
“Been Caught Stealing”—Jane’s Addiction
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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The First 10 Seconds of 50 000 Alternative Rock Songs
i listened to 6600 hours of alt rock radio in the first six years of the 1990s before i went to college that is not a joke number 6600. The song playing on the radio at any given moment had a profound effect on my mood and so for the first 10 seconds I lean forward maybe not physically but consciously leaning forward in anticipation of what the next song will be. There are three to five songs that i especially want to hear in this specific moment and sometimes the song that starts playing is one of those songs but most of the time it isn't. space hog bonus points if the song takes forever to get going right even on the radio ten seconds for the baseline to
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