
M Lockwood Porter Loves Mazzy Star “Fade Into You”
02/03/22 • 21 min
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It might be the best a tambourine has ever sounded on a song...it just sparkles.
“Fade Into You,” Mazzy Star’s mid-90’s MTV classic is the rare one hit wonder that transcends time and place. The song is such a warm blanket of sound that it was featured on countless mix tapes in the 90’s, then placed prominently on every mix CD made by a sensitive guy in the early 2000’s, and still lives on an immeasurable number of streaming playlists.
(T)his song exists kind of out of time. It could have come out a couple years ago, or it could have come out in the 70s or the 90s.
In the latest episode of One Hit History, Sloane Spencer sits down with musician M. Lockwood Porter to discuss a song that arose from the tail end of the Los Angeles music scene known as the Paisley Underground. Mazzy Star is fronted by the tantalizing wallflower Hope Sandoval and though the song was everywhere in 1994, neither Spencer nor Porter became familiar with the hit until years later. Porter shares details about his forthcoming fifth LP, which includes contributions from John Moreland.
One of the things that makes this band so tantalizing is that my understanding is that Hope Sandoval is very shy and has stage fright...it just adds some mystery and depth to what you hear in the music.
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Thanks to Charles Hale for this episode’s show notes. You can find his radio show at Ajax Diner Book Club and in an upcoming One Hit History podcast!
The Playlists
- One Hit History — The Songs
- One Hit History — The Guests
- One Hit History — The M Lockwood Porter Podcast Episode
Music Mentioned in this Podcast
- M Lockwood Porter
- Mazzy Star
- Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
- John Moreland
- The Dream Syndicate
- Rain Parade
- R.E.M.
- Opal
- Green on Red
- Chuck Prophet
- X
- The Jesus & Mary Chain (Note flashing images and strobes on home screen of this website.)
Interesting Links
- Support One Hit History podcast on Patreon and hear outtakes, bonus episodes, and extras
- M. Lockwood Porter official website www.mlockwoodporter.com
- Buy M. Lockwood Porter’s music on Bandcamp www.mlockwoodporter.bandcamp.com
- “Fade Into You” original video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZEyrI
- “Fade Into You” international video www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MkdplFbFdU&ab_channel=Telegenics
- A brief history of Mazzy Star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazzy_Star
- Hope Sandoval www.hopesandoval.com
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It might be the best a tambourine has ever sounded on a song...it just sparkles.
“Fade Into You,” Mazzy Star’s mid-90’s MTV classic is the rare one hit wonder that transcends time and place. The song is such a warm blanket of sound that it was featured on countless mix tapes in the 90’s, then placed prominently on every mix CD made by a sensitive guy in the early 2000’s, and still lives on an immeasurable number of streaming playlists.
(T)his song exists kind of out of time. It could have come out a couple years ago, or it could have come out in the 70s or the 90s.
In the latest episode of One Hit History, Sloane Spencer sits down with musician M. Lockwood Porter to discuss a song that arose from the tail end of the Los Angeles music scene known as the Paisley Underground. Mazzy Star is fronted by the tantalizing wallflower Hope Sandoval and though the song was everywhere in 1994, neither Spencer nor Porter became familiar with the hit until years later. Porter shares details about his forthcoming fifth LP, which includes contributions from John Moreland.
One of the things that makes this band so tantalizing is that my understanding is that Hope Sandoval is very shy and has stage fright...it just adds some mystery and depth to what you hear in the music.
Be sure to subscribe to One Hit History podcast in your favorite app and
leave a 5 Star rating!
Thanks to Charles Hale for this episode’s show notes. You can find his radio show at Ajax Diner Book Club and in an upcoming One Hit History podcast!
The Playlists
- One Hit History — The Songs
- One Hit History — The Guests
- One Hit History — The M Lockwood Porter Podcast Episode
Music Mentioned in this Podcast
- M Lockwood Porter
- Mazzy Star
- Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
- John Moreland
- The Dream Syndicate
- Rain Parade
- R.E.M.
- Opal
- Green on Red
- Chuck Prophet
- X
- The Jesus & Mary Chain (Note flashing images and strobes on home screen of this website.)
Interesting Links
- Support One Hit History podcast on Patreon and hear outtakes, bonus episodes, and extras
- M. Lockwood Porter official website www.mlockwoodporter.com
- Buy M. Lockwood Porter’s music on Bandcamp www.mlockwoodporter.bandcamp.com
- “Fade Into You” original video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZEyrI
- “Fade Into You” international video www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MkdplFbFdU&ab_channel=Telegenics
- A brief history of Mazzy Star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazzy_Star
- Hope Sandoval www.hopesandoval.com
If you liked this episode, you may enjoy our partner podcast,
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Rachel Cholst Loves Cowboy Mouth “Jenny Says”
The shows themselves have this glue of positivity, connecting all the songs, and this idea that you can do anything, and you can get through these difficult times.
Some songs are so cathartic and just speak right into your heart at the right time in your life, as Rachel Cholst feels about Cowboy Mouth’s classic song “Jenny Says.” Listen and learn some obscure tidbits of info about the energetic, New Orleans-based band.
I know they have a reputation that it’s a frat boy band, but there are a lot of people out there for whom they’ve done so much. And I hope that also is a part of their legacy.
Cholst, a well-known freelance writer and creator of queer country music zine Rainbow Rodeo and the Adobe & Teardrops blog discusses the effect the Cowboy Mouth has had on her life, music, and social justice-focused activities with host Sloane Spencer.
90s college rock has a very specific sensibility where it’s happy and sad at the same time. And when you’re 12 going on 13 — yeah, that hits.
