True Blue is a brutally honest look at a relationship, but it is sung with tenderness and warmth in Lucy Dacus’ laidback voice. The phrase “true blue” means loyalty and faithfulness, not sadness. The song moves through the highs and…
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True Blue (2023) – boygenius
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Traveling Light (2016) – Leonard Cohen
In the introduction to today’s song in the video below, an older Leonard Cohen sits outside on a front patio, smoking a cigarette. He says, “I feel a lot stronger, but I am actually a lot weaker,” which is quite…
Starman (1972) – David Bowie
I went on a David Bowie bender yesterday, listening to and sharing some of my favourite songs. Then today’s featured track came on at the end of one of them, and I found myself wondering – how on earth is…
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Cheer Down (1989) – George Harrison
It’s a bit uncanny that today’s tongue-in-cheek, “curb your enthusiasm” type of song follows on the heels of another “keep your sights down low” number yesterday with the Cake’s Great Expectations. The title Cheer Down is said to come from…
Great Expectations (2011) – My Friend the Chocolate Cake
Best not have Great ExpectationsKeep your sights down low My favourite band from Melbourne, Australia, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, is back again with a very upbeat, fun song that doesn’t take itself too seriously. This is the Cake’s ‘Curb…
Trapped (1984) – Bruce Springsteen
I felt trapped by this cover song ever since I first heard it on The Essential Bruce Springsteen released in 2003. From it’s simple guitar flicking opening to that Roy Bittan’s lamenting synthesizer overlay, Trapped builds slowly, telling the story of…
Bloodbuzz Ohio (2010) – The National
‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’ started as a sweet little folk song, which we transformed. But we knew that was a good one right away.” – Matt Berninger (frontman and lyricist of indie rock band The National). Bloodbuzz Ohio is one of the standout tracks from…
I Don’t Know (2018) – Paul McCartney
I wrote this song after going through a difficult period. Like people have, nothing sort of madly serious or anything but just one of those days when it’s like, ‘Oh my god, what am I doing wrong here?’ you know?…
Raspberry Beret (1990) – Hindu Love Gods (Ft. Warren Zevon)
‘He’s an excitable boy with a great band’. I was walking to the shops yesterday and Raspberry Beret came on in my collection. Such was my enjoyment, I wondered why I hadn’t already featured it here. I realised I had…
Too Late (Band Version) 1983 – Bob Dylan
Too Late is another magnificent outtake from Bob Dylan, recorded during the sessions for his 1983 album Infidels. Imagine writing and recording a song like this and then leaving it unreleased for nearly forty years. Its absence from the Infidels…
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