Identify a song from the nineties?
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Jeruba (
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March 8th, 2009
This song was on a CD that my son played in the car once when we were going somewhere in the late 1990s, perhaps 1999. He doesn’t remember it now by my description. He was about 13 at the time. The style was what I would call “soft rock”; I don’t know what it’s called now. It may have been a single male vocalist. The tone was solemn and sad.
The storyline of the song, which unfolds as the song progresses, is an affecting tragedy: two youngsters meet over ?spring break, and a few weeks later he’s forgotten her already, and she is facing pregnancy alone. A patterned refrain develops her isolation and despair—ending, I think, with her suicide—while he doesn’t remember her at all. I seem to recall a recurring image of the floor, but I don’t remember what part it played in the scene.
A title alone won’t click with me, nor will a group’s name. I may never have known them. I’d need a link to lyrics or a performance.
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13 Answers
“With his head on the floor” struck a chord—that may well be it. It doesn’t sound just like I remembered it, and maybe it was a different performer?—but that could be the song. Many thanks, Alfreda.
From that description, The Freshmen was my first guess as well. It seems like a pretty exact match to me.
This may not be it, but perhaps Brick by Ben Folds Five? The sense of isolation is there at least.
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Where’s 90s_kid when you need him?
Definitely The Freshmen by Verve Pipe :D
Agreed with everyone else it’s The Freshmen. Great song btw.
The more I think about it, the more I think you are all correct with “The Freshmen.” I must have filled in a lot of story that wasn’t in the lyrics. After ten years that’s not surprising—don’t we do the same thing in life? But the refrain is telling. (And a song must be pretty powerful to stick like that after one hearing while driving.) Thank you, everyone.
@laureth Please don’t look for him!
@lefteh Your ‘I don’t know’, link is kinda scary. Maybe a haircut, or comb or some hair gel may help.
I don’t think 90’s kid would have been much use anyways…he was BORN in the 90’s I think, I don’t think he necessarily remembers the 90’s. What we needed here was those of us born in the late 80’s and wrapped up in the music of the 90’s that came to answer this call! :)
@Cardinal: I take no responsibility for Ben’s appearance.
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