It's highly subjective, but we're throwing out there what songs, or pieces, give you that big physical or mental boost. So, what music puts a pep in your step? What pushes out the puissance, releases the pizzazz, flows the juice, brings vim, vitality, vigour, zest, zing or the zip?
Read moreSoft furnishings and soothing sounds: easy listening songs and music
Sit back, suggest and fill the lounge …
Lounge to exotica, Les Baxter to James Last, tiki bars to the space age, it’s a broad genre that extends into jazz, Latin and electronica and pop, across hotel bars, lifts and film sounds, so this week let’s relax with a cocktail, a soft chair and see what makes us get into the mood …
Read morePlaylists: songs featuring finger-clicking, toe-tapping and foot-stomping
The fabulous Nicholas Brothers
Foot stomping and clogging to the click of fingers, flamenco and castanets, these playlists, picked by guest Marco den Ouden from last week’s topic, take a tour of the world from Canada to Mexico, Spain to Japan, with music that’s right on tap
Read morePlaylists: songs where old and new eras combine
Spread of styles? Swan Lake Madness …
Intercutting genres with anything from musical saws to theremins, from electric to acoustic, jazz to hip hop, this week’s playlists, picked by guest Nilpferd, inspired by last week’s topic, truly traverse the ages
Read morePlaylists: songs containing indirect messages
Did Dusty get a message. How?
Rumour has it that there are a couple of great playlists around that totally nail the topic all about indirect communication, sometimes via a third party. Following last week’s topic, let’s just say that this week’s guest Olive Butler might be behind it …
Read moreWhat's going on now? Incidental music and songs …
Buster Keaton in The General
Silent or modern movie scenes to news footage, overture, underscore or background, suggest music or songs that suggests action going on, whether that's personal memory or a better known scenario
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