These Are a Few of my Favourite Songs

Prompt: Your Favourite Song I challenge anyone to nominate just one song. So, instead, I have decided to go with a few of my faves from different areas of music. As the title suggests I like musicals a bit. No, not Julie Andrews. No. not the Sound of Music. I am torn between Chicago and …

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Grooving with the Vampires

Prompt: The last song alphabetically on your playlist On my current playlist that would be Vlad by Inkubus Sukkubus. As this is one of my favourite bands this post is their music, starting, or course, with Vlad from the album Belladonna and Aconite https://youtu.be/vbjnaQzJqfU Next up is Hedonistic Gene from the Beast with Two Backs …

Der Erste von Vielen

Prompt: The first song alphabetically on your playlist Wenn ich die Klassiker heraushole, wie ich das 1812 vor kurzem gepostet habe, dann ist es 99 Luftballons von Nena. Meine verstorbene Partnerin war Deutsche und ich habe immer noch viel von der Musik, die sie in mein Leben gebracht hat. Ich denke, ich werde diesen Beitrag …

Long Time No Hear

Prompt: Songs you love but rarely listen to There are far too many of these to post a complete listing so will go with the few I have had the pleasure of listening to today as I made notes for this write. I am starting with Transvision Vamp and Baby, I Don’t Care as it …

Where the Heart Leads the Feet Follow

Prompt: Songs that make you want to dance No prizes for guessing this write will feature a fair bit of tango, so that is where I will kick off with El Choclo by Angel Villoldo https://youtu.be/aV9wGF8QieI Next up La Tropiilla de la Zurda by Carlos Libedinsky as it is so frikken sensual to dance. https://youtu.be/VgiQthd09V0 …

Leaky-eye Tunes

Prompt: Songs that make you cry This is where the classics come into their own, especially the sound of the violin so no shock there is going to be a bit of Samvel Yervinyan. https://youtu.be/henMgfslBPQ I have been privileged to see Samvel in concert with Yanni and the next piece truly made my eyes leak …

Sing It

Prompt: Songs you sing out loud In recent years my voice has gone through a lot of changes as the male hormones have done their job. So I am starting with one I used sing back in the day from the beautiful Debbie Harry and Blondie https://youtu.be/DbDdMqE49SA Another one from the past with Gloria Gaynor …

Leave Us Kids Alone

Prompt: Songs from your school days Music was my big interest as a kid, and my music teacher was an awesome guy who appeared to be a normal teacher but oh, boy, he let us explore music. So just for TP I will start with the song with nickname we gave him because he loved …

Kicking Ass

Prompt: The last song you heard Today’s prompt is an easy one as it is still before 9am and I don’t have the radio on. That means the last song I have heard is the one I use for my alarm sound. I chose it because it is loud, it is anthemic and rebellious and …