Flashback Friday is back! On a Sunday! Freelance assignments overwhelmed me a bit this month, that’s why I’ve largely been absent from LGM. That’s the freelance life though, and hope
A modest 1970’s hit gets remade into a great spectacle by Grace Jones, Oscar Isaac, and Bahz Luhrman. Last week we took a trip (heh) back into 1960’s drug culture with Grace Slick’s
A Credence Clearwater Revival song made even more famous by Tina Turner’s dancing, plus Elvis and Mr. Spock. In 1969 Credence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty wrote a song about a poor Lo
A 1950’s African American shock rocker creates a classic spooky love song that gets perfected by Nina Simone. In honor of Halloween next week, I bring you a spooky American classic from the wond
Jesus got his name in a cynical pop love song In 1989 British electronic band Depeche Mode released a song that your church youth leader can’t decide if he hates. A 1990 profile in Spin magazine
Unless you’re The Muppets, this is a song that cannot be duplicated in a studio. WE’LL DO IT LIVE! In 1975 Queen released one of the weirdest songs of all time that became a massive hit, t
A moderate hit in Europe became a monster when American teens found it in art film soundtrack. I was not a teenager in the 90’s, but I was alive in the 90’s desperately wanting to be a tee
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