Van Morrison’s 50 Greatest Songs Countdown – #30 I’ve been working

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Make me feel so good
Woman, woman, woman, woman, woman, woman, woman, woman
Make me feel alright[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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August 16: Sleeps with Angels by Neil Young and Crazy Horse was released in 1994

 

When dreams come crashing down like trees
I don’t know what love can do
When life is hanging in the breeze
I don’t know what love can do
My heart, my heart, I’ve got to keep my heart

 

August 16: Sleeps with Angels by Neil Young and Crazy Horse was released in 1994

 

This is an album that ranks among Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s best, and in effect it is “Tonight’s the night part 2”. It is a dark, brooding masterpiece, with many of the same themes as “Tonight’s…”. It is a record than explain to us why Neil Young have earned the honorary title, The Grunge Godfather.

Sleeps with angels (official video):

Sleeps With Angels is the twenty-second studio album by  Neil Young, his sixth with Crazy Horse, it was released on the Warner Bros. Records/Reprise (same as Tonight’s the Night by the way) label.

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Van Morrison’s 50 Greatest Songs Countdown – #32 Hard Nose The Highway

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Seen some hard times
Drawn some bad lines
No time for shoeshines
Hard nose the highway[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

HARD NOSE THE HIGHWAY: The title track of the first album over which Morrison said he had total artistic control is a stirring and powerful statement of intent. “Put your money where your mouth is / Then we can get something going,” he sings.

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Van Morrison’s 50 Greatest Songs Countdown – #34 You make me feel so free

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Always chasing some exotic bird
I prefer to spend some time just listening for that special something
That I’ve never ever heard
I like a new song to sing, another show or somewhere entirely different to be
But baby you make me feel so free[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Van Morrison’s 50 Greatest Songs Countdown – #36 Stranded

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It’s a world I don’t know
Got no where to go
Feels like I’m stranded[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Classic TV: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers VH1 Storytellers 1999

Tom Petty talks about how he wrote his songs, and even writes one on the spot (kind of)! This is episode 1 in season 4 of this classic TV-series. It shows us what a wonderful storyteller Tom Petty was, through his songs and in between. He was one of the nicest guys around, and a very talented songwriter. This VH1 episode gives us Tom Petty at the height of his powers performing to an intimate audience and explaining with humour the inspiration for his songs.

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