The Melodians : Rivers Of Babylon [Purchase] I was doing my all too rare church thing with my family when we read a very familiar sounding Psalm 137: By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, ...How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a strange land? The psalm tells the story [...]
A brief look at her back catalog reveals a stunning fact: Sinead O'Connor has quietly become one of the greatest song interpreters of the last quarter century.
I love my iTunes smart playlists, especially my "60s Best" group, which gathers every song in my library made between 1960 and 1969 that I've rated four or five stars. Currently that count sits at 1,280 songs. Of all my smart playlists this one most consistently turns in great mixes. I was playing it yesterday and it spun out this series of gems, including my favorite Donovan song and Hearts & Flowers' "Try for the Sun," which I realized on hearing last night might be one of my top five all-time favorite songs. Monks: [...]
Every time I call You tell me that you soon come I call you on the phone You tell me that you soon come Peter Tosh - Soon Come The Harder They Come (musical) Salut à tous et bonne année 2010 !! Oui, bon, je sais, j'ai pris un peu de retard dans la série des articles sur la culture Reggae, mais bon c'est finalement la bonne occasion d'illustrer un concept fondamental de la culture jamaïquaine: [...]
The Harder They Come turned folks on to some late '60s rock steady and made the Melodians considerably more famous than they would have been otherwise. And even if that sound track didn't include "Sweet Sensation," that... [More after the jump...]
Dear Patients: Over the next few days here at the asylum we are goin' to give some big-up stethoscope props to our top two favorite movie soundtracks. Why not top five you ask? Well, here at the asylum we are not that big on original movie soundtracks...especially the sounds of Purple Rain and Saturday Night Fever . So we figured we might as well give you at least two musical biscuits. In fact, these two are the best musical soundtrack biscuits that you have ever heard. Lately we haven't been able to get [...]
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