Sometimes I think that you are going trough my 70's, 80's and rock and metal playlist as allmost all the songs you react to are in one of them playlists Keep doing what you're doing, I love you're positive vibe. 😉
The lead singer is named Linda Perry. She wrote Beautiful by Christina Aguilera, Get the Party Started by Pink, and What You Waiting For by Gwen Stefani among many, many others.
She's written big pop hits, and I can't blame her for going where the money has been for the last ten or fifteen years, but she used to genuinely rock. I liked her songwriting better in those days. 4 Non Blondes was a good band from the days before pop and commercial hip-hop took over with young listeners. I love rock, metal, and some hardcore hip-hop, but pop radio stuff, not so much.
I'm 45 now, but when I hear this I am 16 again. This one one of those super massive hits from the early alternative rock explosion from 1992-94. I'll never forget it.
I want to dedicate this to my good friend Jay Bird who died suddenly 9 years ago. I knew him since the mid 70's. Besides being my friend he also worked for me. When this song would come on the radio he would sing this at the top of his lungs. Needless to say it drove everyone crazy. When he first past and I would hear this I would have to change the station or start bawling like a baby. Now when I hear this I always make sure I call his sisters and make sure they are doing okay. Just like me this song reminds them of how obnoxiously funny he was when he would sing songs like this. Miss you brother...
Blees your big heart man. And your dog.! How would we live without music and the emotions it reaches deep in us. By the way Jamel, you got some good chops on you, 😂👍🏻!! ❤️❤️
“I’m done with y’all!” 😂😂😂 Now THAT is what I call a reaction. Love your videos, brother. One of best female vocal performances to come out of the alternative/grunge area. Great video!
@@anthonysalvaro2979 I agree, the song sucks. Funny how many people get upset when you disagree with their taste in music. Grow up. Not everybody likes the same things.
This song was an absolute banger. I knew that she went on to write songs for other artists and was also was a producer but I thought it was such a waste that someone with such an amazing voice and talent didn’t release more of her own material.
Another criminally underrated band. Just loaded with raw talent! I remember running out to buy this cassette as soon as I heard this song. I still have it. It's like 30 years old.
I'm going to recommend an almost unknown song. Linda Perry helped compose, produce and play several instruments on the song. The first time I heard it was when I was a premastering technician for a CD/DVD facility. The chief sound tester was stationed in the masters vault with me. He played a song and I knew that it wasn't Linda Perry singing, but I also couldn't shake the Linda Perry feel. When I got off work, I had to look uo the song information. Yep, there was Linda Perry's name. It is called "Copper Red" by Sierra Swan. (Daughter of Billie Swan) Linda also cowrote songs and produced Pink's monster hit 2001 album "Missundaztood."
Songs like this make me really miss the 90's. So many great songs and sadly many are forgotten, but thankfully never gone. Keep up the good work and keeping the music alive!
Love Linda Perry. Was fortunate enough to see her play acoustic at a small bar with probably 15 people there. She was GREAT! Nice person, signed a couple of my CDs. 👍🏽
This song came out my sophomore year of high school. Great memories to this tune through high school and college. Thanks for the reaction!!! Today Linda Perry is one of the most renowned songwriters and producers in the music business. She traded being the lead singer of a band for running a recording studio. She’s produced #1 hits for Christina Aguilera, Pink, Gwen Stefani, and Katie Perry. She’s still doing it to this day but has long since quit touring in a band.
I was working an overnight shift, listening to the radio when this came on. The dj didn't give the name of the band, so I called the station, to find out about this amazing song! Bought the CD the next day. We've come a long way 😄
My go to karokee song. When I finally got up the nerve to sing i sang this and blew the roof off cuz i can do the range but i didn't expect the live reaction. It was one of the best moments of my life!!!!
She is a composer. When this album came out it was very popular. She gave all the money from the album to people because she didn’t want it. Her name is Linda Perry. Thank you Jamel!
