New Orleans Is Sinking is yet another great song recommended at Max’s blog – PowerPop. The guitar work and vocal are sharp – edged, bluesy and hone you in. I have included at the end of this article the original…
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Never Say Goodbye (1974) – Bob Dylan
I was weighing up whether to add Never Say Goodbye to the Music Library Project, but two aspects of it which bent me towards the affirmative – ‘let her rip‘ were the following: The first was when Dylan sings the…
Never Marry a Railroad Man – Shocking Blue
I encountered Never Marry a Railroad Man at Max’s blog – PowerPop. It’s a fantastic song. I remarked to Max how comparable Scottish singer-songwriter Amy MacDonald’s 2007 hit song This Is The Life is in terms of melody and guitar…
Never Die Young (1988) – James Taylor
This song takes me back to the early 2000’s when I was living in Mornington, South – East of Melbourne. I lived in a gorgeous cottage cabin surrounded by paddocks where horses grazed. Hearing Never Die Young was the most…
Neighborhood Bully (1983) – Bob Dylan
I was remarking of Dylan’s nasty curve ball with the track – Lenny Bruce on the Christian record – Shot of Love; it’s just like what he did with today’s track Neighborhood Bully on the 1983 Infidels secular record. As I wrote…
Nation (Of the Heartless Kind) (2003) – David Bridie
Nation (Of the Heartless Kind) is an Australian protest song by David Bridie released on his 2003 Hotel Radio album. This is the fourth song to appear from Bridie’s obscenely underrated Hotel Radio record. No information seemingly exists about this…
Naima (1959) – John Coltrane
Naima is composed by John Coltrane in 1959 that he named after his then-wife, Juanita Naima Grubbs. Coltrane first recorded it for his 1959 album Giant Steps, and it became one of his first well-known works. Naima featured in a scene in the…
My Oh My (2014) – Leonard Cohen
This blues track My Oh My is the second song presented here from Leonard Cohen’s thirteenth studio album album Popular Problems (2014). The previous entry was Did I Ever Love You. Popular Problems flies by, with only nine songs in 36…
My Love is Like a Red Red Rose (1982) – The Fureys & Davey Arthur
This is the third song to appear from the Furey’s 1981 album ‘When You Were Sweet Sixteen‘ (see inset) and appears on the above compilation. As I wrote ‘I bought this album as a preadolescent on a whim based on…
Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity: The Genealogy of Morals – Dr Michael Sugrue
‘If people do like to create pain onto others, but with the degree of pain in the world and the evil we see…What happens when you frustrate this desire? What happens when you can’t enslave other people, you can’t kill…
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