Until I figured out who this was, I thought Boy With A Coin could be some of the best work ever done by Lindsey Buckingham. But this is Samuel Ervin Beam.
I’m finding Mattiel an easy listen. This cut is from the 2022 album, Georgia Gothic.
The band is Phosphorescent. I did not hear Song for Zula when it came out. It’s a song about heartbreak, but if you read the comments below the video on YouTube, you see folks find it as part of their processing of grief.
I’m not going to lie, my preferences in rap are limited and pretty uninformed. I am sure there are many great songs I’m not familiar with, because they didn’t break into my music bubble.
For the final selection of 2025, I’m going with a song that was released just a year earlier. “Feel”, by The Heavy Heavy, has put that band square on my concert radar.
“Let it never be said
The romance is dead”
Ruby, by the Kaiser Chiefs, was a big hit in 2007. Catchy as all get out.
“Commissioning a Symphony in C” is great in its own right, and the lyrics are interesting, and not your normal rock song story.
Song 360, “Sad Song” is a little known song by The Cars, done past their highest moments as a band in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Yes, it’s another song in the language of Portuguese, but this is actually a Portuguese artist, not a Brazilian one. Desfado, performed by Ana Moura, is a happy sounding song that’s really about sadness.
“Other Side” should be a hit at any time. This version has so many enjoyable artists participating (Illenium & Said The Sky & Vera Blue).