Rambling Rhoads: 2020-03-22

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.)

Monday, March 23, 2020

LP #30 Indigo Girls – All That We Let In (2004)

Prior to writing up the Indigo Girls last November, I went back and listened to the dozen (!) studio albums of theirs that I own, as well as the double-disc live album 1200 Curfews. This mid-career effort emerged as my particular favorite. I’ve always loved “Fill It Up Again”, but I came to realize that the whole thing actually works from beginning to end.

Favorite tracks:

Fill It Up Again

Rise Up

All That We Let In

Perfect World

Dairy Queen

Heartache For Everyone

Sunday, March 22, 2020

Lyric Of The Day #4 (March 22, 2020)

Walk on, walk on

With hope in your heart

And you'll never walk alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5_LQArLa0

Although it got very little notice on this side of the Atlantic, this past Friday morning, at the suggestion of a Dutch radio host, stations in over 20 European countries simultaneously (7:45 a.m. U.K. time/8:45 C.E.T.) interrupted their usual programming to play this song to boost morale during the coronavirus outbreak.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/03/20/youll-never-walk-alone-europes-radio-stations-create-heartwarming-show-of-solidarity-amid-coronavirus-lockdowns/#6449f81c530b