Wonderful Tonight is quite simply one of the most beautiful guitar-driven love ballads I’ve ever heard. It’s stunning how the lyrics and music, particularly that ghostly guitar riff, so perfectly capture the romance and intimacy of the evening, the anticipation…
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When Did You Leave Heaven? – Bob Dylan
When Did You Leave Heaven? is a very quaint and tender song from Bob. It comes from one of his most scorned records, the 1988 Down In The Groove. It was Dylan’s second consecutive album, after Knocked Out Loaded, to…
Judy – Rupert Goold (Friday’s Finest)
When I do a Friday’s Finest movie segment, I put the name of the director alongside the title, but in the case of Judy (2019), Renée Zellweger certainly deserves her name shone in bright lights, because by golly does she…
Twist and Shout – The Beatles
I assumed this stupendously well-known early Beatles rocker was penned by them, but it was in fact written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns two years before the Beatles’ 1963 release. It was already a hit in the record charts…
Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
The subject matter of ‘Stayin’ Alive’ is actually quite a serious one; It’s about survival in the streets of New York, and the lyrics actually say that:– Robin Gibb This scintillating electric track from the Bee Gees is arguably their…
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Woman – John Lennon
This is yet another one of those John Lennon classics which I listened to so much as a kid, but it inexplicably went into the music hinterland. It was only recently, when I was researching John’s other songs, that I…
Natural Disaster – Cory Wells
What impacted me most when I heard Natural Disaster was Cory Wells’ translucent and alluring voice. It’s a delicate sound, like he’s wearing his heart on his sleeve, but not in a diminishing or openly sorrowful way. Rather, it has…
Swirl – My Friend The Chocolate Cake
When I was living in Melbourne in the early 2000s, my life consisted of seeking out my two main cultural outlets, which gave me so much joy and sustenance. One was going to see my beloved Richmond Tigers play Australian…
The Man Who Wasn’t There (Soundtrack) – Carter Burwell
It was a strange occurrence yesterday when I was reminded of these two closely connected compositional pieces when I listened to a song from Steve’s music blog, Song of the Day, called Your Memory. It took some searching through my…
With Every Wish – Bruce Springsteen
There are a myriad of places I could start this article since the song has always elicited intense memories and conjured such stirring emotions. On a philosophical level, it’s about the perils of chasing your desires, something we are accustomed…
