<![CDATA[EVRD: Music]]>https://www.evrd.net/s/soundshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J-T8!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b1375cd-62b3-4b84-bb16-9c19e1379af3_1280x1280.pngEVRD: Musichttps://www.evrd.net/s/soundsSubstackSun, 19 Apr 2026 15:13:37 GMT<![CDATA[Wear Sunscreen]]>https://www.evrd.net/p/wear-sunscreenhttps://www.evrd.net/p/wear-sunscreenWed, 03 Dec 2025 14:03:35 GMTI can’t say exactly why this song came into my head, but it did. And once it did, I had to hear it. Which was surprisingly hard to find the original song by Baz Luhrmann from 1999.

With so much music on streaming services, it feels strange when I have a specific songs and version I want to hear and can’t find it. But if I dug through my old mp3s I could find it. That’s more of a commentary on the current state of music... but I digress.

Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen was originally an essay published in 1997 and later turned into a popular song.

“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young“, commonly known by the title “Wear Sunscreen“, is an essay written as a hypothetical commencement speech by columnist Mary Schmich, originally published in June 1997 in the Chicago Tribune.

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For some of you, this may be the first time you’re hearing this. For others, a reminder from your youth. Either way, I hope you enjoy it and it’s worth reading the original essay on the Chicago Tribune.

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]]><![CDATA[We Didn't Start The Fire]]>https://www.evrd.net/p/we-didnt-start-the-firehttps://www.evrd.net/p/we-didnt-start-the-fireTue, 24 Sep 2024 01:04:00 GMTDid you know there is a new version We Didn’t Start the Fire by Fall Out Boy? It covers the years 1989 - 2023. If you’re unfamiliar with the original by Billy Joel, please check that out first. It is a classic.

This song came on one of my Pandora Stations (anyone still use Pandora?) and as soon as I heard it, I needed to look it up. I have since noticed it playing several times and find it stuck in my head daily.

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