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Oscars best original song winners
Randy Newman – If I Didn’t Have You (Monsters, Inc, 2001)Alan Menken and Howard Ashman – Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid, 1989)Alan Menken and Tim Rice – A Whole New World (Aladdin, 1992)Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington – The Ballad of High Noon (High Noon,...
Bjork / Arnold Schoenberg
Bjork "Hidden Place" (2001) Vespertine Arnold Schoenberg "Verklarte Nach op.4-1" (1899) Verklärte Nacht ("Transfigured Night") was inspired by a mystical poem by Richard Dehmel.
Costello’s 500
From Abba to Zamballarana, and from Mozart to Eminem, one of rock’s finest talents has identified 500 albums essential to a happy life. It was a long, tortuous undertaking, but the man knows music (and his aim is true) BY Elvis Costello.
Roberta Flack
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/roberta-flack-first-take/ (Rembrandt , the Nightwatch , 1642)