As with yesterday’s topic, there are plenty of songs that I can choose from for this one. I could, for example, pick any one of a number of sings I’ve heard at gigs, or that were playing at events I’ve … Continue reading →

Unlike yesterday, I’ve got so many options for this category that the difficulty is in choosing just one. But there’s one song which recently demonstrated to me just how vivid the “spirit of place” associated with a piece of music … Continue reading →

This one is unusually hard because, for some reason, I tend not to associate songs with people. I have plenty of songs that remind of of places, or events, or dates, or even seasons. But not people. And I can’t … Continue reading →

Firstly, an apology. It seems that those of you reading this via the Facebook “notes” import (and, for that matter, planet.uknot) won’t have seen the videos as the import system strips out embedded objects. If that’s you (and if you … Continue reading →

Lots of songs make me happy. That’s a large part of the point of music. So there are plenty to choose from in this category, which makes the task both easy and difficult at the same time. Since the first … Continue reading →

A least favourite song is rather hard to pin down, since as a general rule if I don’t like something I just down listen to it and I don’t make a point of categorising things I don’t listen to in … Continue reading →

I’m not sure that I have a favourite song as such. Or, rather, there are a number of songs that could be candidates for that description. So what I’ve done is picked something that isn’t so much my favourite song … Continue reading →

There’s a blog meme going around at the moment, called “30 days of music”. I was initially alerted to it by Steve Lawson’s introductory post on the subject, but a quick google reveals plenty of other bloggers doing it too. … Continue reading →