Category Archives: song of the day

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Song of the Day #4,240: ‘So Emotional’ – Whitney Houston

Like The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston earned entrance into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the first time she was nominated. In her case, that nomination came ten years after her initial eligibility in 2010.

Had she made it in back then she would have been alive to see it happen, but Houston drowned in a bathtub two years later while under the influence of several drugs. She died the night before that year’s Grammy awards, turning that celebration into a solemn affair (shades of Kobe Bryant’s pre-Grammys passing this year).

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Song of the Day #4,239: ‘Listen to the Music’ – The Doobie Brothers

It should come as no surprise that The Doobie Brothers are first-ballot Hall of Famers, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the first year they were nominated.

The surprise is that the nomination came 23 years after they were first eligible. Since 1997, the board of the Rock Hall has failed to include the California rockers on the ballot. Outrageous!

It’s a couple of decades late, but one of the Hall’s most notorious omissions has been remedied.

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Song of the Day #4,238: ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ – Depeche Mode

Last April, I started a series on inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, highlighting songs from the 2019 honorees. I later jumped back a year and featured the 2018 class, with plans to work backward through the years and eventually cover every Rock Hall member.

Before I continue the trip back through time, though, I have a new class to cover. The 2020 inductees were announced a couple of weeks ago, and this week I will dedicate a post to each of the six recognized artists.

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Song of the Day #4,237: ‘Legacy’ – Eminem

Here’s a great track from Eminem’s 2013 album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, a sequel to his breakthrough 2000 The Marshall Mathers LP.

I don’t know if it’s on me or Eminem, but this is the last album of his I really responded to. He followed it with Revival in 2017, an album I listened to twice and immediately forgot. Then came the surprise 2018 drop of Kamikaze, which I gave just one listen before tuning out.

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Song of the Day #4,236: ‘Acuff-Rose’ – Uncle Tupelo

‘Acuff-Rose’ is the second track on Uncle Tupelo’s seminal 1993 alt-country album Anodyne. This was the band’s fourth and final release, before its members went on to form Wilco and Sun Volt.

This track’s title refers to Nashville’s first country publishing house, formed in 1942 by Roy Acuff and Fred Rose. The two men vowed to start a company that would not take advantage of its artists, as so many labels at the time did.

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