Day 386: Dreams, The Cranberries
What better way to open week 56 with a song from the Cranberries. I still feel a little sadness that Delores is no longer with us. Like Kate Bush, she had quite a unique a instantly recognisable voice.
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Day 336: Happy Birthday Helen, Things of Stone and Wood
Well it is my lovely wife’s birthday today and I have the perfect song for this day. “Happy Birthday Helen” by Things of Stone and Wood. Sadly, the audio quality of this video is very poor so I have put two versions of the song one so you can see the Aussie band members of …
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Day 309: Runaway train, Soul Asylum
This is another song which captures the human condition for many quite nicely. It pictures life’s progression as being on a runaway train. I particularly like the chorus which goes: Runaway train never going backWrong way on a one way trackSeems like I should be getting somewhereSomehow I’m neither here nor there Another sad touch …
Day 308: Mr Jones, Counting Crows
First appearance of this band on Covid Island Discs. This of course is a pretty classic rock tune so deserves its place in my playlist. I guess this song captures the “fairytales” that male friends tell each other about pretty woman who may actually fancy them and how one day they will end up being …
Day 182: Creep, Radiohead
A dark song from Radiohead. To me the meaning of this song is ambiguous. I guess the simple interpretation is that he thinks he is a creep as he looks upon the woman he loves who he knows he is totally unworthy of. Yet another interpretation is one of deep sarcasm where he is processing …
Day 119: All I wanna do, Sheryl Crow
Speaking of Sheryl Crow (see yesterday’s post) here she is at her craft. Like the line: “his says his name is William but I am sure his name is Bill or Billie, Matt or Buddy. And his plain ugly to me and I wonder if he has ever had a day of fun in his …
Day 82: Zombie, The Cranberries
Again I was so sad when I heard Dolores passed away. Too many great musicians die too young. I guess it is those with tortured souls who produce the best music.