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…
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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This is one of the very few cover versions of a Bob Dylan song which I think superseded the original and I don’t say that lightly.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…
Tagged with: 500 miles, Carey Mulligan, Inside Llewyn Davis, Justin Timberlake, Stark Sands
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First We Take Manhattan (1986) – Leonard Cohen
I love everything 80’s about this track; the synthpop and corny women voices singing ‘I’d really like to live beside you, baby‘. The irony is, it’s an apocalyptic message and Leonard seems to be playing the instigator of this world…
First of the Gang to Die (2004) – Morrissey
It’s the strangest thing that the first two songs here from Morrissey are from his solo career, but nothing from his time in the Smiths. My friend who lives close-by put me onto the Smiths which I wrote in the…
Every Breath You Take (1983) – Sting (The Police)
We are backtracking in the music project as I realised when I was researching Sting’s Fields of Gold that I hadn’t included one of my favourite live performances which appears below. Like almost everyone in the Western-world I have heard…
Finlandia Op. 26 (1900) – Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius is a Finnish composer and violinist and recognised as his country’s greatest. Today’s piece Finlandia was composed for the Press Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from the Russian Empire, and was the last of…
Finding You (2005) – The Go-Betweens
This is the third song to appear here from this quintessential indie-Australian music group’s 2005 album Oceans Apart. Finding You is one of my favourite songs from this group. The video below has got just 25,000 views. Now compare that…
