Retro Video of the Week: "Leaving Las Vegas" by Sheryl Crow

I give you the insincerest of apologies for not posting a Tuesday Top Ten yesterday.  It's Lollapalooza week, which means I have been spending the bulk of Monday, Tuesday, and today trying to figure out which bands and artists to avoid for fear of accidentally stumbling into EDM and the tweaking teenagers that go with it.

To make up for it, I'll throw some Midwestern Eavesdropping at you tomorrow, and give you a super sweet Retro Video of the Week today.  It's hard to remember a time without Sheryl Crow in our lives, isn't it?  I mean, sure, it was basically the first 16-17 years of my life, but those years can go fuck themselves.  

This Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Crow's debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club.  The album title was a nod to the somewhat informal collective of songwriters and musicians, including Crow, who would gather on Tuesday nights.  Their informal sessions eventually turned into this album, with the other musicians helping Crow write the album (and playing on the album).  

The album sputtered at first, but took off after the third single from the album -- "All I Wanna Do" -- was released in 1994.  That song rocketed up to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, followed by "Leaving Las Vegas" (#60), "Strong Enough" (#5), and "Can't Cry Anymore" (#36).  Currently, Tuesday Night Music Club has gone platinum 7 times in the U.S.  It went to #3 on the Billboard album charts, as well as Top 10 on the album charts in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the UK.  The album or its songs won Crow Grammys for Record of the Year, Best New Artist, and Best Female Vocal Performance.  

The rest is history:  relationships with Eric Clapton and Owen Wilson, being engaged to a one-nutted national hero turned goat, collaborations with Kid Rock, benign brain tumors.  The whole nine yards.  Here's the video for "Leaving Las Vegas."  I'm going that one because I haven't heard the song in many years -- probably not since the last time I left Las Vegas.