I’d find it hard to choose my favourite ABBA song. However, I could safely place this in the top five, and would be quite confident of putting it in the top three! The song just has a transcendent quality to it, particularly on the choruses. Interestingly, the chorus reminded Bjorn and Benny of a church…
23/09/2019: “Blue Moon” by The Ventures
This is a great example of how cool instrumental surf rock can be. Those echoey, twanging guitars evoke exotic locales, the frenzied drums inject a…
22/09/2019: “It’s Nothing To Me” by Sanford Clark
Country music has produced a slew of dark songs with lyrics about fights and murders. More than a few came from Leon Payne (aka Pat…
21/09/2019: “Direct Drive” by Aux 88
Detroit may have had a hard time in the last few decades, but it has always produced some of the hardest music in America. A…
20/09/2019: “If You Love Me” by Brownstone
I had wondered whether to write about this – the original, the most famous, and probably the best – or the Big Ang Bassline House…
19/09/2019: “You Sexy Thing” by Johnny Osbourne
The original Hot Chocolate version is undoubtedly more famous. However, I definitely prefer Johnny Osbourne’s dancehall cover. It has so much more fullness, and a…
18/09/2019: “The Source Experience” by The Source Experience
A lot of trance is actually quite chilled out. Certainly, it’s not all high bpm. This song has the magical quality of being relaxing and…
17/09/2019: “LMK” by Kelela
Talk about critically acclaimed. “LMK” was given accolades by The Quietus, Noisey and Highsnobiety, among others. It makes sense. Kelela is a great singer, and this space-age R’n’B style…
16/09/2019: “Amores Como El Nuestro” by Jerry Rivera
Without denigrating Shakira’s fanbase too much, it doesn’t seem like a big stretch to assume that most Shakira fans will never have heard of this…
15/09/2019: “8 Humoresques, Op. 101, B. 187: No. 7. Poco lento e grazioso in G flat major” by Art Tatum/Antonin Dvorak
I wasn’t entirely clear how to credit this one. The piece was composed by Dvorak in 1894, but Art Tatum’s version is very different in…