Human Touch is the second song to feature here from his double release albums Human Touch / Lucky Town. I always agreed with the Rolling Stones review of the double release that argued ‘the aims of the two albums would…
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The Wrestler (2008) – Darren Aronofsky (Friday’s Finest)
I was surprised I hadn’t already featured The Wrestler here at Friday’s Finest. This documentary style – minimalist film gave it a subject with an immense intimacy and as an audience member you felt entirely immersed in The Wrestler’s small…
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Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Happy (1998) – Bruce Springsteen
This song wooshes me back to living in Northcote, Melbourne cerca 2005. I had a girlfriend called Claire who was a clairvoyant. She was a busty, curly-short haired blonde who had these little freckles peppered around her face. I don’t…
Girls In Their Summer Clothes (2007) – Bruce Springsteen
Listening to this 2008 Bruce track was like being transported back to vintage Bruce music. It’s a wonderful track and possesses all the hallmarks about what made Bruce Springsteen the household name he came to be. Even the lyrics of…
Every Breath You Take (1983) – Sting (The Police)
We are backtracking in the music project as I realised when I was researching Sting’s Fields of Gold that I hadn’t included one of my favourite live performances which appears below. Like almost everyone in the Western-world I have heard…
Dead Man Walkin’ (1996) – Bruce Springsteen
Today’s featured song is Bruce Springsteen’s title track for the movie Dead Man Walkin’. Executive producers, brothers Tim and David Robbins, personally solicited a number of their favorite musicians for contributions to the project whom included other than Bruce; Johnny…
County Fair (2003) – Bruce Springsteen
I love this little known gem from Bruce. The words, the delivery and instrumentals are from someone who knows their craft. It was released as a bonus track on The Essential Bruce Springsteen record which I snapped up with much…
Countin’ on a Miracle (2002) – Bruce Springsteen
Countin’ on a Miracle is from Bruce’s The Rising record released after the attack on the twin towers in New York. This record was a dedication to the victims and survivors of that terrible day. The Rising was symbolically named…
Brilliant Disguise (1987) – Bruce Springsteen
Thanks to my school friend Daniel Olsen at secondary school I had been following the Boss a year or so shy of the release of Brilliant Disguise. I distinctly remember seeing this remarkable music video appear on the Saturday morning…
Better Days (1992) – Bruce Springsteen
I’m backtracking a couple of songs in the alphabetical order here to resume my music library project in 2020. I am at complete loss how this song was not in my original music library catalogue, but thanks to Badfinger’s post…
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