The Cranberries – Zombie
The year is 1994. The airwaves are still saturated with the jangly, wistful melancholy of The Cranberries’ debut era. For…
Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
The late 1980s music landscape was fractured, glittering with neon promise and shadowed by a real, palpable dirtiness. Into this…
George Michael – Careless Whisper
The year is 1984. The landscape of pop music is a dazzling, synthetic carnival of neon tracksuits and drum machines.…
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want To Have Fun
The air in my rented Honda was thick with the scent of cheap diner coffee and wet asphalt. It was…
Europe – The Final Countdown
The year is 1986. The air is thick with Aqua Net and ozone. In a Swedish rehearsal room, a keyboard…
4 Non Blondes – What’s Up
The year is 1993. The air is thick with flannel, feedback, and a kind of generational skepticism that hadn’t quite…
Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
The Moment of Silence Before the Storm The memory is fixed: late 1992, the air growing crisp, and the sudden,…
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
It starts in the dark. Not a silent dark, but a black space already alive with sound. You’re waiting for…
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
The moment the lights dim in a thousand different theaters, pubs, and road-trip cars, a silent reverence falls. We all…
Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now
The needle drops. The room, perhaps a dimly lit pub, perhaps the sterile acoustic landscape heard through a set of…