This Song Rocks: Hanging by a Moment

Original video located here. Accessed 11th February 2013

Song title: Hanging By a Moment

Artist: Lifehouse

Year: 2000

Why I like this song:

Behold: A song that grew on me.
I didn't think much of this song when it was originally released due to a) the mindset that anything on commercial radio is the enemy b) the mindset that anything on commercial radio is going to be overplayed to death and c) nearing the end of my 'grumpy teenager' phase.

Still this song did win me over but to this day I'm not sure how. Maybe because my friend at the time liked it?
I don't know what I'm diving into indeed....

Classics: Love is All Around

Original video located here. Accessed 8th February 2013

Song title: Love is All Around

Artist: The Troggs

Year: 1968

Why I like this song:

Forget that Wet Wet Wet cover, you can't beat the simplicity of the original.

Nineties Revisited: You Are Not My Friend

Original video located here. Accessed 14th February 2016

Song title: You Are Not My Friend

Artist: Frenzal Rhomb

Year: 1999

Why I like this song:

Every time my no. of friends on Facebook goes down, I always think of this song

Classics: Everlasting Love

Original video located here. Accessed 10th February 2018

Song title: Everlasting Love

Artist: Love Affair

Year: 1968

Why I like this song:

Another song with that timeless quality to it. And I especially love those rhyming couplets

Also that singer was seventeen years old at the time. Damn....

The Asian Connection: Making of a Cyborg

Original video located here. Accessed 4th February 2016

Song title: Making of a Cyborg

Artist: Kenji Kawai

Year: 1995

Why I like this song:

The Ghost in the Shell may be one of the most widely seen anime worldwide so this would be immediately recognisable.
But it is still an odd way to start an anime: By utilising a Bulgarian Women's choir. And they're performing a piece of medieval Japanese text. 
However if the intent was to make something sound timeless in a science fiction setting, then they succeeded better than anyone could've hoped for.

Classics: Brown Eyed Girl

Original video located here. Accessed 3rd February 2013

Song title: Brown-Eyed Girl

Artist: Van Morrison

Year: 1967

Why I like this song:

Some songs that have a timeless quality that still sound fresh decades later.
This is one of them.

Great for a mass singalong too

Nineties Revisited: I am in Love

Original video located here. Accessed 20th February 2017

Song title: I am in Love

Artist: Crowded House

Year: 1993

Why I like this song:

It's February and with February comes the month of love/Valentine's Day/Singles Awareness Day/whatever you want to call it.
So I'm going to try something: for this month I will post a clutch of love songs that I like in the hope that you, the person reading this, will end up liking them to.
Probably won't happen but you never know....

So lets start with this: A song from the pen of one Neil Finn.
It baffles me how this song was never released (until the collection Afterglow). It's truly a gem and the type of song that illustrates what it feels like to be in a relationship - and how exciting, and scary, it can be.