My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 88 – We’re in Autumn edition is now on mixcloud. Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs new editions the first and third Monday of the month, 3-4pm (London time), respective repeats second and fourth Monday of the month, same hour, on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
We’re in Autumn in a simple, mostly gentle an autumnal programme, mixing genres, but essentially staying with songs of the indie-alternative and folk universe. You can read more about the programme here.
Tracklist: 01: Bill Callahan – The Man I’m Supposed to Be 02: Citizen – Yellow Love 03: Duncan Browne – A Dwarf In A Tree (A Cautionary Tale) 04: Guns N’ Roses – November Rain 05: Iron & Wine – Autumn Town Leaves 06: Karen Dalton – How Sweet It Is 07: Moe Bandy – Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life 08: New Order – Blue Moon 09: The Greenhorns – There Is An End 10: R.E.M. – So. Central Rain 11: The Kinks – Autumn Almanac 12: The Tears – Two Creatures 13: Xico Gaiato ft. Rossana | Roda da Máscara 14: Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 88 – We’re in Autumn edition and Monday 17 November 2025, 3-4pm (London time), repeat November 24, same hour on Yé Yé Radio: http://yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
We’re in Autumn in a simple, mostly gentle an autumnal programme, mixing genres, but essentially staying with songs of the indie-alternative and folk universe. Including the, for me, new Duncan Browne.
Although it’s November, and it’s raining, therefore Guns N’ Roses’ ballad November Rain makes an appearance. And a nudge to the mighty Hank Williams with Moe Bandy’ Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life.
Tracklist: 01: Bill Callahan – The Man I’m Supposed to Be 02: Citizen – Yellow Love 03: Duncan Browne – A Dwarf In A Tree (A Cautionary Tale) 04: Guns N’ Roses – November Rain 05: Iron & Wine – Autumn Town Leaves 06: Karen Dalton – How Sweet It Is 07: Moe Bandy – Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life 08: New Order – Blue Moon 09: The Greenhorns – There Is An End 10: R.E.M. – So. Central Rain 11: The Kinks – Autumn Almanac 12: The Tears – Two Creatures 13: Xico Gaiato ft. Rossana | Roda da Máscara 14: Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
There’s a repeat of my radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights – The It’s a New Year, Let’s Dance edition Monday 30th, 3-4-pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
I wish you all a happy, joy filled, peaceful 2025.
Tracklist: 01 – Império Pacífico – Aftershow feat. Panda Bear 02 – Zirkus Maximus – Jean et Luc 03 – Kai Bosch – Be Right Back 04 – Ladytron – City of Angels 05 – Altered Images – Glitter Ball 06 – Hercules & Love Affair – Painted Eyes (Inflagranti Remix) 07 – WhoMadeWho – Inside World 08 – Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Round 09 – Yellow Magic Orchestra – Rydeen 10 – Depeche Mode – Behind The Wheel (Vince Clarke Remix) 11 – Korean Boyfriend – Greedy Happiness 12 – New Order – Round and Round 13 – Dead Method – Femme! 14 – ABBA – Dancing Queen (Club Remix)
My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #64 – The Grandeur of Ghosts edition can now be listened to on mixcloud. It is a good soundtrack for today, 25 de Abril (April 25), is the day my country stopped being a dictatorship 50 years ago. April 25 is also Anzac (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day. The programme includes Portuguese songs connected to 25 de Abril, an instrumental track from Mick Harvey’s Waves of Anzac and other anti war songs, instrumentals and poems from Siegfried Sassoon and Federico Garcia Lorca. You can read more about the programme here: https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2024/04/21/amazing-songs-other-delights-64-the-grandeur-of-ghosts-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-radio-ye-ye-monday-22nd/
Tracklist: 01 – Johnny Mandel – Suicide is Painless (from M.A.S.H.) 02 – Credence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son 03 – The Cranberries – Zombie 04 – Golpe de Estado – Rev 25 05 – JP Simões – Mudam-se os Tempos Mudaram-se as Vontades feat. Ruca Rebordão, Nuno Ferreira, Márcio Pinto, Pedro Pinto (José Mario Branco song) 06 – Mick Harvey – Vietnam 07 – José Afonso – Grândola Vila Morena 08 – Vivian Kubrick – Ruins (Full Metal Jacket soundtrack) 09 – New Order – Love Vigilantes 10 – Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun (live at the Filmore East,1st night, 31.12.1969) 11 – Jacques Brel – La colombe 12 – Siegfried Sassoon – Suicide in the Trenches read by Stephen Graham 13 – Paulo de Carvalho – E Depois do Adeus 14 – The Libertines – Shiver 15 – Federico Garcia Lorca – Balada de la gran guerra by Joan Mora 16 – Amália Rodrigues – Zé Soldado, Soldadinho 17 – R.E.M. – Orange Crush 18- Elvis Costello – Shipbuilding 19 – Tom Waits – Day After Tomorrow 20 – Manic Street Preachers – Suicide is Painless, Theme for M.A.S.H.
