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Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) – Bob Dylan

Just like the last song I posted on Dylan – Long and Wasted Years, today’s featured track Love Minus Zero/No Limit has no musical chorus or bridge. Dylan recites 8 four-line verses about what the singer thinks is his perfect

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I Won’t Share You (1987) – The Smiths

I only heard this ‘The Smiths‘ song by chance a few months ago. I didn’t know what to think, which is the same way I have thought about nearly all their music after first listen. Then I realise I have

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Flower of Scotland (2012) – Amy Macdonald

In April this year I wrote a post about the movie Local Hero (1983) and I recalled how I watched Amy Macdonald’s rendition of Flower of Scotland with my kids. Scotland had just beaten Spain in the Euro qualifiers so we were ‘happy chappys‘.

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Flightless Bird, American Mouth (2007) – Iron & Wine

I first got a taste of this song hearing the twins Alex and Jo from Serbia sing it here. I wrote about them when they did a magnificent version of Christina Perri’s Born in Time. This song was originally recorded

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29/5 – 4/6/23 – Impersonations – Special Edition

Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Ben Stiller does best Tom Cruise impression [Mission Impossible] Ben Stiller is playing a stunt double for Tom Cruise and he’s called Tom Crooze,

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Excitable Boy (1978) – Warren Zevon

Does this song title not make you get all excited? I know it did me. And there’s nothing more excitable than an excitable boy. If you would have asked me how I felt when my brother and I were playing

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Don’t Give Up – Peter Gabriel (Feat. Kate Bush)

One of the best bridges that I have heard in all of modern music is in this song – Don’t Give Up. And it’s short and may not provide you with all the music goodies, but it sure did me

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Come Monday (1974) – Jimmy Buffett

If there is anything to take away from this, it is this: Jimmy Buffett had his Hush Puppies on. Now I assumed that line was a keeper. But the single version replaced the line, “I’ve got my Hush Puppies on” with “I’ve

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Burning Gold (2014) – Christina Perri

Now to the cream of the crop. What I always admire about seeing Christina Perri in her videos are the little imperfections which for me makes her seem more ‘Human‘. Speaking of which, if you haven’t heard her song Human

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Love Itself (2001) – Leonard Cohen

Love Itself is the fourth song to appear here from Leonard Cohen’s tenth studio album Ten New Songs. It staggers me the sheer quantity of excellent music Leonard realised post 2000s. Of the 21 songs already posted here by Cohen,

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