Tag: Pop Music
35: “Express Yourself, Don’t Repress Yourself” – Madonna
MADONNA Before there was Britney. Before there was Beyonce. Before there was Gaga. There was one woman who reigned the radio waves in the 80s and 90s — Her Madgesty, now and forever the Queen of Pop. Ms. Ciccone is known for her iconic, chameleonic looks, and it just so happens that our hosts each…
30: “The Water is Freezing and There Aren’t Enough Boats” – Titanic
TITANIC (1997) It’s been 20 years, and we can still smell the fresh paint… the sheets had never been slept in… and we’d never heard Celine Dion belt her heart out over James Horner’s pennywhistle. To mark the 20th anniversary of a film as gargantuan and ambitious as the ocean liner itself, When We Were…
16: “Here We Are Now, Entertain Us” – Nirvana
Bring your friends and your anti-depressants to the 16th episode of the WHEN WE WERE YOUNG podcast, when we revisit Nirvana – the band that later became known as the entire musical genre called “grunge.” In this episode we listen to the two most popular albums of the definitive Seattle rock band: 1991’s worldwide smash…
10: “Hailing a TAXI CAB” – Jagged Little Pill
Why are you so petrified of silence? See if you can handle this as the When We Were Young podcast revisits Alanis Morissette’s 1995 monolithic album JAGGED LITTLE PILL. One of the best-selling albums of all time, and with about half its songs chart-topping singles, this album is and has always been pigeonholed as “angry…
6: “Song As Old As Rhyme” – Disney Pop Hits
The 1990s were an innocent time where cassette singles ruled and Disney pop songs were a regular fixture on the Billboard charts. The singles released during this decade earned the Mouse House multi-millions in sales and more often than not scored some sweet Oscar glory, but are any of these recordings — sung by actual…