Sex & Candy

While there have been other posts, it has been far too long since my last 90s music column.

This week I am commenting on the 1997 cult classic "Sex & Candy" by Marcy Playground. Named after the school (Marcy Open in Minneapolis) that lead singer John Wozniak attended, the band became more popular in the second half of the 1990s reaching their peak with this song that spend fifteen weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts and later went platinum.

The band, which also consisted - at the time - of drummer Dan Rieser and bassist Dylan Keefe, since then has put out two more albums and is working on their forth, now with Shlomi Lavie instead of Dan Rieser.

What, now, did they mean by this song? What exactly is the smell of sex and candy? The smells of candy, we know, are usually associated with scents of sugar, chocolate, cookies, and frostings. Sex, on the other hand? Is it the scent of perfume? Clean sheets? Sweat?

Although the guys were probably having a lot of sex then, they probably aren't now (see photo on the left), so I guess we'll never know how they could smell sex. Now they're probably just lounging in their chairs, yeah.



This week ten years ago, the #1 hit on the Billboard Charts was Monica's Angel of Mine ranking up there with the Backstreet Boys' All I Have to Give, and Sarah McLachlan's Angel.

Until next time, just remember that the best things were born in the nineties.