Day 67: Hospital Food, David Gray
“Just a little something for the pain. Hospital food getting you down?“
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Covid Island Discs
Day 66: Make Nice, Dixie Chicks
“I’m not ready make nice, I’m not ready to back down, I’m still mad as hell and I don’t have time to go round and round and round.“ Boy have we been taken around the houses today with a Rose Garden “Prime Ministerial/Dominic Cummings” press briefing. I think I feel more anxious than angry as
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Day 65: Lloyd, I’m ready to be heartbroken Camera Obscura
A little bit of alternative British music
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Day 64: 5:15 am, Mark Knopfler
Another lovely song from another great wordsmith. A great little story that unfolds in this song. The bandit manCame north to fill his bootsCame up from cockneylandE-type jags and flashy suitsThe bandit manCame up the great north roadUp to geordielandTo mine the mother lode
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Day 63: Almost lover, A Fine Frenzy
This song fits nicely with yesterday’s offering and also fits into my 21st century theme. OK now look carefully at the video and tell me where you have seen this woman before. She appears in movies but which ones?
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Day 62: You’re Beautiful, James Blunt
OK this is an unfortunate album because it was so overplayed in the UK that everyone came to despise James Blunt after hearing the hits on this album over and over and over and over again. However, this little song I think stands the test of time. I must confess I particularly relate to this
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Day 61: The Scientist, Coldplay
Another one of my favourite Coldplay songs for sooo many reasons. The line that rings so true to me (especially in relation to my past chosen career of cell biology) is: “Nobody said it be easy, nobody said it would be so hard.“ I think many honest folk who work in RAE (publish or perish)
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Day 60: Fix You, Coldplay
I guess we hit another milestone, 63 days in lockdown and 64 days since I last swam. This song seems strangely appropriate. When I was in high school, I once was doing the lighting for a school play. While I knew I would never be a rock musician I sometimes wondered if I could get
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Day 59: Babel, Mumford and Sons
Get that banjo going. I think I’m seeing double. My new theme is 21st century music. Believe me my musical tastes are under-developed in this area. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks I guess.
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Day 58: Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams
“Got my first real six string, bought it at the five-and-dime, played it ’til my fingers bled, was the summer of ’69 ..“
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