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99.241.170.160
Since: Dec, 1969
2011-06-05 08:37:40
For the first one, could you be thinking of something by the band I Mother Earth
?
MikeK
Since: Jan, 2001

This is pretty vague, but I'd love to find the songs, and I've seen things turn up successfully with less to go on than this:
1) A kind of hard rock/ Post-Grunge-ish song from the mid-90's that had this odd repeated break where the rest of the music would just stop and this odd music-box-like melody would play for a few seconds, then the rest of the music would start up again. Sort of like Stop and Go, but with one instrument suddenly jumping in that otherwise wasn't present in the song. No lyrics to go on, but I swear I remember either the band or song being called Mother Nature - googling that or plugging it in as a song title or band name on allmusic gets me nothing that sounds like it though.
2) Another mid-90's Alternative Rock song - the main thing I remember is it had a verse riff similar to "8:02 PM" by For Squirrels
, although I know for a fact it's not the same track. It did come out around the same time as the For Squirrels song though (1995 or so): I even remember a letter in a music magazine's reader mail pointing out the similarity. T He singer's voice kind of reminded me of John Linnell, but it definitely wasn't anything connected to They Might Be Giants. Again, no lyrics to go on.
Edited by MikeK