Day 453: Babaji, Supertramp
A final song from Supertramp as Covid Island Discs draws to a close. Another intense song from a band that for me is like an old friend – their music brings me much joy and comfort.
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Covid Island Discs
Day 452: The one I love, REM
Well this is the 4th last song of Covid Island Discs. In the final 4 songs I shall return to my favourite bands that have brought me the most listening pleasure over the years. REM certainly is up there with my all time favourites and this song is one of their all time classics. This
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Day 451: There is a light that never goes out, The Smiths
In this final week of Covid Island Discs I am citing bands that should really have been cited during the 65 week disruption we have experienced in the UK. Amazingly this is the first time I have cited a Smiths song and this one reminds of my late best friend Jonathan Higgs. Jonathan had what
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Day 450: Parklife, Blur
This has to be one of the most English bands of all time. Their accents are just so distinctive with their “Lundeners”-type shrill. Like Madness, this band produces songs with a comical feel to them. Realistically Blur should have made an appearance on Covid Island Discs before the final week.
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Week 64 Video Playlist Summary
So this week my vote for the best video goes to “No Son of Mine” by Genesis. The video captures well the theme of the song about a father rejecting his son because the son walked out on the family some years earlier due to marital conflict. It is clever the way the video combines
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Day 449: Chlorine, Twenty-one Pilots
Twenty-one pilots is one my daughters favourite bands. I have already cited their song
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Day 448: Sweet home Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd
OK so time for one of the most ultimate Meme songs: Sweet home Alabama. Listen out for the line: “Well I heard Mr Young sing about her Well I heard old Neil put her down Well I hope Neil Young will remember A southern man don’t need him around anyhow.” So these lines are in
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Day 447: Alabama, Neil Young
So this is one of Neil’s protest songs against the USA southern state racism. This song would lead Lynyrd Skynyrd to decry Young name in his most famous song Sweet Home Alabama (see tomorrow’s post).
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Day 446: You’re no son of mine, Genesis
This song get’s my vote for its musical and lyrical intensity. A very moving song about a very sad subject of the permanent breakdown of a father and son’s relationship laced with permanent unforgiveness on the part of the father.
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Day 445: Back in the USSR, The Beatles
So on Sunday I cited my first Beach Boys song California Girls. That song stimulated the Beatles to include a little bit of beachboy-style musing over lovely Russian woman.
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