Category Archive: Modern Music
Perfect Day
Songs in Our Heart # 14 Perfect Day (Lou Reed) (Written by Lou Reed; released November 1972) [Depending on your mood, this is either sweet or suicidal, but still full of thick, throbbing, emotion.]
Continue Reading →Nothing Compares 2 U
Songs in Our Heart # 13 Nothing Compares 2 U (Sinéad O’Connor version) (Written by Prince; released January 1990) [Nothing Compares to it. Although Prince‘s original is good, too.]
Continue Reading →I See Red
Songs in Our Heart # 12 I See Red (Split Enz) (Written by Tim Finn; released March 1979) [The musical equivalent of a stroke. Frenzied and fabulous.]
Continue Reading →Bohemian Rhapsody
Songs in Our Heart # 11 Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) (Written by Freddie Mercury; released October 1975) [The Beatles brought the orchestra into pop music; Queen added operetta. This long song touches all bases, everyone wins a prize (and a solo).]
Continue Reading →Blinded by the Light
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Songs in Our Heart # 10 Blinded by the Light (Bruce Springsteen version) (Written by Bruce Springsteen; released February 1973) [Jersey enunciation and a rhyming dictionary makes for a strange brew…]*
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