The Book Of Coincidences

Sintra, Portugal. Songs and views.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Pink Floyd - san tropez, 1971

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"Unlike the other tracks on Meddle, "San Tropez" was not written collaboratively; instead, Roger Waters wrote the piece him...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Tame Impala - endors toi, 2012

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“Endors Toi” means “go to sleep” in French. The track delivers psychedelic satisfaction in the form of wandering synths, crashing drums an...

Cloud Studies - last night i fell again cover, 2025

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"Taking the loose feel of the original track and confining it to a much more rigid, thumping, song-serving, rhythmic framework – the ...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

The Beatles - ask me why, 1963

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"Written in early 1962, "Ask Me Why" is principally a John Lennon composition, but was credited to Lennon and Paul McCartne...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Renaissance - love goes on, 1971

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"The band recorded "Love Goes On", "Golden Thread", "Love Is All", and "Face of Yesterday" in...

Rilo Kiley - go ahead, 2001

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"This song is ultimately kinder than I was 20ish years ago, and because we see things not for what they are but as we are, my 18-year...

Kitchens Of Distinction - oak tree, 2013

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"Fitzgerald's impassioned, wordy, often bluntly personal vocals careened over what sounded like a mass of swirling guitars, thoug...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Neil Young - birds, 1970

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"You know, I don't edit my songs. I knew something was happening at the time that I wrote it to make that right, but I can't ...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

The Go-Betweens - a bad debt follows you, 1983

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"The Go-Betweens were already a good band well before they made Before Hollywood, but this second album is what proved for many liste...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

The Beatles - boys cover, 1963

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"Ringo always used to do a song in the show. Back then he had 'Boys'. It was a little embarrassing because it went, 'I...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

The The - perfect, 1983

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"Youthful angst and anomie are fine in their place, but not all over the place."
Monday, January 19, 2026

Pink Floyd - cirrus minor, 1969

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"It was written by Roger Waters and performed by David Gilmour on vocals and guitar and Rick Wright on organ. The song has a hallucin...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Genesis - in the beginning, 1969

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"This debut Genesis album, which has appeared under license to various labels in addition to Decca and London in different configurat...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

The Blue Nile - stay, 1984

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"I suppose to some extent that started to bleed into our own songs – there was more and more space in what we were doing"
Friday, January 16, 2026

The Go-Betweens - you've never lived, 1984

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"The song captures the Go-Betweens' signature style: literate, barbed lyrics delivered with a mix of jangly guitars, a restless r...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Neil Young - here we are in the years, 1969

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"The songs were gathered from the past and the future, mostly dreams, nothing concrete; they were mostly created as vehicles for reco...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

The Beatles - anna go to him cover, 1963

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"Despite the song's title, throughout the song the lyric is "go with him" rather than "go to him".[3] Regardi...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Beirut - baion, 2023

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"His sixth album as Beirut was conceived while he was living in an old wooden church on the Norwegian island of Hadseløya, seeking re...

Death Cab For Cutie - bend to squares, 1998

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"I’d like to think I’m a far better writer now than I was 10 years ago. When I first started the band, and I began writing in the way...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Hank Bee - ten twenty-three, 2026

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"I love writing at a window. Watching the world pass makes me feel like I’m watching a film (I also sometimes write while watching th...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Dubblestandart - chrome optimism oxygene dub part four, 2009

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"Dubblestandart is a dub reggae band from Vienna, Austria. They were founded in 1987 and achieved breakthrough success in 1992. The b...
Friday, January 9, 2026

Yot Club - human nature, 2024

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"dreamy, bedroom-pop energy that masks some pretty melancholic lyrics about love, loss, and the inevitability of people drifting apar...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Pink Floyd - the narrow way part three, 1969

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"Part three of the song features Gilmour's only vocal contribution to the studio part of the album. This final part was incorpora...

The Flaming Lips - chewin the apple of yer eye, 1993

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"The addition of guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd recharges the Flaming Lips' batteries for the superb Transmissio...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Neil Young - the loner, 1969

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"It's one of Young's most enduring early songs, blending acoustic folk elements with electric guitar flair and subtle string ...
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