Original video located here. Accessed 8th April 2020
Song title: Sweet Drops
Artist: PUFFY
Year: 2011
Why I like this song:
Lately I have been watching the anime Usagi Drop (not much else to do when you're in lockdown) and finding much to my liking.
I'm also finding the opening quite cute - even though as I listen to it, I can't help but be reminded of the Clash's Rudie Can't Fail.
"How you get a rude and a reckless?"
Original video located here. Accessed 5th April 2020
Song title: Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
Artist: R.E.M.
Year: 1982
Why I like this song:
Forty years to the day
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
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.
Original video located here. Accessed 23rd December 2019
Song title: Peace on Earth
Artist: U2
Year: 2000
Why I like this song:
Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Original video located here. Accessed 11th December 2019
Song title: It Must Have Been Love
Artist: Roxette
Year: 1988
Why I like this song:
R.I.P. Marie Fredriksson.
When I was a kid in the late eighties, Roxette seemed to me like the biggest stars on the planet: They had multiple hits that got tonnes of radio play and a constant presence on early morning rage. Of course in the years since, Roxette's material may come across as dated but to be one of Sweden's biggest pop exports (second only to ABBA) is nothing to sniffed at. And besides it's unlikely that Savage Garden would've existed without them.
Certainly this is both their best song and Marie's best vocal performance. Shame that voice has now been silenced.... :(
Original video located here. Accessed 12th April 2019
Song title: Lets Go To Paradise
Artist: Mental As Anything
Year: 1987
Why I like this song:
R.I.P. Greedy Smith
The Mentals certainly had no shortage of hits during the eighties - many of which came from Greedy,
And without whom, my childhood would've been a lot less colourful.