This is different territory, but this rap song from Brazil was sent to me in Australia to help me pronounce the ‘R’ in Latin Spanish even though this song is sung in Portuguese. The Latin pronunciation is with a palpitating…
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Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding (1973) – Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is one of the greatest contemporary music records ever made. Funeral for a Friend introduces the record in no uncertain terms and blasts the ears with an organ like synthesizer tune (performed on an ARP synthesizer…
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Fugitive (2009) – David Gray
Fugitive released in 2009, is the third song to appear here from British singer-songwriter David Gray. I was introduced to his music by a friend on a road trip to Hanging Rock in Victoria, Australia – not long before I…
Free Fallin’ (1989) – Tom Petty
Who can forget when Jerry Maguire thought he’d secured the NFL’s biggest signing and he’s searching a channel with music matching his elation and he stumbles on today’s track by Tom Petty Free Fallin‘. See the scene here. I had…
Piano Concerto In E Flat, K. 482; 3rd Movement (1785) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart completed the Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major on December 16, 1785 as he was approaching the height of his popularity in Vienna. Almost simultaneously, he had been working on the score to The Marriage of Figaro. This…
For You (1988) – John Denver
I grew up on John Denver music since my parents owned some of his records and this was one of his later songs I was enamoured with. Denver wrote this for his Australian wife Cassandra Delaney who he met in…
For All You’ve Done (2004) – Hillsong
This is the second song to appear here and title track from Hillsong’s record For All You’ve Done. You can find more information about the record in the article Evermore which came out Jan 6 this year. This evangelical Christian…
Foot of Pride (1992) – Lou Reed
This is one of the very few cover versions of a Bob Dylan song which I think superseded the original and I don’t say that lightly. Lou Reed sung this at Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary concert in 1993 and I…
Tagged with: 30th Anniversary celebration, Bob Dylan, Foot of Pride, Lou Reed, Shot of Love
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Foolish Games (1995) – Jewel
I would have liked a dollar every time I heard this song when it came out and I’m still a big fan of it. I hardly know any of the rest of Jewel’s discography, but this one always tugs at…
500 Miles – (Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Stark Sands)
This is the third article here from the Inside Llewyn Davis movie. It was a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk revival. The simple repetitive lyrics reflect a traveller who is far from…
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