(part 1 of the trilogy) take your easy chair, come closer to the speaker, close your eyes and detox your mind while I am curating the next ninety minutes delicate songs
| Title | Artist | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| A Trick of the Light | Villagers | Villagers are an Irish indie folk band from Dublin, formed in 2008 by songwriter and vocalist/guitarist Conor O’Brien. ‘A Trick Of The Light’ has a steady pulse and a groove in the bass that has slight hints of R&B, which O’Brien certainly emphasises with his vocal delivery. The track is later veered more towards the classic folk roots we know Villagers for, with delicate string arrangements and whistling theremin guiding us down an overgrown garden path, as we chase ‘A Trick Of The Light’. |
| People Help the People | Birdy | English musician Birdy released a cover version of Cherry Ghost’s song, which was released on 28 October 2011 “People Help the People” is the second single taken from Cherry Ghost’s début album, written in Simon Aldred’s childhood box room bedroom in Bolton in the run up to Xmas 2005. |
| Someone You Loved | Lewis Capaldi | Lewis Marc Capaldi (born 7 October 1996) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. Capaldi revealed he wrote “Someone You Loved” about his grandmother who had died and it took him six months to finish. |
| I’ll Take Care of You | Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart | “I’ll Take Care of You” is a song written by Brook Benton and originally recorded by Bobby Bland in 1959 who developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. In 2011, Joe Bonamassa and Beth Hart covered the song. |
| Imagining My Man | Aldous Harding | Hannah Sian Topp (born 1990), known professionally as Aldous Harding, is a New Zealand indie folk singer-songwriter. She was an only child, took her stepfather’s surname and lives in Cardiff, Wales since 2020. |
| Come Away With Me | Norah Jones | “Come Away with Me” is a song written, produced, and performed by American recording artist Norah Jones. Norah Jones is legendary Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar’s daughter who took at 16 her mother’s name and moved to Manhattan, New York in 1999:. Jones was born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979, in Manhattan, New York City, to American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian Bengali musician Ravi Shankar. |
| Everybody Here Wants You | Jeff Buckley | “Everybody Here Wants You” was written as a love song for Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman), Jeff Buckley’s girlfriend at the time. As a child, Buckley was known as Scott “Scottie” Moorhead, based on his middle name and his stepfather’s surname. After his biological father, American singer Jeff Buckley, died of a drug overdose in 1975, he chose to go by Buckley and his real first name, which he found on his birth certificate. |
| We Don’t Own It | Joan as Police Woman | ‘We Don’t Own It’, written by Joan Wasser is about and dedicated to friend (American musician and singer-songwriter) Elliott Smith. Joan Wasser (born July 26, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer who releases music as Joan As Police Woman. She began her career playing violin with the Dambuilders and played with Black Beetle, Antony and the Johnsons 1999 on their Mercury Prize-winning album, I Am a Bird Now. The band name was a reference to the TV series Police Woman featuring Angie Dickinson. Wasser found the actress inspirational as “she was really powerful but sexy at the same time” in the role. She also preferred “the name to be funny because, although my music is serious, I like to laugh at tragedy” |
| You Are My Sister | Antony And The Johnsons | You Are My Sister by Antony and the Johnsons, was written by Antony Hegarty (a.k.a. Anohni) and released in 2005. It features co-lead vocals by Boy George. |
| How to Save a Life | The Fray | The Fray was an American rock band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2002 by schoolmates Isaac Slade and Joe King. According to lead singer Isaac Slade, the song ‘How to Save a Life’ was composed and influenced by his experience while working as a mentor at a camp for troubled teenagers in Denver called Shelterwood. The American medical drama television series Grey’s Anatomy brought popularity to the song. |
| To Build a Home (ft. Patrick Watson) | The Cinematic Orchestra | “To Build a Home” is a song by English electronic music group the Cinematic Orchestra, with vocals and piano performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson. The song has been used in several different TV shows, movies, and adverts, including Grey’s Anatomy |
