, Better, Faster, More!". Especially the songs "Train" and "Dear Mr. President" 😌
Drifting and spaceman are incredible songs. One of my favorite albums and I’m a “rock” person
@@rickrodriguez4739 Oh yes you are right I almost forgot about "Spaceman". :-) Love it!
You should try "Joey" from Concrete Blonde
Or Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
If you're going to do Concrete Blonde, Jamel, try their Leonard Cohen cover "Everybody Knows". SO appropriate for these times.
Or “god is a bullet”
- Wasn't "Caroline" up there with "Joey"?
"Lullaby" is highly underrated. It's great. I miss my albums.
I think that this song is just really RELATABLE. Haven't we all felt this way, from time to time, "..and I am feeling...a little peculiar"? It's a personal favorite.... Always picks me up. "It's not just me....the world is nuts."
There aren't many songs that make you feel as one with humanity, but this one reaches that height.
I am shocked that this song only got to number 52 all the Billboard chart as here in the UK, it got to number 2 in June 1993. Sadly it was only a one hit wonder if other people have commented, Linda Perry has written so many brilliant hits songs over the last 25 years that thankfully we have those and hopefully many more to come. 🙂
Its hard to believe because it was one of the most played songs on alternative rock radio in the early and mid 90's. Massive play on MTV as well.
The singer is a pretty prolific song writer. I know she's written songs for Pink, to name just one person.
If this isn't on the top of a list for one of the greatest songs ever written and sung the there's something wrong in the world... "What's going On' for the modern age. I've owned this album since it came out and still crank this song up when it comes on...
I feel so blessed and thankful to have been born in the early 70's. High school and college in the 90's was such an amazing time for music and life in general. I loved this song when it came out and will never tire of it.
Joey by Concrete Blonde is in this ballpark, and if you want to be moved emotionally from this era go with Mazzy Star Fade into you
Joey is emotional. Mazzy Star is nappy-time music to me. ;p
always loved her voice. so smooth and so unique!
This is a great song. Her voice is magical and love the background vocals
not only can she sing , she has written many of top pop songs for other famous singers
Linda Perry, I bought the CD when it came out for my GF , only to take it back because I liked just about every song on there ( I did buy her another one )
So intense! Nice to have more ladies aboard the reactor train. 🧡🧡🧡
More Linda R & Bonnie R perhaps?🙂
One of the all time get the crowd to swaying back n forth together at a party songs ever written. Nobody could deliver a more powerful delivery of the vocals !!!
Their song Superfly is awesome too. The bass player really gets to showcase in that one.
Lived for this back in the day. My mom caught me dancing in the backyard in the rain in my drawers, as you’d say, to this lol she was not pleased, but when you’re moved, you’re moved. 💁🏻♀️ Singer Linda Perry was married to actress Sara Gilbert, most know for playing Darlene on “Roseanne.”
TY for that info. Very interesting
Oh dear, the picture in my head of your dancing in the rain to this song has me thinking of Blind Melon's Bee Girl video for some reason. My mom wouldn't have been too pleased, either
@@jitkasuarez haha totally. That was the vibe 🐝🌦 (love that one, too ☺️) and I get it lol, although the backyard was totally private, and my dad/relatives were from Finland - so I grew up going to sauna and being outdoors as such. My Non-Finnish mama bear did not quite feel the same way, though, haha. Now I can’t get “No Rain” out of my head :P “dooo doooo dooooo”
Lumi Karhu I'm 53 years old and I still dance in the rain. But now I don't care who sees me or what they think. Never let anyone steal your groove.
@@lynnhathaway3755 💕💕💃
Try blind melon - no rain
Edit: "what's up" has been one of my fav a long time now
Oh man yes definitely need No Rain RIP SHANNON
LOTS of great Blind Melon material to cover!
No Rain was such an iconic song that takes me instantly back to college! On my heavy rotation playlist, so I hear it all the time, and it never gets old! ❤
@@adamdarmstaedter1256 The entire first album!
Been waiting for this one by 4NB. Awesome. Definitely check out Blind Melon. No Rain a must. My fave though is Change. And the acoustic live version ruclips.net/video/rZOsIfRJGKU/видео.html
Every time I hear this song it brings me back to a simple time when I was in my early 20's and thought I had the world by the balls. It also brings me to tears at times as I think of all those from that time that are no longer here that made that time such fun. Either way, I enjoy it as it is a damn good tune.
Somehow didn't discover this song until about 10 years ago. Had to listen to it over and over. Still one of my faves; such a great soul release.
The official unofficial theme of the greatest Netflix show of them all, Sense8.
very much so :)
What an incredible show that was!!!!
So sad it only got two seasons...
Yes! Best show ever!
I had to join the Sense8 appreciation thread. Such a great community of fans. Hugs, everyone 🤗🌈 ❤🎶
Joining the love for our show❣️
Her voice is so POWERFUL! I love it! I know they're pretty much a one hit wonder, but I truly love this song. I would've love to see what they could do if they stayed together. Linda Perry is awesome!
I’m 59 and I love this song. Her voice is beautiful and haunting at the same time.
I remembered the song, never thinking much of it when it originally came out. Only after watching the Netflix series 'Sense8' did I fall in love with the song. The song is so integral to the primary 8 characters of the series, the sensates (Kala, Wolfgang, Capheas, Nomi, Lito, Will, Sun, and Riley) all sing along to it a couple of times. The show was created by the Wachowskis (The Matrix Trilogy) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), and lasted for all of two seasons...but they were AMAZING! This song just makes me want to watch the show yet again!!!
