Song Of the week

269: Brian Wilson, ‘Sandy’/’Sherri She Needs Me’/’She Says That She Needs Me’

When dinosaurs roamed the earth…
An obscure Brian Wilson gem–impossibly brilliant, impossibly stupid, engraved in my 16-year old heart forever.

022: Roberta Sá and Chico Buarque, ‘Mambembe’

My favorite May-December clip.
A man and a woman and the electricity between them.
Ah, Brasil…

086: ‘Different Trains’, Steve Reich (Kronos Quartet)

Minimalism and “the only adequate musical response—one of the few adequate artistic responses in any medium—to the Holocaust.”

July 22, 2022 by jeff Classical Other Song Of the week 7

SoTW 300: Decapede, ‘Creston Gold’/Buddy Holly, ‘Peggy Sue’

The sweetest music you’ll never hear.

July 21, 2022 by jeff Personal Rock Song Of the week 8

103: Little Stevie Wonder, ‘Fingertips’

Little Stevie Wonder recorded ‘Fingertips’ at the age of 12 – a fledgling perhaps, but certainly not innocent.
There’s a fervor brewing here that may have begun on the altar in the church choir, but reached its pitch afterwards up in the balcony with some willing young soprano.

July 15, 2022 by jeff Rock and Roll Song Of the week 7