Smithsonian only had the ROTJ-era R2-D2 and C-3PO when I visted them a decade ago. I was still stoked.

THE ANDY WARHOL QUOTE!!!

It's a good tune. Reminds me of the summer of 1999 really bad too.

At least all that money went into the artists' pockets at the time though…

I'm finally living in an area where there's alternative radio stations emerging out of the woodwork… it's glorious. Beforehand, I would have to go with whatever Top 40, Hot AC and Mainstream rock threw at me.

Ace of Base perfected this years earlier. Or a few anyway.

Oh, definitely. I can alternate Do You Know What It Takes and Show Me Love, being the decent 90's pop songs they are, with the superior modern pop of Dancing On My Own and Hang With Me any day.

I could see it being a monster live though, tbh.

That one brings me back… and the B.B. King sample. Ugh, now I'm shaking from nostalgia just thinking about it.

That mixtape is probably a hell of a trip to the past if you still had it! Or had an iTunes playlist of such songs and whatever…

My friend and I still remember Turn Back Time and Lollipop okay. Are their others they had that stuck out which weren't singles?

They had that album cover later on where they looked like a boy band, and I think that threw most everyone off by accident.

1 is a good album. Their earlier version of it, The Black Album, also has a few gems and alternate versions there that's worth a listen.

I completely agree re: Top 40 then and now. Back in the 90's, there was a chance for songs outside of the conventional norm to make it and be played often. Nowadays, a lot of the Top 40 stations in my area are strictly "rhythmic" Top 40… hip-hop, rap, pop-hip-hop, pop w/ rap cameo, dance, etc. You'd never hear…

Pours out a glass of Bourbon, cues up Cinderella's Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) on Spotify.

When I tell my friends (also pop culture absorbers over the years) about this place, I say "They're just like us! They talk and joke about the same things!"

Seriously, as a friend once put it, "You guys are like the bizarro 4chan: instead of a bunch of maladjusted weirdos making racist memes and harassing women, you're a bunch of maladjusted weirdos making simpsons quotes and providing each other with emotional support!"

Awww…..

Yeah, and now maybe we can finally get SNL episodes on Amazon or whatever else.

Hopefully. But then when whatever the successor to streaming is comes out, it'll start fracturing itself again over money or advertising dollars or whatever you call it.