Day 169: Disco 2000, Pulp
“Your name is Deborah, it never suited you.” Another song about unrequited love.
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Day 168: Mr Rock & Roll, Amy MacDonald
I really like this woman’s voice. I guess this song captures the concept of a love that never was and never can be. Reminds me of another song yet it is so bad I am not going to share it. Can anyone guess which one I am thinking about?
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Day 167: Slipping Away, Max Merritt
Time once again to go back to the early seventies. I remember this tune being on the radio as a very young child. Sadly the video and sound quality of this clip is pretty bad. However, it is a very pretty song. Video with better audio quality
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Day 166: Can’t take it with you, Alan Parsons
In this song, Alan Parsons adopts Egyptian mythology and imagines a conversation between a man who is at the point of death and the boatman who has been charged with taking his soul across the river of death. I have written below the beginning of verses 1 and 2. “Well I sympathise completely, but there
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Day 165: Life’s been good to me so far, Mr Joe Walsh
A cute, funny song. “My Maserati does 185. I lost my license now I don’t drive.” Also in this version notice the slight comical change in the line: “I making records my fans they can’t wait. They write me letters tell me Glen’s great.” Well the first version of this song I got from Youtube
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Day 164: She has no time, Keane
I thought this song was about a broken relationship but Thomas Chaplin actually introduces it by saying the song was written by his band mate about him because he was so bad at getting girls. However the original Youtube video that has this introduction has sadly been taken down by the original poster so I
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Day 163: Why does it always rain on me?, Travis
I think most of us at some points in our life can relate to the lyrics of this song. Very interesting video and well worth watching.
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Day 162: White Flag, Dido
So I thought this song was not about her but her brother who messed up a relationship. However I then found a live version of this song on Youtube where Dido seems to intimate that writing the song caused a major hassle in her life which suggests she did write it about a lost lover.
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Day 161: Sympathy for the Devil, The Rolling Stones
I guess a hit from the The rolling stones is long overdue although I must confess they are not one of my favourite bands. What song to choose? Well given my book The Wormwood Deceptions is all about how the devil uses his lies to entrap humanity this tune seems to be the most appropriate.
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Day 160: Don’t give up, Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel
When I turned 21 my lovely Seaforth Fellowship friends bought me a CD player: a cutting edge piece of tech all those years ago. They also bought me my first CD to go in it which was Peter Gabriel’s album “So”. I still have the CD in my collection and this beautiful duet between Kate
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