If you want to hear Dylan at the height of his singing and lyrical prowess then look no further than If You See Her, Say Hello. It is the second Bob Dylan track to appear here from his masterpiece record…
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I Need My Girl (2013) – The National
I Need My Girl is the first song to appear in the Music Library Project from the American alternative rock band The National. Someone wrote in the comments below, ‘I don’t have an ex-girlfriend but listening to this song makes…
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I Believe in You (1979) – Bob Dylan
Today’s song I Believe in You and Precious Angel are my favourite songs from Dylan’s conversion to Christianity record Slow Train Coming. I remember in my second year on Exped at Sea listening to this song ad nauseam. You would…
Great Sporting Moments 4 – Tomorrow’s Wimbledon Match Nick Kyrgios vs Rafael Nadal (edited below)
Has there been a more anticipated tennis match in recent memory than this semi-final tomorrow at Wimbledon? (edited: Nadal has retired injured…thanks to Sheree for the update!) Not since John McEnroe who I watched in my youth (and even copied…
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Egmont Overture Op 84 – Ludwig van Beethoven
This piece was incidentally set for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It’s light in the beginning and gorgeously drawn-out and then becomes a swash-buckling finale. It was written between 1809 and 1810. It…
The AnkiDroid Collection (Part 4) – Stoicism, the Druze People & Agrarian Societies
Today continuing with the Ankidroid additions related to Science, History and Philosophy. You can find more information about Ankidroid in my post – Learning a Second Language and Ankidroid. Stoicism A school of Hellenistic philosophy about personal ethics informed by…
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