This Wednesday literature piece has been a long time coming. I have written extensively here about Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson including one of his biggest literary influences – Fyodor Dostoevesky who was the subject of the last few weeks’…
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Fernando (1976) – ABBA
I was weighing up whether to include this song here, since the Dancing Queen article didn’t conjure any interest – woe is me. What the heck, I’ll continue down this nostalgic track, despite how little you might want to hear…
Feel (2002) – Robbie Williams
Feel is the second song to appear here from Robbie Williams. Like the previous entry Angels this was a worldwide commercial hit and still widely played. It peaked at number one in many countries and in the top five of…
Farewell (1963) – Bob Dylan
As mentioned in the last song article of Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song), the song which concludes the Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack and movie is Bob Dylan’s Farewell. The version below which appears in the movie was released from the…
Bobok ‘Little Bean’ (1873) – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Then how is it that I smell a stench if I don’t have a sense of smell?’ ‘That’s ..he-he…Well, that’s where our philosopher gets a bit hazy. It was precisely in regard to the sense of smell that he observed…
Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song) (2013) – Oscar Isaac & Marcus Mumford
I procured the soundtrack of the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis soon after it was released. Today’s song Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song) is my joint favourite song from the movie along with Bob Dylan’s Farewell which closes the movie…
Falling Slowly (2006) – Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová
This song won the Academy award (2008) for best original song seen in the movie ‘Once‘. I reviewed Once in Friday’s Finest September 2019. I wrote, ‘It’s very serendipitous how I see Bob Dylan in Sydney 2001 the night before…
Falling off the Face of the Earth (2005) – Neil Young
Today’s article inaugurates the first song starting with ‘F’ in the library: I watched so many times the Heart of Gold documentary directed by Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) about Neil Young’s Prairie Wind concert at the famous Ryman…
Queen of the Night Aria (The Magic Flute K620) 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The above scene in the film Amadeus (1984) is the subject of today’s musical piece Die Zaberflote (The Magic Flute K620) Aria No.14. The work premiered on 30 September 1791 just 2 months before the composer’s death hence its placement…
Eyes to the Wind (2014) – The War on Drugs
Three songs will appear here from the superb album – Lost in the Dream by The War on Drugs starting with today’s track Eyes to the Wind. This is an epic Americana folk-rock song and my favourite from the record.…
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