90s Music

[taintedstar]

After I kept telling my husband that it's time for VH1 Classic to start showing 90s videos, I see my wish was granted. I am watching The Cranberries, Whitney Houston, Meat Loaf, and Pearl Jam videos pretending that, just for a few hours, I'm a teenager again, zoned out to the popular videos of the day.

[kateln]

VH1 Classics will play 120 Minutes sometimes, which always amuses me. I remember taping it on Sunday nights for the new videos.

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Rest easy Dolores
Dreams

Ode to my Family

Zombie (acoustic version)

Edit : In relation to Zombie it was written after Warrington bomb near Manchester 1993 taking the lives of two young boys toddler Jonathan Bell and teanager Tim Parry, his Father Colin spoke of Dolores yesterday and about only now becoming aware that the song related to his tragedy.

[save lilo!]

I’ve been listening to Crazysexycool this week.
It is still SO GOOD.

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So as I'm in denial that the(Early) 90s are getting terrifying close to being 30 years ago I thought I'd look see who was UK /Ireland top played song of Octoberish 1998 its Cher I believe then I was wondering what might have been most played 20 yes previous to Octoberish 98 ...in Octoberish 78 it was Summer Nights, John Travolta and Olivia Newton John
This has been a Fitz holy that wasn't that long ago production/denial moment. I remember thinking The Grease Musical soundtrack was old in the 80s!!

[scarlet]

"Baby One More Time" is 20 years old and EW did an oral history on it:

link

[piscessiren]

Love the Fountains of Wayne cover of "...Baby One More Time".

[chiqui]

I'm surprised no one has posted this: Smashing Pumpkins release new album (without D'arcy Wretzsky)

[Persephone]

I'm putting this here because it's a radio/songs from the 90's residual monies question. Maybe Ratscabies knows this? Anyway we were talking the other day about how a bunch of tv shows from the 90's won't go to DVD because of the song rights from the artist. But the songs are played all over the world on radios. So how do they get paid for that? What's the big deal if their song is on a DVD forever? Isn't that like putting it on a CD?

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Nov 14, 2018 15:14:53 GMT -4 Persephone said:

I'm putting this here because it's a radio/songs from the 90's residual monies question. Maybe Ratscabies knows this? Anyway we were talking the other day about how a bunch of tv shows from the 90's won't go to DVD because of the song rights from the artist. But the songs are played all over the world on radios. So how do they get paid for that? What's the big deal if their song is on a DVD forever? Isn't that like putting it on a CD?

Oh, copyright law. One of the few legal things I know just enough about to avoid getting sued.

It's technically a different format, so the rights issues are different. With a CD you're just listening to music, and with a TV show it's images and dialogue in addition to the music, so it's a different product entirely.

For a similar example, my library holds the master negatives of a local photographer who worked for a local newspaper for decades. He shot a lot of important events and people and it's a huge catalog. Now, he shot these photos with the intention of them being used in one specific newspaper or for his own personal collection. That's what they were created for. We frequently get requests from people to use the photographs for other projects, i.e. books, museum exhibits, or documentaries. Because the photographer has heirs who hold the copyright to these images, the photographer's estate has to sign off on all these requests, using us as an intermediary, because these sorts of things are not what the photographs were created for in the first place. Fortunately, the estate signs off on basically everything so long as it's not a commercial enterprise. They, rightly I think, don't want someone else to profit off of their relative's hard work. They also don't charge anyone for using the photos, they ask people to give us a donation instead. If these images were in the public domain, it'd be anything goes.

So, similarly, a songwriter/other entity who owns the rights to a song that was produced just to be used on an album would have to give permission for it to be used in any other way, especially for a commercial enterprise. Particularly with DVDs someone will be making a profit of the use of their material, no matter how small a profit it is or how slight the usage of the song is, so they'd need to approve of and get a piece of it.

Nowadays when shows use songs they cover the secondary market formats of the shows when they license songs to be used in them, so it's not an issue anymore. Back in the 90s DVDs weren't a huge thing for TV shows, and streaming didn't exist, so they didn't think to get those types of licenses for songs. They started doing that for movies a longer time ago once home video became a big market.

I'm not up on all the legalities or the finer points, anyone who knows better please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the gist of it.