Thank you for bringing what's up to so many people. I also had suggested the song to you. :) Dear Mr. President is another song by the 4NonBlondes that you may have heard before. Almost 30 years old and the lyrics still apply today.
The Walk Off! Very rare but very much appreciated, enjoyed and justified. That light bulb goes off and you always shoot straight with us when you recognize something. Love it.
I remember when, at 25, I finally moved out of a small town into the city. I definitely got that little fish in a big sea feeling. I felt small, unsure, but at the same time I felt free -- for the first time in my life, and hungry to make something of myself. I had heard this song before but I don't think that I ever really understood it until then. It was my anthem, always playing somewhere in the back of my head during that first summer. I was renting a room near college and it was also a short walk to a large park overlooking a river. I would go there late at night to smoke grass, humming this tune along the way, thinking about 10 years of wasted time and wasted love, and I would shout over the bluff into the river "What's going on?" There was no answer. Somehow, the silence in the night was better than words.
If this isn't on the top of a list for one of the greatest songs ever written and sung the there's something wrong in the world... "What's going On' for the modern age. I've owned this album since it came out and still crank this song up when it comes on...
Linda Perry, I bought the CD when it came out for my GF , only to take it back because I liked just about every song on there ( I did buy her another one )
I think that this song is just really RELATABLE. Haven't we all felt this way, from time to time, "..and I am feeling...a little peculiar"? It's a personal favorite.... Always picks me up. "It's not just me....the world is nuts."
Oh that's a whole new rabbit hole, certainly one of my all time favorite bands. "Hungry for Stink" is my favorite, but "Bricks Are Heavy" is the disc that was in my player on days when I'd had enough of an employer or particular project. If I came in with that pounding, you knew there was going to be trouble and either lay me off or fire me, but I was gone. They have a lot of names for what they do musically, but I like "PMS Rock". First song of theirs I heard was "One More Thing"...There was no turning back.
One of the all time get the crowd to swaying back n forth together at a party songs ever written. Nobody could deliver a more powerful delivery of the vocals !!!
I am shocked that this song only got to number 52 all the Billboard chart as here in the UK, it got to number 2 in June 1993. Sadly it was only a one hit wonder if other people have commented, Linda Perry has written so many brilliant hits songs over the last 25 years that thankfully we have those and hopefully many more to come. 🙂
I feel so blessed and thankful to have been born in the early 70's. High school and college in the 90's was such an amazing time for music and life in general. I loved this song when it came out and will never tire of it.
Now that we're starting that Linda Perry train, can I get a little love for Johnette Napolitano to go with? She's another *_criminally_* underrated 90's voice, especially her stuff with Concrete Blonde (The song "Joey" is their most famous track, but it is nothing like the rest of their [imho, much better] songs from the "Bloodletting" album), Pretty & Twisted, or even her 2000s solo stuff. Both I.R.S. Records and Warner kinda crapped the bed by pushing all of her projects _least_ interesting stuff... I'd start with either "Bloodletting" or "The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden" off of Bloodletting.
Such a great talent she was, if she hadn't gone off the rails not long after this video, no telling what the bands career would have been. She fortunately came out the other end of the drugs and alcohol. The only good that came from it was all the trials she went through, it made her a great songwriter.
Her voice is so POWERFUL! I love it! I know they're pretty much a one hit wonder, but I truly love this song. I would've love to see what they could do if they stayed together. Linda Perry is awesome!
Also "Deja Voodoo" is a jam!!!! Great, great blues guitarist!!🎸 Kenny Wayne Shepherds father was a radio personality and he met Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was 7. He said it changed his life from listening to punk music to Blues after meeting Stevie Ray Vaughan. He never took a guitar lesson! Amazing guitarist you have to check out!🎸🎸
I remembered the song, never thinking much of it when it originally came out. Only after watching the Netflix series 'Sense8' did I fall in love with the song. The song is so integral to the primary 8 characters of the series, the sensates (Kala, Wolfgang, Capheas, Nomi, Lito, Will, Sun, and Riley) all sing along to it a couple of times. The show was created by the Wachowskis (The Matrix Trilogy) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), and lasted for all of two seasons...but they were AMAZING! This song just makes me want to watch the show yet again!!!
