Mysteries Of The Heart (Single Mix) – Robb Murphy
My eldest son sent me a meme the other day. He found it hilarious. It read:
The good news about middle age is that the glass is still half-full… of course, the bad news is that it won’t be long before your teeth are floating in it.
For some strange reason…I didn’t find it equally funny. And to get back to the world in general, I forwarded the meme over to my dad, who sent me a meme back that said, “My kids are annoying, so I drink.”
Murder to the Mind (Instrumental) – Tash Sultana
No lyrics this week, no words, just music. There are so many words around us all the time, inside, and out. Maybe we can just listen for a while…
Titliyaan – Strings (Coke Studio Sessions: Season 2)
Needless to say, death is painful. It is also a timely reminder of one’s mortality and the selfishness that possibly defines one’s own life. The death of my Aunt earlier this week was a reminder to me of how I take people in my life for granted; that once they are gone there is no scope for another conversation or an apology…
Birthday Drunk – Fruit Bats
I have been a fan of the Fruit Bats for a long time. Their music has also been transparent and often feels like it sees straight through any facade. This interest has only compounded with the release of “Absolute Loser,” the most recent album. One song in particular really grabs me: Birthday Drunk. To me, it’s a perfect song. A capitulating guitar rhythm you can just vibe to, a perfectly produced snare (for the song), passionate lyrics and an ever moving song structure…
Butterfly With Wet Wings – Bry’nt feat. Leikeli47
“Someone’s life is another one’s lesson”, Bry’nt says in the beginning of this song.
In “Butterfly with wet wings”, rapper Bry’nt addresses real life hardships and conflicts, with the help of Leikeli47’s beautiful vocals, and smooth, mind-expanding instrumentals…
Truman Sleeps – Philip Glass
Here we go again with a super famous track.
This is a short one, less then 2 minutes… So simple in the chord progression, but at the same time so powerful, this is the perfect representation of the feeling you’d feel while watching a baby sleeping…
Haunted – Beyoncé
Cast your mind back to my earliest posts, when we built the foundations for what this playlist is about: people, achieving super-humans feats of existence on a daily basis.
Lyrically, Haunted hits this nail on the head: 9-5 / to stay alive. Ambition takes a back seat to the more pressing reality of surviving. And that takes serious strength to push through every single day, especially if it feels like the embers of a dream are dying in the process…
I Am Woman – Helen Reddy
I Am Woman is not exactly a radical feminist protest song, but it did help to crystallise the self-belief of groups of American women in the 1970s to throw off the shackles of centuries of conditioning and assert their own political, economic and sexual potency. Whilst today the song sounds a little kitsch, in 1972 it became a huge No.1 US hit single that represented an irreversible new wave of feminist thinking in the developed nations of the world.
Time Is A Runaway – The Alternate Routes
The Alternate Routes es un grupo de Rock Alternativo de Bridgeport, Connecticut, Estados Unidos, cuando los escuché, enseguida capté esa chispa y energía de algunos grupos como Switchfoot, The Damnwells, Augustana, pero no de la misma forma, este grupo tiene un sonido peculiar, y es que la manera en como como juegan con los sonidos, te hacen imaginar momentos como estar en la playa bajo un cielo azul, con amigos o simplemente disfrutando de un ocaso, “Time Is a Runaway” es una de sus canciones que te dejará inspirado por vivir el momento, y por supuesto seguir tus sueños…
Cement 4’s feat Conway – Your Old Droog
Listeners who still love the vintage New York Hip Hop sound should appreciate this one. Your Old Droog connected with fellow traditionalist Conway for a new single titled “Cement 4’s.”
Lowrider – Yussef Kamaal
Drum and bass are the focus of this instrumental funk track from London duo Yussef Kamaal. Both members of the group, Yussef Dayes and Kamaal Williams (aka Henry Wu), are drummers, so the emphasis on groove comes as no surprise.
Mother of Earth – The Gun Club
We’re driving head on into the darkness with The Gun Club this week.
Emerging in the late 70’s out of Los Angeles, they played a part reinventing the Punk scene – with Country, Blues and Rockabilly flavours…