Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Here we have Walk of Life, the infectiously buoyant top 10 single from the English guitar rock band Dire Straits.

From their blockbuster 1985 album, Brothers in Arms.

That's the big whoop Dire Straits album, the one with Money For Nothing on it.

[singing] That one.

Whereas Walk of Life is a brighter, poppier, circus keyboard-driven bubblegum jam from Dire Straits with the wildly popular MTV music video that's mostly sports bloopers, right? NBA stars wiping out, NFL stars biffing routine catches, baseball stars crashing full speed into each other whilst chasing pop flies, et cetera.

Hold you tight to me.

My name is Rob Harvilla.

This is the 48th episode of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s, colon, the 2000s, and this week we are discussing By Your Side from the Sade album Lovers Rock, released in the year 2000.

... born neo-soul singer born George Maxwell Rivera.

It's the second single from his debut album, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite.

Uh, he will have two more appearances in the top 40, one of which is a reissue of this track in May 1997, that it's gonna chart higher the second time around, so we will discuss this song briefly again.

Hmm.

It did

... quite notably.

Um, also like that it's taken from his self-titled debut album.

Um- I didn't get on with this at all.

Unplugged becomes kind of a mainstay in the MTV ecosystem for several years.

And to that point of like live infiltrating radio, three years later, might be four years later, this might've been 97, a brand new artist who had released their debut album, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite.

Maxwell got his own MTV unplugged.

And I think what was so unique about this is Maxwell was still really new as an artist.