16th — 22nd of January 2021
First appearance of this band on Covid Island Discs. This of course is a pretty classic rock tune so deserves its place in my playlist. I guess this song captures the “fairytales” that male friends tell each other about pretty woman who may actually fancy them and how one day they will end up being …
This song came out in 1995 and is rather ironic because if you’re a Christian, you believe that God really did become one of us in the incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth born circa 4 BC in Bethlehem. Joan Osborne imagines that if God was one of us, we would have to believe but, in …
Men at work are probably known in most countries as a one hit wonder band with their most famous song being Down Under (Covid Island Discs day 30). However in Australia they did have other hits, and this was one of them.
Haven’t as yet had a song from the man they called the king of rock and roll so I guess a song from him is long overdue. This is probably my favourite Elvis Presley song.
Another great song from a great Aussie band. A joyous song celebrating young love.
Another psychedelic song by Melanie. The song in this video strangely does not start until 1 minute 8 seconds into the video. A very 21st century song.
Time for another song from Talking Heads. Perhaps in the covid year of 2020 many felt like life was in some sort of suspended animation as everything appeared to be put in hold. Obviously we had hoped that life would be returning to normal by the time we got to 2021 but sadly for the …
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