Day 303: Mad hatter, Melanie Martinez
Another psychedelic song by Melanie. The song in this video strangely does not start until 1 minute 8 seconds into the video. A very 21st century song.
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Covid Island Discs
Day 302: Road to nowhere, Talking Heads
Time for another song from Talking Heads. Perhaps in the covid year of 2020 many felt like life was in some sort of suspended animation as everything appeared to be put in hold. Obviously we had hoped that life would be returning to normal by the time we got to 2021 but sadly for the
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Week 43 Video Playlist
Ok so there are quite a few interesting videos in this week’s playlist. These four videos are all worth watching: Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day Brimful of Asha, Cornershop Papa don’t preach, Madonna We didn’t start the fire, Billy Joel Out of those four, I think my favourite is Brimful of Asha as it
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Day 301: We didn’t start the fire, Billy Joel
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
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Day 300: Papa Don’t Preach, Madonna
So this is the first Madonna song to make it into Covid Island Discs. Although I’m not a great fan of Madonna, I do like this song. It also captures an intense family moment as a daughter begs her father that she will go through with an unplanned pregnancy and that she loves the father
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Day 299: Up where we belong, Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
This is a particularly memorable duet from the 1980s and of course was the theme song to hit movie “An officer and a Gentleman”. Again lots of teenage memories. The other great thing about this song is the wonderful contrast between Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warne’s voice; the rough with the smooth really works well
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Day 298: Common People, Pulp
Another song from the band Pulp. I guess this English band’s song picks up the very much alive English class system. And here is a comical rewording of the song aimed against one of the most elitist politicians in the current Conservative party. Sadly the lyrics in this comical version are not so far from
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Day 297: Honesty, Billy Joel
A very pretty and very wise song by Billy Joel. Sadly the sound quality of the video is a little poor.
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Day 296: Brimful of Asha, Cornershop
A fun song from the 1990s. This is actually a remixed version which is significantly faster than the original. This version reached number one in both the UK and USA charts while the original version (also on this post) reached number 60 on the UK charts in 1997. Norman Cook Remix Original Version
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Day 295: Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Green Day
This is the first Green day song to make Covid Island Discs. I didn’t realise how long ago this band formed which was all the way back in 1987 while I was till just an undergraduate at the University of Sydney. This song was released in 2004 and was on their American Idiot album (interesting
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