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I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (Live 1966) – Bob Dylan

This song was originally released in 1964 on his fourth studio album Another Side of Bob Dylan, but the version below is from the legendary Manchester Free Trade Hall 1966 concert. This bootleg records one of the most momentous occasions in

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Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620 (1791) – Overture – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) K.620 Overture is the second piece to appear hear from Mozart’s famous Opera. This is so good. It premiered just 2 months prior to the composer’s death. A synopsis of the Opera can be found

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I Can’t Break it to My Heart (2007) – Delta Goodrum

The Australian singer-songwriter Delta Goodrum has been mentioned here before in a song Affirmation by the Australian group Savage Garden. Today’s song I Can’t Break It to My Heart is the fourth single from Delta Goodrem’s third studio album Delta. The video

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I am Australian (1987) – The Seekers

It is fitting that a song as invigorating and unifying as I am Australian inaugurates the ‘I’ songs in the Music Library Project. ‘We are one, but we are many‘. I am Australian by The Seekers is unofficially Australia’s national

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Hurt (2002) – Johnny Cash

Hurt is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from its second studio album. Johnny Cash covered the song in a different way to the original for his wife. The song as shown in the video is

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Hungarian Fantasy (1853) – Franz Liszt

The Hungarian Fantasy is Franz Liszt’s arrangement for piano and orchestra of his Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14. It’s a really chirpy piece that put a spring in my step today. Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Romantic era. He gained accolades for his virtuoso

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Human Touch (1992) – Bruce Springsteen

Human Touch is the second song to feature here from his double release albums Human Touch / Lucky Town. I always agreed with the Rolling Stones review of the double release that argued ‘the aims of the two albums would

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Human (2013) – Christina Perri

I mentioned Christina Perri on this blog before because I am so enamoured with her single Jar of Hearts. Whence I gathered my senses after absorbing that immense track, I searched other songs from her, and I was impressed by

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Huck’s Tune (2007) – Bob Dylan

This unheralded later day mystical tune from Dylan was released on the movie Lucky You directed by Curtis Hansen and also appeared on the above Tell Tell Signs (1989 – 2006). Dylan and Hurtis had previously worked together for the

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How Soon Is Now? (1984) – the Smiths

In my last post about The Smiths – Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, I listed my ‘Desert Island‘ favourite 5 songs of them. Today’s song How Soon is Now also made that short list. In fact it’s in my top

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