A lot of the details below I have shared previously in my Reuben Morgan and Hillsong song articles, so you’ll forgive me for repeating myself. Just in case you haven’t read them before, well, here they are: Around the time…
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Wild God – Nick Cave
Nick’s music has been coming out here like hot cakes of late. He is yet another artist, like David Bowie, whose music I didn’t realise would feature here as prominently as it has. The reason being that much of that…
Words of Love – Buddy Holly
Words of Love is a chirpy early rock song that leaves you with a sunny disposition. It also has a tenderness that Buddy seemed to exude in his songs almost effortlessly. His unique intonations and the way he draws out…
Words – F.R David
Words used to not come easily to me. I heard this bottom-of-the-tier ’80s greatest-ballads, synth-produced track from the early ’80s, and it seemed to encapsulate my prepubescent loving. I hung on every word as if it had come straight out…
Wild Child – Enya
Wild Child is yet another song by the Irish singer and musician Enya which I heard during Pilates or whatever at the gym, and I was delighted since it had fallen off my music radar. I had heard it years…
Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
Wonderful Tonight is quite simply one of the most beautiful guitar-driven love ballads I’ve ever heard. It’s stunning how the lyrics and music, particularly that ghostly guitar riff, so perfectly capture the romance and intimacy of the evening, the anticipation…
When Did You Leave Heaven? – Bob Dylan
When Did You Leave Heaven? is a very quaint and tender song from Bob. It comes from one of his most scorned records, the 1988 Down In The Groove. It was Dylan’s second consecutive album, after Knocked Out Loaded, to…
Twist and Shout – The Beatles
I assumed this stupendously well-known early Beatles rocker was penned by them, but it was in fact written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns two years before the Beatles’ 1963 release. It was already a hit in the record charts…
Woman – John Lennon
This is yet another one of those John Lennon classics which I listened to so much as a kid, but it inexplicably went into the music hinterland. It was only recently, when I was researching John’s other songs, that I…
Natural Disaster – Cory Wells
What impacted me most when I heard Natural Disaster was Cory Wells’ translucent and alluring voice. It’s a delicate sound, like he’s wearing his heart on his sleeve, but not in a diminishing or openly sorrowful way. Rather, it has…
