Back to the Eighties: Age of Reason

Original video located here. Accessed 29th February 2020

Song title: Age of Reason

Artist: John Farnham

Year: 1988

Why I like this song:

Today was the last day of summer in Australia. So I thought I would share a memory with you all.

I will forever associate this song with summer. Or, to be more specific, bundling in the car with the rest of the family and going to a summer holiday (circa late 1980s/early 1990s). The five of us (my mother, father, bother and sister) may have all heard many songs over many an annual trip but this one sticks out in my mind as representing a time and place like no other.

Which means that as a song, this one has done its job properly.

In fact I'll go out on a limb and say I find this a much stronger song than You're the Voice

Obituary: Into Dust

Original video located here. Accessed 26th February 2020

Song title: Into Dust

Artist: Mazzy Star

Year: 1993

Why I like this song:

R.I.P. David Roback

It's Mazzy Star at their most haunting. Proof of doing a lot with very little. 

This Song Rocks: Harmony Hall

  
Original video located here. Accessed 17th February 2020

Song title: Harmony Hall

Artist: Vampire Weekend 

Year: 2019

Why I like this song:

I will admit I had gone off of Vampire Weekend in recent years. Their first album was superb but. somehow, what came after it didn't seem to gel with me. But their latest, Father of the Bride, certainly has some magic and I've been enjoying it a lot. 

And this is, hands down, the best song on the album. It's proof that these New York kids can certainly churn out a winner of a pop song.