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Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song) (2013) – Oscar Isaac & Marcus Mumford

I procured the soundtrack of the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis soon after it was released. Today’s song Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song) is my joint favourite song from the movie along with Bob Dylan’s Farewell which closes the movie

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Falling Slowly (2006) – Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová

This song won the Academy award (2008) for best original song seen in the movie ‘Once‘. I reviewed Once in Friday’s Finest September 2019. I wrote, ‘It’s very serendipitous how I see Bob Dylan in Sydney 2001 the night before

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Falling off the Face of the Earth (2005) – Neil Young

Today’s article inaugurates the first song starting with ‘F’ in the library: I watched so many times the Heart of Gold documentary directed by Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) about Neil Young’s Prairie Wind concert at the famous Ryman

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Queen of the Night Aria (The Magic Flute K620) 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The above scene in the film Amadeus (1984) is the subject of today’s musical piece Die Zaberflote (The Magic Flute K620) Aria No.14. The work premiered on 30 September 1791 just 2 months before the composer’s death hence its placement

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Eyes to the Wind (2014) – The War on Drugs

Three songs will appear here from the superb album – Lost in the Dream by The War on Drugs starting with today’s track Eyes to the Wind. This is an epic Americana folk-rock song and my favourite from the record.

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Everywhere (1987)- Fleetwood Mac

I remember when I first heard this song. I was in Year 10 at high school and about to see a theatre production near Sydney which my friend Gary was starring in. Oh that reminds me.. you can find a

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Everything I Own (1972) – Bread

Everything I Own is the second song to feature here from Bread and although I am not as taken with it as I was as a youngster, I still hold it close for nostalgic reasons. It is from their 1972

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10/01/22 – 16/01/22 Tim Buckley, Big Ben & It’s Time to Live.

Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Tim Buckley by Tim BuckleyArticle at Add Some Music To Your Day I wrote to the author Mick Macve of this excellent article how

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Everyday is like Sunday (1988) – Morrissey

I came to the Smiths and their lead singer Morrissey late in my musical journey. Their music runs rampant in my music project, so I’m surprised this is my first post by them or specifically Morrissey solo. It was because

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Everyday (1957) – Buddy Holly

I adored this song as a kid in the coming-of-age movie Stand By Me. It is one of the monumental tracks in the origin of Rock n Roll music. Buddy Holly influenced the cream of the crop in music who

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