I am excited to present to you the fourth piece from Sergei Rachmaninoff to appear so far in the music library project – Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini. I was a relative latecomer to appreciating Rachmaninoff, but I now…
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Requiem in D Minor K. 626 (1791) – Wolfang Amadeus Mozart
If I was restricted to choose just one piece of music (of all the music I have had the privilege to hear in my life) to take with me to a Desert island it would be Requiem in D Minor.…
Please Waste Your Time (2024) – Potato Beach
Do you want to know what is a travesty? That this song Please Waste Your Time has attained just 1.1k views in 3 months. There is something seriously amok if new confounding music such as this is not being more…
Reel Around the Fountain (1984) – The Smiths
The Smiths‘ music features here regularly. They are a punk-pop English group regarded as one of the most important acts to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. They are one of my favourite bands outright. I…
Evangeline (1976) – The Band (ft. Emmylou Harris)
“It was a piece of America that was just more musical. I have no idea why but when I first went there when I was sixteen years old and I first got off the bus in Arkansas, it hit me…
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1983) – Cyndi Lauper
I was a boy once who wanted to have fun. And you know how I got my kicks? You guessed it!By hearing Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Woohoo! Interestingly the original version was from a male perspective, but Lauper,…
Red River Shore (1997) – Bob Dylan
Well, I sat by her side and for a while I triedTo make that girl my wifeShe gave me her best advice and she saidGo home and lead a quiet lifeWell, I been to the east and I been to…
Red Eyes (2014) – The War on Drugs
“There was a lot of magic in those sessions. We knew we were onto something special.” – Adam Granduciel Red Eyes is the seventh song to appear here from The War on Drugs after their previous entry Pain. I like…
Rebels Without Applause (2022) – Morrissey
As nice a nod Rebels Without Applause is to that of Rebel Without a Cause, the James Dean-led feature from the 1950s, that is where the similarities start and end. One a piece of rebellious redemption, another a track from a yet-to-be-released album…
Reasons I Drink (2019) – Alanis Morissette
In my last post on Alanis Morissette – Hand in my Pocket, I was wondering what she had been up to in recent times. The last time I saw her was in a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode seen here where she sabotages her own…
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