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Links:
Music Mentions:
- Man on the Run video
- Cowboy Mouth
- Dash Rip Rock
- Fred LeBlanc (often spelled LaBlanc)
- Paul Sanchez
- JTG AKA Griff AKA John Thomas Griffith
- John Mellencamp (Jack & Diane)
- Indigo Girls
- Better than Ezra
- Toad the Wet Sprocket
- Sonia Tetlow Band (AKA STB) (not the hip hop group)
- Ani DiFranco
- Drivin N Cryin
- Arms Akimbo (fantastic early 1980s Atlanta band, not to be confused with the late 2010s band of the same name, the main guy’s dad or uncle was my dentist –Sloane)
- Mr. Crowe’s Garden (band before the Black Crowes, you can see why we were all pretty surprised when they morphed into this Southern rock band a couple years later...)
- Mary Lasseigne, often credited as LaSang (recently known for playing in the Susan Cowsill band)
- Drive By Truckers
Enjoy this playlist featuring some of the artists we talked about in this episode.
Enjoy the on-going One Hit History playlist, featuring the songs featured on the episodes.
AI Transcript
Sloane Spencer 0:00 Hey y’all Sloane Spencer here you found us it is one hit history. We’re real easy to find online one hit history.com or support us at patreon.com/oneHithistory. I’m talking with somebody today who is a music person that if you don’t already know you should, behind some incredibly important and fascinating outlets, Adobe and Teardrops and Rainbow Rodeo the zine you definitely need to know. Rachel Cholst. Hello.
Rachel Cholst 0:26 Hi. Thank you so much for having me and for that really generous introduction.
Sloane Spencer 0:32 Well, absolutely. So real quick before we jump into the big question and the fun part of this, creatively, what have you been working on lately?
Rachel Cholst 0:40 That is a rueful laugh. Because I’ve mostly been writing essays since I’m working towards my MSW. And after about five years of doing freelance journalism on tight deadlines, while working a full time job writing like a five page paper double spaced is like really nothing to me. No, but time and energy.
Sloane Spencer 0:59 Definitely, definitely. So give people the quick rundown on what Adobe and Teardrops is.
Rachel Cholst 1:04 Sure. So I began Adobe and Teardrops in part inspired by the band we’re going to be talking about...
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LadyCouch Loves You…and Tag Team “Whoomp! There It Is”
“Whoomp! There It Is!” is talking about their particular art scene as a whole, even though it’s more T&A based. — Keshia Bailey and Allen Thompson, co-founders of jam band LadyCouch on their favorite one hit wonder by Tag Team
The conversation bounces around so much between Sloane Spencer and the co-founders of LadyCouch (Keshia Bailey and Allen Thompson) that who knows where it is while they talk about their favorite one hit wonder from 1993. But the Nashville duo finally lands on “Whoomp There It Is” by Tag Team. But don’t confuse it with 95 South’s “Whoot There It Is”, though the trio chats about the differences and similarities between the two.
My philosophy is ‘hit’ is however you want to define it. It’s whatever it means for the conversation. — Sloane Spencer, host of One Hit History, on how loosely the podcast defines “hit”
Listen to see how the strip club scene in Atlanta in the 90s was essential to the music scene, the unlikely way the band got their party song on the streets, and how many musicians’ favorite one hit wonders come outside of the genre in which they perform and write.
That recent Geico commercial has taken me back to the spring of ‘93. — Allen Thompson (LadyCouch co-founder)
Links
- Blackbird Records label
- LadyCouch (6-12 members rotating, core is Keshia Bailey and Allen Thompson)
- One Hit History podcast playlist of show guests
- One Hit History playlist of one hit wonders
- Bonus episodes, outtakes, and sneak peeks
Music Mentions
- The Future Looks Fine
- LadyCouch
- “Whoomp There It Is”
- “Whoot, There It Is”
- “Who Let the Dogs Out”
- “Ring my Bell”
- Terence Trent D’Arby (who now goes by Sananda Maitreya)
- “Bittersweet Symphony”
- “Touch of Grey”
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AI Transcript
Sloane Spencer Hey y’all Sloane Spencer here you found us. It’s one hit history, the new podcast where we talk with music people about what’s your favorite one hit wonder. We’re fixing to jump in talking with our friends Keshia Bailey and Allen Thompson of the band LadyCouch. They got the new record out called future looks fun. It’s on Blackbird records. You can find it in all your favorite places where music is available. We’ll talk with them a little bit throughout the conversation about their own music as well and the cool stuff they have coming up. But first, let’s just jump right in some y’all. What’s your favorite one hit wonder.
Keshia Bailey Oh my god. This is so hard.
Allen Thompson So we’ve got a lot of favorite one hit wonders. But that recent GEICO commercial with tag team has taken me back to the spring of 1993. And made me really think about Whoop, there it is, by tag team versus Whoop, there it is by 95. Sell. The course is almost identical. Minus the spelling of the whoop and or WOOT in the title, subject matter. Kind of similar. I feel like tag jeans, the writings a little stronger. Lyrically, it’s a little bit more poetic. Both of them are you know, pretty much worldwide sports Hanson’s at this point. Yes, absolutely.
AT Anybody that has been to a football game or owns any of the 385 editions have now That’s What I Call Music, you’ve definitely heard
SS both songs platinum at the minimum, in fact, the whoop version of it multi platinum and the WOOT version, platinum, both of them and not 100. And just absolutely successful in and of their own right. But it’s been that continuation through sports and advertising that has made these songs of the millennium in many ways.
AT I mean, they open the door for Who let the dogs out many other one hit wonder classics.
SS We’re gonna feature the song, who let the dogs out on another one hit history, because there’s actually quite a bit more behind the scenes about that particular song as w...
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