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My top 30 songs of 2024 – and my 10 favourite covers

Phil Shaw presents his favourite 30 songs from 2024: from John Cale and MJ Lenderman to Arooj Aftab and Lemon Twigs. Plus: his top covers

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Dec 13

Songs Of The Week 2024: Take 5

Maloney’s most intimate and vulnerable collection of songs will be released on January 31, five years after her last full-length offering

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Nov 4

From The Beatles to Pink Floyd: My Desert Island Discs

The beauty of doing Desert Island Discs this way is you don’t have to tell Lauren Laverne about whether you were happy in your childhood

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Oct 25

Songs Of The Week 2024: Take 4

Written by Becky Unthank to the old American folk tune of Nettleton, it slowly builds towards a choral climax with the voices of 60 devotees

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Aug 24

Songs Of The Week 2024: Take 3

As Little says, this album was 46 years in the making: a life so thoroughly lived in has produced an outstanding set of authentic songs

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Jun 15

Songs Of The Week 2024: Take 2

The journey to self-discovery can be a perilous one and few songwriters articulate the pitfalls more eloquently than Josienne Clarke

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Mar 21

Songs Of The Week 2024: Take 1

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Giving: Cara Dillon In my pocket, I found from you A handful of our memories Cara Dillon’s mother,...

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Dec 21, 2023

Songs Of The Week 2023: Take 5

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Albert’s Place: Martyn Joseph Two of my favourite songs of the year were inspired by the same...

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Dec 18, 2023

My top 30 songs of 2023

Phil Shaw 1 California – CMAT A soaring voice, funny lyric and great tune from the excellent album Crazymad, For Me – all the work of...

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Oct 27, 2023

Songs Of The Week 2023: Take 4

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK The Insider: Robert Vincent Who to trust? It is one of the questions of our times, whether it’s our...

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Aug 26, 2023

Songs Of The Week 2023: Take 3

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Glory: Gabriels His baritone is just as spine-tingling as his falsetto. When Jacob Lusk sings, the...

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Jun 3, 2023

Songs Of The Week 2023: Take 2

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Where The Song Will Find Me: Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams is still recovering from the effects...

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Mar 25, 2023

Songs Of The Week 2023: Take 1

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK I Wanna Love You (But I Can’t Right Now): Bennett Wilson Poole With their eagerly anticipated...

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Dec 29, 2022

Anaïs Mitchell: Another Song Of The Week from my album of 2022

Neil Morton We just had to see out the old year with an extra helping of Anaïs Mitchell. Our Song Of The Week at herecomesthesong.com is...

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Dec 24, 2022

Songs Of The Week 2022: Take 4

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Robin: Dominie Hooper 2023 should be a landmark year for indie folk singer-songwriter Dominie...

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Dec 21, 2022

My Top 30 Songs of 2022

Phil Shaw 1 Point Me Toward the Real – Ezra Furman The story of a fragile character re-entering the world after being collected from a...

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Sep 25, 2022

Songs Of The Week 2022: Take 3

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Meet Me In The Silence: Susan O’Neill Irish singer-songwriter Susan O’Neill’s beguiling vocal and...

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Jun 25, 2022

Songs Of The Week 2022: Take 2

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Spit Of You: Sam Fender Indie rocker Sam Fender’s piercing observations on his North Shields roots...

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Mar 26, 2022

Songs Of The Week 2022: Take 1

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK She Sang Songs: Track Dogs Acoustic roots band Track Dogs have named She Sang Songs as one of their...

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Dec 24, 2021

Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 5

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK 4th Day Prayer: Allison Russell Allison Russell’s first solo album, Outside Child, has made such an...

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Dec 16, 2021

My Top 20 songs of 2021

Phil Shaw 1 Bloomsday – Samantha Crain Anthem to hope and a glistening beauty from the Choctaw songwriter, taking its title from James...

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Dec 13, 2021

Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 4

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Bright Star: Anaïs Mitchell Bright Star sounds as if it might be a Christmas single but the Anaïs...

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Sep 25, 2021

Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 3

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK The Nameless: Jacob and Drinkwater Alt-folk duo Tobias ben Jacob and Lukas Drinkwater have captured...

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Jun 27, 2021

Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 2

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Soho: vulpes (Maz O’Connor) Inhabiting the alter ego of vulpes, London-based songwriter Maz...

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Mar 27, 2021

Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 1

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Deserving: John Smith John Smith’s new album The Fray has arrived like vaccine for the soul. The...

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Feb 27, 2021

A ride called nostalgia: My 20 favourite fairground songs

Phil Shaw The funfair, as distinct from the carnival and circus, has provided a rich seam of material for songwriters. Surprisingly, a...

