This is a great little song by REM. I remember when it came out I was working as a PhD student at the University of Manchester. I have a very distinct memory of doing tissue culture work with another scientist Juliet while this song was blaring out of the radio. The lyrics to this song …
So recently I posted a song by Evanescence titled Lithium. This song is completely different to the Nivana’s classic by the same name. It is kind of interesting that the humble drug lithium get’s so much attention from rock stars. Lithium main indication is for bipolar disorder and acts as a mood stabiliser. I guess …
My late mother used to relate to this song in that she felt that my own father spent too much time with his mates to the cost of his relationship with his own children. Sadly this view was largely correct because when I had my first child Grace, as I enjoyed my own father/daughter relationship, …
So this song is firmly attached to my first job after moving from Sydney to Manchester. At the time I was working as a PhD student in the Manchester University Stopford building (an incredibly ugly building very typical of late 1960s architecture). At the time, there was a young girl there called Juliet who was …
A second appearance of the 4 non blonds in Covid Island Discs. In some ways I can relate to the lyrics of this song. In the scheme of things the USA is a wonderful country and yet …. and yet! Oh USA what has gone wrong with your dream? How has Trump et al. bewitched …
“Hello we are REM and this is what we do”. Cool intro. A nice simple song to play on guitar. Not sure what the blue strip across Stipe’s head is all about though 😄.
One of the funny things about doing Covid Island Discs is that even after citing hundreds of songs you suddenly realise you have completely left out a major rock group. It dawned on me I have not as yet had a Cure song so here is one of their most famous ones. I think they …
Yes this song is certainly unusual and the video clip makes it even stranger (and a little creepy). The battle of love trying to fend of death I guess?
Such a beautiful song with lovely guitar backing. The song is particularly sad because Eric Clapton wrote it about his 4 year old son who was killed when he fell out of a window from a 53rd floor tower block. His chorus reminds me of the bible verse Revelation 21:4: “he will wipe every tear …
Again a rock song that tells a story. Also great acoustic guitar.
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