Dope Nostalgia

Our friend Kendra and I do a song-by-song listen to pop star Tiffany's 1990 album "New Inside". A strong album with incredible songs. We reveal some of the details and stories that made this album happen, discuss the Diane Warren-penned ballad "Here In My Heart" and it's relation to AIDS hero Ryan White and the Gulf War, and talk about how radio demands songs in the 3:30 length range.

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UK's "The X Factor" star Sean Smith is here with his new album , "Swing For The '90's"! He tells me about working with Simon Cowell, we talk about breaking the North American market, football a.k.a soccer, Eurovision, and some of our favourite 90's artists.

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Prolific artist and songwriter Martin Page is joining us! He is the example of a human who truly lives music. We talk about his own hits, including the 1994 smash "In The House of Stone & Light", his writing experiences with Bernie Taupin, the hits he has crafted for others such as "We Built This City" and "King of Wishful Thinking", and a moving track he performed in Germany that he wasn't sure what the outcome would be. He's got new music coming out ASAP!

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This week's show features a little break from the regular format! My friend James P. White is joining me as we review the Top 10 Billboard Chart for 1990 in our new segment "The Long and Short Of It". Then Kendra joins me as I test her boyband vocal knowledge. She will attempt to guess who each guy singing is in the NKOTBSB single "Don't Turn Out The Lights".

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Our friend Kendra is a massive P!nk fan. Who better to go to for this episode! Although P!nk's releases were in the 2000's, she started her career in the late 90's, and she deserves an episode. We also talk P!nk's crushes on Jon Bon Jovi and Johnny Depp, New Jack Swing, Pizza Hut, getting drunk on Baja Rosa, COVID drinking habits, and favourite Leo DiCaprio movies of the decade.

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My favourite rock journalist, Mitch Lafon joins me to go track-by-track through the 1992 comeback record for Bon Jovi, "Keep The Faith". We chat about the likelihood of Sambora's return to the band, the importance of Hugh McDonald, our backstage at Bon Jovi show stories, the greatest Bon Jovi B-Sides, how annoying songs with sirens in them are, and how rock killed itself in the early '90's.

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My guest is an emerging star in the country music scene - Oklahoma's very own Allie Colleen! We talk about her new single "Pink Lemonade" which is a naughty & fun track, impowering women with their sexuality in music, weird names of Canadian towns, and the '90's country musicians who inspired her. She has deep family roots in country, and is making a wave in the scene in her own right!

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My guest is radio personality Gruff Gushnowski, as we reflect on the releases of the hard rock band Warrant in the '90's, and the trials and tribulation they faced. Warrant even made the leap into a grungier sound when the landscape of rock had changed. We also chat about whether or not it's ok for a band to replace the lead singer, 90's radio programming, music cruises, and more!

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EXTREME NSFW LANGUAGE WARNING! Do not listen around kids or delicate ears. If you're easily offended by dirty lyrical content, this is NOT the episode for you. Now that you've been warned, we weren't kidding. Kendra and I explore some of the jaw dropping lyrics that came out in our favourite decade. We gathered our own picks, as well as review listener's picks. We also talk about more innocent topics in the beginning, such as Hanson! Don't say we didn't warn you...

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Canadian singer/songwriter Emm Gryner joins me this week. We discuss her connection to Def Leppard and her fantastic cover of their classic "Pour Some Sugar On Me", vocal coaching, being an Xennial, yacht rock, her experiences touring with David Bowie, and more! She's a gifted talent.

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