Song of the Day: It’s impossible to categorise this brilliant, heady mixture of folk and electronica with thudding bass, and oddball vocals, except it has an echo of late-70s Peter Gabriel about it
Read moreThe Zombies – This Will Be Our Year
Song of the Day: A positive start to 2019, with a simple and gorgeous piano-based melody and love song from the pioneering British psych rock and pop band formed in St Albans in 1961 from their classic album of 1968, Odessey and Oracle
Read moreTom Waits – New Year's Eve
Song of the Day: An annual theme from a perennial Song Bar favourite - Tom Waits’ and Kathleen Brennan’s gentle song captures some of the chaos, fireworks, fights, arguments and emotional turmoil as the year unstoppably turns
Read moreSufjan Stevens – Christmas In The Room
Song of the Day: From the prolific US singer-songwriter’s second box set of festive songs, Silver and Gold, a cosy, beautiful, if slightly melancholy of depiction of a couple-only non-family occasion of just watching TV
Read moreTracy Chapman – Hard Wired
Song of the Day: The next song in min-series of brain theme is this prophetic number by the Cleveland, Ohio singer from her 2002 album Let It Rain, highlighting the effect technology has on our most precious and complex organ
Read morePink Floyd – Brain Damage / Eclipse
Song of the Day: Following our previous song The Old Brain, a Floyd-influenced work by Once & Future Band, let’s enjoy that older, but still fresh sounding brain song and final work from that 1973 masterpiece, Dark Side of the Moon
Read moreOnce & Future Band – The Old Brain
Song of the Day: After the frenzied blood in the brain by Pom Poko, a slower, but rather beautiful number on grey matter by the rock band from Oakland, California fronted by Joel Robinow
Read morePom Poko – My Blood
Song of the Day: The next body-aware song comes in a new one from the Norwegian pop-punk quartet – a cartoonish, sugar-rush tribute to the energising red stuff that runs right through us all
Read moreJeannie Seely / Ella Fitzgerald / Tammy Wynette / Nicky Thomas – Don't Touch Me
Song of the Day: After powerful new songs by Julia Jacklin about the body and personal space, a classic number from the 1960s that sung first by the Titusville performer with versions by other stars
Read moreJulia Jacklin – Body / Head Alone
Song of the Day: “It’s just my body. I guess it’s just my life.” Two of several telling lines from a pair of beautifully powerful songs by the the Australian singer-songwriter from her forthcoming album, Crushing
Read moreBuzzcocks – I Believe / Ever Fallen In Love / What Do I Get?
Song of the Day: A triple tribute to the sadly departed Pete Shelley, frontman of the foremost Manchester punk band, writer of the perfect, punchy, pithy, witty song, and that distinctive voice of unrequited love
Read moreAkira Ifukube - Japanese Rhapsody / Symphonic Fantasia No 1 (Godzilla)
Song of the Day: Following on from Hikaru Hayashi, we dip into the next Japanese composer, a prolific writer of film scores best for the famous Godzilla monster movies, as well hundreds of other classical pieces
Read moreHikaru Hayashi – La Mort De L'Enfant (Theme from The Naked Island)
Song of the Day: Following Joe Hisaichi, another distinguished Japanese composer who among his many works wrote the beautiful theme from a 1960 film without dialogue directed by Kaneto Shindo
Read moreJoe Hisaishi – One Summer's Day / The Day of Life (from Spirited Away)
Song of the Day: Moving from Ryuichi Sakamoto to another great Japanese pianist and composer, the man behind the beautiful music to the animated Studio Ghibli films directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Read moreRyuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Forbidden Colours) / The Last Emperor / Andata
Song of the Day: Linking our last entry with not only the recently deceased director Bernardo Bertolucci and also David Bowie, some exquisite music by the great Japanese composer, pianist and actor
Read moreStomu Yamash'ta – Wind Words /Memory of Hiroshima from The Man Who Fell to Earth - Nicolas Roeg / David Bowie
Song of the Day: With the passing of two great directors, Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci, a beautiful piece of music from a film by the former, starring David Bowie but with music by the Japanese composer
Read moreChristian Fitness – National Insurance
Song of the Day: “Hard work is a trap.” Continuing the employment theme, an explosion of hilarious, caustic wit and rapier guitar riffs of angry moral decency from Cardiff-based Andrew "Falco" Falkous
Read moreMush – Gig Economy
Song of the Day: Continuing from Bas Jan's songs, a recent number by the indie Leeds-formed quartet that with frantic energy reveals the impossibility of the 21st century model of freelance employment
Read moreBas Jan (Serafina Steer) – Instant Nostalgia / Profile Picture
Song of the Day: “I am not a company but I keep getting these emails.” Continuing the freelance life theme after yesterday’s Toro Y Moi track, two new and witty pop songs from the trio of Serafina Steer, and now Emma Smith, and Rachel Horwood
Read moreToro y Moi – Freelance
Song of the Day: Focusing on the difficulties of creative self-employment, this is in an engagingly funky, eccentric off-the-wall new single by the South Carolina songwriter, record producer and graphic designer from his forthcoming 2019 album Outer Peace
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