Playlist 7

[stoutfellow]

Some odd ones, this time.

• Neither One Of Us, Gladys Knight. Another breakup song: "Neither one of us / Wants to be the first to say / Goodbye". I bought Motown: The Classic Years specifically to get this song.
• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack. One of her signature songs. I've been to very few popular-music concerts; one of the few was an outdoor concert by Flack in Chicago.
• Did We Not Choose Each Other, Sophie B. Hawkins. Another good  rhythm-driven love song from Hawkins.
• Ring Them Bells, Heart. An odd, prophetic song - "prophetic" in the original sense, not of foretelling but of challenge, invoking a veritable litany of saints.
• Flying Sorcery, Al Stewart. A song of farewell to a lost friend: "You were always Amy Johnson..."
• Alone, Heart. This is the Heart song that caught my attention; what attracted me was the way the tension that ends each verse shatters as she swings into the chorus.
• Song for a Winter's Night, Gordon Lightfoot. A quiet and beautiful hearthside love song.
• You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Dusty Springfield.
• Full of Grace, Sarah McLachlan. This one's in because of personal associations. At the end of the Buffy episode "Becoming, pt. 2", as Buffy allows herself to realize what she's just done, this song captures the moment. It always brings tears.
• The Piper, Abba. Another odd one. The Piper is the Great God Pan: "He seduced everybody in the land / With fire in his eyes / And the fear was a weapon in his hand". (Where did you think the word "panic" came from?)