Yes, this is a Monday. Huge apologies for the delay, but I had a few problems yesterday to try and get past. So here it is anyways…
1. Kasabian – Narcotic Farm
This band has a really tripped out style, particularly on this song.
Come down lady flying eight miles high, You got the soul and you don’t even, don’t even try. Jet black tulip like a smoking gun. You got no rhythm but you know how to, know how to run. At the Narcotic Farm they will do you no harm. Hey, follow me down, to where the executioner will bring me back round…
2. Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
I don’t really listen to him all that much, but Jeff Buckley’s cover of Hallelujah is beautiful. Like, really really beautiful. And the lyrics, while not his, are pretty perfect too.
Well maybe there’s a God above, but all I ever learned from love is how to shoot somebody who out-drew you. And it’s not a cry that you hear at night, it’s not somebody who’s seen the light. It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah…
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
Okay, so Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds are really pretty dark, but I still love writing to them. I could have easily chosen O Children instead (the HP Harry-Hermione dance song from Deathly Hallows Part 1, if that helps you think) but I really like this one too. Probably because there was a book I read as a kid (it was Derek Landy’s brilliant Skullduggery Pleasant book) , where the author gave the villain a red right hand which could kill people, and listening to this song makes me smile about the book.
Take a little walk to the edge of town, go across the tracks, where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom as it shifts and cracks. Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires. Hey man, you know you’re never coming back. Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks. On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man in a dusty black coat with a Red Right Hand…
4. Lana Del Rey – Young and Beautiful
Ignore the controversy surrounding the did-she/did-she-not have her lips surgically modified. Besides all that rubbish, doesn’t it always come back to the music? And here is one of my favorite songs by Ms Del Rey…
I’ve seen the world, lit it up, as my stage now. Channeling angels in the new age now. Hot summer days, rock ‘n’ roll, the way you’d play for me at your show. And all the ways, I got to know, your pretty face and electric soul…
5. Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Stole You Away
I do like Benjamin Francis Leftwich’s lyrics to write to. They’re quite poetic and heart-felt. Again, I could have picked a different song, but I went with my favorite as there’s one particular line that I love the most.
There was a change in the way you breathe, couldn’t believe you would change for me. And if you hear the sound of shooting stars, protect your heart ’cause it burns back and turns back around…
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