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Music List

Here are a few songs that have had an influence on me and what I listen to.   Where possible  I have linked them to a YouTube page so they can be heard.

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2021 - Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes (2016)

           Bob Dylan - I Want You (1966)

           Barbara Lynn - I'll Suffer (1968)

           Cannons - Fire For You (2019)

           Cannons - Spells (2015)

           Foo Fighters - Everlong (1997)

           Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze (1973)

           JJ Cale - Go Downtown (2019)

           John Hall - Power (1979)

           Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body (2002)

           Mary Wells - You Beat Me To The Punch (1962)

           Meg Tennant - A Day of Grace (2019)

           Sniff 'N' The Tears - Drivers Seat (1978)

           Thirteen - Big Star (1972)

 

2020 - Four Jacks and A Jill - Master Jack (1967)

           Georgie Fame - Yeh, Yeh (1991)

           Lou Christie - Beyond the Blue Horizon (1989)

           Nat King Cole - Nature Boy (1947)

           Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (1988)

           Tony Rice - Wayfaring Stranger (1984)

           TOPS - I Feel Alive (2020)

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2019 - Absofacto - Dissolve (2017)

           Bells - For Better, For Worse (2003)

           Big Thief - Contact (2019)

           Cream - Badge (1969)

           Indigenous - Things We Do (1998)

           John Williams - Suo Gan (1987)

           Not The King - Ice Tea (2018)

           Sonic Youth - Incinerate (2006)

           

2018 - Hollie Cook - Stay Alive (2018)

           MS MR - Hurricane (2013)

           Shakira - Islands (2010)

           Slip (The) - The Soft Machine (2006)

           Tirzah - Gladly (2018)

           Three Dog Night - Out in the Country (1970)

           Veils (The) - Train With No Name (2013)

           

2017 - Agua de Annique - Come Wander (2008)

 &       Agua de Annique - Sunken Soldiers (2007)

2016   Avicii - Feeling Good (2015)

           Bahamas (The) - Waves (2014)

           Beach House - Common Girl (2015)

           Beth Gibbons - Sand River (2002)

           Flume - Never Be Like You (2016)

           Future Islands - Cave (2017)

           Half Moon Run - Full Circle (2012)

           Jane's Party - Old Friends (2016)

           Maroon 5 - Sugar (2014)

           Mutual Benefit - Strong Swimmer (2013)

           Nightmoves - Border On Border (2016)           

           Nightmoves - Carl Sagan (2017)

           Nightmoves - Colored Emotions (2012)

           Pussy Riot - Make America Great Again (2016)

           Sharon Van Etten - For You (2009)

           Vetiver - You May Be Blue (2006)

           War On Drugs - I was There (2011)

 

From here and above, I indicate when I first heard the song followed in brackets
by the year it was produced.  Below I use the year it was produced regardless
of when I first heard it.

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2015 - Tobias Jesso - Can't Stop Thinking About You (& his whole album)

            DNCE - Cake by the Ocean

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2014 - Sharon Van Etten - Taking Chances

           Alvvays - Next of Kin (& their whole album)

           Bahamas - Waves

           Totemo - Time to Shine

           Michael Jackson - A Place With No Name 

 

2013 - Camera Obscura - New Year's Resolution

               Rhianna - Stay

           Valerie June - Working Woman Blues (& her whole album)

           Valerie June - Twined and Twisted

           Valerie June - Wanna Be On Your Mind

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2012 - Rush - The Wreckers

 

2011 - Lucinda Williams - Copenhagan

 

2009 - Camera Obscura - French Navy

           Camera Obscura - The Sweetist Thing

           Pink - Please Don't Leave Me

 

2008 - Coldplay  Viva La Vida

           Rihanna - Disturbia

 

2007 - Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill

           Gwen Stefani - The Great Escape

 

2006 - Laura Doyle - Glass Hill

           The Decemberists - Summersong

 

2004 - K-Os - Crucial

 

2002 - Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River

 

1999 - Van Bran 3000 - Drinking In LA

 

1998 - The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon

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1992 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge

 

1994 - Stereolab - Ping Pong

               Sam Philips - I need Love

 

1989 - Etta James - Damn Your Eyes

 

1977 - Crosby,  Stills, Nash & Young - Just A Song Before I Go

           Earth, Wind and Fire - Lets Groove

 

1976 - Frank Zappa - Black Napkins

 

1975 Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady

 

1973 - Bachman Turner Overdrive - Blue Collar

           Bob Welch - Hypnotized

           Sopwith Camel - Fazon

           Neil Young - Cowgirl In The Sand

 

1972 - Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine of My Life

           Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose - Treat Her Like A Lady

           Emerson, Lake and Palmer - From the Beginning

           Deep Purple - Lazy

 

1971 - Jimmy Hendrix - Pali Gap

           Roper Whitaker - New World In The Morning

           Paul & Linda McCartney - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey

           Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven

           Alice Cooper - Killer (full album)

 

1970 - The Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get

            Steel River - Ten Pound Note

            Melanie - Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)

            Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes

            Three Dog Night - Joy To The World

            Guess Who - Bus Rider

            Guess Who - Share The Land

           The Grass Roots - Tempation Eyes

            Black Sabbath - Paranoid

            Black Sabbath - Iron Man

 

1969 - Poppy Family - Beyond the Clouds

           Poppy Family - Which Way You Going Billy?

           Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely

           Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On?

 

1968 - Dion - Abraham, Martin and John

 

1967 - Jay and the Techniques - Apple, Peaches Pumpkin Pie

           Dionne Warwick - What The World Needs Now

           Bobby Gentry - Ode To Bill Joe

           Beatles - Hello Goodbye

 

1966 - Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 - Mas Que Nada

           Sam The Sham & the Pharohs - Lil Red Riding Hood

 

1963 - Kyu Sakimoto - Sukiyaki

 

1961 - Frank Sinatra - Almost Like Being In Love

 

1958 - Tommy Edwards - The Lamp Is Low

 

 

 

 

 

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