I re-watched the film Nine a couple of days ago. It got middling-to-poor reviews, and it’s true that the storytelling isn’t great, but the cast certainly is. Unbelievably, in a film starring two of my favourites – Dame Judi Dench (showing how great she looks with a flapper bob) and Nicole Kidman – it was Marion Cotillard who stole the show. That woman is simply brilliant. And she sings what is easily my favourite song from the film: My Husband Makes Movies. I love it so much that I can cope with the word ‘movie’ for once. Here she is:
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Song for a Sunday
This week’s Sunday Song is ‘Rewind’ by Diane Birch – a lovely, bluesy sort of song. I love her voice, but haven’t got anything else by her… must investigate more.
Song for a Sunday
I feel I should do an April’s Fool… but I can’t think of anything. So let’s have a Song for a Sunday as normal, eh?
Sometimes you can’t do better than a bit of Barbra and Judy, can you?
Sunday Songs
Rather than have a load of posts tagged ‘Sunday Songs’ which you have to scrawl through, should you ever wish to see an overview of them, I thought I’d compile a list of all the songs that have featured… it’s alphabetical by artist surname/group name. Enjoy!
Adele – Skyfall
Tori Amos – Winter
Julie Andrews – In The Bleak Midwinter
Zee Avi – Concrete Wall
Beck – Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometimes
Diane Birch – Rewind
Birdy – Skinny Love
Bombay Bicycle Club – You Already Know
Mae Bradbury – Fade Away
Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
Lindsey Butler – I Don’t Want To Talk About It
The Cardigans – Communication
The Carpenters – Rainy Days and Mondays
The Connells – ’74-’75
Alex Cornish – My Word What A Mess
Marion Cotillard – My Husband Makes Movies
Amelia Curran – The Mistress
Lana Del Rey – Video Games
Lana Del Rey – Ride
The Dixie Chicks – Not Ready To Make Nice
Minnie Driver – Everything I’ve Got In My Pocket
The Eagles – Desperado
Karise Eden – You Won’t Let Me
Emma’s Imagination – Drive
Everything But The Girl – I Didn’t Know I Was Looking For Love
Rebecca Ferguson – Nothing’s Real But Love
A Fine Frenzy – Electric Twist
Florence and the Machine – Shake It Out
Brooke Fraser – Something in the Water
Nelly Furtado – Try
Judy Garland & Barbra Streisand – Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again
A Girl Called Eddy – People Used To Dream
Glee Cast – Shake It Out
Goldfrapp – A&E
Gossip – Heavy Cross
Nancy Griffith – Love at the Five and Dime
Aiden Grimshaw – Curtain Call
Sara Groves – Childhood Summer
Christine Guldbrandsen – Surfing in the Air
Lisa Hannigan – I Don’t Know
Richard Hawley – For Your Lover, Give Some Time
Darren Hayes – Dublin Sky
Hem – The Fire Thief
Ella Henderson – Five Tattoos
Natalie Imbruglia – Do You Love?
Jewel – Hands
Charlene Kaye ft. Darren Criss – Dress and Tie
Mat Kearney – Hey Mama
Becky Kelley – Where’s The Line To See Jesus?
Solange Knowles – Losing You
Cyndi Lauper – Sally’s Pigeons
Amos Lee – Colours
Lemolo – Whale Song
Lifehouse – You and Me
Aimee Mann – Wise Up
Charlotte Martin – Wild Horses
Daniel Merriweather and Adele – Water and a Flame
Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now
Alanis Morissette – That I Would Be Good / That Particular Time
Mutya Keisha Siobhan – Flatline
Paolo Nutini – Candy
Beth Orton – Stolen Car
P!nk – Just Give Me A Reason
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
Princess and Mr. Tom – Come On
Rosey – Love
Bic Runga – Say After Me
Sia – Breathe Me
Elin Sigvardsson – Bang
Charlotte Sometimes – How I Could Just Kill A Man
Take That – Love Love
Vienna Teng – Antebellum
Vienna Teng – Kansas
Texas – The Conversation
Third Day – Kicking and Screaming
Juliet Turner – Belfast Central
Shania Twain – You’re Still The One
Kate Walsh – It’s Never Over
Kate Walsh – Seafarer
Jessie Ware – Wildest Moments
Kathryn Williams – Jasmine Hoop
Kathryn Williams – Heart Shaped Stone
Kathryn Williams and Neil MacColl – 6am Corner
Sian Reese Williams – The First Cut is the Deepest
Sophie May Williams – Time After Time
Amy Winehouse – Love Is A Losing Game
Rachael Yamagata – Worn Me Down
Rachael Yamagata – You Won’t Let Me
Song for a Sunday
Today’s Sunday Song isn’t my usual dreamy/folky choice – but rather a loud anthem sort of song. I still love it, but I wouldn’t lie back in a hammock with a Rose Macaulay novel and hum along to it! Over to Gossip, and ‘Heavy Cross’…
Song for a Sunday
I’ve featured her before, on my first ever Song for a Sunday, and this is my other favourite song by her: it’s Vienna Teng and ‘Kansas’ (apologies that the quality isn’t amazing):
Still feeling rotten, but I dug out the perfect novel to accompany feeling sorry for myself: Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson. So far, giggling away to myself in a corner. Lovely.
Song for a Sunday
A lovely Sunday to you, friends, and a song to accompany it. This slightly melancholy, but very beautiful, take on The Korgis’ 1980s hit ‘Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime’ was recorded by Beck for the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (which is also brilliant.)
Song for a Sunday
Happy Sunday, everyone!
Let’s go old school today, with a bit of Kate Bush and her wonderful song ‘Running Up That Hill’.
Song for a Sunday
Happy Sunday, everyone. The cake was nice, thanks, although we had run out of icing sugar – so I couldn’t have it at work. Instead, I had it whilst watching Miranda on DVD. Chocolate cake with orange butter cream filling mmmmmmm….
Anyway, almost as nice as cake is this song from Rebecca Ferguson, ‘Nothing’s Real But Love’. If you live in the UK you might have heard of Lovely Rebecca (as she’s known in my head) from the X Factor – a lot of people judge singers from these sorts of shows without hearing them. So… have a listen! She has a lovely, soulful voice. Over to you, Lovely Rebecca…
Song for a Sunday
And now the first Sunday Song of 2012! But before we get to that, something I forgot to post in my Weekend Miscellany. Katie posted the following on the SiaB Facebook page, and I drew a blank, but perhaps you can help?
In my early twenties I read a book that referred to a family as “The Gannets” because this family loved to eat, go on picnics with copious ampunts of elaborately prepared food and enjoyed every moment, including the last lick of their fingertips. The family were all rotund. I think the book was written by a British writer and I read the book in 1980ish. It would be super fun to reconnect with it. I recently travelled to New Zealand and watched the gannets as they enthusiastically torpedoed into the water to catch their dinner – this reminded me of the book and I laughed all over again thinking of that family.So… can you help?
Now over to Richard Hawley and his simply beautiful, gentle song ‘For Your Lover, Give Some Time’. Happy Sunday!