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Brooklyn’s 3rd Bass from the early 1990s
Song of the Day: After R.E.M.’s The Wrong Child, a more discursive number about teenage problems, ranging from drugs, gangs, sexual abuse, to depression and suicide by one of the finest New York rap outfits from the golden age of early 90s hip hop
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From the cover of R.E.M.’s 1988 album
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Problem Child by Hed Ogledd, a rarely played, but beautiful, pathos-rich song from the perspective of an outsider, perhaps with a physical or mental disability, looking at other children playing
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Hen Oggled, featuring Richard Dawson, second from right
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
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The Zombies in 1968
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
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New Year’s Eve fireworks with Tom Waits
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
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Merry Christmas, from Sufjan Stevens
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
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Tracy Chapman
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
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Pink Floyd in 1973, the year of Dark Side Of The Moon
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
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Once & Future Band
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
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High hopes: Pom Poko, from Norway
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
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Jeannie Seely
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
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Julia Jacklin
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
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Pete Shelley and that famous second gig on 20th July 1978
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
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Monstrous talent: Akira Ifukube and 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
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Nobuko Otowa as the mother in The Naked Island (1960)
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
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A scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, with music by Joe Hisaishi
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
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David Bowie and Ryuchi Sakamoto on the set for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
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
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David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, music by Stomu Yamashta
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
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Christian Fitness aka Andrew Falkous
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
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Economic gigging: Mush
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
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