Fellas, if this doesn’t make your blood boil, you’re probably dead.
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152: Sam Cooke, ‘A Change is Gonna Come’
The unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights movement. Second in a series of three death-premonition songs.
Continue reading...151: Otis Redding, ‘(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay’
Otis recorded this song two months before he died, aged 26. Post 1 of 3: “Spookily Existential Posthumous Hits”.
Continue reading...122: George Harrison, ‘You Know What to Do’ b/w Buddy Holly, ‘You’re the One’
Do you know these obscure gems?
Can you tell them apart?
279: Ásgeir, ‘Torrent’
A rock star who spends his summers in his home village of 40 old people, in a bleak and remote grey landscape, planting trees during the day and collaborating on songs with his father during the long Icelandic evenings.
Continue reading...212: Bon Iver (Justin Vernon), ‘Towers’
Justin Vernon sure knows how to impale an earworm on a melodic hook. Even Taylor Swift thinks so.
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