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Moonbeam
John
Tracy Bonham? Her song was Mother, Mother and I'm pretty sure that video was in black and white.
It wasn't that, but listening to it, it's close to the right ballpark:
Annoying voice? Check!
90s alterna-chick? Check!
The song was a bit folkier than this, though.
"Mother, Mother" is awesome... I won't stand for any of you disrespecting that song or Tracy Bonham. (I like the entire Burden of Being Upright album.)
...Although that's the first song I thought of when Moonbeam posted this also.
There were two videos for "Mother Mother." One, shot for VH1 with Bonham playfully frolicking with her band. The second, cooler video had Bonham's actual mother cleaning her house (in color), while a close up of Bonham's face (in black-in-white) sang the song on the TV and the band thrashed in the dining room.
Midaso
Yeah,I thought it was terrible but it looks as if there were plenty of people who didn't share this view. On wikipedia:
Diana mastered the CD at Sony in Sydney, got 500 CD’s made and immediately sent a few copies to Triple J (not for the Unearthed competition) and Richard Kingsmill, the then Australian Music Show DJ, gave the track ‘I Go Off’ (track #1 on debut album) a spin, which resulted in an immediate call in from listeners of over 100 a day, setting a record at the time and resulting in him playing it a lot! This resulted it taking off around the country on Triple J.
Triple J ‘got sick of requests from listeners for details on how to buy ‘I Go Off’ and gave Diana’s home number out on the air.
Diana mastered the CD at Sony in Sydney, got 500 CD’s made and immediately sent a few copies to Triple J (not for the Unearthed competition) and Richard Kingsmill, the then Australian Music Show DJ, gave the track ‘I Go Off’ (track #1 on debut album) a spin, which resulted in an immediate call in from listeners of over 100 a day, setting a record at the time and resulting in him playing it a lot! This resulted it taking off around the country on Triple J.
Triple J ‘got sick of requests from listeners for details on how to buy ‘I Go Off’ and gave Diana’s home number out on the air.
I don't know what the worst aspect of this whole thread is - the song, the fact that it got such a welcome response from Triple J (it's not that bad of a station - one of only 2 that I tolerate here in Sydney), or the fact that she runs her own Youtube channel and tags Ani DiFranco for her own video.