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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)

Narcissus

Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse (6 April 1849 – 10 February 1917)Genesis "Supper's Ready"  (1972) Walking across the sitting-room, I turn the television offSitting beside you, I look into your eyesAs the sound of motorcars fades in the night timeI swear...

Exit

Keith Jarrett Trio "Life Between The Exit Signs" 1968 / U2 "Exit" 1988  / Gloria Gaynor "You Can Exit" 1978 / Pearl Jam "Last Exit" 1994