A Change Is Gonne Come
Sam Cooke / Otis Redding
I used 2 love the Otis version but a friend convinced me that the Sam Cooke version was much better, I think this is one of the most powerful recordings ever made and the strings are beautiful ...
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Something He Can Feel
Aretha Franklin
I just love the way she sings "living in a world of ghetto life" ... it gets me every time.
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Rastaman Chant
Bob Marley
Not sure why this is my favourite Bob recording, maybe its because its his most tribal sounding maybe because it's prophetic ... but I would love 2 cover it properly some day ...
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Clair de Lune
Claude Debussy
It was in a film called "FRANKIE AND JOHNNY"...I wasn't completely taken by the film but I fell in love with the tune ...
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The Logical Song
Supertramp
I actually don't have a decent recording of this song, I just have the version of a live album, but I think it's one of the best songs ever written ...
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The Stolen Child
The Waterboys
It's a magical piece of music coupled with a beautiful last line..."4 the worlds more full of weeping, than we can understand"
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Daphnis Et Chloe
Ravel
I found this tape when I was about 10 and I used 2 have it in my walkman all the time,it sounds like a dream the way the tunes and voices just melt into each other,it was great 4 leaving the place where I grew up without actually leaving the place where I grew up..I lost the tape and because I didn't know what it was called it was hard 2 find again but a couple of months ago I found it and it as magical as it alway's was,a sort of transport machine ...
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NightTrain
Public Enemy
Don't know why this is one of my favourite Public Enemy tracks, maybe it's just the rhythms, Chuck D is just a great poet.....
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Running Away
Sly And The Family Stone
Its got 2 completely different rhythms and the horns sound great, what more do you need ...
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Hard To Explain
The Strokes
It's a great fuckin song, not sure what he's singin about but who cares, you have 2 dance ...
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