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.)

Thursday, January 30, 2020

LP #26 Sarah McLachlan – Surfacing (1997)

This one came close to making my original list, but I basically just ran out of room. Although critical reaction was mixed, McLachlan certainly deserves all of the airplay and album sales that Surfacing produced. While the more uptempo tunes such as “Adia” and “Sweet Surrender” are fine, she’s at her best when she’s at her most ethereal, as with “Angel”, “Witness”, and “Full Of Grace”. As it happens, I also picked up her previous album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (good, but not as consistent in terms of material) and her follow-up effort Afterglow (which unfortunately didn’t do much for me at all).
 
Favorite tracks:
 
Angel
Do What You Have To Do
Witness
Building A Mystery
Full Of Grace
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