What I love most about this scene (and you could say the whole movie) is that you can’t really tell where reality ends and fantasy begins. The Planetarium scene from La La Land is one of my favourite scenes in…
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Piper To The End (2009) – Mark Knopfler
Anyone up for a bit of Celtic music? I know I am, especially if it is from the masterful guitarist and singer-songwriter Mark Knopfler. A lot of his solo music (post Straits) is unassuming and restrained, but I find it…
Blood in My Eyes (1993) – Bob Dylan
Blood in My Eyes is the second song to appear here from Dylan’s 1993 traditional-folk record World Gone Wrong (WGW) after the previous entry – Delia. This album was a follow-up to his other acoustic guitar and harmonica record –…
Tagged with: blood in My Eyes, Bob Dylan, I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You, Mississippi Sheiks, World Gone Wrong
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Pictures of You (1990) – The Cure
By 1989, Cure lead singer and songwriter Robert Smith was a bit weary of his band’s gradual movement toward the pop charts away from their moody early work. He felt he needed to create something lasting, a coherent album-length artistic…
Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade (1874) – Modest Mussorgsky
In this piece (Promenade) Mussorgsky depicts himself “roving through the exhibition, now leisurely, now briskly in order to come close to a picture that had attracted his attention, and at times sadly, thinking of his departed friend. – Vladimir Stasov…
Tagged with: Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition Promenade, Viktor Hartmann
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Baker Street (1978) – Gerry Rafferty
This song is one of the best pop singles of the 1970s. It was on the album City To City. This was Rafferty’s first release after the breakup of his former band Stealer’s Wheel. Rafferty had been unable to release any…
Doina: Sus Pe Culmea Dealului (Picnic at Hanging Rock Theme Music) – Gheorghe Zamfir
Before I left Australia to come to Colombia, I went to Hanging Rock in Victoria, Australia as a personal pilgrimage. Hanging Rock is an archetypal character in the movie. I felt great nostalgia wandering this ethereal and dreamy landscape. I can…
Photograph (1973) – Ringo Starr
I saw a John Lennon interview where he said he used to worry about Ringo and what he would do after the Beatles. Suddenly Ringo was on top of the world and John jokingly said he telegrammed Ringo and asked…
Bad Moon Rising (1969) – Creedence Clearwater Revival
The scene of the American’s (Dave) conversion to a werewolf (with Creedence’s Bad Moon Rising) is both terrifying and a technical marvel. It is said the real star of this film is the Oscar-winning transformation effects by Rick Baker, who changed the…
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Philadelphia Freedom (1975) – Elton John
Philadelphia Freedom is the 10th track to feature here from Elton Hercules John. I listened to him more than any other music artist before I reached the age around 13. To say his early records did the rounds on our…
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