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Dave's Song of the Day

Who Will Save Your Soul – Jewel

Sunday song of the day: Today’s song took two years to become a hit.



Yesterday I mentioned that Labour of Love by Frente! was similar in tone to Who Will Save Your Soul by Jewel. Both feature dense lyrics, a bouncy beat, and the singers’ voices are similar. Jewel’s song was a much, much bigger hit, however.

Jewel Kilcher wrote the song during a long road trip she took when she was sixteen years old. When she started her musical career four years later, she included Who Will Save Your Soul on her first album, Pieces of You. It was released as a single in late 1994 in advance of the album but failed to find an audience. Over the next year or so, radio stations gradually started playing the song, and in 1996 it was re-released as a single. This time it sold well and made it to #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Who Will Save Your Soul was Jewel’s first hit, prompting the release of more singles from the album. Two of these, You Were Meant for Me and Foolish Games, both hit #2 on the Hot 100 and helped the album sell over twelve million copies.



Tomorrow: I just got your message, baby
 
psychicdeath

psychicdeath

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Dave's Song of the Day

Digging Your Scene – The Blow Monkeys

Monday song of the day: Today’s song was about the spread of AIDS.



The Blow Monkeys formed in 1981 in England and had several UK hits in the 1980s. They only had one hit in the United States, 1986’s Digging Your Scene. On its face, it was sort of a meaningless bit of sophisti-pop, but actually had a deeper meaning.

Blow Monkeys singer and songwriter Bruce Robert Howard – who went by the stage name Dr Robert – explained that the lyrics concerned the backlash against the gay community in the wake of the AIDS crisis. In a later interview, he said, “Digging Your Scene was me tipping my hat to the club scene, and then specifically the gay scene within the club scene that… in the early 80’s, that were to me the most exciting thing that was happening at that point in my life. ‘Cos I’d kind of broken up with my first wife and I was in-between, and I was kind of enjoying myself. And it was a great scene for me to be involved in. Although I wasn’t gay. You know, 50% of the people in there weren’t. It was just a really refreshing kind of attitude there. And the song was written basically about AIDS and the way that it was beginning to kind of happen to people that I knew within that scene.”

Digging Your Scene made it to #12 on the UK singles chart, and peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the band’s only US Top 40 hit.



Tomorrow: So I hit the road and made my getaway
 
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