Don't forget Radiohead releasing Planet Telex in 1995, then OK Computer in 1997.
Was born in 1996, please can someone tell me who's this? I'd like to listen to them. Thank you.
It's Jamiroquai.
This video is for: "Virtual Insanity".
The video to : "Automaton" is also worth a watch in my opinion.
You NEED to watch the video: https://youtu.be/4JkIs37a2JE
I really love this cover of virtual insanity.
I know it's almost unrelated to the discussion because you're talking about the music video, but how often is Jamiroquai brought up?
I was very skeptical. You did not disappoint.
Excellent
I remember my mind being blown away by a TV segment that explained how the practical effect was achieved.
Not sure if this is the video you're referencing, but it explained it for me: https://youtu.be/MzwY7ii582Y
Banger music video
Plus JK is a cool dude.
Great tune too tbh
ty OP for making my afternoon playlist a lot funkier
Reminds me of Serial Experiments Lain, an anime released in 1998 that talks about the power of social networks and how companies will compete to gain control of the internet. Some of the predictions are outstandingly good.
Then your mind will literally explode if you listen to "Computer Love" by Zapp & Roger, released in...... 1985!
Also, System Addict by 5 Star was 1985 IIRC
Before the modern web, before Wikipedia, before pocket computers, Encarta was the shit!
yeah i spent so much time reading random shit on it. to be fair i already did that with physical encyclopedias so it was natural. but the fact that Encarta allowed what's now known as wiki surfing was next level for me.
Looks like the The Expanse main character throwing a hat party inside the Rocinante.
Went down a rabbit hole bc of this (thank you) and found out JK is a twinkess twin and so is Elvis
Not sure what that means but I saw him live a few years back and I was shocked how extremely British he is, both in accent and great sense of humour. Also the whole band is now a bunch of old dudes. I guess that shouldn't be surprising but it was very different from the picture I had in my head since my childhood.
Except the music. The music was just as good as ever. It was awesome.
I'm walking into spiderwebs, so leave a message and I'll call you back.
People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds. Like back in the day there were people saying the same thing about books when the printing press was invented
And they had a point. While the printing press (not books, those are way older) was a tool that could be used for good, many quickly realized that it gave propagandists a whole new set of tools to manipulate people with. Newspapers had a ridiculous amount of opinion-making power for quite a while there, they just got replaced by radio, TV, and then social media and now LLMs.
What if very powerful people are literally using tech to warp people's minds on purpose?
I don't know that I've ever actually registered any of the lyrics within this song, save for "vurchahwuhh insayynatyy!"
Well we could start with a name...
It's so strange for me, having been born in 1988, to hear someone not know who this guy is, and this song.
I fully understand that it's been just about 30 years since this came out, and there are multiple generations of kids that will never have heard it that are fully grown adults now.
Its just that this song was not only massive, one that everyone knew, but it lived on way past its release date, it was played on radio, tv, used in films and tv shows (silicon valley is a recent one of note). The same band also had a meme based on the film "napolean dynamite" with the song canned heat, which the main character did a dance to that made it into games such as world of warcraft and fortnite.
The band is a part of pop culture, and despite it all, there are still places in the world where people dont know instantly what this picture is from and who that is.
I get it. It just boggles my mind how vast the world is. Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were. (Beatles are from liverpool in the north west of england and liverpool is littered with beatles murals, staturs and that kind of shit) its insane that anyone could not know who they are.
But hey ho. Just thinking out loud.
It's a very common name. Jamiroquai.
Oh jfc teletext.. now that's a blast from the past. used to love reading it lol
JK was inspired to write the song after he spent all night exploring a web ring - all of which were GeoCities sites with an “under construction” animated gif.
Hah, one of those coincidences.
Just 2(?) weeks ago Virtual Insanity popped up on stream and I wondered if Jamiroquai are prophets now or the song is just way younger than I remember
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