This early Nick Cave song shows him deep in his gothic, post-punk phase. His music often leans into dark and sinister themes, and that’s very clear here in this gloomily pulsating and penetrating track. It’s one of the first songs…
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Tunnel of Love (1980) – Dire Straits
Not only is Tunnel of Love my desert island Dire Straits song, it’s my ultimate rock song. If I had to choose just one track to show an extraterrestrial species what humans have achieved in rock ’n’ roll, this would…
Tuesday’s Gone (1973) – Lynyrd Skynyrd
This is about as quintessential Southern Rock as it gets. In many ways, Lynyrd Skynyrd helped define and popularise the genre. In the mid-1990s, there was this girl Diane who was living in the beautiful seaside town of Mornington on…
Tu Sin Mi (2010) – Dread Mar I
Tú Sin Mí (Eng: You Without Me) is an infectious, moderate-tempo reggae love ballad that I liked immediately on first listen. It’s about a man’s disillusionment after the breakdown of a relationship and his processing of it. Let me tell…
Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201; 1st Movement, Allegro Moderato (1774) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just 17 years old when he wrote this. Let that sink in for a moment. It’s hard to imagine the kind of beauty that must have stirred in him as he composed it – something almost…
How’s It Gonna End (2004) – Tom Waits
Here is Tom Waits at his murky, gloomy best and that suits me just fine. As an astute listener on SongMeanings put it, each of the verses in How’s It Gonna End seems like fragments of film plots, and we…
A Passing Ship (1986) – Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot’s specific wish was for his song “A Passing Ship” to be played at his funeral. I have a real penchant for songs and stories about ships and the sea, and this one by Gordon Lightfoot ticks all the…
True Love Ways (1958) – Buddy Holly
Sometimes we’ll sigh…Sometimes we’ll cry…And we’ll know why…Just you and I…Know true love ways. Since I was a youngen’, I always found True Love Ways to be such a tender and sweet song from Buddy. The orchestral sound was also…
Basket Case (1994) – Green Day
Basket Case is a high-energy, frenetic punk rock song that matches well with the nervous and restless feeling in the lyrics. My favourite part of the song is the chord change from D to A at the end of the…
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