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January 7

Week 139: “Trouble” by Cat Stevens

By the end of 1967, Cat Stevens was doing pretty well for himself. His first…

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December 31

Week 138: “A Change Is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke

New Year’s is about change. And change is a big, complicated, mixed bag of emotions.…

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December 24

Week 137: “Christmas Song” by Mogwai

There were certain things I could always count on during the Christmas season when I…

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December 17

Week 136: “Let It Be” by The Beatles

I’m sure all the Beatles fans out there would agree that it’s about time I…

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December 10

Week 135: “White Keys” by Chilly Gonzalez

Lots of people hate winter. It’s cold, it’s dark, and the novelty of snow quickly…

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December 3

Week 134: “How Do You Really Feel?” by Breakestra

If you’ve been spending years trying to become reasonably good at an instrument, but still…

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November 26

Week 133: “One Note Samba” by Antonio Carlos Jobim

I couldn’t let Southern Hemisphere Month go by without including a bossa nova track. Bossa…

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November 19

Week 132: “Two Hearts In 3/4 Time” by The Avalanches

We’re three-quarters of the way through Southern Hemisphere Month, so it’s only fitting that we…

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November 12

Week 131: “Settle Down” by Kimbra

Southern Hemisphere Month here at BSOTW continues with New Zealand’s eccentric Kimbra. You may remember…

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November 5

Week 130: “Last Tango In Paradise” by Goldfish

Up to this point, this blog has been heavily biased in favour of bands from…

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October 29

Week 129: “Over the Rainbow” by Judy Garland

The desire to be somewhere else (or someone else) has never been more perfectly captured…

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October 22

Week 128: “Sweet Unrest” by Apparat

I went to the watch store the other day. The battery in my watch had…

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October 15

Week 127: “Changeling” by DJ Shadow

When the unmanned Voyager space probe was flung into space in 1977, with the hopes…

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October 8

Week 126: “La Vie En Rose” by Yves Montand

Here are five things that I didn’t know about the iconic French crooner Yves Montand:…

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October 1

Week 125: “Symphony #5, Third Movement” by Dmitry Shostakovich

I would love to tell you that I discovered this piece because I was researching…

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September 24

Week 124: “Only In Dreams” by Weezer

There are a lot of Weezer fans who hate Weezer. Recent research (ie. an afternoon…

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September 17

Week 123: “Pour Que L’Amour Me Quitte” by Camille

Camille is strange. But it’s a good strange. It’s the kind of strange that draws…

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September 10

Week 122: “Sa Sa Samoa” by Korallreven

Raise your hand if you have ever asked yourself, “…gee, if Enya owned a nightclub…

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September 3

Week 121: “We’re Going To Be Friends” by The White Stripes

The playground at my elementary school was enormous. Two horseshoe-shaped hills, connected by bridges, encircled…

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August 27

Week 120: “Three To Get Ready” by Dave Brubeck

Everything about the album Time Out is fascinating to me. For starters, it was barely…

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