With a career spanning from 2005 and beyond, accomplished many achievements, such as being named The Greatest American Songwriter of the 21st Century by Rolling Stone UK, being awarded Variety’s Decade Award, as well as winning 40 awards throughout her…
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Racing in the Street (1978) – Bruce Springsteen
‘It’s a song about yearning for something better, something that’s just out of reach. It’s a song about racing through the night to find that little bit of hope.‘– Bruce Springsteen from Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness Sessions Oh, good golly how…
La Isla Bonita (1986) – Madonna
“When I lived in New York for so many years I was constantly listening to salsa and merengue. I mean, that stuff was constantly blaring out of everybody’s radio on the street.”– Madonna La Isla Bonita (The Beautiful Island) is…
6/5 – 12/5/24 – May Pang, Son of Man & Starfish
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Meeting May PangBlog article at PowerPop Max at PowerPop has made it no secret his adoration and fascination with the Beatles over the years.…
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Posted in Movies and TV, News, Reading
Essence (2023) – Refeci (ft. Shimmer Johnson)
My blog doesn’t contain much electronic dance music, but I couldn’t let today’s song Essence fall through the cracks. Thanks to Jeff at Eclectic Music Lover, who has oftentimes been the source from which I have found wonderful new music,…
All That She Wants (1992) – Ace of Base
On the weekend we were talking about another Swedish Europop centric band Roxette when cursory flashbacks of today’s featured song popped into my head. Finally the group name came to me and a I breathed a sigh of relief because…
Quiero (2001) – Jerry Rivera
Puerto Rican Jerry Rivera is back again, this time with his enticing hit Quiero (I Want). Unlike his previous entries here entailing ’emblematic’ romantic Salsa music, ‘Quiero‘ is a stand alone love ballad. I find it hard not to be…
Quiet Heart (1988) – The Go-Betweens
Not since February 2002 have I presented a song from my joint favourite Australian band The Go-Betweens. Today’s featured track Quiet Heart is the seventh song to appear here so far after the band’s previous entry Finding You. This song…
No Need To Argue (1994) – The Cranberries
I’m surprised to learn this is the fifth song by the Cranberries to appear here so far after their previous entry Dreaming My Dreams. At the inception of my Music Library Project I wouldn’t have considered their music to feature…
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall (1962) – Bob Dylan
The key works of Dylan’s canon have invited debate for decades but there is a consensus that ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall‘ represents the first full blossom of Dylan as poet. The song’s “lines of terror” aren’t the finger-pointing literal ballads…
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