Crucial Track for June 1, 2026

"This Moment" by Melissa Etheridge

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I am going to start off my Crucial Tracks journey with my Foundational Albums post from my blog. I will do the best track off of each of the 15 foundational albums I have chosen. Starting off is the best track (which was hard to settle on) from Lucky by Melissa Etheridge. The title track Lucky is fantastic, as is the lead single Breathe. But I settled on This Moment. This album came out my Sophomore year of High School and it was the album, alongside Sarah McLachlan's Afterglow, that I drove my mother nuts playing on repeat. The whole album is truly a banger, but I found myself coming back to This Moment the most. It is a catchy tune that gave me hope that I would find such an intense love one day. It spoke to the broken Queer Weirdo that was me. And wouldn't you know, I found what the song was speaking of less than a decade later. I don't know if this album is considered by many to be one of her best, but to me, it was absolutely the most solid work of hers. 20 years later this album, and this track are STILL in my heavy rotation. If you haven't given her much thought outside of Come to my Window, please give this album a go, and especially give some time to This Moment.