8448 song by song music collection review
National song #2. And what a perfect song in every way on an often-overlooked gem of a record (Cherry Tree, 2004). I'm not going to say anything more. Hats off, Dessner/Berninger. https://open.spotify.com/track/65vKbFXcoAclTvHaJ7AQY0?si=e2ac944a7cbf4657 TodayYou were far ....
Thank God for About a Girl. Not for any of its own merit but for it being the only track on Nirvana's debut album Bleach (1989) worth listening to. It'd likely not stand apart were ....
We try to be sensitive to the bombast, like on "Abel" Oh, what a belter. A thick and chunky bassline married to pounding percussion and exquisite guitars all pushing forth the Berninger-baritone to wonderful heights ....
A classic more-famous-than-the-original, Haley's ABC Boogie, originally by Mary Del with The Do-Re-Mi Trio, was originally released in 1949. I've not been able to find a version of the original to listen to which is ....
The opening track to Foxygen's second album from 2012, Take the Kids Of Broadway, Abandon My Toys is a swirling maelstrom of sounds. Keyboard-strings pave the way for a building crescendo of a possible theramin ....
What's more soothing than a musical journey in a chunky-knit down a flooded fjord? Correct: when it's in Icelandic. Ábakvið Tvær Hæðir,,,,sundlaug (henceforth referred to here as 'simply' 'Ábakvið'), is track 5 off múm's Loksins ....
Possibly the most Doherty-song Peter Doherty wrote. Lofty, chaotic, vulnerable and barely-grounded with references to late 19th century indulgent French literature. Sounds about right. I am no massive fan of Babyshambles. Or the Libertines. Or ....
Johnny Cash's cover of Don Gibson's (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time off American V: A Hundred Highways follows in a line of esteemed crooners taking on this punchy ballad. A Legend in My ....
Cheekily pipping all other songs beginning with A to the post (twice) is The Jam's apostrophic 'A' Bomb in Wardour Street off both the original All Mod Cons (1978) and The Jam at the BBC ....