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Daily Dose: The Bones of J.R. Jones, “Hearts Racing”

That time we found our kinfolk, running down a meadow still soft with folded grass as the daisies chained themselves into a crown.

That time we snapped our fingers, and they didn’t make a sound but the sight of the attempt was something so much more profound.

That time when life was simple, and things were sorted out in kind.

When time was just a concept that we paid no mind.

Daily Dose: Nirvana, “About A Girl”

Because this MTV Unplugged blew the world’s mind like Dylan had just gone electric. Because Kurt’s green sweater was just exhibited at an in-depth Nirvana retrospective staged by the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Because rock legend Dave Grohl is wearing a Normcore turtleneck. Because Nirvana fundamentally changed all of us 90s kids, whether or not we understood that.

Daily Dose: TLC, “No Scrubs”

I celebrated a seminal birthday this month, and, instead of going existential about life’s brevity, I decided to run through my 30-year-old music catalog. Belatedly beginning today, the Nostos Algos Daily Doses of September will present the songs and videos that defined certain epochs in my life (in no particular order) because, as I’ve said before, music marks moments.

So here it is, the first installment: “No Scrubs” off TLC’s second studio album CrazySexyCool, which was released in 1994 when I was a 4th-grader learning the complexities of the California Mission System.