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Dec 24, 2020

My Songs of the Year: From Gabriels to Dylan and The Avalanches

Phil Shaw 1: Love And Hate In A Different Time – Gabriels An extraordinary song for momentous times from the Los Angeles trio. Yes, there...

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Dec 19, 2020

Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 3

When Rosanne Cash sings ‘Deliver me from tweets and lies’, there can be only one person she has in mind. But her timely new track, Crawl…

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Aug 30, 2020

Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 2

Rhiannon Giddens always sings passionately about racial and social injustice, from slavery to civil rights. Now she takes on the gaslighters

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May 16, 2020

From Aretha to Nina via The Czars: My top 50 greatest cover versions

Cover versions can be divisive, among bands as well as fans; I recall Graham Nash fleeing The Hollies over their decision to record an LP of

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Apr 27, 2020

Boss class: My fifty favourite songs by Bruce Springsteen

Inspired by a recent Guardian piece by Alexis Petridis, listing the best 50 Bob Dylan songs, here is my (very subjective) top half-century…

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Apr 17, 2020

Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 1

In My Room: a perfect title to describe the humble songwriter’s location of necessity during the global shutdown. From their rooms they've…

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Feb 17, 2020

Oddball's Coming Home: 10 leftfield songs about sport

A 1968 single by Townshend, Daltrey, Entwhistle and Moon, and a relative flop which peaked at No25, Dogs is about greyhound racing, beer…

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Dec 29, 2019

Songs Of The Week 2019: Take 2

We all need a harmonious new year after the dissonance of 2019, and who better to provide a message of hope and empathy than The Secret Sis…

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Jul 31, 2019

Dolly, the Cameroon connection and the power of storytelling

Cameroon’s Bamenda Highlands is a vibrant, verdant region awash with life. Rust-red tracks cut through mountainous forests that brim with…

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Jul 8, 2019

Songs Of The Week 2019: Take 1

The Boss takes a quiet slip road off E Street, transporting me back to Friday night treats in the late 50s-early 60s watching cowboy films…

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Dec 27, 2018

Songs and gongs of 2018

Our final Song Of The Week of 2018 is an encore from Anderson East's album of that name, the southern soul ballad This Too Shall Last…

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Dec 30, 2017

Six of the best from our 2017 Songs Of The Week playlist

We at Here Comes The Song have bombarded contributors, subscribers, readers and listeners with our Songs Of The Week by Twitter, Facebook…

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Dec 16, 2017

'Tis the season to be different: an alternative festive playlist

Presenting an alternative festive playlist… to show there's more to Christmas music than Noddy Holder, Roy Wood, Shakin’ Stevens and that…

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Oct 9, 2017

Flipside of The Beatles: From The Liverbirds to Rory Storm

The so-called Swinging Sixties weren’t just about The Beatles. No, no, no. Here are some of the finest – and perhaps less obvious – among…

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Aug 14, 2017

Indelible mark of Zevon: 10 more from the songwriter's songwriter

Surreal, darkly comic tale of revenge from the 1978 album Excitable Boy and the last song Warren Zevon played live, on The Late Show with…

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Jul 17, 2017

They say it's your birthday: 10 songs for a best wishes list

From their debut album Life’s Too Good. The Icelandic band fronted by Bjork are classed as alternative/indie; it's certainly alternative but

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Apr 11, 2017

London Recalling: 10 songs with capital locations in their title

There are fine homages to the pretty hilltop spot in NW3 by Madness and John and Beverley Martyn, but the former Mr Kate McGarrigle edges it

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Mar 22, 2017

The name-droppers: 10 songs that put the list into playlist

This strange 1991 single by the Irish indie band A House starts with the ‘singer’ recalling a quote: ‘All art is quite useless according to…

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Mar 15, 2017

Meet The Parentheses: 10 songs with brackets in the title

History tells us the Faces were falling apart by 1974, brought low by Ronnie Lane’s departure. Tellingly, for this final single they were…

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Jan 19, 2017

Welcome Mr Trump: A Playlist For The New President

‘There are those who build walls,’ sings Browne on Standing On The Breach, ‘and those who open doors.’ Don’t know which person or what part…

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Jan 19, 2017

Wish They Were Still Here: Cherished Songs Of The Departed

One of the all-time great storytellers, the Texan elder statesman paints extraordinary pictures about ordinary people and situations. This…

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Jan 18, 2017

Got It Covered: My 10 Favourite Renditions

One of the greatest pop songs of all time by one of the greatest singers covering yet another all-time great in Otis Redding. It couldn’t…

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