I love the sparse sound of this alluring love song as it takes shape. Here With Me becomes like a meditative chant, and the emotional pull is strong here when Dido sings ‘I won’t go..I won’t leave…I can’t hide‘. The…
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The Marriage of Figaro (Overture) 1786 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Today’s featured piece the…
The Mangrove Song (2002) – My Friend the Chocolate Cake
The Mangrove Song comes from the Australian pop chamber group – My Friend the Chocolate Cake. Musically, it’s an uptempo track from what is mostly a sombre and introspective record – Curious (see image inset). The band reside from Melbourne,…
The Man In Me (1970) – Bob Dylan
This wonderfully translucent song by Zimmy has become inseparable from The Big Lebowsky in the minds of modern audiences. Both the film and the track are standout works of art that complement each other so well, forever intertwined in the…
The Man Comes Around (2002) – Johnny Cash
If there’s one artist I’ve shortchanged in my Music Library Project, it would have to be Johnny Cash. I’ll be doing some necessary backtracking in the coming years with respect to the alphabetical listing of songs, to include more of…
The Look (1989) – Roxette
It’s uncanny that in yesterday’s article I mentioned seeing Billy Joel in Sydney on his Stormfront tour in 1991 – because, as it happens, I also saw the Swedish group Roxette at the same venue (the Sydney Entertainment Centre) that…
The Longest Time (1984) – Billy Joel
Today’s featured song comes with the very recent news of Billy Joel’s brain condition diagnosis where he had to cancel tours. The 76 year-old singer-songwriter is said to be receiving ‘excellent care’ and is ‘fully committed to prioritising his health’.…
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) – Wes Anderson (Friday’s Finest)
Although The Phoenician Scheme is the third Wes Anderson film to feature in my Friday’s Finest segment, it wasn’t one I had high hopes for going in. My hesitation was two-fold: first, I’d come across a wave of negative reviews…
La Presa (2024) – Nathy Peluso
‘In Grasa there definitely had to be a Salsa song. People were asking for it and it’s part of my job. So in Miami we got down to work and ‘La Presa’ was born…I consume Salsa everyday of my life.…
Is There a Ghost (2007) – Band of Horses
Band of Horses certainly has a passion to them—the kind of singing and strumming that sounds like crying…. (Is There A Ghost) – not much lyrically, but it paints a picture of nostalgia, the supernatural, and isolation. – Bernie in response…
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