Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street) is a song from Bob Dylan’s 25th studio album Down in the Groove in 1988. The album is one of Dylan’s most unfavourably received albums amongst critics and fans. It was…
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Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street) – Bob Dylan
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1999 (1982) – Prince
The 80’s sound so many detest is here in all its glory. Can you imagine how good this might have sounded with crisper synth sounds, but I suppose music technology was still catching up. I’ll look for a live version…
Nightminds (2004) – Missy Higgins
If there’s one thing, I took away from this song it is this: But I will learn to breatheThis ugliness you seeSo we can both be thereAnd we can both share the dark That we don’t have to be alone…
New York City Serenade (1973) – Bruce Springsteen
What grabbed me from the outset listening to New York City Serenade was the classical music resonance in the introduction piano solo which transforms into a jazz sound. It compares to the standout piano introduction also by Roy Bittan on…
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Give Me Love (2014) – Christina Perri
Whatever season I’m in, if I’m going through (bad or good), that is what you will hear me singing about – I will never put on a facade or pretend to the world that my life is perfect…Since I was…
Goodbye My Lover (2004) – James Blunt
There’s a neat song that Dylan did called ‘Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight‘ and I hope my readers won’t fall apart on me when they hear for perhaps the umpteenth time today’s track Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt.…
New Pony (1978) – Bob Dylan
New Pony is from Bob Dylan’s 18th studio album Street – Legal. I wrote in the post Changing of the Guards – ‘if I had to choose just one album from Dylan to take with me on a Desert Island,…
New Orleans Is Sinking (1989) – The Tragically Hip
New Orleans Is Sinking is yet another great song recommended at Max’s blog – PowerPop. The guitar work and vocal are sharp – edged, bluesy and hone you in. I have included at the end of this article the original…
Never Say Goodbye (1974) – Bob Dylan
I was weighing up whether to add Never Say Goodbye to the Music Library Project, but two aspects of it which bent me towards the affirmative – ‘let her rip‘ were the following: The first was when Dylan sings the…
