“Goodbye Earl” (2000) by The Chicks from the Fly album. The music video for this song is a classic. Starring Jane Krakowski and Lauren Holly as Mary-Anne and Wanda, and Dennis Franz as Earl, it’s a reminder of how music videos were Hollywood level productions. The song itself created controversy upon release, for its explicit…

Probably the most mis-understood lyric of “Ice Ice Baby.” First off, you had to be there in 1990. I’ll save the retrospectives for someone else, but for our age group this will forever be a main playlist jam. Sing along. You know the words. For the uninitiated: Cerwin-Vega has manufactured speakers and amplifiers since the…

It’s amazing the amount of people who know their music, but don’t recognize the Guess Who. Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings defined the sound of an era in the 60’s and 70’s. Enjoy this one from their 2000 cross-Canada tour, rocking out 30 years later.

“You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morisset from the album Jagged Little Pill (1995).

“Youth Gone Wild” from Skid Row’s 1989 debut album. Rock on.

There are certain generational litmus tests. Did you create your mixtapes on cassette, CD, MP3, or Spotify?

“Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)”. From Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album (1973).

“Tiny Dancer”, from Elton John’s 1971 Album Madman Across the Water. One of my favorite piano riffs. I always liked this version from the 60th Grammy awards, with Miley Cyrus and Elton John performing as a duet.

This joke has been bouncing around the music forums on the internet for a generation, so I can’t take credit for it. It was probably first written by an IT Admin with a love of Thelonious Monk. And now it’s time to come clean…I fudged a bit for the joke. Cdom9 is actually just written…