I could write a 10 thousand word essay about this song, but I’m a lazy tard. It incorporates Dylan’s Love Minus Zero in the concert version below and I find it captivating. I have written before and I’ll say it…
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Closing Time (1992) – Leonard Cohen
Closing Time is the second song to feature in the Music Library Project from Cohen’s critically acclaimed The Future album. The other song already discussed was Anthem. What entails the ‘Music Library Project’?The Future was the ninth album written by…
Clarinet Concerto in A Mayor K622 (1791) – Wolfang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, was written in October 1791 just two months before his death. It was written for his friend – the clarinetist Anton Stadler and consists of three movements, in a fast–slow–fast succession. It is…
Civil War (1991) – Guns N’ Roses
Civil War is my preferred song from Guns N’ Roses. Sure, I liked Sweet Child of Mine, November Rain, and Knocking on Heaven’s Door when I first heard them, but they get played to death even to this day in…
City of Stars (2016) – Justin Hurwitz
City of Stars is the third song to appear here from my favourite musical La La Land. It won the Academy Award for Best Music (original Song). The music of the song was composed by Justin Hurwitz while the lyrics…
Buena Vista Social Club (1999) – Wim Wenders (Friday’s Finest)
Director Wim Wenders and guitarist Ry Cooder team up again to present this marvellous music documentary Buena Vista Social Club. Cooder did the slide guitar soundtrack for Wender’s Paris, Texas 1984 which featured here recently on Friday’s Finest. Buena Vista…
Chelsea Hotel (1974) – Leonard Cohen
(Reader discretion is advised)This is Leonard Cohen’s musical attempt of ‘Sex! Now I have your attention.’ Well, not really, but kind of. This infamous song of Leonard’s escapades with Janis Joplin at the Chelsea Hotel will be the discussion of…
Circle of Life (1994) – Elton John
I was iffing and butting as to whether to include today’s song just because of how commercial – certainly for its time and mainstream it is. So I listened to it again and it pricked my ears as it has…
Changing of the Guards (1978) – Bob Dylan
Changing of the Guards is one of Dylan’s many masterpieces as is the album it opens – Street Legal. Both are underrated outputs of Dylan’s astounding discography. If I had to choose just one album from Dylan’s catalogue to have…
Chaflan (1993) – Jorge Ariza
It has been a bit more than a quarter of a century since Colombian Jorge Ariza passed away. He is renowned as the King of the Requinto here and is somewhat a national folklore in Colombian music. The Requinto is…
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