The Grandeur of Ghosts by Siegfried Sassoon
When I have heard small talk about great men I light my two candles; climb to bed; then Consider what was said; and put aside What Such-a-one remarked, and Someone-else replied.
They have spoken lightly of my deathless friends, (Lamps for my gloom, hands guiding where I stumble,) Quoting, for shallow conversational ends, What Shelley shrilled, what Blake once wildly muttered…
How can they use such names and be not humble ? I have sat silent; angry at what they uttered. The dead bequeathed them life; the dead have said What these can only memorise and mumble.
The Grandeur of Ghosts is the name of a poem by Sigfried Sassoon, one of World War One (WWI) poets. As WWI continue, Siegfried start to see it as conflict prolonged by those in power who had no regard for everyone else, soldiers or civilians. A reality that has been repeated before and since.My country, Portugal, was a dictatorship from 1928 to April 25 1974. This year 50 years of democracy are celebrated. During the dictatorship Portugal was engaged in a Colonial war from 1961 to 1974. Many young men, my dad included were sent to it. Many men, my dad included, would leave the war and go to exile, only being allowed to return a few years after the end of the dictatorship.The songs and poems on this programme are from various countries, in different languages, addressing different wars or connected to the coup d’etat that ended Estado Novo, the Portuguese dictatorship.E Depois do Adeus that had won Festival da Canção in 1974 had no censurable lyrics and was the first signal for the troops to know it was ok to star move towards Lisboa and depose the regimen. It was played at 22:25 hours on April 24 on Emissores Associados de Lisboa. Grândola Vila Morena, the second signal, greenlighting the go ahead was played at 00:20 hours on Rádio Renascença. Red carnations are the symbol of 25 de Abril commonly called A Revolução dos Cravos (The Carnations Revolution).
Tracklist:
01 – Johnny Mandel – Suicide is Painless (from M.A.S.H.)
02 – Credence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
03 – Cranberries – Zombie
04 – Golpe de Estado – Rev 25
05 – JP Simões – Mudam-se os Tempos Mudaram-se as Vontades feat. Ruca Rebordão, Nuno Ferreira, Márcio Pinto, Pedro Pinto
(José Mario Branco song)
06 – Mick Harvey – Vietnam
07 – José Afonso – Grândola Vila Morena
08 – Vivian Kubrick – Ruins (Full Metal Jacket soundtrack)
09 – New Order – Love Vigilantes
10 – Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun (live at the Filmore East,1st night, 31.12.1969)
11 – Jacques Brel – La colombe
12 – Siegfried Sassoon – Suicide in the Trenches read by Stephen Graham
13 – Paulo de Carvalho – E Depois do Adeus
14 – The Libertines – Shiver
15 – Federico Garcia Lorca – Balada de la gran guerra by Joan Mora
16 – Amália Rodrigues – Zé Soldado, Soldadinho
17 – R.E.M. – Orange Crush
18- Elvis Costello – Shipbuilding
19 – Tom Waits – Day After Tomorrow
20 – Manic Street Preachers – Suicide is Painless, Theme for M.A.S.H.Tracklist: 01 – Johnny Mandel – Suicide is Painless (from M.A.S.H.) 02 – Credence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son 03 – Cranberries – Zombie 04 – Golpe de Estado – Rev 25 05 – JP Simões – Mudam-se os Tempos Mudaram-se as Vontades feat. Ruca Rebordão, Nuno Ferreira, Márcio Pinto, Pedro Pinto (José Mario Branco song) 06 – Mick Harvey – Vietnam 07 – José Afonso – Grândola Vila Morena 08 – Vivian Kubrick – Ruins (Full Metal Jacket soundtrack) 09 – New Order – Love Vigilantes 10 – Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun (live at the Filmore East,1st night, 31.12.1969) 11 – Jacques Brel – La colombe 12 – Siegfried Sassoon – Suicide in the Trenches read by Stephen Graham 13 – Paulo de Carvalho – E Depois do Adeus 14 – The Libertines – Shiver 15 – Federico Garcia Lorca – Balada de la gran guerra by Joan Mora 16 – Amália Rodrigues – Zé Soldado, Soldadinho 17 – R.E.M. – Orange Crush 18- Elvis Costello – Shipbuilding 19 – Tom Waits – Day After Tomorrow 20 – Manic Street Preachers – Suicide is Painless, Theme for M.A.S.H.
The Grandeur of Ghosts by Siegfried Sassoon
When I have heard small talk about great men I light my two candles; climb to bed; then Consider what was said; and put aside What Such-a-one remarked, and Someone-else replied.
They have spoken lightly of my deathless friends, (Lamps for my gloom, hands guiding where I stumble,) Quoting, for shallow conversational ends, What Shelley shrilled, what Blake once wildly muttered…
How can they use such names and be not humble ? I have sat silent; angry at what they uttered. The dead bequeathed them life; the dead have said What these can only memorise and mumble.
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