HURT ( is a song written by Trent Reznor, first released on Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album The Downward Spiral. In 2002, "Hurt" was covered by Johnny Cash to critical acclaim; it was one of Cash's final hit releases before his death. Its accompanying video, featuring images from Cash's life and directed by Mark Romanek, was named the best video of the year by the Grammy Awards and Country Music Awards )
The Mercy Seat ....... NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS (This is the Johnny Cash cover)
The song tells the story of a man about to be executed by the electric chair. The "Mercy Seat" refers both to the throne of God in the heavens, which the man feels he will soon visit, and to the electric chair. The song is laden with allusions to Christianity; in the Old Testament, the mercy seat is the symbol of the throne of God over the Ark of the Covenant.
Leonard Cohen ........ FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT ( The song is written in the form of a letter, and tells the story of a love triangle between the speaker, a woman named Jane, and the addressed person, who is identified only briefly as, "my brother, my killer." Implied in the song is that Jane was either engaged to or married to the speaker, but after the events, "And you treated my woman to a flake of your life, and when she came back she was nobody's wife."
Later in the song, the speaker admits that he is partially grateful for the affair, because Jane had been troubled, and the affair alleviated it when he hadn't been able to )
Nick Drake - DAY IS DONE (1948-1974) Although he failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, Drake's work has gradually achieved wider notice and recognition; he now ranks among the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years .
Pink Floyd ......... WISH YOU WERE HERE ( is the title track on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. The song's lyrics encompass writer Roger Waters' feelings of alienation from other people. Like most of the album, it refers to former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett and his breakdown ( He was The Crazy Diamond ). The main riff came to David Gilmour at home while playing on an acoustic guitar, and it became something which he continued to play in-between takes at Abbey Road Studios where it caught the attention of Roger Waters. They collaborated to complete the song, as Waters had already written some lyrics. In 2004, the song was ranked #316 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time )
Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac - BLACK MAGIC WOMAN (Nothing beats hearing the original version of a song .... Green [the composer of the song] inspired B. B. King to say, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard ; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats").
Neil Young ............ OLD MAN
Crowded House ..... FALL AT YOUR FEET
Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue ........... WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW
Luke Kelly ........ SCORN NOT HIS SIMPLICITY
Limp Bizkit ....... BEHIND BLUE EYES ( Its always nice when someone combines a beautiful song with footage from a great movie [UNDERWORLD EVOLUTION].
Sting ........ SHAPE OF MY HEART (Once again , beautiful music and a great movie [LEON])
Craig David ......... RISE AND FALL ( I dont often like samples , but in this case I think Craig David has done a nice job .... and seeing as this Sting track has been sampled by a dozen or more bands , well ..... it must have something )
u2 ......... ONE
From my favorite album of all time " AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER " by Counting Crows ..... could have picked almost any song off this album .
Fun Lovin Criminals .......... SCOOBY SNACKS ( This always cheers me up )
The Fray ........... HOW TO SAVE A LIFE
Bryan Ferry/Roxy music ............ AVALON
The Mercy Seat ....... NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS (This is the Johnny Cash cover)
The song tells the story of a man about to be executed by the electric chair. The "Mercy Seat" refers both to the throne of God in the heavens, which the man feels he will soon visit, and to the electric chair. The song is laden with allusions to Christianity; in the Old Testament, the mercy seat is the symbol of the throne of God over the Ark of the Covenant.
Leonard Cohen ........ FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT ( The song is written in the form of a letter, and tells the story of a love triangle between the speaker, a woman named Jane, and the addressed person, who is identified only briefly as, "my brother, my killer." Implied in the song is that Jane was either engaged to or married to the speaker, but after the events, "And you treated my woman to a flake of your life, and when she came back she was nobody's wife."
Later in the song, the speaker admits that he is partially grateful for the affair, because Jane had been troubled, and the affair alleviated it when he hadn't been able to )
Nick Drake - DAY IS DONE (1948-1974) Although he failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, Drake's work has gradually achieved wider notice and recognition; he now ranks among the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years .
Pink Floyd ......... WISH YOU WERE HERE ( is the title track on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. The song's lyrics encompass writer Roger Waters' feelings of alienation from other people. Like most of the album, it refers to former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett and his breakdown ( He was The Crazy Diamond ). The main riff came to David Gilmour at home while playing on an acoustic guitar, and it became something which he continued to play in-between takes at Abbey Road Studios where it caught the attention of Roger Waters. They collaborated to complete the song, as Waters had already written some lyrics. In 2004, the song was ranked #316 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time )
Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac - BLACK MAGIC WOMAN (Nothing beats hearing the original version of a song .... Green [the composer of the song] inspired B. B. King to say, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard ; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats").
Neil Young ............ OLD MAN
Crowded House ..... FALL AT YOUR FEET
Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue ........... WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW
Luke Kelly ........ SCORN NOT HIS SIMPLICITY
Limp Bizkit ....... BEHIND BLUE EYES ( Its always nice when someone combines a beautiful song with footage from a great movie [UNDERWORLD EVOLUTION].
Sting ........ SHAPE OF MY HEART (Once again , beautiful music and a great movie [LEON])
Craig David ......... RISE AND FALL ( I dont often like samples , but in this case I think Craig David has done a nice job .... and seeing as this Sting track has been sampled by a dozen or more bands , well ..... it must have something )
u2 ......... ONE
From my favorite album of all time " AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER " by Counting Crows ..... could have picked almost any song off this album .
Fun Lovin Criminals .......... SCOOBY SNACKS ( This always cheers me up )
The Fray ........... HOW TO SAVE A LIFE
Bryan Ferry/Roxy music ............ AVALON
Radiohead ............... STREET SPIRIT (FADE OUT)
Gorillaz ............ DARE
Dolly Parton ........ EAGLE WHEN SHE FLIES (For my Mother)
Tuli Kupferberg and The Fugs ........ CIA MAN ( who said that Malcolm McLaren invented punk ?)
"Hurricane" is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy, about the imprisonment of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. It compiles alleged acts of racism and profiling against Carter, which Dylan describes as leading to a false trial and conviction . Dylan had been inspired to write it after reading Carter's autobiography, The Sixteenth Round, which Carter had sent him "because of his prior commitment to the civil rights struggle." After meeting with Carter in prison and meeting a group of his supporters, Dylan began to write "Hurricane" in a "cinematic" style. This song was one of Dylan's few protest songs of the 1970s and was his fourth most successful single of the 70s, reaching #33 on the Billboard chart and #43 in the UK chart.
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