Hawai'i '78 Introduction, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

What does this track make me want to write about?  Shall I write about my attempt - not yet formally abandoned - to learn to play the Ukulele?  Shall I write about our trip through the Pacific?  Or shall I write about inheritance - cultural and genetic?  

Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits

One of the reasons I've set myself the challenge of writing this blog is to try to learn how to avoid cliché.  However, then I come up against this track, and it's hard to know how to write anything other than some sort of stream of cliché consciousness.  

Cheek to Cheek, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

It's possible that you've heard this.  If you haven't, you probably think you have - you probably think you know exactly how this sounds.  And you'd be about half right.  

I Try, Macy Gray

There are a few artists whose voice is unique and instantly recognisable.  Macy Gray belongs to that category.  To be honest, I'm not even sure what she's doing with it - the closest I can get is that it is really a nasal growl.  Which, of course, does immense injustice to the instrument it becomes here in this song.