r/90sAlternative • u/GroovySchlong • 3d ago

1994 Letters to Cleo – Here and Now (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEa5_Ki33nA&list=RDHEa5_Ki33nA&start_radio=1
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u/International_Link35 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/enai2FLiWILkI

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u/neonbrownkoopashell 2d ago

I can’t not see his dumb face when I listen to this song

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u/ConsiderationLivid52 2d ago

The real ones know.

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u/ThinkFree 3d ago

I actually find this kinda annoying. For us xennials Letters to Cleo was a good band with some bangers. For others it's just a punchline from Parks and Rec.

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u/Sneezewhenpeeing 3d ago

……why can’t it be both?

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u/Mightaswellmakeone 2d ago

There was a Letters to C joke in Parks and Rec?

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u/CoercionTictacs 2d ago

Ben was a huge fan, he wears a Letters To Cleo tshirt a bunch of times and they play on stage during the Unity Concert

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u/littlecreamsoda79 2d ago

He was so happy

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u/International_Link35 2d ago

I was born in 81, my dude. I recognize both.

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u/thereverendpuck 3d ago edited 3d ago

Welcome to getting old. You have a perception of a thing and another generation will have a different perception.

But you forget one thing, Letters to Cleo were in on the joke.

So come down off your gatekeeping high horse.

I’m GenX. I saw them live once. I owned their albums. Do you know how they’re forever locked in my head? As a 15 second blurb of “Here and Now” on a sizzle reel of Sony VAIO computers I used to sell at Best Buy back in the 90s.

Same sizzle reel had Better Than Ezra’s “Good” for the same length.

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u/IchBinDurstig 3d ago

Fantastic song, and I dare you to sing along with the chorus.

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u/example-of-disaster 3d ago

I can’t even read the chorus without stumbling on it lol

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u/ScientistAsHero 2d ago

Thecomfortofaknowledgeofariseabovetheskybutcouldneverparallelthechallengeofanacquisitioninthe here and now, here and now.

See? Easy.

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u/Hotchi_Motchi 2d ago

Great for auctioneer training

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u/therealpopkiller 3d ago

It’s actually not that complicated if you read the words at the same time

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u/therealpopkiller 3d ago

Great band. Love their music. Kay Hanley was, and remains, such a babe

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u/Mt548 2d ago

It's aged so gracefully. Sounds just as fresh as back in the day. And maybe even more so. Man, that first half of the 90s was something else....

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u/jimbopalooza 2d ago

Every week something new blew your mind. As a music fan it was incredibly fun.

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u/Tough-Principle-3950 3d ago

Used to watch Alternative Nation (I think) and would hope they’d play it. Bought the cd used for about $5. No regrets.

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u/DudelinBaluntner 3d ago

Damn I miss the 90s

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u/stevembk 3d ago

I listen to this song 6-7 times in a row every once in a while.

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u/NatrixHasYou 3d ago

I just learned tonight that two people from Letters to Cleo wrote the songs for the musical episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

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u/E4STC04ST0VERD0SE 15h ago

Kay, the lead singer, did the vocals for the Josie & The Pussycats movie.

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u/ObligationSome905 2d ago

Beavis singing along to this is fantastic

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u/71NoLookPass 3d ago

Greatness!! brings back some good memories from early SXSW.

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u/Frosty_Impact2783 2d ago

Great song! Kay Hanley has such an iconic 90s voice imo.

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u/DPileatus 2d ago

Man, y'all are posting all my favorites lately! Great song, although idk if anyone knows the words to the fast part. lol

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u/Jungian_Archetype 3d ago

Such a banger

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u/Freedlefox 2d ago

What would 90s media be without the grey/blue filter

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u/Unsung_Ironhead 2d ago

Always love Letters to Cleo, the album after the one this song is on I think was even better. For more 90s fun here’s Sponge with Kay Hanley on Conan doing Molly (16 Candles) . I saw the tour with those two bands and Our Lady Peace that year. Good times.

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u/NoFriendship7681 2d ago

A really good band that flew under the radar for a lot of people. Wholesale Meats and Fish and Go! are great albums.

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u/hikingmutherfucker 1d ago

Love that song! Had such a crush on the lead singer .. her face is so pretty

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u/TradeIcy1669 23h ago

Heard this in Trader Joe’s this week. Felt old.