| Without You | Tobias Jesso Jr. | Canadian-born songwriter and producer Tobias Jesso Jr. (born Tobias MacDonald Jesso Jr. on July 11, 1985) is known for his songwriting alongside Adele and Harry Styles. Danielle Haim plays drums on the track “Without You”. Tobias Jesso Jr. drew inspiration from personal experiences of heartbreak and loss when writing Without You. His intention was to create a song that reflected the rawness and depth of emotions felt during the aftermath of a broken relationship. The authenticity and honesty in the lyrics can be attributed to Jesso’s own journey through heartache. |
| Oceans | Morning Runner | “Oceans” is a song written and performed by rock band Morning Runner and was featured on their debut album, Wilderness Is Paradise Now. Morning Runner were an English alternative rock band, formed in 2003 in Reading, England. |
| The Book of Love | Gavin James | “The Book of Love” is a 1999 song written by Stephin Merritt from The Magnetic Fields, who’s lyrics are often about love and feature atypical or neutral gender roles, and are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous. Gavin James (born Gavin Wigglesworth in Dublin on 5 July 1991) grew up in a household surrounded by music. Gavins’ dad would play Cat Stevens, Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan whilst his sister Emma sang and toured with a musical in Ireland. James’ great-grandparents were opera singers and his grandfather was a stand-up comedian and whistler. |
| Mia | Gorki | “Mia” by Belgian band Gorki, was initially the b-side of another single “Soms Vraagt Een Mens Zich Af” released in 1992 but eventually became one of the most popular Flemish hits. Band leader Luc De Vos stated that Mia is about a kind of mythical woman, between a “madonna and a whore at the same time”, inspired by people who demotivated him and “tried to hinder his search for happiness”. |
| Need Your Love | Jasper Steverlinck | “Need Your Love” is written, composed and performed by Jasper Steverlinck (born 30 April 1976), a Belgian Flemish singer and guitarist for Ghent-based Arid. In 2002 Steverlinck also started a solo career. |
| Amor particular | Lluís Llach | luís Llach i Grande (born 7 May 1948) is a Catalan singer-songwriter, novelist and politician from Spain. The song “Amor Particular” is a beautiful tribute to a special person whom the singer has loved for a very long time. Through this song, the singer expresses his love and gratitude to this person for all the moments they have shared together, both happy and sad. |
| By this river | Brian Eno | Brian Eno is one of the most influential/important/prolific musicians in the history of popular music. “By this river” is the maturity of love according to Brian Eno, released in 1977. After the third verse, Eno gives up on lyrics and starts humming. Brian Eno (Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno) composed the classic start-up sound for Windows 95 |
| Words Are Dead | Agnes Obel | Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel (born 28 October 1980) is a Danish singer, songwriter, and musician based in Berlin. When Agnes Obel came home from touring with Philharmonics she got a new piano and a new computer and wanted to try them out so she wrote this song, quite quickly. She stated that with ‘Words Are Dead’ she really wanted to make a song that was bittersweet. It is about not being sad that you don’t have words for things. Just because you have lost your words, or can’t explain yourself doesn’t mean that you are unable to. There are other ways. “don’t cry for me” was supposed to be “don’t cry for them”. |
| When Love Is Gone | David Ackles | David Ackles, is a cerebral, emotionally resonant, doomy singer-songwriter from Rock Island, Illinois. Born in Rock Island, Illinois, on 20 February 1937, into a show-business family, David Thomas Ackles became involved in performance at an early age. “When Love is Gone” with lovely bass line from Jerry Penrod and a beautiful melody and the desolate voice carrying a lyric of realisation and realism. The theme is breakup, appreciating that there is no point to a relationship once the love has gone from it. |
| Don’t Know How to Keep Loving You | Julia Jacklin | The Australian indy-folk singer-songwriter weaves powerfully personal lyrics with a soft, sensual voice. The smooth drums and softly strummed guitar serve to push her voice front and center, where it shines. The inspiration behind “Don’t Know How to Keep Loving You” stems from Julia Jacklin’s own personal experiences with love and relationships. She stated: “I wrote this basically staring out the window one day in the tour van. I have always loved Fiona Apple’s ‘Not About Love’ and this is in that vein thematically I think.” |
Sources
The information sources of the song facts include, but are not limited to, Wikipedia, songfacts.com, discogs.com, secondhandsongs.com, YouTube and artists’ related websites.
