21 SONGS ABOUT FREEDOM

Leo Blanchette.

Freedom is a concept close to everybody’s heart; therefore it is no wonder, that so many people have written songs about it.

Here is a compiled list of my personal favourites. They are listed because I believe they give a strong message and get a positive statement across. Do take your time and look these up and have a listen. What do you think? Are your favourite songs about freedom listed? Or can you think of any more that you like?

1. Stevie Wonder – Free
2. The Cinematic Orchestra – Talking about Freedom
3. Fontella Bass – Talking About Freedom
4. Arethra Franklin – Think Freedom
5. Bob Marley – Get up, stand up
6. Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
7. Boy George – Pentonville Blues
8. George Michael – Freedom
9. Jimi Hendrix – Freedom
10. The Soup Dragons – I’m Free
11. Paul McCartney – Freedom
12. David Bowie – Changes
13. Bob Dylan – Blowing in the wind
14. Run Kid Run -  Freedom
15. K’naan – Give me freedom, give me fire
16. Queen – I want to break free
17. Elton John – Philadelphia Freedom
18. Erasure – Freedom
19. Jurassic 5 – Freedom
20. Akon – Freedom
21. Lighthouse Family - I wish I know how it would feel to be free

20 LOVE SONGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE HEARD FOR A WHILE

1. You belong to me - Dean Martin
2. Close to You -The Carpenters
3. Old Devil Called Love - Alison Moyet
4. Lovestruck - Duffy
5. I do - Jewel
6. Hero - Enrique Iglasias
7. Here with me - Dido
8. Hello - Lionel Richie
9. Only you - Alison Moyet
10. Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
11. Miracle of love - Eurythmics
12. Is it love? - Nadia Ali
13. Nine billion bicycles - Katy Melua
14. Runaway - The Corrs
15. What’s Love Got To Do With it - Tina Turner
16. Take my breath away- Berlin
17. Is this love? - Alison Moyet
18. Eternal Flame - Bangles
19. Three Times A Lady - The Commodores
20. Broken Wings - Mr Mister

If you are making a playlist, I hope you can find plenty of music you like, either from this list, or from my initial lists at:  

http://itsallaboutambivalence.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-romantic-songs-both-obvious-and.html

I-Tunes a guilty pleasure

I-Tunes has put a stop to randomly buying CDs just for one song. However it's a shame if you love one song by a band and cannot get into any of their other stuff. I-Tunes appeals to the spontaneous and compulsive in your nature.  There is the instant gratification and thrill of having new music in a moment, rather than going out in all weathers. A single click and you only spend 0.99p. It's only 0.99p so why not click "yes" when asked if you are sure about downloading it. It's a good job that's there as you wouldn't want to download something by mistake. A while later an e-mail receipt arrives. "How did it get to that much? I only did a couple of downloads!"

Sigh… All is justified when you re-listen to the new music and realise you have expanded your music knowledge. New music enhances your creativity by creating new playlists. “Chill-out music”, “dinner table music”, “music to give you a boost”… You could be spending more if you were out for the day, or out for the evening. At least every song is a song you know you like and only got for the right reasons, rather than being on a compilation CD. Yet these playlist CDs somehow never look professional even though you have paid for the content. Will this I-pod ever fill up? I bet that could happen one day, but it’s safe for now (as long as you don’t add podcasts).

Why not buy the CD album, as it's criminal to download actual albums (unless you need it urgently)