As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, June 23, 2017

#149 Hazy Shade Of Winter – The Bangles (1987)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrwImCJCqk
 
I’m pretty sure that the original version of this song is the only Simon & Garfunkel single I ever bought, and it remains one of my favorite songs by the duo. The Bangles, however, made it their own 21 years later with a version that, after a slow teaser intro, rocks several orders of magnitude harder than its predecessor. I can even forgive them for dropping half of the lines from the bridge.
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