Gangsta’s Paradise
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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Since Alphutte closed in Adelaide, the only decent Swiss Restaurant in town is this sumptuous, stylish, slurpy Swiss (even the alliteration is properly period) sanctuary from the seventies, a haven of style! Carpet! Heavy curtains! Bad art! Lovely! Service has the deference shown by shop assistants in Jermyn Street, London (that is, über polite) but more friendly, and less formal. And of a high competence. Back in May this year, we feasted on a fine shellfish ragout (lobster, spencer gulf prawns, scallops, with roma tomatoes and lotsa cream, white wine and puff pastry); a potato, garlic and herb tortellini, coriander and walnut salsa verde,…
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