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New Dawn Fades. " New Dawn Fades " is a song by English rock band Joy Division from their 1979 debut album Unknown Pleasures. The song opens with a backwards and heavily modified sample from a previous song, "Insight", presumably added by Martin Hannett post-production. The song relies on an ascending guitar riff by Bernard Sumner played ...
“Some Velvet Morning” sounds like two songs spliced together by a madman, or an avant-garde short film in song form." [ 6 ] In August 2006, music critic Rob Mitchum placed the song at #49 spot on Pitchfork ' s list of the 200 greatest songs of the 1960s, saying "Even after thousands of listens, I still don’t know quite what to make of ...
A mondegreen (/ ˈ m ɒ n d ɪ ˌ ɡ r iː n / ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. [1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.
In 2022, American Songwriter ranked "Feeling Good" number one on their list of the 10 greatest Nina Simone songs, [13] and in 2023, The Guardian ranked the song number four on their list of the 20 greatest Nina Simone songs. [14] An official music video for Simone's version was released on YouTube 56 years after the release of her recording in ...
The Healing Game is the twenty-sixth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1997 by Polydor. It reached the Top Ten in four countries, and the Top Twenty in three more. Following two overtly jazz albums, it saw Morrison adding blues and a pop sensibility. [1] It is the only album recorded after 1980 which ...
Delta Dawn. " Delta Dawn " is a song written by musician Larry Collins and country songwriter Alex Harvey. [a] The first notable recording of the song was in 1971 by American singer and actress Bette Midler for her debut album The Divine Miss M. However it is best known as a 1972 top ten country hit for Tanya Tucker [1] and a 1973 US number one ...
The musicologist Cecil Sharp, influential in the folklore revival in England, noted in his 1916 One Hundred English Folksongs that the words are "so corrupt, indeed, that in some cases we can do little more than guess at their original meaning". [1] The song's origins and age are uncertain: however, a counting song with similar lyrics, but ...
My Ship. Composer Kurt Weill. " My Ship " is a popular song written for the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark, with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The music is marked "Andante espressivo"; Gershwin describes it as "orchestrated by Kurt to sound sweet and simple at times, mysterious and menacing at other".