MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

Released on this day in 1995…

Blur entered one of the biggest battles in Britpop history…

with this song: “Country House.”

(Music Cut #2)

Blur and Oasis
released new singles
on the same exact day…

turning the British charts
into a full-blown showdown.

(Music Cut #3)

Blur won the battle.

“Country House” outsold the Oasis release of “Roll With It.”

To be fair…

Oasis might have lost the week…

but they ended up doing pretty okay down the road.

(Music Cut #4)

I like them both, but I’m a bigger Blur fan.

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Touched with his own mortality
He’s reading Balzac and knocking back Prozac
It’s a helping hand that makes you feel wonderfully bland.” – Blur

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Movies That Matter / 08-14-26

(Movies That Matter Intro)

Welcome to Movies That Matter, where we look at three movies worth knowing about before the weekend begins.

Anne Hathaway’s entire neighborhood has disappeared, PAW Patrol is apparently fighting dinosaurs now, and somehow Wet Hot American Summer is 25 years old.

(Countdown Video)

What’s new? And – a whole lot scary – The End of Oak Street stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. The premise: an entire suburban street is suddenly ripped from Earth and transported somewhere unknown.

(The End of Oak Street cut – with a dinosaur)

Looking like Jurassic Park just moved into the neighborhood there.
Speaking of dinosaurs…

(PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie cut)

Ahhhh – that’s more up my alley.

The pups are back, this time landing on a dinosaur island, meeting Rex, and – since dinosaurs weren’t enough – they are dealing with a volcano.

It’s PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie

(Another PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie clip)

And finally, we have a movie returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary – Wet Hot American Summer

(Wet Hot American Summer cut)

Watching it now, the cast looks absolutely ridiculous: Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Molly Shannon, Michael Ian Black, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd, … that’s a lot.

(another Wet Hot American Summer cut)

That’s this weekend’s Movies That Matter. From disappearing neighborhoods to dinosaurs to summer camp nostalgia, there should be something waiting for you at the movies.

Until next time – keep on popping the corn.

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

Released on this day in 1996…

ska-punk was crashing the alt-rock radio party

and Reel Big Fish had a hit song about selling out.

(Music Cut #2)

Ska purists were accusing bands of going too mainstream.

So Reel Big Fish wrote a sarcastic song about it:

“Sell Out.”

And then… the joke became real.

(Music Cut #3)

Their label pushed “Sell Out” to radio and MTV…

so Reel Big Fish broke through with a song mocking

the same machine promoting it.

That’s not selling out.

That’s selling out with a horn section.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“‘Cause you’re gonna go to the record store
You’re gonna give ’em all your money.” – Reel Big Fish

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

Back in 1991…

Seattle rock had one hell of a family tree.

Temple of the Dog with “Pushin Forward Back.”

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As this song was happening, you could hear Seattle changing in real time.

Chris Cornell was out front, writing the lyrics.

Behind him, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard were building the music.

(Music Cut #3)

And while Temple of the Dog was being recorded at night…

Ament and Gossard were spending their afternoons with Eddie Vedder in a new band called Mookie Blaylock.

In other words:

this song was happening right as Pearl Jam was being born.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“All my kings have fallen down, I started pushin’
Fallen heroes feed the ground, I started pushin’.” – Temple of the Dog

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

Released on this day in 1997…

Chumbawamba gave us a song…

that simply refused to stay down.

“Tubthumping.”

(Music Cut #2)

Everyone calls it

“I Get Knocked Down.”

But again the actual title

is “Tubthumping”…

which of course is not

in the song.

(Music Cut #3)

With all that talk about whiskey drinks, vodka drinks, lager drinks…

you’d assume this was one giant drinking song.

Oh no – they say “Tubthumping” was written as a working-class resilience anthem.

So yes…

that happy hour singalong of the ’90s was actually a political fight song with a hangover.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“I get knocked down
But I get up again
You’re never gonna keep me down.” – Chumbawamba

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

Released on this day in 1996…

this might be the happiest-sounding…

unhappy love song of the ’90s.

The Cardigans with “Lovefool.”

(Music Cut #2)

It sounds bright, bubbly, and romantic…

but listen to the lyrics…

There are zero smiles in there.

