AtiBlog: Five Songs for the Weekend

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Five Songs for the Weekend - XXX -

Here is the 30th "weekend songs post" and that means a hefty 150 songs that I have tried to make you listen to. I always wonder what a song means to someone. Do most people get a similar feeling out of a song when they first hear it? I wish there was a way to find out...

I recently watched a great movie named "A Boy Called Sailboat" that tells the story of a boy writing a song for his grandmother on a ukulele he found somewhere. Do certain songs have magical powers in people's minds or hearts? Well the movie was much deeper than that and included a great deal of symbols and metaphors but I think I concentrated more on the healing power of music.

As Arnold Bennett once wrote on music;

“Its language is a language which the soul alone understands,
but which the soul can never translate. ”

And now, this week's list;