Let start off by saying if Plowed by Sponge doesn’t get you fired up, then I don’t know what is wrong with you. I simply can’t hear this song and not want to run through brick walls, drive faster and high five my teammate as I dunk over the opposing center (I can’t actually do that one, but it sounds awesome). Plowed hits you immediately with the open riff, which is amazing.Then it does something surprising about twenty seconds into the song. When Vinnie Dombroski’s voice com

The third album from Counting Crows, This Desert Life, came out in 1999 to little fanfare. Critics were polite. Fans moved on quickly. The song that should have bolstered the success of this album was the first single, "Hanginaround." It reached 28 on the Billboard charts, but “Hanginaround” was not as revered as Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby or Colorblind. I remember heading to Homer’s Music with a friend in 1994 to buy CDs for a little road trip. I bought Beck’s Mellow Gold and he

Everything's Gonna Be Alright by Naughty by Nature in underrated

Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: Simple Minds are one of the most misremembered bands in the history of pop music. Most people have a version of them stored somewhere in their brain and that version is almost entirely built on one song they didn’t even write. A song recorded as a favor, released reluctantly, that went on to define them permanently in the eyes of everyone who wasn’t paying close enough attention. The song from The Breakfast Club is good, but this song