I’ve always been a bit of a stubborn contrarian when it comes to music, especially when I was younger. (As opposed to now, when I often feel like a stubborn contrarian about everything.) In the late 80’s, when metal-pop was all the rage, I listened to R&B and hip-hop instead. And when grunge came around in the early 90’s to paint the rock charts flannel, I couldn’t help but look to England for electronic music as a digital antidote. So when I think back to the halcyon music days of 1994, two things immediately jump out in contrast: Dookie by Green Day (which was the multi-million-selling pivot point from grunge-influenced rock to punk-influenced rock) and the self-titled hardly-heard never-selling debut from the duo of Eric Matthews and Richard Davies under the name Cardinal. Barely a half-hour in length, Cardinal was rich orchestrated ‘60s-ish pop a la the Zombies or the early Bee Gees, and it sounded both cleaner and weirder than anything else in my ears at the time. As oft