This song is my husband’s party trick. I’m being serious. He knows every single word, and can recognise it from the first split second of the track starting. I don’t really know why that is, aside from having heard a lot of Billy Joel at some point in his life, but it is a factContinue reading “We didn’t start the fire”
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A good hearted woman
This song is delightful, and a good picture of the versatility of LeAnn Rimes as a singer – I also love her take on Sixteen Tonnes, which we have danced a foxtrot to many times around the Enerchi dance studio in Claremont. Much love for that situation and all it has meant to me overContinue reading “A good hearted woman”
I knew I loved you
While this is a fabulous cheesy love song (and a fabulously cheesy rumba), I don’t want to write about love this evening. Instead, I want to reminisce about the time when Savage Garden was cool. And not ironically. When I was younger, we went around to my aunt and uncle’s house often; they lived nearby,Continue reading “I knew I loved you”
Angels
“I sit and wait. Does an angel, contemplate my fate?” This is a definite throwback banger from being a tween and yowling along. I actually rather enjoy Robbie Williams’ take on music, particularly his old-school vibe – the tattooed Sinatra-act. The Sunday Sads are slowly creeping over me as I sit in the lounge, withContinue reading “Angels”
Perfect to Me
My sister is one of the best humans I know. She is kind, generous and caring, and has dealt with some challenging situations over the years, including a community service year for her degree, living in a run-down, cockroach-infested block of flats. (Later, I took over a toaster from her kitchen… complete with a smallContinue reading “Perfect to Me”
