Sour Times

But, I mean, the results are staggering.

I mean, you just look at some of the classics on there: Sour Times, Wandering Star, Numb, Glory Box.

I mean, they just take an aesthetic and they nail it really well.

So that's, uh, gonna be my number five.

... you know, underneath that song.

I love that.

In 1994, the person who I was, I was like, oh, you know, uh, Sour Times was, we played that on the radio a lot.

Yeah.

Apes, a year 27

So, singles, Numb, released 13th of June, Sour Times, 1st of August, and then Glory Box, the 26th of September.

Okay.

Are you going to talk about Mercury Music Prize?

It's like nothing I've heard before.

No.

Hits you with a brilliant set of otherworldly theremin and martial beats and eerie dramatic groove i was literally watching the little one to see what the response would be yeah yeah no sold it like because he just no sold it i was like but absolutely incredible opening track so we'll play a little bit of that right so Goes into sour times.

Or sewer times.

But like always, I've started the episode off with a clip of one last notable recording of the year that is not going to make my top 20 list of favorites.

The song clip was by a band called Rednecks.

and the song was Cotton-Eyed Joe.

The song Cotton-Eyed Joe itself has been around for well over a century, emerging occasionally in new renditions to terrorize a new generation of listeners with its incessant earworm attributes.

The earliest known mentions of the song date to references to it during the American Civil War, and the first known sheet music for the song was published in 1882.

Anecdotal information gathered by folklore specialists suggests that Cotton Eye Joe long predates even that era.

The melody itself may have originated with an old Irish folk tune called The Mountaintop.

And the basic melodic structure solidified enough that it became a popular instrumental standard for country, folk, and bluegrass musicians.

Peaked at number two on the UK albums chart.

It had the songs Glory Box and Sour Times, and it won the 1995 Mercury Music Prize for Best Album.

Speaking of 1995, in 1995, The Gathering released Mandalion.

This was the breakthrough album from the Dutch group that was a huge milestone in the gothic metal genre.