❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

Day 26: 00s

George doesn't get enough credit for his work both with and after the Beatles, the man made some incredible music and just happened to be in bands with other musical geniuses (obvs John and Paul, but also with The Traveling Wilburys).

I've been excited to use a song from Brainwashed the whole month (and cool beans we get a lord reference, too). Many would say his best solo effort since All Things Must Pass (his first solo effort after the Beatles), and I'd agree with that.

Released posthumously, the album was finished by his son Dhani and Jeff Lynne using studio time George had booked to finish the album. Dhani knew the sounds George was looking for and was able to complete the album the way George wanted. Brainwashed went Gold in three countries and was well received by critics. Which is incredible considering it'd been 30+ years since the Beatles and 15 since any Harrison solo release. I'll leave with a quote from the AV Club...

"Harrison never seemed to recognize the difference between philosophical profundities and the sound of a catchy song, and that may have been his greatest gift to the world."

Any Road - George Harrison
 
Day 26: A song from the 00s

Truly a tough decision here. It was during the aughts that I began to really explore spirituality and paganism for myself. I found a YA fiction series that was about young Wiccans and that was a start in the right direction for me. A few years later, podcasts came about and I started listening to Druidcast and discovering all these amazing pagan musicians.

This was one of the bands that I found through that podcast. Spiral Dance is based out of Australia if I'm not mistaken and Spring is approaching there so it's not a bad time to share this song 😊

Brigid with your white wand sing
move us to the cusp of spring
see the ravens come on wing
'tis the time of quickening


Spiral Dance - The Quickening
 
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