Category Archive: Modern Music
White Rabbit
Songs in Our Heart # 19 White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) (Written by Grace Slick; released June 1967) [A Lewis Carroll-LSD inspired whirligig. Used to great advantage in The Game.]
Continue Reading →Sunday Morning Coming Down
Songs in Our Heart # 18 Sunday Morning Coming Down (Kris Kristofferson) (Written by Kris Kristofferson; released 1970) [We find Monday morning coming down more mournful, personally, but this song is still sidewalk poetry par excellence.]
Continue Reading →Science Fiction
Songs in Our Heart # 17 Science Fiction (The Divinyls) (Written by Chrissie Amphlett and Mark McEntee; released November 1982) [A musical Tesla coil.] Before we re-visit this great pure pop song, let’s remember Miss Temperamental herself, Chrissy Amphlett (1989) as painted by Ivan Durrant, c/ the National Portrait Gallery:
Continue Reading →The Rhythm of the Heat
Songs in Our Heart # 16 The Rhythm of the Heat (Peter Gabriel) (Written by Peter Gabriel; released September 1982) [Screw WOMAD; instead, simply listen to this powerful Jung-in-Africa primal masterpiece.]
Continue Reading →Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Songs in Our Heart # 15 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm (Crash Test Dummies) (Written by Brad Roberts; released October 1993) [Song for the bereft.] (Anyone who bases an album cover after Titian can’t be bad…)
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