Though Michael Penn would never again reach the Top 40 of the BILLBOARD Hot 100 (follow-up single “This & That” stopped at No. Michael Penn would also go on to win an MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. “No Myth” also had chart success on BILLBOARD’s Modern Rock chart (No. 13 in the latter part of the parent album’s namesake, March. It would go on to spend a week at its peak position of No. Sandwiched in between Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers and Alannah Myles, Michael Penn debuted in the Hot 100’s Top 40 a month later. “No Myth” had been out for at least a month when it debuted on BILLBOARD’s Hot 100 singles chart on January 6, 1990. Michael Penn was 31 at the time of the album’s release, and according to an interview with Michael on, “No Myth” “had to do with a serious relationship in my life that broke up, and I was just trying to figure out, ‘What the fuck was that?’ So this song was the beginning of me trying to actually figure that shit out in song.” So, long story longer, that’s the odd way how I came up with today’s “song of the day.”įrom that debut album, MARCH, was the first single, “No Myth.” Released in November 1989, a couple of months after the album’s release, and with the 80s coming to an end, “No Myth” was truly an Alt-Rock breath of fresh air (radio-speaking and literally speaking). In September 1989, native New Yorker (and the oldest brother to actors Sean Penn and the late Chris Penn), Michael Penn, released his debut album, MARCH. But, today’s “song of the day” didn’t come from there, nor did it come from a BILLBOARD singles chart, or a birthday, but from the month itself – March. Why wouldn’t be? For the better part of 21 years, I’d normally be there than here. It’s been a month today since my last STUCK IN THE 80s show on WMPG community radio in Portland, Maine. 1.Even with a myriad of song choices out there for my “song of the day,” every once in awhile, it’s still hard for me to make a decision as to which song I want to highlight as my “song of the day.” Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s based on a birthday or death or some sort of historical event, sometimes I rummage through my BILLBOARD Hot 100 charts searching for that perfect “song of the day,” and other times, like today, there’s an unintended process. Throw on your spelunking helmets, flip on your flashlights, and grab your rappel gear, because we’re about to climb down into deep recesses of our collective memory and revisit some wonderfully weird music videos from the '90s. Some are surreal from start to finish, whereas others just give us brief flashes of wackiness - and all are worth a watch. To be honest, you probably don’t remember just how bonkers these videos are - it had been 30 years since I’d some of these, and I absolutely did not fully grasp their peculiarities the first time around.
Oh, and let's not forget about “Dragula” by Rob Zombie! But those only scratch the surface of the weird ‘90s music video waters if you spend enough time dragging Lake Internet, you will stumble upon an embarrassment of bizarre riches. And the nightmare inducing “Come to Daddy” by Aphex Twin. Cast your mind back to when MTV was all about that particular medium, and each new song release promised a corresponding visual component, with intense visual creativity (and probably some bad acting). The final decade of the 1900s gave popular culture some very special things, and one of those very special things is a seemingly endless stream of strange music videos.
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