* I was playing parental chauffeur all weekend, it seemed (though, thankfully, not to anything sporting - that would be beyond the pale) and after tiring of channel surfing FM Radio, deliberately tried 4KQ, the "anything except from the last 25 years" classic hits AM station for Brisbane. Which led me to hearing "Bus Stop" by the Hollies for the first time in (probably) several decades.
Has there been a song with a greater disparity between melancholic melody and happy lyric? It's a "love found" song that sounds exactly like a "love lost" song. Or did I miss something before the end where she leaves him for a man with a raincoat instead? Then again, perhaps I'm the only person in the world who finds the melody depressing? Weird.
* I heard Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 for the first time in a while on Saturday night, too. (Not on 4KQ, but at my daughter's concert.) The way it has two very disparate bits merged into one made me think of Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime. Probably someone else somewhere has compared these two bits of music. Or maybe this is a first.
* The choral version of Let the River Run by Carly Simon (the theme from Working Girl) is very good. (Heard this at son's concert.) In fact, I think I should compile a list of songs that work better in choral version than the original. On it so far: that song from Wicked "For Good"; "Every Step you Take" is great sung by a choir too, but the original remains terribly catchy; I also have a bit of a soft spot for the kid's version of Flame Trees, but I haven't heard it for a while.
As you were....
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