This Song Rocks: Golden Age

Original video located here. Accessed 8th May 2020

Song title: Golden Age

Artist: Beck

Year: 2002

Why I like this song:

Recently I've been giving Beck's Seachange album a listen. 

This is an album I've been coming back to. I must admit that when I first heard it, I found it quite the draining album. But then again, it shouldn't come as a surprise as this as gone down as one of the great 'break-up' albums. 
Still that this is a crushing listen shouldn't come as a surprise as Beck was doing something similar with the Mutations album. But even if it is a challenge to listen to, it certainly is a rewarding one.

Obituary: Strange Little Girl

Original video located here. Accessed 28th September 2021

Song title: Strange Little Girl

Artist: The Stranglers

Year: 1982

Why I like this song:

R.I.P. Dave Greenfield

Keyboards may have no place whatsoever in punk but it worked with the Stranglers. Dave's presence certainly made them unique and a standout in the crowd.

Obituary: Europe Endless

Original video located here. Accessed 22nd April 2020

Song title: Europe Endless

Artist: Kraftwerk

Year: 1977

Why I like this song:

R.I.P. Florian Schneider

It's the opening to their best album and announces a new age of electronic music. 

Truly a thing of beauty that remains untarnished by the destroyer that is time. 

The Asian Connection: Sweet Drops

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?"

Back to the Eighties: Carnival of Sorts

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

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.