Songs of the Days 13 to 16
It has been terribly busy at work and I have been far too fatigued by the time I get home to keep up the daily blog of the songs of the Day. I am now about a week behind, so here goes.
Day 13 - a song you like from the 1970s
An obvious choice in the end and a one by a great artist, David Bowie. Sadly now passed away. This, Heroes is perhaps may favourite Bowie song.
He really is a lost legend. In the current world we also need more heroes.
Day 14 - A song you'd love playing at your wedding
This was an easy decision of course as my choice was obvious from the start. The song that never made it to my wedding was the exit music. The compromise in the end was Samuel Barber's adagio for strings. A quite beautiful song, wonderful. But, in no way comparable to this classic. The song i choose still puts the hair up on the back of my neck every time I hear it.
Day 15 - A song you like that's a cover by another artist.
A remarkably tough choice this one. One of the hardest of the 15 days so far. An obvious few are the below;
Jimi Hendrix performing Bob Dylan's, All along the Watchtower.
Johnny Cash performing Nine Inch Nails, Hurt
Placebo performing Kate Bush's Running up that Hill
All classic covers, but in the end I went with something I've loved for a long time. It was a song written by Leonard Cohen, and then in the 1990s Jeff Buckley made a cover of Hallelujah that quite frankly out surpassed the original by Cohen.
Day 16 - A classic Favourite
How can you define a classic song. It's such a personal choice. You can have favourite bands and singers. Their songs might be your classics, but a classic should be that for everyone. A song everyone knows.
That narrows down the field considerably. So, with my mind I have gone for a hugely popular song that was massive in the 1980s and to all intents and purposes took the band who wrote and performed the song from a decent Irish band and put them onto the road to be the biggest band in the world.
It's worth posting the lyrics to this one, it's that good!
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go.
One man come he to justify
One man to overthrow.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed up on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky.
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
Day 13 - a song you like from the 1970s
An obvious choice in the end and a one by a great artist, David Bowie. Sadly now passed away. This, Heroes is perhaps may favourite Bowie song.
He really is a lost legend. In the current world we also need more heroes.
Day 14 - A song you'd love playing at your wedding
This was an easy decision of course as my choice was obvious from the start. The song that never made it to my wedding was the exit music. The compromise in the end was Samuel Barber's adagio for strings. A quite beautiful song, wonderful. But, in no way comparable to this classic. The song i choose still puts the hair up on the back of my neck every time I hear it.
Day 15 - A song you like that's a cover by another artist.
A remarkably tough choice this one. One of the hardest of the 15 days so far. An obvious few are the below;
Jimi Hendrix performing Bob Dylan's, All along the Watchtower.
Johnny Cash performing Nine Inch Nails, Hurt
Placebo performing Kate Bush's Running up that Hill
All classic covers, but in the end I went with something I've loved for a long time. It was a song written by Leonard Cohen, and then in the 1990s Jeff Buckley made a cover of Hallelujah that quite frankly out surpassed the original by Cohen.
Day 16 - A classic Favourite
How can you define a classic song. It's such a personal choice. You can have favourite bands and singers. Their songs might be your classics, but a classic should be that for everyone. A song everyone knows.
That narrows down the field considerably. So, with my mind I have gone for a hugely popular song that was massive in the 1980s and to all intents and purposes took the band who wrote and performed the song from a decent Irish band and put them onto the road to be the biggest band in the world.
It's worth posting the lyrics to this one, it's that good!
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go.
One man come he to justify
One man to overthrow.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed up on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky.
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
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