Song title: Homeworld (The Ladder)
Artist: Yes
Year: 1999
Why I like this song:
R.I.P. Chris Squire
Yes I may only know this song through it being the end credits theme to the computer game Homeworld but it was my first exposure to Yes. And damn, did they go all out with this one
Original video located here. Accessed 26th June 2015
Song title: Dynamite
Artist: Asta with Allday
Year: 2015
Why I like this song:
Tasmania represent.
And damn, she's sure selling it.
Original video located here. Accessed 24th June 2015
Song title: Caroline
Artist: Concrete Blonde
Year: 1990
Why I like this song:
Lately I've been listening Concrete Blonde
My first experience with this band was watching the above video on rage sometime in 1990/early 1991. Since then, it seemed to me this band was hailed as alt-rock heroes - at least for a short time. Nevertheless, it seemed that the walls enclosing alternative music were starting to break...
Looking back, this music holds up pretty well, what with chiming guitars, gothic moods and the presence of Johnette Napolitano. If you told me that this was the bridge that connected the alternative rock of the eighties and the nineties then I would certainly believe it.
Original video located here. Accessed 12th June 2015
Song title: Come On
Artist: Christine Anu
Year: 1995
Why I like this song:
A favourite from my teen years. Because sometimes we all need a song to pick us up and get us through the tough times.
Original video located here. Accessed 3rd November 2017
Song title: Missing
Artist: Everything but the Girl
Year: 1994
Why I like this song:
The song that launched worldwide interest in Everything but the Girl after well over a decade of trying.
This was a huge hit with the dance clubs at the time but it certainly is a strange song to have done so given the heartbreaking nature of the lyrics.
At first glance the lyrics deal with someone dealing (unsuccessfully?) with someone who has disappeared from their lives. Upon closer examination however, that relationship is brought into the question. What was it like? Was it abusive as suggested in the second verse? Why did the other person leave? Where did they go? What was it about this mystery person that brought the narrator back to their old house? Indeed, it's the ambiguous nature, along with the lack of resolution, makes this song so compelling.
Original video located here. Accessed 3rd June 2015
Song title: Cloud Age Symphony
Artist: Shuntaro Okino
Year: 2002
Why I like this song:
A very strange opening for an anime, that being Last Exile, but it certainly sets the mood of travelling through the open sky....