Anyone who has seen Manchester by the Sea will understand how gruelling it is to watch. I believe I saw it for the first time at the cinema. I love the stand – alone music in the movie but they…
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Manchester by the Sea (2016) – Kenneth Lonergan (Friday’s Finest)
Tagged with: Casey Affleck, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, Michelle Williams
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Njósnavélin (The Nothing Song) (2002) – Sigur Rós
I came across ‘The Nothing Song‘ song some years ago when I watched the final scene in the movie Vanilla Sky. Cameron Crowe, the director of Vanilla Sky has such a great taste in music as seen by the song…
Tagged with: Álmost Famous, Bob Dylan, Cameron Crowe, Njósnavélin, Sigur Rós, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The nothing song, Vanilla Sky
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street) – Bob Dylan
Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street) is a song from Bob Dylan’s 25th studio album Down in the Groove in 1988. The album is one of Dylan’s most unfavourably received albums amongst critics and fans. It was…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, down in the groove, Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
1999 (1982) – Prince
The 80’s sound so many detest is here in all its glory. Can you imagine how good this might have sounded with crisper synth sounds, but I suppose music technology was still catching up. I’ll look for a live version…
Nightminds (2004) – Missy Higgins
If there’s one thing, I took away from this song it is this: But I will learn to breatheThis ugliness you seeSo we can both be thereAnd we can both share the dark That we don’t have to be alone…
New York City Serenade (1973) – Bruce Springsteen
What grabbed me from the outset listening to New York City Serenade was the classical music resonance in the introduction piano solo which transforms into a jazz sound. It compares to the standout piano introduction also by Roy Bittan on…
Tagged with: Bruce Springsteen, New York City Serenade, The Wild the innocent & the e Street Shuffle
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Posted in Music
Give Me Love (2014) – Christina Perri
Whatever season I’m in, if I’m going through (bad or good), that is what you will hear me singing about – I will never put on a facade or pretend to the world that my life is perfect…Since I was…
Goodbye My Lover (2004) – James Blunt
There’s a neat song that Dylan did called ‘Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight‘ and I hope my readers won’t fall apart on me when they hear for perhaps the umpteenth time today’s track Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt.…
New Pony (1978) – Bob Dylan
New Pony is from Bob Dylan’s 18th studio album Street – Legal. I wrote in the post Changing of the Guards – ‘if I had to choose just one album from Dylan to take with me on a Desert Island,…
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