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Pitchfork Reviews the 90s Compilation 'Pure Moods, Vol. 1'

Ultimate Bear Cub

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Wow, my mind is being flayed. Some of these commercials just brought me back a decade or two. This thread is fun. I think....


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It's Alright

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupIt's Alright · TechnotronicRecall℗ 1994 ARS Entertainment Belgium (A Division Of Universal Music Belgium)Released...
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affeinvasion

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Imagine being the coolest kid at school who already had Clannad and Deep Forest posters on their wall when this ad came out.
 
Border

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Why did they think that the theme music from The Exorcist was going to be a chill, relaxing track?
 
affeinvasion

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There is that moment that you realize Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene Part IV is only one part of 20...and then listen to the other 19 parts.
 
Layla

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Border said:
There's an ambient/electronic track that also dominated the European charts from the same time that I am trying to remember. No vocals, but a strong piano theme throughout. I think the video for it involved a train and some pastoral countryside imagery -- does anyone else remember?
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Robert Miles - Children?
 
skeezx

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i was tickled to see they reviewed this. as much as a commercial/slapdash cash-in it was it was influential

not treated as an "classic album" proper but it should be
 

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What self respecting 90's kid doesn't know this commercial. Sadeness Pt 1 is still probably one of the best sex music ever.
 
AlexBasch

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moblin said:
just outside of the 90s but 90s kids will also remember



just nonstop jams on these compilations I s2g...
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JFC I wasn't clubbing in the 90's yet as a kid you listened to this shit at every party. There was a nightclub in my city that hosted afternoons for teens (I swear I don't know why that isn't a thing anymore, the bartenders even prepared some badass non-alcoholic beverages) and our school rented the place several times for either Valentine's Day, summer or winter breaks, etc.



All of the 90''s kids I know lose their shit to this track, for example. Of course we didn't know that it said Magic Orgasm in English, so nobody cared lol.
 

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Border said:
It's so weird to think that a lot of these songs were huge hits in the USA. Return to Innocence in particular got a ton of airplay on MTV.

The 90's were such a weirdly exciting time, when it seemed like almost anything could become a breakout hit. Bass-driven Ska beats? All over the radio! Swing music? Straight to #1! The Macarena? A nationwide obsession! Gregorian chants? Suddenly the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo are charting higher and longer than anyone else. EDM music (or as we called it, "electronica") even spent a long time dominating the airwaves. A dance remix of the X-Files theme music? Sure, why not?! And that's before we even get into the years-long string of chart topping Country Music hits that saw Garth Brooks become the best-selling artist of the decade.

I won't go so far as to see that music was better then than it is now, but holy shit the whole scene was way more diverse, crazy, and unpredictable.
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the best times. not to mention "alternative" which was basically grunge and or non mainstream sounding rock.
literally everyone in HS: I'm into alternative...yeah, like Smashing Pumpkins. They are cool man.
 
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Border said:
It's so weird to think that a lot of these songs were huge hits in the USA. Return to Innocence in particular got a ton of airplay on MTV.

The 90's were such a weirdly exciting time, when it seemed like almost anything could become a breakout hit. Bass-driven Ska beats? All over the radio! Swing music? Straight to #1! The Macarena? A nationwide obsession! Gregorian chants? Suddenly the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo are charting higher and longer than anyone else. EDM music (or as we called it, "electronica") even spent a long time dominating the airwaves. A dance remix of the X-Files theme music? Sure, why not?! And that's before we even get into the years-long string of chart topping Country Music hits that saw Garth Brooks become the best-selling artist of the decade.

I won't go so far as to see that music was better then than it is now, but holy shit the whole scene was way more diverse, crazy, and unpredictable.
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lol I had that Gregorian Chants CD. Why the fuck not?

The early '90s were cool and all, but as someone who was in their 20s, the turn to pop/dance/techno in the mid-90s was much appreciated.
 

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This topic finally convinced me to actually listen to the album after all these years. I do remember liking the commercial back in the day.
 
jroc74

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moblin said:
just outside of the 90s but 90s kids will also remember



just nonstop jams on these compilations I s2g...
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I don't remember seeing this, but strangely i remember hearing this.

Wtf is going on....

Maybe I heard it on TV in my sleep or going to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
 
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please don't go...don't goooooooooo
 
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moblin said:
just outside of the 90s but 90s kids will also remember



just nonstop jams on these compilations I s2g...
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poptire said:


If you want to be confused and angry watch this one
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That is pretty confusing.



LTWood said:
Pure Moods sits just above this one in my ranking of 1-800 # cassette tapes.
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Finally, some PoC on this. Lots of these are so white . . . Although Ace of Base is on there.
 
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It's important to note that the review is full of entertaining lines, such as:

"Sadeness (Part 1)," the first Enigma single, is a porny, breathy, breakbeaty song, with Gregorian chanting giving way to a French voice pining orgiastically for the 16th-century erotic writer, Marquis de Sade, atop a downy bed of trip-hop. It somehow defies both anarchy and order, any sense of convention, and the usual formula for anything resembling commercial success.
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Pure Moods' essence is safe, formless, and mostly meaningless, like a piece of art hung in a bathroom. For me, and for many others, it felt like paradise.
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True to their title, Enigma remained heroically and consumingly atop the charts for the majority of the '90s. "Return to Innocence"—whose indigenous Taiwanese vocalizations blast at the top of the commercial, responsible for waking thousands of half-asleep American citizens on couches—is a glamorous smoothie of pseudo-erotica, a treatise on nostalgia and self-help. Seemingly custom-made for the proto-Y2K fetish for exploring one's attitude with slogans across graphic t-shirts, its first four lyrics are just words ("Love...devotion…..feeling….emotion") both inspiring and completely drained of meaning, at once empty and rich. It enjoyed a No. 1 one position on the charts in over 10 countries.
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Worth the read.
 
airbagged_

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Should be a 10

EDIT:

What was the compilation that had the "Been Around the World" 80's song?

Also.... the ORIGINAL Body & Soul with Toni Braxton commercial
 
Future Foundation

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I'd completely forgotten about it, but now I can remember watching the Pure Moods commercial as clear as fucking day now. I even used to sing along with the "Sail Away" part.

This and the Body and Soul Collection seemed like they were in constant rotation on Cartoon Network.
 
data west

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I've never heard of this commercial. Is it like a wanna-be Ultimate Love Song Collection commercial? Now that was a commercial.
 

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1 - Seriously, this ad literally unlocked memories I had seemingly stored away for a long time.

2 - The fact I could tell some of these songs were used in Its Always Sunny, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and, well, Twin Peaks.
 
Pixieking

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JehutyRunner said:
1 - Seriously, this ad literally unlocked memories I had seemingly stored away for a long time.

2 - The fact I could tell some of these songs were used in Its Always Sunny, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and, well, Twin Peaks.
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Fun fact: Enya herself used to (and probably still does) have complete control over when her songs are used in media. So B99 using Orinoco Flow? She okay'd that!
 
manzoman96

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My art teacher in elementary school would play that Enya song all the time when we were working. Legend.
 
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