I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That is a lively dance-rock number from that “Reg” guy, who features quite prominently here. What I like most about the song is the bouncy and audacious piano playing, and that’s probably…
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) – The Byrds
I don’t know what’s worse to look at – Roger McGuinn’s glasses or The Byrds’ haircuts. Put both on the same album cover and you’ve got yourself a real treat. Arghhh. Don’t mind me – I’m just in a silly…
Turn the Lights Back On (2024) – Billy Joel
‘Anybody who has really lived, must have regrets. I owe a thousand apologies to a thousand people‘– Billy Joel on the Howard Stern show Turn the Lights Back On is a recent release by the Piano Man, Billy Joel. It’s…
Tupelo (1985) – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
This early Nick Cave song shows him deep in his gothic, post-punk phase. His music often leans into dark and sinister themes, and that’s very clear here in this gloomily pulsating and penetrating track. It’s one of the first songs…
Tunnel of Love (1980) – Dire Straits
Not only is Tunnel of Love my desert island Dire Straits song, it’s my ultimate rock song. If I had to choose just one track to show an extraterrestrial species what humans have achieved in rock ’n’ roll, this would…
Tuesday’s Gone (1973) – Lynyrd Skynyrd
This is about as quintessential Southern Rock as it gets. In many ways, Lynyrd Skynyrd helped define and popularise the genre. In the mid-1990s, there was this girl Diane who was living in the beautiful seaside town of Mornington on…
Tu Sin Mi (2010) – Dread Mar I
Tú Sin Mí (Eng: You Without Me) is an infectious, moderate-tempo reggae love ballad that I liked immediately on first listen. It’s about a man’s disillusionment after the breakdown of a relationship and his processing of it. Let me tell…
Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201; 1st Movement, Allegro Moderato (1774) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just 17 years old when he wrote this. Let that sink in for a moment. It’s hard to imagine the kind of beauty that must have stirred in him as he composed it – something almost…
How’s It Gonna End (2004) – Tom Waits
Here is Tom Waits at his murky, gloomy best and that suits me just fine. As an astute listener on SongMeanings put it, each of the verses in How’s It Gonna End seems like fragments of film plots, and we…
