This Year’s Love by British singer-songwriter David Gray, is one of his real fan-pleasers – and it’s easy to hear why. The single peaked at number 20 on the UK Singles Chart and its from his fourth studio album, White Ladder. His music…
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Here Comes My Baby (1967) – Cat Stevens
Here Comes My Baby couldn’t be a better song to capture the delight and bouncy mood my daughter Katherine puts me into. We went on a bit of a Wes Anderson spree a week ago – first The Royal Tenenbaums,…
Tagged with: cat stevens, here comes my baby, Katherine Rose, Rushmore, Wes Anderson
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Have You Ever Seen The Rain (1971) – Creedence Clearwater Revival
“We achieved all our dreams… you guys are only talking about negative stuff … On your own perfect dream … you bring in a huge rain cloud…” – John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Have You Ever Seen the Rain is…
Tagged with: Creedence Clearwater Revival, have you ever seen the rain, John Fogerty, take shelter
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It Is What It Is (2023) – Darksoft
I heard It Is What It Is the other day on my music player, and its easy, hip groove clicked with me. There’s a breezy looseness to it – a kind of pleasurable, unhurried sway – and the guitar work…
April Come She Will (1966) – Simon & Garfunkel
Today’s Simon & Garfunkel track, April Come She Will, is a lucid and breezy piece, carrying a touch of Celtic colouring similar to their sombre and melancholic Scarborough Fair, which happened to be paired with April as its A-side single.…
Tagged with: April Come She Will, Scarborough Fair, Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence, the graduate
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This Old Guitar (2005) – Neil Young (Ft. Emmylou Harris)
I first heard This Old Guitar in the Prairie Wind concert at the Grand Ole Opry House, featured in Jonathan Demme’s music documentary Heart of Gold (yes, the same Demme behind Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia). It’s this performance…
Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) – Scott Cooper (Friday’s Finest)
People might have been disappointed if they went in expecting the film to revel in The Boss’s highs. Instead, this biopic – much like how director Scott Cooper portrayed Bad Blake in Crazy Heart – focuses on mostly the lows,…
Tagged with: Bruce Springsteen, deliver me from nowhere, nebraska, Scott Cooper
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Never Be The Same Again (2000) – Melanie C (Ft. Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes)
Let me just say from the outset – I’ve seen worse single covers than the one above. Wowee. If I’m hazarding a guess, I’d say Melanie C’s (from the British girl group Spice Girls) short-cropped hair and athletic look on…
Tagged with: Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, melanie c, never be the same again, northern star
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Why Don’t You Get a Job? (1998) – The Offspring
At the tail end of the 1990s alternative rock and punk scene, The Offspring exploded with a run of hits, and Why Don’t You Get a Job? was one of the catchiest of them all. It’s a song as much…
Right There Waiting (2003) – Delta Goodrum
Right There Waiting is one of those cutesy, guilty-pleasure love ballads I occasionally find myself listening to. I’ve been tossing up whether to feature it here for quite some time, but the last time I heard it, it raised the…
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