At the moment I’ve got Jessie Ware’s ‘Wildest Moments’ on repeat… so enjoy that this warm Sunday afternoon!
Meanwhile, I’ve been reading an odd combination of books… the other day I sat in the park with Marie Stopes and E. Nesbit. Huh.
Oh, and here’s what I made yesterday, with my friend Rachel:
Mmmm….
Saturday night was a big barn dance for my parents’ wedding anniversary and my Mum’s birthday, with about 100 people coming. Fun! The celebrations continue today, and so I shall put up ‘their song’ – chosen some time into their marriage, but appropriate nonetheless. Here’s Shania Twain and ‘You’re Still The One’.
Have I ever pointed you in the direction of Lindsey Butler’s beautiful take on ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ before? No? Well, it’s on Soundcloud here (no video available, as far as I’m aware, of the whole song.)
Jewel is pretty well known in the US, I think – indeed, her first (and, to my mind, worst) album is one of the biggest sellers ever there – but she’s not made much of a splash in the UK. I first heard her song ‘Hands’ in 2004, when my friend Hannah played it to me, and have loved it ever since. Enjoy!
When you see this, I’ll be in Bristol with Colin – he might be talking to me, or he might be watching the Olympics – I hope you’re all having lovely weekends too!
Goldfrapp are (I think) best known for up-tempo, disco-type songs (are they?) but this track, A&E, is wonderfully calming and very appropriate for a Sunday Song. Enjoy!
A lovely lady called Diana got in touch with me a while ago to recommend Christian artist Sara Groves as a Sunday Song singer. Well, I know and love Groves’ album The Other Side of Something, but Diana sent a few links to more recent songs, and I liked them. I picked ‘Childhood Summer’ more or less at random, because it seemed appropriate for the last-ditch effort at summer we’ve been having this weekend. Thanks, Diana!
A literary theme this week, of sorts – for the artist’s stage name is Charlotte Sometimes (from the children’s book of that name by Penelope Farmer) and her song is ‘How I Could Just Kill A Man.’ It’s not my favourite of her songs, but it’s the one which comes with a fun video.
Like everyone else in the world, it seems, I have Adele’s albums. I bought 19 after hearing her beautiful cover of ‘Make You Feel My Love’ at my cousin’s wedding. Well, little did I know that, buried deep in my iTunes, I had a duet called ‘Water and a Flame’ which Adele sang with Daniel Merriweather on his album Love & War. And it’s rather nice.
Colin, my brother, recently described something (I forget what) as “like your Song for a Sunday – people wish it wasn’t there.” To heap coals on his head, today’s song is one he told me about. We don’t share a taste in music any more than we share a taste in books, but occasionally there is something we both like – step forward ‘Rainy Days and Mondays’ by The Carpenters.
This is where I fully anticipate losing half my regular readers, but… yes, I watch Glee. I think it’s half dreadful and half entertaining (well, that ratio slips and slides) but occasionally they do rather interesting versions of great songs. I love ‘Shake it Out’ by Florence and the Machine – indeed, it’s been a Sunday Song before – and I also love Glee’s take on it, below.
And, er, yeah I love Shakespeare and stuff too. So don’t judge. Ok, you can. A bit.