Hearing Live’s music from their classic Throwing Copper record transports me back to Mornington in Southeast Melbourne and the golden age alt-rock scene. It seems to me ‘The Nineties‘ was a good decade in many respects and the music it…
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Hey Joe (1966) – Jimi Hendrix
Hey Joe is my favourite song by Jimi Hendrix. It was The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s first single, released in 1966 and a UK top 10 hit. Most of content in this article has been cherry-picked from the Wikipedia reference below:…
The AnkiDroid Collection (Part 53) – Macabre, Cacophony & Epidermis
Ankidroid additions related to Science, History and Philosophy. More information about Anki can be found in this article. Macabre Macabre contains one of two pronunciations: mə-käb′ mə-kä′brə Macabre is having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of…
Con te Partirò (1995) – Andrea Bocelli
A song that needs no introduction. This post will be short and sweet as there are no apt words to describe the magnificence and renascence of this piece. Con te Partirò (I will leave with you) was first performed by…
Poor Poor Pitiful Me (1976) – Warren Zevon
Poor Poor Pitiful Me by Warren Zevon is an exuberant upbeat country – rock track. In terms of intensity, liveliness, and even in its impropriety this song reminds me of the penultimate song to feature here from Zevon called Excitable…
Bittersweet (1993) – Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Time to head to the ’90s with a neat track by Big Head Todd and The Monsters, which is right up my alley and hopefully yours as well. This Colorado rock band was formed in 1986. After two albums in 1989…
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Golden Brown (1982) – The Stranglers
I was reminded of how much I like this song when I was watching the 2000 film Snatch in which this song appeared. I always found the unconventional harpsichord sound in Golden Brown alluring, but at the same time slightly…
Concrete Utopia (2023) – Um Tae-hwa (Friday’s Finest)
Concrete Utopia (Korean: 콘크리트 유토피아) is a 2023 South Korean disaster-thriller film which I had the good fortune to see at the cinema here in Bogota, Colombia. The premise was one of the best I had heard as far as disaster movies go, so…
Political World (1989) – Bob Dylan
“One night when everyone was asleep and I was sitting at the kitchen table, nothing on the hillside but a shiny bed of lights – all that changed. I wrote about twenty verses for a song called ‘Political World’ and…
The AnkiDroid Collection (Part 52) – Ephemeral, Autophagy & Masochism
Ankidroid additions related to Science, History and Philosophy. More information about Anki can be found in this article. Ephermeral (adjective) It’s temporary, its transitory. Examples: There’s an insect we call the Mayfly and this has an ephemeral life which lasts…
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