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No Doubt: Hella Good
Happy Birthday Jenny!!!
Let’s get dancing, it’s party time. “Hella Good” has a vintage feel to it, like someone just opened up a time capsule from the 1980’s. I’m getting into a groove here, the beat is totally cool – reminiscent of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” (1982) or Madonna’s aptly named “Into The Groove” [...]
Savage Garden: I Want You
Welcome to Jen Week on A Track A Day! That’s correct, Jen Week – a full working week spent in celebration of all things Jen. And first off, here is one of her favorite songs, “I Want You”, by Australian pop duo Savage Garden (the song that contains the lyric “Cherry Cola”. [...]
The Beach Boys: Fun, Fun, Fun
“Fun, Fun, Fun” was a 1964 hit single written by two of the The Beach Boys band members, Brian Wilson and Mike Love. It is a true story. The band, visiting the KNAK radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah, overhead a complaint from the daughter of the owner of the station, [...]
The Corrs: Breathless
he Corrs completes my trio of “C” bands that saw international success in the 1990’s. The Corrs, an Irish Folk-Rock/Pop group is made up of four siblings – Andrea, Caroline, Sandra and Robert. Their music is a blend of traditional Irish music with a more modern guitar-sound, and the added dimension of [...]
The Cardigans: Iron Man
had a recent request to feature something from The Cardigans, that well-known Swedish indie-pop band from Sweden that were floating on the radio for much of the 90’s. They are best known probably for their 1998 hit single, “Favourite Game” off of the “Gran Turismo” album, and also “Lovefool”, released on the [...]
Ringo Starr/ Joss Stone: Who’s Your Daddy?
The other day, I subjected myself to one of the worst 30 minutes of music listening I have had in 2010. Purely for research purposes, I played through Ringo Starr’s latest album, “Y Not”, and my ears were very disappointed with my decision to do so. It seems that whenever I hear one [...]
James Taylor: Carolina in My Mind
Sometimes, you come across a song that has special meaning to you. This is one of those. In 1968, James Taylor recorded this song whilst working in England, for Apple Music, the record label owned by The Beatles. Taylor, born in Boston but and raised in North Carolina was writing about [...]