No matter the mood, this song always seems to make me happy
Me to
She's P!nk's manager, now. Pink does a pretty respectable cover, too.
The video of Pink singing this with Linda playing guitar is awesome
Lady Gaga does a good version too!
I saw Pink do this live in concert, and it was magical. Almost as good as the original:)
This song is timeless, one of the greatest vocal performances ever
I kept expecting more from them over the years, but they kept writing and made good music for other artists. She had major pipes and control.
Try Soul Asylum - Runaway Train.
a song that literally saved the lives of missing children,.... can't go wrong there.
You beat me to it 🥰🥰
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Great call. Great song.
@@johnny85er The original music video is better. The images of missing people put the song into context. ruclips.net/video/NRtvqT_wMeY/видео.html
Whole heartedly support this suggestion!
I was a young adult when this came out on the radio. Such a unique but beautiful voice 💗.
I was in a random bar. In Pittsburgh on the south side. Chick comes up to the mic. Clearly drunk, she says she wanted to sing a song.
It was Linda Perry. She had an acoustic guitar and belted out this song. Thanked everyone, and left the stage.
Pretty magically moment.
She's a master at song writing. Probably one of the best around.
You need to react to Concrete Blonde. Walking In London and Bloodletting are a couple of really good songs.
I bet you would like these songs by Melissa Etheridge "Come to My Window" and "I'm The Only One". She is from the same era and I love these songs!
Love both of those!
Come to My Window is my jam!!!
Melissa Etheridge... one of the most overrated female singers ever.
These guys seemed to come out of nowhere, deliver this stupendous song, and fade into obscurity again...here in Australia anyway.
What A voice!
After all these years I can sti'll remember the first time I heard this on the radio. When she hit the 'and I cry, OMG do I cry' part she had me hooked and I tried for a very long time to figure out who they were. Back then it was rare for the radio stations to announce the artist. What a marvelous emotional song. It was enjoyable listening to it with you!
This is one of those songs that makes me so nostalgic for my formative years.
Another great, mostly female band from then I think you’d appreciate is The Breeders. Cannonball is their main hit that most folks would recognize, but they are definitely worth diving into.
Singing is Linda Perry check out Linda Perry - Fill Me Up
The lead singer is a very prolific song writer she has written songs with Pink and she wrote Beautiful for Christina Aguilera she not only sing she has mad writing songs skills love her🤘❣️
I was 29 when this came out and it has remained with me all these years. Great song and vocals.
Linda Perry - one of the greatest song writers of all time
This song is more than just a meme
It's a meme?
@@joeybigler9413 yeah, the He-Man version is just as classic as this.
This whole album was a year in my life. Every day, all the time. 💜 I love your reactions and your genuine feelings you give us! Thank you.
Rolling Stone wrote an article that Nirvana opened one of their concerts with this song, but I have never been able to find a copy out anywhere.
Yesss!! More 90s tunes please! Any of these gems would be rad for you to react to;
- I'll Be by Edwin McCain
- Don't Speak by No Doubt
- I Swear by All-4-One
- I Want It That Way by The Backstreet Boys
- I Love You Always Forever by Donna Lewis
- You Gotta Be by Des'ree
- Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
- Constant Craving by k.d. lang
- Ironic by Alanis Morissette
- A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton
- Hold On by Wilson Phillips
- Roll to Me by Del Amitri
- Kiss From a Rose by Seal
- Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls
- Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman by Bryan Adams
- Change the World by Eric Clapton
- You & Me by Lifehouse
- Believe by Cher
- Only Wanna be With You by Hootie & The Blowfish
Fast Car was 1988
@@wdrauch I remember hearing it on the radio a ton in the 90s so it felt like a 90s song to me. Good to know! Give Me One Reason was another banger she did and that was ‘99 😎
Before i even press play i love you bro. How in the hell can you read my mind like this. Its like almost everyday you make me happy!!!!!
This song was and is so powerful! I have always loved it and just now I cried as I sang along. ♥️♥️♥️
I love this song! It’s been one of my favorites ever since I first heard it. It’s still on my playlist! Linda Perry is immensely talented!
Try some Indigo Girls...or Melissa Ethridge "somebody bring me some water"
Like the Way I Do is also great by Melissa Ethridge.
Linda Perry left this band after this song . She was also with a band called Deep Dark Robot .
The Bass Guitarist Christa Hillhouse was a really close friend of mine in San Francisco in the 90's. I met her RIGHT after they won their big Grammy while she was on her first tour. She wasn't on the road the whole time. She'd play a bunch of shows and then come home for a week or so and then back on the road. She helped to save my life, no exaggeration. Like I might not be alive to type this if she hadn't befriended me when and how she did.
They were very very popular in SF's small club scene before they got famous. When they did blow up, Christa was going through some heavy stuff (how I met her) and she went on tour despite having to overcome some insane obstacles. (I'm being vague on purpose)
No they never performed at the painted ladies. That's a residential neighborhood with a quiet park. No concerts. However the last house in the row, with the amazing butterfly wrought iron gate, was (is?) Alice Walker's house.
I LOVE your reactions! That part of the song was used in so much 😉 I was in high school when this came out! My girlfriends and I would walk through the halls singing this at the top of our lungs ❤
Classic heartfelt song especially with this passing MMXX year
Great song! And I feel ya bro. Lisa/Denise was mad hot on The Cosby Show. I crushed on her big time!
Married to Jason Mamoa, I think
Such a coincidence...I was just reminiscing about when I saw Aerosmith in concert while watching your reactions...and 4 Non Blondes opened for them! It was late in 1992. Thanks for the memories 😘
I love singing this song! The whole album was amazing too!