29th of May — 4th of June 2021
Time for a trip down memory lane with this 80s rock classic. Tainted love first appeared on the Australian radio airwaves in 1981. At the time a good friend and mine were avid listeners of the Sydney radio station 2SM and this station used to produce a top 100 chart which consisted of a piece …
Time for a bit of a meme song. This is certain one of those rock and roll classics that everyone knows yet the first time Rainbow has appeared in Covid Island Discs. Like the key change in the middle of the song.
Surprised I have not cited this Eagles classic before now. This song was the 5th track on their One of these nights album and is certainly one of their classics. Apparently the inspiration for this song came about as follows: The title and idea for the song came when Glenn Frey and Don Henley were …
So this song is really classic Norah Jones. This is the sort of song that you imagine putting on after a hard day at work when all you want to do is chill out and wow this song has maximum chill out factor. The piano also reminds me of the sort of song you would …
Day 438: Don’t know why I didn’t come, Norah Jones Read More »
Yesterday I cited a Travis song. Not sure why but Travis and Keane always remind me of each other so I thought it was therefore time for another Keane song. This is also the second time Keane has appeared in Covid Island Discs. The last song I cited was She has no time which I …
This is a nice little number by the band Travis. This is the second song of their to appear in Covid Island Discs. Like their video to
So let’s kick of week 63 with a song from the Australian group Icehouse. The video to this song is also pretty cool although I think Iva Davies got the opening idea of his video from the horror movie Play Misty For Me. For any Sydneites out there, enjoy the scenes of our beautiful city.
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