An American anti-racist rap anthem lives on in punk, trip hop, and Brazilian death metal In 1989 rap group Public Enemy released a protest song about the treatment of blacks in America and the prison industrial complex. Your military buddies would probably not be happy about it. The song is a story narrated by Chuck […]
Category: Flashback Friday
A song made by a Jewish man and a black woman about Southern violence still resonates. The events in Charlottesville last weekend has stuck in my mind in a way that few other incidents during t
The story of a cover song from 1983 featured in a 2001 cult film that keeps being put into trailers in the 2010’s. Earlier, I put out a notice to other LGM bloggers asking for song requests for
Featuring Shirtless Patrick Swayze, Sam Cooke, Elvis, and a Swede. “Unchained Melody” is one of those songs where the cover became more famous than the original. It first appeared on the soundtrack of the 1955 film Unchained performed by Todd Duncan and was nominated for an Oscar that year. If you remember it first for that […]
This week I’m taking us back to another “sexy” song that has endured since the early 90’s. This time from every teenage boy’s favorite rock band before circa 2003: Nine I
Not long ago I did a Flashback Friday post for Chris Cornell who committed suicide at the too young age of 52. This week Chester Bennington, the lead singer of Linkin Park who had also sung at Cornel
It’s the height of summer and I’m hard at work with family in town playing tour guide. I also have a birthday I need to really party hard for. Unfortunately, I don’t have a whole lot of time for a serious analysis of a 90’s pop song this week. Hopefully many of you are also […]
Its 2017 and 90’s groundbreaking girl group TLC is back with a new album! Perfect Flashback Friday opportunity to take a look at perhaps their biggest hit “Waterfalls” off the multi
In 1994, Irish alternative rock band released their anti-war song “Zombie” as the first single off their new album No Need to Argue. Their video featured lead singer Dolores O’Rior
While I’m still technically on vacation and will be on a transatlantic flight on Friday, I had a burst of inspiration and had to write this one up a little early. The Wayfaring Stranger song is an old American folk song that has been passed around the bluegrass, western, country western, folk and rock music […]
Its June, the beginning of wedding season. I celebrated my second wedding anniversary this Tuesday and we’re in the States for another friend’s wedding this weekend. We’re running ou
In honor of the British General Election yesterday (pause for laughter), I bring you something a little different this week. A little trip into quirky British political culture where absolute nutters