Flashback Friday: I Love 1992
1992 was the year that McDonald’s set up camp in Beijing, Bill Clinton was president, the late Heavy D (R.I.P.) and the Boys were rocking the Hip Hop scene, and alt-rock was slipping through the cracks to create a decade of fearless, and sometimes grungy, rockers.
Look below to find three songs released in 1992 that laid the foundation for the decade of alternative rock that followed.
The Cure — Friday I’m in Love
No one band can look quite this ugly and have gained such an amazing following without having seriously good music.
“Friday I’m in Love” shakes hands with the overly emotional, on-again off-again, bi-polar love seeking sweethearts everywhere with lyrics like “I don’t care if Monday’s blue/Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too/Thursday I don’t care about you/It’s Friday I’m in love.”
Pearl Jam — Yellow Ledbetter
Quite possibly one of the most inspiring opening guitar riffs of all time is Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter.”
Although an official statement about the meaning of “Yellow Ledbetter” was never released by the band, the song is rumored to be about a yellow letter (disguised by the song title). Yellow letters (envelopes) are sent by the military to notify family members about the status of a loved one lost at war.
Of course, this is all speculation and interpretation, but what kind of Eddie Vedder song would it be without a bit of intrigue?
R.E.M.— Drive
Bluesy and hippie-tastic, this trance inducing melody reminds us why we will miss R.E.M.
The song pays homage to the hope and drive that a young teen needs to be independent and make changes in the world, “Hey Kids/rock-n-roll/Nobody tells you where to go/baby.”
