the best songs ever: the lost years

[Eric the Green]

I'm glad to rediscover this one from 2006, which won an Academy Award for "An Inconvenient Truth," the only documentary ever to win an Academy Award for best original song. "I Need to Wake Up" has the musical qualities so lacking in the music of those of her contemporaries who indulged in heavy-metal screaming and screeching. Melissa Etheridge demonstrates in her songs the musical skill and soulful competence that reminds me of The Who, and of JB at his best, as in "Pray." I have to tag this one as one of the best songs from late in "the lost years." She is a borderline BoomerXer, and certainly shows in this song more than the cynicism attributed to Xers.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Etheridge

This song also reminds me of this fine movie song from the same time period, from The Ultimate Gift, which the artist said was inspired by her desire and actions to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the people of Rwanda that year:

https://youtu.be/-aZ6C1S8K-s