Month: December 2023

For tomorrow, Monday, January 1st,, Amazing Songs & Other Delighs is a repeat. Issue #5 The Poetry edition, 9ne of my favourite editions that fits beautifully on New Year’s Day. You can hear it on Yé Yé Radio: /yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app), 3-4pm (gmt).

The poetry edition starts with Marianne Faithfull reading Ode to a Nightingale by Keats with music by Warren Ellis and ends with The Smiths’ Cemetry Gates. Between those there are other 15 songs ranging from Suede’s Heroine to Amália Rodrigues singing Barco Negro, a fado with a David Mourão Ferreira poem, through The Cranberries, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Carla Bruni or Rufus Wainwright.

Tracklist:
01 – Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis – Ode to a Nightingale (Keats poem)
02 – Suede – Heroine (Byron She Walks in beauty 1st lines)
03 – The Cranberries – Yeats Grave
04 – Amália Rodrigues – Barco Negro (David Mourão-Ferreira poem)
05 – Secos & Molhados – Não não digas nada (Fernando Pessoa poem)
06 – Annie Lennox – Live With Me And Be My Love (Christopher Marlowe poem)
07 – The Waterboys – Stolen Child (Yeats poem)
08 – Bob Dylan – On the Road Again (Bob Dylan poem)
09 – Radio Bukowski – The Genius of The Crowd (Charles Bukowski poem)
10 – Carla Bruni – If You Were Coming In The Fall (Emily Dickinson poem)
11 – Rufus Wainwright – When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29th)
12 – Fagner – Fanatismo (Florbela Espanca poem)
13 – Ralph Schuckett and Richard Butler – Alabama song (Bertolt Brecht poem, Kurt Weill music)
14 – Patti Smith – Changing of the Guards (Bob Dylan cover and poem)
15 – Phil Ochs – The Bell (Edgar Allan Poe poem)
16 – Quilapayun – Complainte de Pablo Neruda
17 – The Smiths – Cemetry Gates (Keats, Yeats, Wilde came to play)