Every time I hear this song it brings me back to a simple time when I was in my early 20's and thought I had the world by the balls. It also brings me to tears at times as I think of all those from that time that are no longer here that made that time such fun. Either way, I enjoy it as it is a damn good tune.
No Rain was such an iconic song that takes me instantly back to college! On my heavy rotation playlist, so I hear it all the time, and it never gets old! ❤
Been waiting for this one by 4NB. Awesome. Definitely check out Blind Melon. No Rain a must. My fave though is Change. And the acoustic live version ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rZOsIfRJGKU.html
Lived for this back in the day. My mom caught me dancing in the backyard in the rain in my drawers, as you’d say, to this lol she was not pleased, but when you’re moved, you’re moved. 💁🏻♀️ Singer Linda Perry was married to actress Sara Gilbert, most know for playing Darlene on “Roseanne.”
Oh dear, the picture in my head of your dancing in the rain to this song has me thinking of Blind Melon's Bee Girl video for some reason. My mom wouldn't have been too pleased, either
@@jitkasuarez haha totally. That was the vibe 🐝🌦 (love that one, too ☺️) and I get it lol, although the backyard was totally private, and my dad/relatives were from Finland - so I grew up going to sauna and being outdoors as such. My Non-Finnish mama bear did not quite feel the same way, though, haha. Now I can’t get “No Rain” out of my head :P “dooo doooo dooooo”
After all these years I can sti'll remember the first time I heard this on the radio. When she hit the 'and I cry, OMG do I cry' part she had me hooked and I tried for a very long time to figure out who they were. Back then it was rare for the radio stations to announce the artist. What a marvelous emotional song. It was enjoyable listening to it with you!
I was in a random bar. In Pittsburgh on the south side. Chick comes up to the mic. Clearly drunk, she says she wanted to sing a song. It was Linda Perry. She had an acoustic guitar and belted out this song. Thanked everyone, and left the stage. Pretty magically moment.
My dad and I met Linda Perry at Ed Hardy's tattoo shop in SF, back in '93. She was with a friend, and she was super nice. They had finished touring with Aerosmith and she was talking about how that was.. It was fun.
Yesss!! More 90s tunes please! Any of these gems would be rad for you to react to; - I'll Be by Edwin McCain - Don't Speak by No Doubt - I Swear by All-4-One - I Want It That Way by The Backstreet Boys - I Love You Always Forever by Donna Lewis - You Gotta Be by Des'ree - Fast Car by Tracy Chapman - Constant Craving by k.d. lang - Ironic by Alanis Morissette - A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton - Hold On by Wilson Phillips - Roll to Me by Del Amitri - Kiss From a Rose by Seal - Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls - Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman by Bryan Adams - Change the World by Eric Clapton - You & Me by Lifehouse - Believe by Cher - Only Wanna be With You by Hootie & The Blowfish
@@wdrauch I remember hearing it on the radio a ton in the 90s so it felt like a 90s song to me. Good to know! Give Me One Reason was another banger she did and that was ‘99 😎
The lead singer is a very prolific song writer she has written songs with Pink and she wrote Beautiful for Christina Aguilera she not only sing she has mad writing songs skills love her🤘❣️
This is one of those songs that makes me so nostalgic for my formative years. Another great, mostly female band from then I think you’d appreciate is The Breeders. Cannonball is their main hit that most folks would recognize, but they are definitely worth diving into.
Such a coincidence...I was just reminiscing about when I saw Aerosmith in concert while watching your reactions...and 4 Non Blondes opened for them! It was late in 1992. Thanks for the memories 😘
