I bought Stand Still by Emma’s Imagination (who won some music TV programme in the UK) because she covered an obscure song by Bic Runga on it – I thought anybody who liked Bic Runga definitely had good taste, and might write well too. Whilst I enjoy the album, this cover of Runga’s ‘Drive’ is still the highlight.
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A while ago I thought to myself, “I bet I would like a singer who would name their album Happenstance.” And so I searched to see if any artist had, and came across Rachael Yamagata – my reasoning was not wrong; I did like Rachael. I especially like this song, ‘Worn Me Down’. Enjoy your Bank Holiday weekend!
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Peter/Dark Puss sent me a link to a potential Sunday Song this week, and I really enjoyed it – without further ado, here is Whale Song by Lemolo.
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I’ve been really enjoying your One Book, Two Book… posts – do let me know if you’ve done one, they’re such fun to read!
Following in the steps of last week, I thought I’d post a couple of songs from an artist you think you know… but might not. Alanis Morissette is generally known as an angry, strident singer – but my favourite tracks of hers are very quite different from that. Here they are: ‘That I Would Be Good’ and ‘That Particular Time’ Obviously I like songs which begin with the word ‘That’…
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You probably think you know Cyndi Lauper… but you might not know this beautifully sad song ‘Sally’s Pigeons’… look out for a young Julia Stiles in the video.
Some unashamed summery pop music today, I think, in a bid to encourage the sun to shine. A Fine Frenzy has released two albums – this is from her second, Bomb in a Birdcage. It’s perhaps not my favourite from the album, but I do love the video, and the song is lively and fun. Here is ‘Electric Twist’ – enjoy!
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The only good thing to come from watching the awful film Wedding Daze was hearing a track in the background that I loved… I hunted it down, and thus began my love of folk-indie-rocky band Hem and the beautiful voice of Sally Ellyson. Here is that song, ‘The Fire Thief’ from the album Eveningland – one of my favourite albums. Enjoy!
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Time for another Sunday Song, this time from the duet album Two by the incredible Kathryn Williams with Neill MacColl (son of Kirsty). I assume he’s playing the instruments for this one, as it seems mostly Kathryn on vocals. Simply beautiful – here’s 6am Corner.
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I couldn’t find a non-live version of this song on YouTube, so I went and made my first ever Movie Maker video. And when I say ‘made’, I mean I typed a few words onto a picture I took on holiday in 2009, and then put the song on it. I had no idea it was that easy. They might have just unleased a monster…
The song is ‘Seafarer’ by Kate Walsh (not the American actress, btw), from the beautiful album Light & Dark. Enjoy!
We’ve missed a few weekends, and of course next weekend will be filled with Persephone excitement, so it seemed time for another Sunday Song. This isn’t a particularly un-well-known band, but perhaps you won’t have come across this lovely little song: ‘Communication’ by The Cardigans.
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