Waitin’ On A Sunny Day is a song from The Rising, released by Bruce Springsteen in 2002 after the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11th, 2001. The record was dedicated to the victims, survivors and spirit of…
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Surrender (2022) – Christina Perri
Christina’s music feels like the cleanest breath of air to me. Even this morning, when I heard this song again, I felt my eyes welling up after the first verse. Tears just came, and I found myself wondering, where did…
Stephen Meyer, John Lennox, and James Tour: Three Scientists on the Origins of Everything
Sometimes I just post random things I find fascinating – like this video. But if there’s one thing here that truly blew my mind, it was James Tour’s comments on simulating a living cell (at 20.00). A synthetic chemist and…
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To Fall In Love With You (1986) – Bob Dylan
To Fall in Love With You is an unreleased and unfinished romantic jewel from Bob Dylan. The lyrics are incomplete and he’s in mid-songwriting process. Still, the headspace the song puts me in is one of serenity and deep longing.…
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Highway to Hell (1979) – AC/DC
Staying with the recent Australian trend, we take a detour down what Lou Reed once called the Dirty Boulevard – and he’s not even Australian nor does his song’s inference equate, but that hardly matters – you get the gist.So,…
Brown Eyed Girl (1967) – Van Morrison
When released, the song about a former lover was too explicit for radio airplay. In the third verse, the lyrics, “making love in the green grass,” were edited out, and replaced with a combination of lyrics from the first verse —…
For Free (1971) – Joni Mitchell
Yesterday on BBC Sounds, I was checking out David Gilmour’s Desert Island tracks when I spotted Joni Mitchell’s song For Free. Instantly, I assumed I’d already written about it and had it tucked away somewhere in my music project. But…
Lady of the Dawn (1979) – Mike Batt
The album Tarot Suite (shown inset), which features Lady of the Dawn was a treasured presence in our household as I grew up on Sydney’s western outskirts. Despite the limited information available about it—even lacking a dedicated Wikipedia page—Tarot Suite,…
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So long, Marianne (1967) – Leonard Cohen
Now we are getting to the cream of Cohen’s crop. Marianne and Leonard stayed in touch until the very end, almost literally. He sent her a letter on her death bed in 2016. “I’m just a little behind you, close…
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Sana Sana (2020) – Nathy Peluso
Such is my excitement for this song and Nathy Peluso in general, I have forwarded this ‘polemical primeval act’ ahead of time and will let it roll on tomorrow. Her other song Puro Veneno released here in April this year…
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