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My Favourites…In No Particular Order. Cheers!🥂🍾🍷🍻
Peter Gabriel’s “So” (1986)
“Don't give up
'Cause you have friends
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good…”
-Don’t Give Up
Van Halen’s “1984”
“I get up, and nothin' gets me down
You got it tough
I've seen the toughest around
And I know, baby, just how you feel
You got to roll with the punches
And get to what's real…”
-Jump
Queen’s “A Night at the Opera (1975)”
“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me…”
-Bohemian Rhapsody
Tears for Fears “Songs from the Big Chair” (1984)
“Shout
Shout
Let it all out
These are the things I can do without
Come on
I'm talking to you
Come on…”
-Shout
Supertramp “Crime of the Century” (1974)
“Now they're planning the crime of the century
Well, what will it be?
Read all about their schemes and adventuring
Yes, it's well worth a fee
So roll up and see
How they rape the universe
How they've gone from bad to worse”
Dire Straights “Brothers In Arms”
“Now the sun's gone to hell and
The moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms”
Led Zeppelin “Kashmir” from the Album “Physical Graffiti”
“Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
And stars fill my dream
I'm a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait
All will be revealed”
Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill” from “Hounds of Love”
“…And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get Him to swap our places
Be runnin' up that road
Be runnin' up that hill
Be runnin' up that building
Say, if I only could, oh”
The Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" from the album “Abbey Road”
Here Comes the Sun" was written by George Harrison in Eric Clapton's garden in Surrey during a break from stressful band business meetings.
“Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright
Little darlin', it's been a long, cold, lonely winter
Little darlin', it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright”
Fleetwood Mac “the Chain” from the album “Rumours”
“Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise
Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies
And if you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you saying
You would never break the chain (never break the chain)”
Simon & Garfunkel “Sound of Silence” from the album “Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.”
“Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence”
Bob Marley “Three Little Birds” from the album “Exodus”
“Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright"
Singing, "Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright!"
Rise up this morning, smiled with the rising sun
Three little birds pitch by my doorstep
Singing sweet songs of melodies pure and true
Saying, "This is my message to you-ou-ou" ”
U2 “With or Without You” from the album “the Joshua Tree”
“See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I'll wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails, she makes me wait
And I'll wait without you
With or without you
With or without you
Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all, but I want more
And I'm waiting for you”
Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al” from the album “Graceland”
“A man walks down the street
He says, "Why am I soft in the middle, now?
Why am I soft in the middle?
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard"
Bonedigger, Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away in my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al”
Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” from “the Wall”
Probably the album I have purchased the most in various formats (from LP, to CD, to 📀 DVD & Blu-ray!)
”Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?”
Prince “When Doves Cry” from the Album “Purple Rain”
“How can you just leave me standing
Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (she's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other?
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry”
Steely Dan’s “Deacon Blues” from the album “Aja”
“Learn to work the saxophone
(I) I play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
(I) I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues”
“Rolling in the Deep” from Adele’s album 21
« There's a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch, it's bringing me out the dark
Finally I can see you crystal clear
Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare »
Elton John's « Your Song » from the « Greatest Hits » Album
It's a little bit funny
This feelin' inside
I'm not one of those who can easily hide
I don't have much money, but boy if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live
If I was a sculptor, heh
But then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelin' show, oh
I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you
Dépêche Mode’s « Enjoy the Silence » from the album « Violator »
« Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can't you understand?
Oh, my little girl
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable »
I don’t think there was ever a greater POET / song writer
Leonard Cohen
“Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah”
Kind of Blue
An absolute «must have» in any audiophile’s collection is Miles Davis’ « Kind of Blue ».
Kind of Blue was the fifth studio album released on Columbia, and twenty-eighth overall, by American jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis.
The Police “Synchronicity”
The Rolling Stones “Sticky Fingers”
Bit of trivia: Andy Warhol designed the album cover, however; John Pasche is the artist who was commissioned to make the now iconic logo having just attended his final year at the Royal College of Art in London.
Led Zeppelin II & their self titled album
Billy Idol’s « Rebel Yell »
Bit of Trivia: « Billy Idol said that he had attended an event where Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones were taking swigs from a bottle of "Rebel Yell" bourbon whiskey. He was not familiar with the brand, but he liked the name and decided to write the song. »
John Mellencamp’s « Scarecrow »
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet
