It has been a very varied week for music for me, for some reason. So I have picked two very different songs from my playlist to share – both have been listened to over the last few days just when I was in different moods!
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra with David Nolan on violin and conducted by Vernon Handley
I love this piece of music – I just think it captures the magic of skylarks and summer perfectly.
When We Stand Together by Nickelback
The lyrics and video of this one seem just as relevant as they did 12 years ago when it was released. Which is depressing, because that’s a long time to have made things better round the world between us all. And we really haven’t, have we?
This week’s featured colours are: Grey, Fossil, Green, and Forest.
Weirdly, when I try to think of fossil as a colour, it’s more beige than grey -how about you?
I Try by Macy Gray
Macy Gray is one of those artists whose voice is nothing like what I expected from seeing them. I don’t know what I expected her to sound like, but it wasn’t what she does sound like!
I love this song though, it used to get played on the radio all the time, but I hadn’t heard it in ages until I came up with it for this post.
Fall Into Me by Forest Blakk
This was a new artist discovery for me this week – I have now listened to quite a lot of his music and come to enjoy it. I particularly like this one, and the video is cute.
Evergreen by Will Young
14 years since this was released. Ouch.
And yet it was my immediate first thought for the prompt of ‘green’ because my love for Mr William Young is, well, evergreen. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
I Am A Palaeontologist by They Might Be Giants (with Danny Weinkauf)
Fossil is not a word that often comes up in song titles. Or band names.
After trawling the internet, I came across an article that reminded me that They Might Be Giants do a lot of music for kids as well as their ‘grown up’ stuff, and decided they might be a good bet for a song about fossils.
They did not let me down! Okay so it doesn’t have fossils in the name but it does have them prominently in the lyrics, so I am counting it.
Which songs would you have picked for Green, Forest, Fossil, or Grey?
Carole Finds Her Wings 