And do you feel me beside you in your bedThere beside you where I used to lay I’ve long looked forward to writing about today’s featured track, Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough. I’ve always admired the songwriting in this rock…
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Something In The Night (1978) – Bruce Springsteen
I’ve always liked the understated album cover of Darkness on the Edge of Town. It seems like Bruce wasn’t interested in the usual pomp and spectacle—no elaborate “Bringing It All Back Home” setup here. Instead, it’s as if he just…
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Something Beautiful (2003) – Robbie Williams
I too got swept-up in the Robbie Williams’ craze when he was churning out hit out of hit both sides of the turn of the century. On this still fresh yet sunny Saturday morning in Bogotá, I gave today’s featured…
Something (1969) – The Beatles
Why does it not surprise me to learn Something is a George penned track. Along with Here Comes the Sun from the same record Abbey Road, music historians marked Something as his ascendancy as a composer and foreshadowing the sparse…
Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart (1983) – Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s 1983 resurgence album Infidels includes some fantastic outtakes like Blind Willie McTell, Foot of Pride and today’s featured song Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart. It boggles the mind how he could leave these gems off the record.…
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Someone in the Crowd (La La Land) 2016 – Justin Hurwitz
Nearly every song in the 2016 musical La La Land is a showstopper which would explain why Someone in the Crowd is the 6th music piece to appear from the movie after the previous entry – Planetarium. The only other…
Like a Lesson (2024) – Pillow Queens
Irish indie rock band Pillow Queens were formed in Dublin in 2016. Their members are Pamela Connolly (vocals, guitar), Sarah Corcoran (bass, backing vocals, pump organ), Cathy McGuinness (guitar, backing vocals) and Rachel Lyons (drums, backing vocals). After a series of singles, they released their debut album In Waiting in September 2020.…
Light Of My Life (2024) – Asgard Raven
(Light of my Life) It’s a very meaningful song to me written about my wife – Joe (singer – songwriter) of Asgard Raven The 26th of January, 2024 saw the release of today’s featured song Light of My Life from…
Society (2007) – Eddie Vedder
Luke 9:3: “Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt.” It has taken me almost all of my life to grasp the profound simplicity of this directive from Jesus to his disciples. But…
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (1963) – Bob Dylan
(Beautiful shots from my all-time favorite album cover. Mike Batt’s Tarot Suite may be a close second, but The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan is iconic. I’ve always said that if I ever had the chance, I’d do a Dylan pilgrimage across…
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