Category: MusicMonday

Music Monday – “Down our long dusty driveway/I set my mind to go/I was eighteen and wild and free and wondering

Any time I spend time at our farm with my dad and Pace as I did this past weekend… …I think of this song. One reason the lyrics

Music Monday – "From the corner of my eye/A hint of blue in the black sky/A ray of hope, a beam of light/An end to thirty years of night"

[Oops, forgot I pre-loaded this Music Monday post after coming across the song in a MetaFilter thread last week.  So, combined with the post below, you get a

Music Monday – "When your infant starts to nurse/Oxytocin's released from the brain with a burst" (Happy World Breastfeeding Week!)

It's World Breastfeeding Week so here's a song, written by a nursing student, about the subject.  I don't usually do a long narrative for my Music Monday posts

Music Monday – "Looked up to the Lord above and said 'Hey man, thanks!'"

I remember watching this performance live when it was first broadcast – I think on MuchMusic back in the day.  At the time the song “Nautical Disaster” hadn't

Music Monday – "We could live/For a thousand years/But if I hurt you/I'd make wine from your tears"

Beck apparently gets together with a group of musicians regularly.  They record a cover of an entire album in a single day then release the results.  Here's their

Music Monday – "But hell, I'm just a blind man on the plains/I drink my water when it rains/And live by chance among the lightning strikes"

I'm about as far from a Pitchfork following, Fleet Iver Weekend-listening hipster as you'll find. But I do have friends who fit that category and a recent visit

Music Monday – "Outside my window/I listen to the rain/And the sounds of the passin' cars/And the waves on English Bay"

We're back from our trip (actually, have been back since last Thursday night but I was enjoying my blog holiday too much to start posting right away.)  But

Music Monday – "The Golden Rim Motor Inn/Soft water and a colour TV/Can’t afford the luxury"

You probably shouldn’t base your motel selections on twenty year old Tragically Hip songs but when they end up having views like this… …you should just send Gord

Music Monday – "When nobody else would stay/I would/When nobody else would pray/I would"

[Edit: Seeing some reports that the taping is on June 14 and the show will be broadcast on June 18.  I always thought Letterman taped around suppertime for

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