- Entre Nous-Rush (Hoping that your path will interact gracefully with someone else's, despite your differences, manifests itself in lyrics such as, "We are planets to each other, drifting in our orbits to a brief eclipse...")
- Invisible Sun-The Police (If ever there were a day for the lyric, "Best to be an invisible sun...")
- Me, I Prefer The Moon-Jenny McCormick (McCormick sings thoughtfully about the moon's sometimes overlooked qualities.)
- Moon Song-Norah Jones (Jones ponders where the moon goes when you don't see it in this elegantly sung number.)
- Reaching For The Moon-Erin Bode (Bode sings this Irving Berlin song effectively, bringing out the depths of goals that sound like a stretch.)
- Rooty Toot Toot For The Moon-Michael Johnson (During its new age, "Breeze 97" days in the late '80s, KLTH 97.1 FM used to play this singer-songwriter track. In it, Johnson sings about the moon as "a pearl of wisdom, a slice of green cheese, burning just like kerosene.")
Monday, August 21, 2017
Fitting eclipse music
In honor of today's solar eclipse, here are six sun and moon-themed tunes that have come to my mind repeatedly in recent days: