2023-01-12
49 分钟We tend to look down on artists who can't match their breakthrough success. Should we be celebrating them instead?
In case you don't remember 1998, or in case you weren't around yet, that was the year president Bill Clinton claimed he did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
It was the year Google officially became a company.
In 1998, the founders of Google set up Workspace in a garage in Menlo Park, California, and became incorporated.
It was the year of the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to Northern Ireland.
After a generation of bloodshed and decades of division and acrimony, George Mitchell ushers in what the whole island hopes will be a new era of peace.
Also in 1998, if you were anywhere near a radio, you would have heard this song.
I'm not sick but I'm not well and I'm so hard cause I'm in hell.
The song is flagpole Siddha by a Seattle band called Harvey Danger.
Paranoia, paranoia, everybody's coming to get me.
There was a long period in my life where I had to sing that song, like four or five times a day.
Sean Nelson was the lead singer in Harvey Danger.
Their song was everywhere.
We went to see a Cubs game when we were in Chicago.
At one point, they played the song during the 7th inning stretch and then said, ladies and gentlemen, the members of the band are here.
Like, we stood up at Wrigley Field.
I don't know that we got much of an ovation.
It wasn't our idea, but it was like that.
Like a lot of hit songs, this one endured.
It was played in the 1999 movie American Pie, which itself was a huge hit.
It was used as the theme song of the long running british tv comedy Peep show.