When I was in my teens in Australia, I enjoyed watching this song on the Rage program in 1986, which aired the ARIA Top 50 music chart countdown on Saturday and Sunday mornings. My brother and I would be lazing…
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You Angel You – Bob Dylan
It’s nice to hear a straightforward, upbeat love song by Bob Dylan in You Angel You. There’s no cryptic word salads here, just relatively simple lyricism on Bob’s part. The song always puts me in a fine, jolly mood. You…
Tagged with: before the flood, Biograph, Bob Dylan, planet waves, the band, you angel you
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Posted in Music
Yosemite – Lana Del Rey
Yosemite was one of the first songs recommended to me by a fellow blogger when I presented the first song by the Queen of Americana music, Lana Del Rey, to feature here: Radio. After listening to her suggestions, I went…
Alone – Bee Gees
We’ll be adding a few Bee Gees songs retrospectively over the coming months as we draw this Music Library Project to a close. I was watching AGAIN their fabulous One Night Only concert in Las Vegas (1997) and was reminded…
She’s A Rainbow – Molly Tuttle (The Rolling Stones)
I don’t think I’m up for smashing the patriarchy as seen in the video below, but I sure do like this song. It was only a short while ago that I featured the Californian singer-songwriter Molly Tuttle, but I couldn’t…
Tagged with: But I'd Rather Be with You, molly tuttle, She's a rainbow, the rolling stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request
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Symphony No. 94 (Surprise) – Joseph Haydn
Listen to this through headphones at high volume at your own peril. Much of the following is drawn from the Wikipedia reference below. The nickname of Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 – “Surprise” – did not originate with the Austrian composer…
Raining in My Heart – Buddy Holly
“From the moment I first heard him, I felt akin. I felt related, like he was an older brother. I even thought I resembled him.“ Bob Dylan on Buddy Holly (2017 Nobel Lecture) After Bob Dylan’s unexpected visit to Pope…
Superman II – Main Title Sequence – Ken Thorne (adapting John Williams’ original score)
I could have dedicated an entire offshoot of the Music Library Project to John Williams’ film scores alone, since they’re in many ways the soundtrack to the lives of Baby Boomers and subsequent generations. I mean, you couldn’t get music…
Thunder – Imagine Dragons
I passed this one over in favour of Imagine Dragons’ Demons, which I presented back in 2022. But when my 11-year-old daughter Katherine and I heard Thunder come on from my music library collection this Halloween weekend, I figured we…
Hoppípolla – Sigur Rós
Oh, how I have been chomping at the bit to present another song by the Icelandic group Sigur Rós. One of my all-time favourite instrumentals is their mystical and ethereal wonder, The Nothing Song, which featured in Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla…
