At the age of 16, she began to perform at hotels and restaurants in Torrevieja, mainly performing classic songs by Frank Sinatra or Nina Simone. – Nasty Girl at Observation Blogger On September 29 this year, I wrote an article about…
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Step Right Up (1976) – Tom Waits
Tom Waits assumes the voice of a carnival barker in this polemic about advertising and commercialism. “Step right up” is a phrase these hucksters would often use to lure crowds into attractions, promising a life-altering viewing that would inevitably disappoint.…
Irish Heartbeat (Van Morrison song) 1994 – Billy Connolly
I remember in my young adulthood enthralled watching Billy Connolly’s World Tour of Scotland over and over again. My family ancestry partly originates from Scotland, so I have always had a penchant for anything Scottish especially Amy Macdonald’s rendition of Flower of Scotland. The…
Stagger Lee (1996) – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Warning: Features explicit language and offensive content. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Stagger Lee is a take on a traditional folk song; a dark and violent tale, told from the perspective of Stagger Lee, a notorious figure in American folklore.…
Stage Fright (1976) – The Band (The Last Waltz)
Of all the songs from the The Last Waltz concert, Stage Fright was always the one that captivated my musical sensibilities the most. It’s such an unusual song and I mean that in the best possible way. As the title…
Glory Days (1984) – Bruce Springsteen
Glory Days is the big rock stomping, jukebox hit on Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA album. It was the fifth single released from the record. As evident in its official music video, nowhere does Bruce Springsteen showcase and embrace…
Stabat Mater; Quando Corpus Morietur And Amen (1736) – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
I first heard the Stabat Mater (translated from Latin: The Mother was Standing referring to the Holy Mother Mary) when I saw the movie Amadeus which still sits at No 1 on my 100 favourite movies list. More music has…
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Spring Rain (1986) – The Go-Betweens
“There’s a gentle lope and swing as much breezy ’60s pop as there is roots revival intensity” – AllMusic Spring Rain is the 10th song to appear here from my dual favourite Australian band The Go-Betweens after their previous entry…
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Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op. 30 (1909) – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Below is a quote from the Australian movie Shine (1996) (which featured here at Friday’s Finest in 2021), referring to how today’s featured movement from Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rach 3) is a notoriously challenging piece: The Russian…
4/11 – 10/11/24 – Wedding Song, Roman Conquest & The Matterhorn
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Something (1969) – The BeatlesCommentary by Nancy (The Elephant’s Trunk) at Observation Blogger My modest readership includes a few Beatles devotees, so I wasn’t surprised…
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