Tina Turner 29th of November 1939 — 24th of May 2023 So Covid Island Discs sadly now functions as a catalogue recording the inevitable passing away of a generation of super rock stars who were so much of my childhood and young adult memories. Today’s citation is Tina Turner. Although I did not collect her …
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 …
This song seems strangely appropriate to finish off this week given the incredible scenes we experienced last week with the storming of the US Capitol building by Trump insurrectionists. We are certainly living in history making times but as Billy Joel says “we didn’t start the fire, but we’re trying to fight it” with pretty …
This rock star’s voice reminds me of Bonnie Tyler who reminds me of a female version of Kurt Cobane who reminds me a little of Rod Stewart.
While I don’t have any Tom Petty albums, except for when he was part of the Travelling Wilbury’s I really like this song. Was also sad to hear when he passed away from in 2017. I thought he died of a heart attack but after checking Wiki it turned out to be a drug overdose: …
Staying with the Aussie bands here is another band that didn’t make my original list. It is interesting how many Australian bands write at least one song about Australia itself just as Icehouse did in the song I featured yesterday.
Another great Aussie band which didn’t make it into my play list when I was doing Australian bands all the way back in week 4, is Icehouse. This is one of my favourite songs of theirs. I especially like the opening with the single held electronic organ note. The live version here of the song …
Given yesterday’s post, I thought it was time for another song by the great Australian wordsmith Paul Kelly. This is a spooky song which captures a rather bizarre story which was also the subject of an Australian film called Jindabyne. The story is about a group of men who go out on a fishing trip …
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Along time ago since we had some B52s. Another cracking song from this wonderful group.
There is so much truth in the chorus line: the more I know, the less I understandall the things I thought I knew, I’m learning again.I’ve been trying to get down, to the heart of matterbut my will get’s weak and my thoughts seem to scatterbut I think it’s about forgiveness, forgiveness even if, even …
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