Beautiful Song Of The Week

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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August 20

Week 119: “At Last” by Etta James

The opening bars of “At Last” are as recognizable as any opening bars to any…

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August 13

Week 118: “UWM (feat. Leland Whitty)” by BadBadNotGood

Everything about BadBadNotGood seems designed to freak out old people. Their Bandcamp page proclaims that…

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August 6

Week 117: “Second Hand” by errunriv

I’ve always been interested in song titles. When I first heard this song, I assumed…

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July 30

Week 116: “You Only Live Twice” by Nancy Sinatra

This time last year, I recommended clearing your schedule and watching all the James Bond…

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July 23

Week 115: “Midnight Feast” by Mr. Scruff

About ten years ago, I was mindlessly sprawled in front of the television eating something…

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July 16

Week 114: “Orchestral Suite #3 in D, Air” by Johann Sebastian Bach

This is one of those pieces of music that everybody knows. If you’ve ever been…

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July 9

Week 113: “Sit Still” by Christopher Stopa

The first few months of 2012 were pretty strange for Christopher Stopa. A baker with…

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