Selena Gomez Channels Sinead O’Connor’s Lust & Pain
This week, Dave “Your Duke” Sholin connects Sinead O’Connor’s 1990 mega-hit “Nothing Compares 2 You” to brand-new “Good For You” by Selena Gomez featuring A$AP Rocky. The similarities: They sound alike: haunting and compelling, the longings of wistful, waifish,...
Sam Hunt & Aerosmith? Yes!
Dave is linking Aerosmith’s 1998 #1 power ballad "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" to Sam Hunt’s “Take Your Time” which reached #1 in Country, and is now very strong on the pop charts. You might think that’s an odd pairing, and I did too, at first, but now I totally get...
James Bay’s Haunting Lyrics Hark Back to The Moody Blues
For us Boomers, 24-year old English/ singer/songwriter James Bay’s “Hold Back the River” is the 70s all over again: a song with great hooks, compelling rhythms and vocals, and sensitive, insightful lyrics that bring to mind 1986’s “In Your Wildest Dreams” by the...
1960s Soul Music Redux
If you grooved to Wilson Pickett’s “In The Midnight Hour,” you’ll get that same over-heated feeling all over again when you listen to “Call Me” by St. Paul and the Broken Bones. This is rated “MUST LISTEN TO!” As Dave low-keyed it in his memo to me: "when a...