The whacky circus music and Waits accustomed minstrel role is all here. You know good writing in a song when you have great characterization in few short words, but it’s elusive enough to impel the reader to interpret it based…
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Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo (1890)- Pietro Mascagni
It’s difficult to imagine this most charming piece of music is the result of a competition won. A young Italian composer Mascagni (pictured above) who hadn’t had an Opera performed on stage (and hence eligible) entered the Milanese competition by…
5/4 – 11/4/21 incl. Fructose, The Band & Dostoevsky
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Peter Attia – The Drive Podcast – #87—Rick Johnson, MD: Fructose—the common link in hypertension, insulin resistance, T2D, & obesity? Audio podcast at Peter…
Catch the Wind (1965) – Donovan
This song like any other entered my prepubescent teenhood as they all do, but none other besides ‘Catch the Wind‘ was as powerful on my psyche or upon how I should orientate myself like ‘Catch The Wind‘. I wrote in…
The Top 5 Observation Blogger Posts celebrating Christmas
Let’s be honest, it has been a wretched year for most. I admit I am ordinarily a Scrooge come XMAS, but this year more than any other I truly, madly deeply want to celebrate this Christmas in all its glory.…
Tagged with: bing crosby, Bob Dylan, Christmas, David Hobson, Jordan Peterson, The small one
Posted in Music, Reflections
Posted in Music, Reflections
Carry You Home (2008) – James Blunt
This is the second song to feature in this music library from James Blunt. As I detailed in an earlier post I have always had a penchant for James because he’s an ex military officer like me. Unlike James I…
Carnival (1995) – Natalie Merchant
This understated song from Natalie Merchant’s debut album Tigerlily was inspired by her first trip to New York as a 16 year old. She compares the sights and sounds of New York to a carnival. She claimed she was fascinated…
Camina Burana “O Fortuna” (1935) – Carl Orff
Today’s musical piece ‘O Fortuna‘ by Carl Orff (see image above) you have no doubt heard of because it has become so embedded in popular culture. It is derived from the 13th Century medieval Latin Goliardic poem of the same…
Caribbean Wind (1985) – Bob Dylan
Caribbean Wind is another one of those immense Dylan songs one can find perplexing how he deemed it unreleasable material. When writing this post I was tossing up between this and Abandoned Love to declare my favourite. I realised I…
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