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Music Mondays 63: Blink 182 – I Miss You

Daryl Tay — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:26:42 +0000

Music Mondays 62: Robbie Williams – You Know Me

Daryl Tay — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:17:53 +0000

As promised last week, a non Take That post but not totally unrelated: this week it’s You Know Me by ex Take That member Robbie Williams.

Great song, fun video and definitely going to be one of my favourites of 2010. Definitely elicits a very “old school” vibe too – hope you like it as much as I do.

Music Mondays 61: Take That – Everything Changes

Daryl Tay — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:09:56 +0000

To wrap up the month-long Take That love fest, here is Everything Changes, complete with a lovely campy video of the boys back in the early ’90s.

Although the title of the song is Everything Changes, to me the key line in the song is

Though everything changes around us; we will be the same as before – forever more

And with their comeback in 2007/2008, the world has moved on a decade but Take That will forever be awesome!

Next week: back to our regularly scheduled programming (though I suspect we won’t be completely free of the Take That bug…..)

Music Mondays 60: Take That – Nobody Else

Daryl Tay — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:41:46 +0000

In the penultimate Take That week, here’s “Nobody Else”. The music video isn’t the actual video but rather following the boys through the ages -brings back memories!

I have to say on a personal note, I haven’t heard this song in a long time, and it’s taken on a whole new dimension listening to it now compared to over ten years ago. Enjoy!

Music Mondays 59: Take That – Back For Good

Daryl Tay — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:47:04 +0000

This week I’m featuring arguably one of Take That’s best songs ever – Back For Good, but with a twist!

We all know the nice, mellow ballad that was sung by the boys, here comes Robbie Williams’s solo rendition at a concert! Love it!

Music Mondays 58: Take That – Love Ain’t Here Anymore

Daryl Tay — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:20:55 +0000

Second week of Take That and here’s one of my favourites that the boys have ever done – the song’s a sad one, but I think the lyrics, music and vocals go great together.

Music Mondays 57: Take That – Babe

Daryl Tay — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:55:29 +0000

In a shocking revelation, I realise that in over a year of talking about Music Mondays, I’ve never dedicated one to Take That – the group I consider to be the best boyband of all time. I think when I started Music Mondays I told myself I’d do something for Take That if I could hit a year (which I did 5 weeks ago) so I guess it’s about time.

For those who grew up a little later than I did, Take That was easily the biggest boy band of the 90’s, at least until 1996 when they disbanded (oh I will not forget finding that out on Valentine’s day when I was 12) and yes, they were bigger than the Backstreet Boys back in the day.

Almost impossibly, the band (less Robbie Williams) reunited in 2006, but personally I feel their new work hasn’t captured the magic of their stuff in the 90’s.

So it’s really hard to choose which songs to feature from the band because I love them all. So even though I do like some of their early work from the late ’80s, I’m going to pick 5 songs over the next 5 Music Monday installments from the “superstardom” years of 1993-1995 (as categorised by Wikipedia) which covers mainly two albums: Everything Changes and Nobody Else.

For today: Babe

I love this song for a variety of reasons. For one, it’s performed by Mark Owen and it was rare to have anyone other than Gary Barlow front a Take That song back then. I also really like the way the lyrics actually tell a story and the music is also actually quite haunting as it builds up to the revelation at the end.

Music Mondays 56: The Carpenters – The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasing On An Open Fire)

Daryl Tay — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:44:52 +0000

When I was young (not all that long ago) the one CD that was in the car year in year out was the Carpenters Christmas album (a tradition that continues to this day) so I thought we’d end off the year with a final Christmas-themed Music Monday with a song from what I feel is one of the best musical acts of all times – The Carpenters:

Trivia:

The Christmas Song was first performed by Nat King Cole in 1946
It has since been covered by more than 150 other artists including Michael Buble, New Found Glory, Owl City and Weezer

Music Mondays 55: Jason Mraz – Happy Holidayz

Daryl Tay — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:31:29 +0000

Because I can’t feature Jason Mraz enough on this blog – here’s a song from Vimeo called Happy Holidayz.

Just in time for Christmas too.

Music Mondays 53: Lost Soundtrack – Life And Death

Daryl Tay — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:16:55 +0000

I’m a huge fan of Lost (but you know that already), and I think what makes Lost stand out compared to every other show out there is the music.

Since season one, the very talented Michael Giacchino has scored music that not only brings the exact emotion required for each scene, but he’s also steadily composed ‘themes’ for each character like Jack, Sun and Jin, Ben, Hurley and everyone else. The music is played slightly differently each time, but always maintains the core of the theme.

My favourite track has got to be “Life and Death”. First debued at the death of Boone back in season one, it’s become a staple for the ’sad’ moments on Lost (including Charlie’s death in season three).

Watch the two deaths mentioned and see how well the music intertwines with the scene: