The Mangrove Song comes from the Australian pop chamber group – My Friend the Chocolate Cake. Musically, it’s an uptempo track from what is mostly a sombre and introspective record – Curious (see image inset). The band reside from Melbourne,…
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The Man In Me (1970) – Bob Dylan
This wonderfully translucent song by Zimmy has become inseparable from The Big Lebowsky in the minds of modern audiences. Both the film and the track are standout works of art that complement each other so well, forever intertwined in the…
The Man Comes Around (2002) – Johnny Cash
If there’s one artist I’ve shortchanged in my Music Library Project, it would have to be Johnny Cash. I’ll be doing some necessary backtracking in the coming years with respect to the alphabetical listing of songs, to include more of…
The Look (1989) – Roxette
It’s uncanny that in yesterday’s article I mentioned seeing Billy Joel in Sydney on his Stormfront tour in 1991 – because, as it happens, I also saw the Swedish group Roxette at the same venue (the Sydney Entertainment Centre) that…
The Longest Time (1984) – Billy Joel
Today’s featured song comes with the very recent news of Billy Joel’s brain condition diagnosis where he had to cancel tours. The 76 year-old singer-songwriter is said to be receiving ‘excellent care’ and is ‘fully committed to prioritising his health’.…
La Presa (2024) – Nathy Peluso
‘In Grasa there definitely had to be a Salsa song. People were asking for it and it’s part of my job. So in Miami we got down to work and ‘La Presa’ was born…I consume Salsa everyday of my life.…
Is There a Ghost (2007) – Band of Horses
Band of Horses certainly has a passion to them—the kind of singing and strumming that sounds like crying…. (Is There A Ghost) – not much lyrically, but it paints a picture of nostalgia, the supernatural, and isolation. – Bernie in response…
Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel) 1960 – Roy Orbison
“I’ve always been very content when I wrote all those songs. By this I’m saying that a lot of people think you have to live through something before you can write it, and that’s true in some cases, but I…
19/5/25 – 25/5/25 – Universe, Trump & Complete Unknown
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Scientists in a race to discover why our Universe existsArticle at BBC News ← A vast cavern in South Dakota shielded from the outside…
Tagged with: a complete unknown, BBC news, ben Shapiro, donald trump, dune, elliot roberts, Freddy Sayers, matter, neutrinos, Science, UnHerd, universe
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Posted in Movies and TV, Music, News, politics, Science
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (1964) – Bob Dylan
Here’s Bob at the apex of his protest music beginnings. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll was one of the first songs I heard in my youth where I truly paid attention to the lyrics. It’s a song where every…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, the lonesome death of hattie carroll, The Times They Are a Changin, William Zantzinger
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