Music Blogs

  • Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton) - day 13

    by Nicholas Marino
    This one will be tough. Esoterically, this song takes me to a moment at a bar in Oceanside with Ellen in the late eighties, before she met Justin, ...

  • I Could Not Ask For More (Edwin McCain) - day 14

    by Nicholas Marino
    It’s the mid to late nineties and television has found a new principle target for people my age and younger called the WB. It’s a new channel fille...

  • Uninvited (Alanis Morissette) - day 15

    by Nicholas Marino
    I love the music Alanis Morissette, but if you’ve been paying attention, you already knew this. Her sound, her vibe: unique and moving. After the m...

  • Forbidden Love (Madleen Kane) - day 16

    by Nicholas Marino
    I love disco. I’ll pause for your resounding “DUH.” Now that that’s out of the way, I thought I’d heard every disco song ever released onto the gli...

  • Unbreak My Heart/You’re Makin’ Me High (Toni Braxton) - day 17

    by Nicholas Marino
    The first time I heard the voice of Toni Braxton, I was swept away in an instant. Earthy in a low register, she captured us with songs like You Mea...

  • Counting Blue Cars (Dishwalla) - day 18

    by Nicholas Marino
    Seems like I’m going in circles lately, landing on the same time period a few times during this countdown. We’re back where we were two days ago, i...

  • Crash Into Me (Dave Matthews Band) - day 19

    by Nicholas Marino
    I’m not generally one for the music of Dave Matthews Band, but this particular song, Crash Into Me, resonates for some reason. Full nineties vibe, ...

  • Don’t Disturb This Groove (The System)/I Remember Holding You (Boys Club) - day 20

    by Nicholas Marino
    Two one-hit wonders earn today’s top marks: from the first notes of these songs I am transported back to my basement apartment at Aurora’s, in anot...

  • Make It Real (the Jets) - day 21

    by Nicholas Marino
    Sorry for so many ballads in a row, but it is what it is and you knew what you were getting when you signed up to be part of this blog group. That ...

  • Breathe Me (Sia) - day 22

    by Nicholas Marino
    International superstar Sia had a career way before she was singing and swinging from chandeliers. Anyone who was watching Six Feet Under in the 00...

  • I Still Believe (Brenda K. Starr) - day 23

    by Nicholas Marino
    Wow. Here’s a ballad earworm from that time, oh so long ago, when I was fumbling with my secret life, peeking out the closet doors in hopes of seei...

  • Still Of The Night (Whitesnake) - day 24

    by Nicholas Marino
    On day 34 I spoke about my disdain for the heavy metal hairbands of the eighties with the exceptions of two very specific songs. One could argue th...