That pretty much set the pattern for “All I Wanna Do”. “All I want to do is have a little fun before I die,” Says the man next to me Out of nowhere, apropos of nothing He says his name’s William But I’m sure it’s Bill or Billy, Mac or Buddy He’s plain ugly to me And I wonder if he’s ever had fun in his life You’ll recognise the opening verse from “Fun” as “All I Wanna Do” pretty much used this lock, stock and barrel… Sheryl Crow joined the collective whilst dating Kevin Gilbert - and “Tuesday Night Music Club” would go on to become the title of Sheryl Crow’s multi-platinum breakthrough album in homage to those gatherings.Īt one of those casual songwriting events…literally on a Tuesday night after a few beers during the afternoon…Bill Bottrell brought along the words to a poem called “Fun” by Wyn Cooper. Writing credits for “All I Wanna Do” go to Sheryl Crow, Wyn Cooper, Dave Baerwald, Kevin Gilbert and Bill Bottrell.īaerwald, Gilbert and Bottrell were founder members of an informal songwriting group which called itself the Tuesday Night Music Club. The chilled out feel comes largely from the lyrics - both the words themselves, adapted from a Wyn Cooper poem, and Sheryl Crow’s delivery of them. But “All I Wanna Do” is a pretty stripped-down track, musically speaking. There’s a little bit of rhythm guitar here and there and some pedal steel as well. The bass is set well back in the mix, but that’s pretty insistent too. Keeping such a constant motif going pretty much without a break isn’t nearly as easy as you might think. Back in 1993, when “All I Wanna Do” was recorded, it would have been live drums too, so I take my hat off to the drummer. There’s an insistent drum track that pretty much inhabits the record from start to finish. I’m not sure how it manages to come across quite so chilled-out. Fresh New Tracks, Vol.Sheryl Crow’s “All I Wanna Do” is one of the most chilled-out tracks to visit the upper reaches of the pop charts.Top 30 Songs for January 29-February 4, 2023.ALEX SOUTHEY – EP Review: “Common Fantasies”.The23s – Single Review: “Never Be The Same”.The matches and the Buds and the clean and dirty carsįollow ECLECTIC MUSIC LOVER on Recent Posts The day and the night and the car wash too Letting each one burn down to his thick fingersĪnd he’s watching the bottles of Bud as they spin on the floor Then he lights every match in an oversized pack I like a good beer buzz early in the morningĪnd Billy likes to peel the labels from his bottles of Bud Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard Well, they’re nothing like Billy and me, cause They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicksīack to the phone company, the record store too On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing The good people of the world are washing their cars “All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,”Īnd I wonder if he’s ever had a day of fun in his whole life The lyrics were adapted from Wyn Cooper’s 1987 poem “Fun”, and resulted in Cooper earning considerable royalties, and also helping to promote his book, originally published in a run of only 500 copies, into multiple reprints. I love its breezy, country pop vibe and lively mix of twang and slide guitars, but to me the highlight of the song are the wonderful and humorous lyrics that tell the little story of her time spent in a dive bar on Santa Monica Boulevard with a patron named Billy, watching people washing their vehicles at a car wash across the street. I think it’s far superior to the sappy “I’ll Make Love to You”, but what do I know? At least it reached #1 in Australia and Canada, and won Grammy Awards in 1995 for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1994, spending six straight weeks stuck behind “I’ll Make Love to You” by Boyz II Men. The song was written by Crow, along with Wyn Cooper, David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell and Kevin Gilbert, and remains her biggest US hit. Released in April 1994, the song was from her debut album Tuesday Night Music Club, and was a breakthrough hit that made her an international star. Today’s Song of the Day Challenge theme is “A song from the 90s”, and my pick is “ All I Wanna Do” by the lovely Sheryl Crow.
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