30th of January — 5th of February 2021
Covid Island Discs the missing years So over the next few days I am going to publish songs that were released in years that are currently empty in my Covid Island Disc collection. Up until today, there were no songs for 2010. In order to find a song that was published in 2010 I went …
A very dark song by Genesis taking a very appropriate dig at the false prophets of Christianity that use the things of Jesus to make a shed load of money by conning the gullible out of their hard earned cash. I have always surmised that these religious charlatans must truly be atheists. The reason I …
So if you click on my release dates, you will see that my musical centre is around the 70s and 80s. Likewise there is a distinct drop off in youtube video release dates post 2010. I’ll be honest, I haven’t found the music that is played on the radio from about 2010 onwards that inspiring. …
I remember when this song first hit the charts in Sydney in 1989. I really love the guitar in this song and the album Waking Hours is full of top quality songs. This was the main hit tune released for the radio which nicely captures the sentiment that was first captured in the Biblical book …
Time for another Bob Seger song. This song reminds me of the Gambler song by Kenny Rogers. I sometimes like to imagine that the gambler subject of both songs is the same person What I mean by this is the interesting idea of how in one context a person can appear to be someone who …
So this song surprised me a little. I associate Billie Eilish with more odd sounding music but my daughter pointed me to her first album and I was really impressed with this song. It’s a shame in a way that she is now more famous for her more outlandish work because I think songs like …
So the last song of Kim Wilde’s I shared was a comical Christmas song: Rockin’ around the Christmas tree a duet between her and the late great comedian Mel Smith. This song is at the opposite end of the spectrum and captures one of the darkest moments of US history when Nixon ordered the carpet …
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