We find Leonard Cohen at his most musically rudimentary and starkly poetic in today’s featured track, Tower of Song. It feels like a walk in the wilderness: Cohen crying out in solitude and pleading for inspiration and passion from the…
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Life For Rent (2003) – Dido
Dido’s music is just so chill, and she has this familiar girl-next-door aura. You might not even pick her out if you saw her in a crowd. Her persona is not like that of the typical commercial pop star –…
Backbone (The Desert Child) 2024 – Kasey Chambers
The Australian country singer Kasey Chambers is a frequent visitor around these parts. She’s back again with the title track from her latest album, Backbone. On this song, Kasey takes a nostalgic path, recalling her upbringing on the Nullabor Plain…
I Am The Walrus (1967) – The Beatles
The Beatles were peaches when they first started out. Strapping young lads in their sharp suits singing I Want to Hold Your Hand with the adjoining bowl-top haircuts. Just dishes they were – and boy did they ever make those…
Night Fever (1978) – Bee Gees
Night Fever comes from the soundtrack album of Saturday Night Fever. The soundtrack became the highest-selling album of its time and helped launch the Bee Gees into global superstardom. My family contributed to that statistic – we owned the record…
Train, Train (1979) – Blackfoot
Down-and-dirty rocker music is not usually my thang, but dang, Blackfoot can play wicked, boot-stomping rock ’n’ roll – which is right up my alley, especially in today’s featured song, Train, Train. It has a serious train-like rhythm (no surprise…
Give Me One Reason (1995) – Tracy Chapman
Give Me One Reason by Tracy Chapman is one heck of a catchy blues number. It just screams – cool and sexy at the same time. The singer is bold and sultry, and desires a lover who will take the…
Tonight, Tonight (1995) – The Smashing Pumpkins
This is the second song by The Smashing Pumpkins to feature here in fairly quick succession after Today – a happy quirk of the alphabetical order of song titles. Tonight, Tonight is a grand juggernaut of dreamy, celestial alternative rock.…
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Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 40 (1926) – Sergei Rachmaninoff
‘With enough patience this elder and wiser Rachmaninoff’ will start whispering to you’ – Ben Laude (Rachmaninoff’s 4th Concerto is Criminally Underrated) Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 is a concerto for piano and orchestra by Russian…
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