Boys For Pele is no Under the Pink, but I still like it a lot... particularly "Caught a Light Sneeze" and perhaps "Not the Red Baron". And my daughter Aviva will insist on hearing "Mr. Zebra" dozens of times in a row.

I agree with you about Monster, but I actually *liked* Dulcinea. :)

In my ear this week:

• Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley;
  
• Run, Snow Patrol;
  
• Nothingman, Pearl Jam;
  
• Don't Dream Its Over, Neil Finn;
  
• Disarm, Smashing Pumpkins;
  
• Running to Stand Still, U2;
  
• Pure, The Lightning Seeds;
  
• Somebody Told Me, The Killers;
  
• 1916, Motorhead;
  
• Right Here Waiting, Richard Marx.
  

I imagine you'd consider the first one to be an unreasonable ripoff. :)

Hmm. Never mind; those are what i'm actually choosing to listen to. I didn't understand the game. :)

My tastes froze a couple of years after yours, and I do download a lot of newer stuff, but none of it gives me the warm fuzzies that the older stuff does. I don't know how much of it is youth nostalgia and how much of it is that the music was "better" then.

I love how you imply that there's much on that list you linked to that's post-1994. Unless I'm mis-remembering something, the song off of 69 Love Songs is the most recent on that list by quite a margin, and that's not all that recent. I do pay some attention to what's going on today in music, and I've even started buying new albums again, but musically I seem to have imprinted in late high school.

Maybe, but you’re hip enough to be able to actually have an opinion about Ben Folds’ career, whereas to me Ben Folds Five are just another one of those late 90s groups with numbers in their names that I could never keep straight, like 311 and Blink-182. :)

Wow, David, two from John Henry :)

There was some good music in the '90s, but I've always been a '60s guy myself. The true '90s triumph for me is in its television: the decade started with Twin Peaks and The Simpsons, and soon there was Seinfeld, Northern Exposure, Deep Space Nine, and the good years of The X-Files and Ally McBeal.