When The Night Feels My Song – Bedouin Soundclash

Pop reggae/ska from Canadian Bedouin Soundclash.

Spotify.

Next Year – Foo Fighters

This song always makes me think of a warm late summer evening with the pale yellow sun light gently warming your face while making the roads shine and lakes sparkle. The slow guitar really sets the tempo low for this song, but it is still quite energetic and promise of exciting things to happen.
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Man Needs A Maid / Heart Of Gold – Neil Young

This song, from a 1971 Neil Young concert, combines two awesometastic Neil Young songs, Man Needs A Maid and Heart Of Gold. Spotify.

Den Ena Handen Vet Vad Den Andra Gör – Blå Tåget

Briljant progg.

Eller Spotify.

Ifrån mig själv – Dundertåget

Dunder Tåget is a new Swedish band rising in The Great Hellacopters Wake. The singer, Robert Dahlquist, actually played guitar in the Hellacopters, but now he has also taken on the singer and songwriter roles. He does it really well too. The songs, which are written by Robert together with singer/songwriter Stefan Sundström, actually sound [...]

L’Via L’Viaquez – The Mars Volta

 
Mars Volta was named “Best Prog-Rock Band” by The Rolling Stones magazine in 2008. I haven’t listened a lot to them yet but I love their song L’Via L’Viaquez. It exists in a number of versions, with the album version being more than 12 minutes long and featuring 3 guitar solos and at least one piano [...]

Poupée de cire, poupée de son – France Gall

 

Yesterday I was reminded of the song Poupée de cire, poupée de son performed brilliantly at the ESC 1965 by France Gall. The song is written by Serge Gainsbourg and is about how young pop stars sing about love and loss and situations they’ve barely experienced themselves.

 
(link) and Spotify.

Grace – Jeff Buckley

The third song from Jeff Buckley on the blog is Grace from his album Grace. Video and Spotify.

Les Champs-Elysees – Joe Dassin

I first heard Les Champs-Elysees at the end of The Darjeeling Limited, a quite typical Wes Anderson movie. And like any Wes Anderson movie there are alot of interesting music. So today I’m recommending Joe Dassin singing Les Champs-Elysees. Youtube and Spotify.

Da Strike – Millencolin

Today it’s time for some Örebro patriotism by mentioning the Swedish ska punk band Millencolin and their song Da Strike. Youtube and Spotify. (Spotify version is slightly broken unfortunatelly)