Year: 1989
I heard this for the first time in1994 and I remember thinking that 1989 was such a long time ago.
Fine Young Cannibals — She Drives Me Crazy
Feist — 1234
Year: 2007
I love her “Oh, uh, ohs” here and the way “you know who you are” rolls off. Just very relaxing. But honestly I might like her version on Sesame Street even more.
Fastball — Sweetwater, Texas
Year: 1998
That’s three days in a row with a late 90’s alt rock band.
Final track on their most famous album that saw The Way, Fire Escape, and Out of My Head do well. Nice, simple ballad.
Everclear — I Will Buy You A New Life
Year: 1997
I don’t know why, but I feel like if I heard this song for the first time today I wouldn’t like it. But I loved everything alt rock in high school. Twin Cities had a great alt rock station back in the day, 104.1 The Point.
Eve 6 — Inside Out
Year: 1998
Not the first or last loud, angsty alt rock song from the late 90s
Erasure — Always
Year: 1994
One of my favorite synth-pop songs. The synth compliments Andy Bell’s voice well.
En Vogue — Giving Him Something He Can Feel
Year: 1992
I like this better than Aretha’s version. Aretha is great, but the backup singers are kind of meh. En Vogue harmonizes really well.
Enigma — Return To Innocence
Year: 1994
Pretty generic lyrics, but I really like the Amis peole chant from Difang and Igay Duana that they sampled. Plus, the backwards video!
Eminem — Lose Yourself
Year: 2002
It was hard to pick an Eminem song. Rap God is meticulously great rapping and I also love the rhymes of Without Me, but I’m not going to belt out the other F word while singing along. Martika’s chorus on Like Toy Soldiers is lovely but I’m not super into songs about drama with other singers. I dig Higher and I like how each verse gets progressively more complex, fitting the theme of the song.
Ultimately, going with the most popular song. I love how Eminem will take words or phrases that aren’t perfect rhymes but he makes them work with his inflection.
But I kept rhymin’ and stepped right in the next cypher
Best believe somebody’s payin’ the Pied Piper
All the pain inside amplified by the
Fact that I can’t get by with my nine to
Five and I can’t provide the right type of
Life for my family ’cause man, these goddamn food stamps don’t buy diapers
And its no movie, there’s no Mekhi Phifer
The only perfect rhyme there is “cypher” and “Phifer.”
Alecia Elliott — Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Year: 2000
I might be the only person who finds this version of the song to be their favorite. And I’ll listen to it any time of year.
Alecia Elliott released her first album in 2000 at the age 17 and her second one at age 37. I owned the first one and bought it for “I’m Diggin’ It.” Love her voice but the material on the first album was mostly shit. It tried to capture the pop-crossover appeal of Shania Twain but, yeah, it didn’t work.
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