(Music Cut #3)

A few months later…

“Lovefool” landed in Romeo + Juliet…

the one with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

And suddenly, the rest of the world knew The Cardigans.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Reason will not lead to solution
I will end up lost in confusion.” – The Cardigans

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3,2,1 – New Music Monday / 08-10-26

(3,2,1 New Music Monday Intro)

Welcome to Music That Matters with 3, 2, 1 New Music Monday.

This week, we’ve got Role Model being just that, The Mountain Goats which is fun to say, and FLO taking us to therapy at the club.

Plus, Weezer goes corporate, Madonna and Kylie Minogue team up, and En Vogue brings a ’90s R&B classic back to vinyl.

(Countdown Video)

3 major album drops.

Batting lead-off – Role Model is back with his third album, Chuck Timely & The Hourglass

(“High Hopes 3000” clip)

We already sipped on this one earlier this summer with “High Hopes 3000,” and now the full shebang of an album is here.

It’s pop, it’s alt-pop, it’s a little theatrical, it’s Role Model

(“Harmony” clip)

And for the indie fans, The Mountain Goats are back with Days

This album apparently began life as Grunges — a joking sequel to their 2017 album Goths.

Which that type of thought process is extremely Mountain Goats.

(“Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds” clip)

And then there’s FLO with Therapy at the Club.

(“Leak It” clip)

This album follows the flow of a night out, but instead of just dancing your problems away, FLO brings the mess smack dab into middle of the club.

(“Cry Ugly” clip)

2 new singles.

First up is Weezer, as they return with “C.E.O.”

It’s a new single ahead of their upcoming album, which drops fully on August 21st.

And yes – I will be talking about it again in two weeks.

(Weezer “CEO” clip)

Also new this week – Madonna & Kylie Minogue – “Love Sensation”

(“Love Sensation” clip)

Two pop icons. One official collaboration.

They debuted it live together in Amsterdam, and now the song is out for the world to enjoy.

(Record Scratch video)

And finally, one vinyl

En Vogue’s EV3 is back as a remastered light-blue double LP. The album includes “Don’t Let Go (Love),” one of the defining R&B-pop singles of the ’90s.

(“Don’t Let Go (Love)” clip)

That’s your 3 albums, 2 singles, and 1 vinyl for the week.

This has been 3, 2, 1 New Music Monday

Until next time.

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

Released on this day in 1993…

this song has a bassline you recognize

before the song even arrives.

The Breeders with “Cannonball.”

(Music Cut #2)

But that weird little wobble

in the bassline?

It was a mistake.

Josephine Wiggs played the riff flat in rehearsal…

and the band liked it so much – they kept it.

(Music Cut #3)

And that distorted sound?

Kim Deal sang through a harmonica mic

But live,

they recreated it

by putting a Styrofoam cup over the microphone.

So one of the coolest songs of 1993

was held together by mistakes,

feedback, and office break-room supplies.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“I know you’re a cannonball
I’ll be your whatever-you-want.” – The Breeders

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

Released on this day in 1995…

a song about a woman named Lump…

Courtesy of The Presidents of the United States of America.

(Music Cut #2)

Lead singer Chris Ballew said the song came from a very strange mix:

a benign tumor he once had…

and a vision of a woman in a swamp.

I agree – that’s a strange mix.

(Music Cut #3)

Also, Ballew later became Caspar Babypants —

a children’s musician.

Which honestly feels like

less of a career change than it should.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Lump was limp and lonely and needed a shove
Lump slipped on a kiss and tumbled into love.” – The Presidents of the USA

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

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Released in August of 1992…
INXS slowed things down…
and gave us one of their most underrated songs.

“Not Enough Time.”

(Music Cut #2)

On an album with sitars and a 60-piece orchestra, “Not Enough Time” was the chilled out, laid back one.

And this song was built across the world.

(Music Cut #3)

Andrew Farriss wrote the music in Sydney.

Michael Hutchence wrote the lyrics in Paris.

And together…

it became one of INXS’s biggest U.S. hits.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“If I could just be
Everything and everyone to you
This life would just be so easy.” – INXS

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