Arms Of Eternity - a mix of great music from soft rock, rock and classic rock genres

This is an easy listening music compilation with tracks from soft rock, rock & classic rock genres.  I've included some southern hemisphere tracks from New Zealand music legend Dave Dobbyn and Aussie bands The Screaming Jets and The Church. 

Tracklist:

01 - Blue Collar - Bachman Turner Overdrive

02 - Sleeper Train - America

03 - Andersonville - Dave Alvin

04 - Don't Cry My Lady Love - Quicksilver Messenger Service

05 - Beyond Belief - Elvis Costello

06 - Happenstance - The Church

07 - October Grey - Screaming Jets

08 - Who We Are Right Now - Ron Sexsmith

09 - Get Started, Start A Fire - Graham Parker

10 - 14 Steps To Harlem - Garland Jeffreys

11 - Arms Of Eternity - Dave Dobbyn

12 - The Ecstacy Once Told - Dolly Rocker Movement

Arms Of Eternity

Brilliant Mistake - an interesting mix of songs spanning 35 years

This 12-song compilation was one of the more difficult ones that I've put together.  I'd been listening to Elvis Costello's album King Of America and was quite impressed with his vocals on "Brilliant Mistake", so I set myself the challenge of blending together some tunes from the 80's with those from more recent decades. 

So, using 'Brilliant Mistake' as the anchor tune - I selected music from the 80's through to current to see what I could come up with.  I quite liked Fever Ray's rendition of Peter Gabriel's 'Mercy Street' and chose that as the opening track followed closely by Robbie Robertson's 'Unbound' and then the remaining arrangement of tracks through to the final song 'Your Own Sweet Way' by the The Notting Hillbillies (Mark Knopfler).  It's a pretty laid back mix that introduces a layer of complexity that makes for an interesting listen - probably best after at least 1-2 drinks :-)

Tracklist:

01 - Mercy Street - Fever Ray

02 - Unbound - Robbie Robertson

03 - Is It Like Today - Eliza Gilkyson

04 - Don't Forget Me - Red Hot Chili Peppers

05 - Dear Life - Beck

06 - Last Train Out - Gooding

07 - Brilliant Mistake - Elvis Costello

08 - Vide Noir - Lord Huron

09 - Twist In My Sobriety - Tanita Tikaram

10 - December - Collective Soul

11 - Heartbeat - Zola Blood

12 - Your Own Sweet Way - Notting Hillbillies

Brilliant Mistake

Room With A View

This compilation is quite easy listening and is a mix of instrumental, pop, soft rock and rock.  It opens with a catchy instrumental from Blonker followed by a pop number from Kiwi artist Brooke Fraser and finishing up with a classic Cold Chisel track.  In-between are some well known artists as well as a classic from UFO.

Tracklist:

01 - Sidewalk Cafe - Blonker

02 - Kings & Queens - Brooke Fraser

03 - What I See - Planet P Project

04 - Belladona - UFO

05 - Upside of Down - Little Hurricane

06 - Room With A View - Tony Cary

07 - In A Broken Dream - Rod Stewart

08 - Cuts You Up - Peter Murphy

09 - Hazard - Richard Marx

10 - I Can't Understand - Los Lobos

11 - '74-'75 - The Connels

12 - Breakfast At Sweethearts - Cold Chisel

Room With A View

Melancholy Day

This week a work colleague and friend unexpectedly died and so it's been a bit of a sad week for me and those that I work with.  This compilation is one I put together some time back to play on those sad or 'meh' type days. Because I listen more to musical compositions rather than lyrics, the tracks I have chosen for this compilation are more about the feeling and emotion the music evokes.

Just a note to explain that I took the liberty to edit track 6 "The Park" by Uriah Heep. The original is fantastic but towards the end it goes off into a bit of a psychedelic digression, which is absolutely fine but for this compilation I felt that it changed the mood of the song and the overall feeling that I was trying to create with this collection of songs. So, I removed the psychedelic piece and closed the song out with a repeat of the first verse.  Apologies Ken Hensley for changing the composition of your beautiful song but I hope I have done it justice in the context that I've used it.

I will post something a bit brighter sometime over the weekend.

Tracklist:

01 - Hold The Light - Dierks Bentley (feat. S Carey)

02 - Old And Wise - Alan Parsons Project

03 - No Rest For The Wicked - Lykke Li

04 - Suddenly Cold - Greg Johnson

05 - Faded - Alan Walker

06 - The Park (Skylord99 edit) - Uriah Heep

07 - RIP (Millie) - Noiseworks

08 - By My Side - INXS

09 - All Good Things (Come To An End) - Nelly Furtado

10 - Days Of Rain - Blowsight

11 - Strange Kind Of Love - Peter Murphy

12 - Wrong Side - Chris Cornell

Melancholy Day

Afternoon Beers

This compilation is on a much lighter note compared with the two I posted last week.  As moods change, so does our taste in music - some days you need to have a blow-out with something heavy and other days something a bit lighter.  This compilation takes a mix of pop/rock/classic rock tracks along with a couple of oldies to bring together a mix that would be part of what I'd play on a sunny afternoon while I'm knocking back a few beers.

Tracklist:

01 - Show Me - Yes

02 - Come Said The Boy - Mondo Rock

03 - Riptide - Vance Joy

04 - Seagull - Bad Company

05 - Me And Magdelena - The Monkees

06 - Flying In The Face Of Love - Neil Finn

07 - Dance With Me - Orleans

08 - Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon

09 - Alien - Atlanta Rhythm Section

10 - Long White Cross - Pluto

11 - Walk On Water - Thirty Seconds To Mars

12 - Zombie - Finding Kate

Afternoon Beers