I’m amazed I’ve made it through this. Let’s start by saying that my favourite song this time last year wasn’t this selection – but rather the same song from Day 1, The Divine Comedy’s In Pursuit Of Happiness. So, I made a little rule with myself for this one that whatever I chose couldn’t have […]
My memory is terrible, but I very definitely remember Dad playing the Buster soundtrack a lot on journeys back in the day. Here we have Phil Collins doing some singing.
Once again, I know that Brian May is not to everyone’s tastes but I make no apology for admitting that I love this piece of his work. It is a guitar instrumental which I have often tried to arrange it for a band but can never quite find the right way to go about it. […]
A long time ago, in what feels like a galaxy far away, which was actually Morley in the early 21st Century, I played this piece of music as part of my A-Level recital alongside Mrs Wilkinson (?), one of the music teachers. I recall rehearsing this for months but realised recently that it had been […]
Now then, this isn’t a particularly funny or entertaining song, but it reminds me of a moment. The instantly recognisable opening melody always brings a smile to my face because of a moment when we were playing an arrangement of it and that moment was wonderfully reimagined…
Not something I really want to think about, and something that I found very hard to choose. But I adore this. Sorry to use Neil Hannon again, but his voice is sublime here, and I love that it’s live. I had to use my favourite singer for this one.
Not strictly fitting this choice – I couldn’t think of anything – so I chose something that I adore and that makes me smile. Just goes to show that classic songs generally use the same structure… this won’t be the first, or last, example of this in music – in fact, I’ll post the other […]