Bruce Springsteen’s Be True was one of those songs that somehow slipped through the cracks for me over the years, only to be rediscovered while researching this project. When I relistened to it after an absence of at least three…
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Be True (Live) 1988 – Bruce Springsteen
Tagged with: be true, Bruce Springsteen, chimes of freedom, the river, Tunnel of Love Express Tour
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Walls of the World (1977) – Mike Batt
Walls of the World is a tender love ballad from English songwriter Mike Batt’s second solo album, Schizophonia. I have written a mountain about his music from his next album Tarot Suite, which did so many turns on the LP…
Mandy Soundtrack (2018) – Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhannsson said of the film: (It’s) a surreal sort of supernatural thriller, an extremely visionary film, unlike anything I’ve seen before. Back in 2019, I wrote an article on the supernatural horror film Mandy starring Nicolas Cage and made mention…
Tagged with: mandy, nicolas cage, soundtrack, Sand, forging the beast, chainsaw fight, Jóhann Jóhannsson
Posted in Music, Movies and TV
Posted in Music, Movies and TV
Till There Was You (1963) – The Beatles
Joshua Lee Turner, the once teen guitar prodigy turned fully-fledged singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, recently released a video where he performed today’s Beatles track Till There Was You alongside Alice Faye. Turner featured here recently with his superb version of Bob…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, josh turner, paul mccartney, the beatles, till there was you, what'll I do, with the beatles
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Posted in Music
The Music of Chance (1990) – Paul Auster
Welcome back to my Wednesday literature segment. Today I feature the opening ten-page excerpt from The Music of Chance by Paul Auster, a novel I finished last night in just three sittings, albeit spread across a week or so. As…
Tagged with: absurdism, Albert Camus, paul auster, the music of chance, the stranger
Posted in Reading
Posted in Reading
Good Golly, Miss Molly (1958) – Little Richard
I mentioned in The Beatles’ Dizzy Miss Lizzy post how you could hear similarities with today’s featured track, Good Golly, Miss Molly. It quickly became apparent to me that I hadn’t posted about this timeless early rocker. So here I…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Good Golly Miss Molly, Little Richard, the beatles, the valients
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Posted in Music
Scarborough Fair/Canticle (1966) – Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel appealed strongly to a particular segment of the educated, middle-class youth culture that emerged on American university campuses in the 1960s. The duo projected introspection and intelligence, and their songs often felt literary, reflective, and contemplative, unlike…
Walking Into Doors (1993) – Archie Roach
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this post contains images, voices and names of people who have died. I always feel humbled and privileged to listen to the late Australian Aboriginal singer-songwriter Archie Roach. He was a…
Tagged with: archie roach, David Bridie, domestic violence, jamu dreaming, ruby hunter, walking into doors
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Posted in Music
Layla (1970) – Derek and the Dominos
Layla is an epic rock track from start to finish and will always go down in the rock annals as one of the finest guitar rock songs ever recorded. As a listener, you are really getting a sweet deal too,…
Tagged with: Derek & the Dominos, eric clapton, layla, layla and other assorted songs
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Posted in Music
Walk of Life (1985) – Dire Straits
Walk of Life is one of Dire Straits’ most accessible and recognisable rock songs. It’s a throwback to the late ’50s rockers, but with a distinctly ’80s punch and a delicious synthesizer-driven keyboard riff thrown in for good measure. I…
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