Category Archive: Modern Music
Red Right Hand
(photo of Nick by Bleddyn Butcher)
Songs in Our Heart # 34 Red Right Hand (Nick Cave) (Written by Mick Harvey, Nick Cave and Thomas Wydler; released April 1994) [A gothic western classic.] Before we enjoy the song, let us view the interesting portrait of Nick by Harold Arkley (1999), c/- the National Portrait Gallery:
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Songs in Our Heart # 33 Gangsta’s Paradise (Coolio) (Written by Stevie Wonder, Coolio, Doug Rasheed and Larry Sanders; released August 1995) [Desolate and beautiful. How can rap, violins, falsetto and a choir work?] (Update: Coolio, straight outta Compton, now in Paradise: 1 August 1963 – 28 September 2022)
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Songs in Our Heart # 32 If I Can’t Have You (Yvonne Elliman) (Written by Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb; released November 1977) [Best disco pop ever. Perhaps equalled only by Donna Summer’s I Feel Love. Hmmmn. Discuss.]
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Songs in Our Heart # 31 I Feel Love (Donna Summer) (Written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte; released July 1977) [Best pop disco song ever, perhaps equalled only by If I Can’t Have You. Hmm. Compare and Contrast.]
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Songs in Our Heart # 30 The Real Thing (Russell Morris) (Written by Johnny Young; released March 1969) [A Pop War and Peace, an epic of inspired production; mighty, surreal, weird.]
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