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Today’s Jam: Lost Highway Soundtrack

I bought this album when it came out because it contained the newest Nine Inch Nails song “The Perfect Drug” at the time. This was the first song post-Downward Spiral and after I had become a fan, so when I heard it on MuchMusic for the first time it lit a fire in my head. After the video was over, I immediately emailed The Wedge to see if they would take a request. While I watched that channel a lot, I made sure to stay glued to it as much as possible in the hope I could see the video and hear the song again. Thankfully it entered a pretty good rotation.

To this day it’s still one of my favourite Nine Inch Nails song, even though in hindsight Trent Reznor himself is not a fan of it as it was written during a musical transitional period for him and strictly for a soundtrack. All the same, I find it still fresh to this day. Different than most of his other work as NIN, but never straying too far from it.

As for the movie? I’ve only seen 10 mins of it. I believe when I rented it from Jumbo Video on VHS my viewing was interrupted, but that’s another story. I’d also never heard of David Lynch and missed the Twin Peaks movement entirely. I didn’t end up seeing any of his films until my early 20’s, starting with Dune.

Revisiting this album lately has been great. When I was younger I used to skip a lot of the score and stick to the NIN, Manson, Bowie and Pumpkins tracks. Apparently I still listened to the rest of it a fair bit as it was all still intimately familiar. I believe I’m a bigger fan of the score now.

Highlights:

  • Nine Inch Nails – The Perfect Drug
  • Smashing Pumpkins – Eye
  • Marilyn Manson – I Put a Spell on You
  • David Bowie – I’m Deranged
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I Love The 90’s Tour, here we come!

Thanks to a lovely presale email from Ticket Atlantic, I was able to score tickets to the I Love the 90’s tour in Halifax this May.

I Love the 90's

Pre-teen Darcy is super pumped, as all I pretty much listened to at that age was early 90’s dance and hip hop. The Rap Traxx 4 compilation cassette was played endlessly, along with Dance Mix ’93, Vanilla Ice, and MC Hammer.

Over a decade ago I went to a Ludacris concert at Mile One, happy to see Luda but mainly to see Maestro (Fresh Wes) open for him and perform Drop the Needle. I was ecstatic. When I was in California in 2009 I went to a classic rock all-day concert, and to speed up the time between bands performance they had a stage that would turn around after each set to show the next band’s equipment already ready to go. During one of those turns, Biz Markie happened to be on the other side and he played a short surprise set. I nearly jumped out of my seat when he introduced himself, and looked around to see most of the people around me were either off to get a beer or nowhere near as interested. He played Just a Friend and I couldn’t have been happier. I even recorded it!

As you can tell, I have a soft spot for the music of the early 90s. Normally, Vanilla Ice is one of the headliners for this tour but it looks like he’s not part of the Atlantic Canadian lineup. So, since he and I apparently follow each other on Twitter, I hit him up.

We’ll see if he replies!

Edit: While I’m at it, since Rap Traxx 4 doesn’t exist as a release on Spotify, I’ve made a playlist. Enjoy!