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• Song of the Day #1,602: ‘Feel of the World’ – Tift Merritt

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  This week of personal songs comes to an end with a very moving track about the end of life. Tift Merritt wrote this track from 2010′s See You On the Moon about her grandfather, who lost his wife of many decades. I’ve obviously never faced this situation myself, but it [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,601: ‘When I Was a Boy (Live)’ – Dar Williams

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  Today’s SOTD is one of my very favorite songs. I’ve already featured it on the blog in its studio form so today I’ve chosen a live version that mirrors the original. The first three songs I’ve written about this week discussed adolescent romance, adult romance and married life. Today’s song [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,600: ‘Practical Amanda’ – Ben Folds

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  Author Nick Hornby (one of my favorites) teamed up with Ben Folds (likewise) on the 2010 album Lonely Avenue. Hornby penned a bevy of powerful, emotional songs — along with some very funny ones — but the one that feels the most familiar to me is ‘Practical Amanda.’ This song [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,599: ‘Only Wanna Be With You’ – Hootie & The Blowfish

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  Of all the songs I’m writing about over the next couple of weeks, this throwaway pop hit by Hootie & The Blowfish is the one that I most felt was written with me in mind. In 1994, I was a couple of years into my relationship with the woman who [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,598: ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ – The Beach Boys

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  Often on YouTube, I’ll see comments on song clips that read something like “This song was written about my life!” or “This describes exactly how I feel about [fill in the blank].” Plenty of people out there, it seems, see their own feelings and experiences in the lyrics of songs [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,597: ‘Lady Stardust’ – David Bowie

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  I’ve featured only one David Bowie song on this blog, and that was nearly four years ago. There is definitely a Bowie-sized hole in my music collection. I never got around to exploring Bowie’s discography the way I’ve dug back into, say, The Rolling Stones. He remains a mystery, floating [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,596: ‘Most of the Time’ – Bob Dylan

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  When this song came up in the random rotation, I was certain I’d featured it before. But apart from a cover version by a hot chick on a ukulele, I have not. ‘Most of the Time’ is Exhibit A (or maybe Exhibit B, with ‘Man in the Long Black Coat’ [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,595: ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ – The Family

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  I’ll finish off the week with another cover I didn’t know was a cover. I certainly knew Sinead O’Connor’s smash ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ was written by Prince (the number ’2′ and the letter ‘U’ are kind of a giveaway). But I didn’t realize that it had been previously recorded [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,594: ‘Unchained Melody’ – Todd Duncan

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  In keeping with yesterday’s theme, today I’m writing about another song I never knew was a cover until discovering that fact through SongPop. Like most people of my generation, my first real exposure to ‘Unchained Melody’ was through the pottery scene in Ghost. Demi Moore, at her hottest, straddled the [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,593: ‘Torn’ – Ednaswap

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  One of the SongPop categories I’ve recently unlocked is ‘Best Covers.’ The selections include many of the tracks you’d expect — Jimi Hendrix’s ‘All Along the Watchtower’ and Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect,’ for example — but also some surprises. For example, did you know that ‘Torn,’ the 1997 hit by Natalie [...]
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