![]() ![]() “I Wanna Go Back” ( Can’t Hold Back, 1986) “It was supposed to be a horn part, but the horn player never showed up, so I had to do it with my mouth.”Ĩ. ![]() ![]() “I hate singing ‘Na na na na na na na na na,’” he told Rolling Stone. 9, “Walk on Water” helped keep Money’s career momentum up for another few years, but he had trepidation about performing it live. ![]() Everything about “Walk on Water” is soaked in era signifiers: Money’s chest-beating vocal, canned harmonies and skyscraping hook all add up to a sound that remains unabashedly 1988. Money stayed the course with an increasingly commercial sound via this 1988 hit, written by Sammy Hagar’s one-time keyboardist Jesse Harms. 58 on the Hot 100, but it hardly matters: “Heaven” remains goofy, high-energy fun.ĩ. The lyrics are knuckle-dragging (“She’s got what I want/ I got what she needs/ Me and my baby and the mirror makes three”), the sound is frozen in early-1990s amber and it stalled out at No. band Romeo’s Daughter on the 1988 soundtrack to Nightmare on Elm Street V, Money covered “Heaven in the Back Seat” for his 1991 comeback album Right Here. “Heaven in the Back Seat” ( Right Here, 1991)Ī lovably sleazy locker-room anthem written for U.K. In honor of the late Money and his string of sturdy, timeless rock hits, here are his 10 greatest songs, ranked.ġ0. 13) at 70 after a short battle with esophageal cancer. Today, we mourn the loss of the proudly meat-and-potatoes, bar-rocking legend, who chose to keep both feet planted in the humble and suburban, even as he came within spitting distance of No. In the three days following his death, his music was streamed 7 million times, while previously, he’d never topped more than 2.4 million streams a week, according to Buzzangle.Eddie Money Diagnosed With Stage 4 Esophageal Cancer Streaming was up for Money as well, and his music was streamed more than 3.9 million times the day he died, an increase of of 1,786%. The Best Of Eddie Money, The Essential Eddie Money & the Greatest Hits accounted for 83% of the album sales on September 13 with The Best of Eddie Money selling the most 1,565 copies, or just over 50% of the album sales for that day, Buzzangle said.Greatest hits compilations proved to be the greatest draw for Money, with If you expand the period to two days immediately after Ocasek’s passing, audio streams jumped by 332% with more than 3.5 million audio streams, leaving The Cars as one of the top 100 streamed artists, according to Buzzangle.Įddie Money’s album sales saw similar gains following his passing, with more than 3,000 albums selling on the day of his death, making for an increase of 11,273%. Ocasek’s death had a major impact on streaming as well, with total streams (inclusive of audio and video) for The Cars jumped by 228% with 1.2 million total streams on Sept. 15 & 16 were digital albums with their Complete Greatest Hits Album leading the charge with 4,700% in sales. 15th.Ĩ8% of the 6,200 albums by The Cars purchased on the Sept. The puts The Cars at #2 for album sales during the period, behind only the Lumineers who had their latest album debut on Sept. Sales of albums by The Cars jumped in the days following Ocasek’s death, up by 3,700% (about 6,000 albums) with 2,300% of that coming on the day of his passing, according to data compiled by Buzzangle Music. ![]()
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