Spin Doctors – Two Princes
Early nineties one hit wonder, is there any wonder you’ve found yourself here & this is what you’ve found? Nothing touches my heart & deserves our attention like these artifacts do, nothing so recognizable as these mumbled scattered lyrics, this back & forth guitar riff, these standard drum fills. The vocals mostly make this as special as it is, a wonderful case of leading personality dominating musical history, & we’re all the better for it. I promise I’ll re-offer this space to gems both uncovered & unknown, but today nothing speaks louder or with more heart than those we left behind when we left childhood, when HFS became El Zol. Let it play & let yourself cry for joy, listener, just go ahead now.
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Good choice.
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Now what’s with the freaking Spin Doctors….lame! Everything that was terrible for 90s music, and 90 music was, indeed, terrible—no matter what you think or say.
90s alt-rock had its lows, I’ll warrant you that, but when it comes to the general feeling of weightless fun & catchy pop hooks without pop sensibilities or mediawhoring, those one-hit wonders are still to this day untouchable. There is something about writing one perfect pop song that will live on the radiowaves forever that doesn’t only intrigue me but really makes me happy. Two Princes is a genuinely GOOD song, & everything great about the nineties – & very little sucked about early nineties pop culture, even in hindsight – is ever-present in a divine way.