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“Fade into You”—Mazzy Star

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Slowness of the Smooth Jazz

Fade into you was a huge alternative rock radio hit that slowed everything down to a sumptuous crawl compared to every other song on any other radio format in 1993 fade into you sounds like it's moving in reverse when this song ends. David Robax and Hope Sandoval did not appear to give a shit about being famous to the extent that fade into you made them famous which it kind of did their approach to the press Whether it's a TV spot or a magazine interview or whatever they're just sublimely disinterested, radiating fade into you energy. You don't get another fade into you off this record but you do get nine more chill droning purring unbothered full

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