Song of the Day: Urge Overkill - Emmaline

Yesterday in my post I mentioned my cheesy choice of song - well, here's a band that embraces the cheese.  I've posted an Urge Overkill song before, but it was more of a rocking, Cheap Trick kind of track. Today's song, "Emmaline," after about a minute and a half of rocking out, is more of a power ballad. Allegedly this is a cover song, but an internet search for who performed the original came up empty. But it's a genius choice of cover, as it seems to fit with the overall UO aesthetic - melodrama.

Song of the Day: Urge Overkill - Sister Havana

From one end of the "authenticity" spectrum to the other, today's song is by one of my favorite '90s bands, Urge Overkill.  My friend Jim had the Saturation cassette, which got played on many a ride to school.  Then Urge showed up on the No Alternative compilation, and then of course got mildly famous for their Neil Diamond cover in Pulp Fiction. 

While I find their final album, Exit the Dragon, to be better than it gets credit for, I'm really surprised at the lack of current appreciation for Saturation.  Urge could be schlocky (they have a song about Susan Lucci's "Erica Kane" and one titled "Crackbabies"), but it is impossible to hear "Sister Havana" and not want to play air guitar.