Sunday, November 16, 2014

Song of the Day: Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)

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Yesterday I wrote about Kiss, and talked about how music like that, with the heavy riffs and rawk attitude, will always appeal to people, a...

Song of the Day: Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy (1994)

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Even though they were both NYC rappers, Biggie could not have been further apart from Nas in 1994 . Nas was all about the realism of life ...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Song of the Day: Nas - Represent (1994)

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To anyone that knows me, it's probably not a huge surprise that I wasn't yet listening to rap music as a 12-year old in 1994. As a s...

Song of the Day: Kiss - Black Diamond (1974)

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As I continue looking at the most recent inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we get to the favorite band of my friend J.D., who do...

Song of the Day: Uncle Tupelo - Life Worth Livin' (1990)

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Uncle Tupelo are maybe/probably the all-time greatest band that relatively few people have heard of, and it remains baffling to me why they...

Song of the Day: Iggy Pop featuring Kate Pierson - Candy (1990)

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I usually hate it when major rock figures go for a late-career pop hit single, but I guess this is one of those exceptions that proves the ...

Song of the Day: Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson - The Way I Are (2007)

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I am the worst dancer of all-time. I'm so bad that I really don't even enjoy dancing, and it's a source of constant embarrassme...

Song of the Day: Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002)

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I am, for better or worse, an analyst. (My ex-girlfriends would probably say it's for the worse.) I obsessively analyze everything, fro...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Song of the Day: Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye (1994)

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Yesterday I wrote about how difficult it is for someone like Liz Phair to try and follow-up on a debut as acclaimed as Exile in Guyville was...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Song of the Day: Liz Phair - Supernova

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A lot of times when an artist follows up a "masterpiece" with an album that isn't, we begin to remember that second album as a...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Song of the Day: Johnny Cash - The Man Who Couldn't Cry (1994)

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Aside from everything important that was going on in the musical mainstreams of 1994, one of the more interesting things happening slightly ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Song of the Day: Blur - This Is a Low

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It's strange looking back at what happened with British music in America in the mid-'90s. Oasis made it big, but none of their other...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

Song of the Day: Portishead - Mysterons (1994)

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After ten straight posts of songs from 1994 that I loved (roughly) at the time, it's time to spend a while looking at songs from that ye...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Song of the Day: Oasis - Columbia (1994)

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Okay, now that we've spent several posts looking at the American music of 1994, it's time to leap across the pond for a bit. Obvious...
Friday, November 7, 2014

Song of the Day: Seal - Kiss From a Rose (1994)

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Few pop songs have ever united people that mostly hated pop music like Seal's massive hit "Kiss From a Rose" united my frien...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Song of the Day: Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender (1984)

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I'm sure some of you were wondering how long it would take me to post a Bruce song, and I guess the answer is three weeks. I was planni...

Song of the Day: INXS - The Strangest Party (These Are the Times) (1994)

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After a week's worth of posts on the alternative music of 1994, I thought it'd be fun to spend the next week checking in on some oth...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Song of the Day: Pearl Jam - Not For You (1994)

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Today marks the 20th anniversary of my Bar Mitzvah, which was not only the occasion that initiated my music buying, but also a natural ...