Song of the Day #1,641: ‘Mexico’ – James Taylor
To celebrate our 40th birthdays, my wife and I are taking a 4-night cruise to Cozumel, Mexico.
To mark that trip, and to buy me some time to prepare future entries, I’m taking this week off from blogging and offering up five songs about our neighbor to the south.
I’ll see you back here in a week!
Song of the Day #1,640: ‘Hand to Mouth’ – George Michael
George Michael’s Faith is one of those great 80s albums that contains so many hits it’s hard to believe they all originated on the same record. And it holds up very well 25 years later.
‘Faith,’ ‘Father Figure,’ ‘One More Try,’ ‘I Want Your Sex,’ ‘Monkey,’ ‘Look at Your Hands’ and ‘Kissing a Fool.’ If you were listening to music with any regularity in the late 80s, I bet you can sing a few bars from every one of those songs off the top of your head. I know I can.
Song of the Day #1,639: ‘Farewell’ – Rihanna
Rihanna has fallen quickly out of my good graces over the course of a couple of years.
She peaked with Rated R, the dark and emotional follow-up to the hit-filled Good Girl Gone Bad. That album followed her assault by deranged lunatic Chris Brown and it was angry, defiant and featured her strongest material yet.
Song of the Day #1,638: ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ – Gotye
Top Songs of 2012 – #1
I first heard the best song of 2012 toward the end of 2011. Gotye’s video for ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ turned up on a list of great videos and I watched about half of it before deciding not to include it in my year-end collection.
What amazes me is that I listened to the song that first time without really hearing it. A year later, it’s at the top of my ‘best songs’ list but at the time it barely registered.
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