Keeping Boomers In Touch With Today's Music
We connect a song from back-in-the-day to a current hit that has a similar sound/content/style. You’ll be up to speed in 90-seconds.
Curated by Dave Sholin | Written by Lee Wade
I’m Not OK, Neither Are You, and That’s OK
In the early 90's the "alternative" format flourished, bursting forth with a creative force that led to a steady stream of massive hits from Nirvana's "Smells Like a Teen Spirit" to Radiohead's "Creep" and "Loser," Beck's first hit. Listening to "Not OK!" by...
Dancing Solo Doesn’t Require Social Distancing (or a mask)
"Roses" by SAINt JHN is an international sensation with almost a billion streams which are two good reasons to pay attention to it--just so you know what everyone else in the world is listening to. Plus, it's a terrific dance song, with a "Nasty Girl" groove --the...
The Hipsters Guide to the Quarantine by Mick Jagger & the Rolling Stones
The hippest, slickest "quarantine"-ish" song so far is the Rolling Stone's "Living in a Ghost Town"--a great, groovy, mesmerizing, eclectic, breezy, bluesy but not blues, brand new release, the band's first in eight years and what timing! Jagger said in interview with...
Sign O’ the Times: You in Your 6’, and Me in Mine
Luke Combs, possibly the hottest artist in Country music today, has written one of the best social distancing songs out there, capturing both our shared isolation experience and the public’s fancy. Music programmers and the public LOVE it, and it their response has...
A New Song For Memorial Day
Here's a brand new song that's a perfect fit for this year's Memorial Day because it honors not only the brave soldiers who died in battles past, it also pays tribute to our living heros--the Dr.s, nurses, and healthcare workers on the front lines of today's battle...
“The Times They Are a Changin’”– Hand Written Lyric$ = Big $$
We were teens when Bob Dylan happened. Now he’s 78 y/o and we Boomers are somewhere between 56 and 74. And those lyrics Bob Dylan wrote down, back then, in his own handwriting, when both he and we were young, are worth big-bucks today. Last month the words to "Hey...
The Name’s the Same…
In 1986 “Your Love” by British quartet The Outfield went “Top Ten” on both Pop and Rock charts with their mass appeal hit "Your Love." As the lyrics make clear, this “love” is a crass love: I just want to use your love tonight And As you're leaving please would you...
ATTN: People Who Love Dance Music
Do you love dance music? Were you into disco? In 1977 did you groove to "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," Santa Esmeralda's cover of the mid-60s hit by the Animals, and which was all over Top 40 and Disco radio and in the clubs? If the above is you, you're in luck,...
Bob Seger Just Turned 75-Years Old
Last November, after 56 years of touring, Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet band put a wrap on it. Seger turned 75 y/o May 6th --we Boomers remember his hard driving, high testosterone heartland rock and roll, softened with a poet’s insight; his gentle, often tender...