Here comes Hootie! This week on the Is This Song Good? podcast, we discuss Hold My Hand from the mid-90s pop/rock sensations, Hootie & The Blowfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoW3bqnr7tw
It's 2/22/22 today and as such, we are dubbing it Kazoo 2 day! Play the game. Listen to the soundtrack. Buy some dang swag and support the cause. Or just toot on your own kazoo and make someone's day a little brighter.
For whatever reason, I never really got into earlier Soundgarden albums including Badmotorfinger. I don't know why I never connected to it, but it took Johnny Cash covers to bring me around, I guess. Sometime in 1994, Black Hole Sun hit the airwaves and the MTV. I was hooked and while I hadn't amassed a huge CD collection yet, this album entered the chat.…
Whoever wins, we lose. Welcome to the latest installment of the Is This Song Good Podcast. This week is the infectiously obnoxious Cotton Eye Joe by Swedish techno country euro-dance group Rednex. That's right, it's the most played song at kid events and always produces some form of line dancing. Why did this song ever become popular? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOYZaiDZ7BM
This album has the unique distinction of having been in my collection as both a cassette and compact disc. When the grunge era hit in the early 1990s, a lot of teens were flocking to the smelly spirit of Nirvana, but I liked me the gruff vocals of Mr. Edward Louis Severson III, better known as Eddie Vedder. Little did I know that the…
Today marks the release of Cleanse by Joywave. You will like it. I will like it. Really hoping the title has something to do with cleaning out your colon. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mLylRvWa8MIr0tY58-iK7DaGKrAuktnKU&feature=share
This week's episode takes us back to the early 1990s when reggae rap got its first hit with Snow's incoherent babbling song Informer. The song was played many times on pop radio stations and we're going to try to figure out why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSffz_bl6zo
This is one of those albums that comes out of nowhere and then proceeds to melt your soul from the inside. I don't even know exactly how I came about buying this CD in 1998, but after listening to it once, I was hooked. I was definitely exposed to Tricky, Portishead, and trip-hop before 1998, so it wasn't some sort of radical new sound…
Season 3 of the Is This Song Good? podcast series continues this week with another "Why was this song so popular?" hit from Shaggy. The song is It Wasn't Me featuring Rik Rok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_x6QmuJdms
It was the late 1980s and my sister had the cassette of this album by Tears for Fears. I listened to it from start to finish numerous times. While it is notable for the big radio hit singles Shout and Everybody Wants to Rule the World, it's impossible to find a bad track among the 8 songs. What I really liked about it was…
