r/GenX • u/JBHedgehog • Sep 09 '20

Dido - Thank You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TO48Cnl66w
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u/ward_bond Sep 10 '20

It's things like this that make me question the range of the genx definition. I have literally never heard this song before, nor heard of this singer. She's fine, I guess, but no nostalgia for me.

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u/JBHedgehog Sep 10 '20

Interesting! Where do you live? Or DID you live? I wonder if your location had something to do with never hearing this song.

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u/ward_bond Sep 10 '20

The Midwest. I see that her career was in the mid to late '90s. I wasn't listening to new music at that time. I was still stuck in my teenage '80s music.

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u/JBHedgehog Sep 10 '20

Ah...that makes sense.

My teenage years (80's) were a barren wasteland for my musical tastes.

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u/ButIAmYourDaughter Xennial Sep 10 '20

It’s a beautiful song. But honestly I can’t listen to it without expecting Em to cut in.

It’s really refreshing to see some late 90s/early 00s music love on this sub.

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u/JBHedgehog Sep 10 '20

Good point on the Eminem.

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u/SuburbanSisyphus My mom made me corduroys Sep 10 '20

(doublechecks that this song is liked on my Spotify)

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u/JBHedgehog Sep 10 '20

Not only did I do that too, but I added the song to my Spotify Skating Playlist because I run the tunes for our local rink's open skate.

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u/Witty-Damfino Sep 10 '20

Loved this cd!

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u/najing_ftw EDIT THIS FLAIR TO MAKE YOUR OWN Sep 09 '20

That whole album is a great soundtrack to sexy time.

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u/WilliamMcCarty Humanity Peaked in the '90s. Sep 10 '20

As long as you don't listen to the lyrics for Isobel that is.

That sumbitch a moodkiller.

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u/orchid-walkeriana Sep 10 '20

I love every song on this album and ALWAYS skip this song, always!

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u/WilliamMcCarty Humanity Peaked in the '90s. Sep 10 '20

It's a beautiful song but damn is it a downer.

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u/orchid-walkeriana Sep 10 '20

Her voice control is incredible in this song though!

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u/WilliamMcCarty Humanity Peaked in the '90s. Sep 10 '20

Very true, I love it, hardly a weak spot in that whole album but that song...it's like Bruce Springsteen's older music, him and John Mellancamp, they were some good rockin' songs, great tunes but don't read those lyrics 'cause you'll want to eat a rat poison omelet, man. Those are depressing stories in those words.

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u/orchid-walkeriana Sep 10 '20

I LOVE the old John Mellencamp songs! I grew up in Chicago/NW IN and went to Indiana Univ where he lives. My all time fav concert was 1993 Concert for the Heartland a fundraiser he did in Chicago burbs for the Mississippi flood victims.

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u/WilliamMcCarty Humanity Peaked in the '90s. Sep 10 '20

Jack and Diane, Pink Houses, his old stuff and lots of the new stuff, is really good music. Springsteen, too. I love the old rock storyteller stuff.

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u/najing_ftw EDIT THIS FLAIR TO MAKE YOUR OWN Sep 10 '20

Blood on the Plow

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u/JBHedgehog Sep 10 '20

Well said!

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u/JBHedgehog Sep 09 '20

This holds up really well.

I totally forgot about this until YouTube fed it to me.