2 posts tagged “flashback friday”
Today’s Flashback Friday comes courtesy of my friends and former roommates, who managed to pull this gem of a track out of my memory. The song is Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen), by Baz Luhrmann off of the Everything For Everybody album, released March 31, 1998.
Baz Luhrmann is probably best known for his directorial skills in such films as Mulan Rouge, however in 1998 he released this collection of songs that included extended version and remixes of other popular songs from several different eras covering everything from Prince’s “When Doves Cry” to Doris Day’s “Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.” The most notable song off the album is this track, which got some serious radio and video airplay when released.
The legend says the wording was from a graduation speech at MIT while in truth they were a journalist writing what she would say at such a speech, but either way their insight isn’t lost. The lyrics were actually taken from a column published in The Chicago Tribune in 1997. The song even had a seal of approval from the Bishop of Liverpool who said at the time that he believed ‘Everybody’s Free’ carried an important moral message.
Enjoy the track, and remember to wear your sunscreen!
Today’s Flashback Friday is a cover of Bizarre Love Triangle by the Australian based band Frente! off the Marvin The Album LP.
Bizarre Love Triangle was originally written and recorded by the fantastic New Order in the late 80’s, but Frente’s somber, quiet version lets you really appreciate the beautiful lyrics in the song. Gone is the heavy sampled techno beat from the original, replaced only with an Acoustic guitar and frontwoman Angie Hart’s lilting voice.
Formed in 1991, Frente! emerged from a radio playlist of jaded grunge rockers dominating the scene and became something of a hit with their first few singles, including another Frente! fav of mine, Labour of Love, Accidentally Kelly Street, and Ordinary Angels. Their second produced album, Shape, failed to sell and the band soon broke up afterwards.
