Your starter for ten.
Stefano Bollani - Joy in Spite of Everything
REM: It’s the end of the world as we know it
Any Nick Cave or Leonard Cohen.
(hand) Gels just wanna have fun
The End Of The World (Skeeter Davis)
Hopefully not prophetic …
Clair de Lune. Just posted this one because the guitar playing is phenomenal. I’m in awe. Check out his other pieces YouTube
Certainly takes my mind off the current problems.
UFO - Lights Out (maybe one for the future)
Hope not, but a song that brings back distant and very fond memories for me. This was the first piece of music that I owned. Apparently, as a youngster of 4 or 5 in the Hebridean Islands, I liked this song so much (when it was in the UK charts) that I used to refuse to go to bed until it was played on the radio in the evening. There was another version of the song in the charts at the same time (can’t remember the other artist), but that wouldn’t do for me. It had to be Skeeter Davis.
My older sister got so tired of me gate crashing her evening Radio Luxembourg listening sessions that she got me to promise that I would go to bed earlier if she bought me the single. I still have the single to this day.
Wouldn’t like it to be too prophetic though. Who would have known?
Almost any J.S. Bach. Few if any other composers can create the sense of order and purpose that Bach does, even if none — as is clearly the case now — exists.
Tom Lehrer …
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