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Big Voices Volume 2: Stellenbosch University Choir - Let My Love Be Heard & Say Something … I’m Giving Up on you, Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey, Sister Jiang - Red Flags Waving, Tez Cady - Seve & Ivory, Pippin and Ben Veeren - Simple Joys, African Children’s Choir - Sifuni Mungu, Janis Joplin - Summer time, Yusuf Islam (Cat Steven) - Wild World, Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention- Wayfaring Stranger, Mozart - Requiem in D Minor, St Petersburg Philharmonic - Alexander Nevsky, Maude Maggart (Sister of Fione Apple) & Jamie Cullum -Skylark, Nina Simone - Trouble in mind

What Lies Between: Todd the Wet Sprocket - Crazy Life, Florence and the Machine - Only if for a Night, Walk the Earth - Somebody I used to Know, Hozier - Take Me To Church, Indila - Derniere Danse (Last Dance), Nina Simone - Feeling Good, Basia - Cruising for a Brusing, Jessie Ware - Who Says No To Love, In the Valley Below - Peaches, Layla - Smokestakes, Jute - Jane Says, Jungle - Busy Earn’in, Macy Gray - I Try

Guitar Riffs Vol 3: Noel Gallager and the High Flying Birds - Broken Arrow, Oasis - Live Forever, Iggy Pop - The Passenger , Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower, Rise Against - Life Less Frightening, R.E.M. - End of the World and Orange Crush, Comrade Question - Old & Ah Ah Ah, B.B.King - The Thrill is Gone, Kinks - Till The End of the Day and Living on the Thin Line, Nick Cave - Jubilee Street

Songs I Like: 10,000 Maniacs - Because the Night; Patti Smith - Frederick, Jay Chou (Chinese Alternative ) with 2 songs from November Chopin, A Pink - Step (Korean Alt Pop), TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me, Young Punks - Ready for the Fight, Five Stair steps - O-O-H Child, Four Tops - Bernadette, Word of Mouth Chorus - Idumea, Wolf Parade - What did my Lover Say, White Stripes - Jolene, Weezer - Buddy Holly

Throughout the 1960's, many popular British (and Irish) bands found notable success in the USA. This musical era was known as "The British Invasion." Likewise many bands from the USA received tremendous support in Ireland, England and all across Britain. Today we showcase some of best songs (both well-known and forgotten). Yeah Ya Better Go Now . . . BRITISH INVASION: Invasion: Lulu - "To Sir with Love", The Who - "I Can’t Explain" and "The Kids Are Alright", The Kinks - "Till the End of the Day", Them - "Gloria", Dave Clark Five - "Catch Us if You Can." The Beatles - "She Said."8 Days a Week", "We Can Work It Out", Dame Shirley Bassey - "Big Spender Remix". Dave Berry - "The Crying Game", Moody Blues - "Go Now", Dusty Springfield - "The Son of a Preacher Man" AMERICAN INVASION: Grass Roots - "Let’s Live for today", "Midnight Confessions", "Temptation Eyes", Bob Dylan - "All Along The Watchtower", Jimi Hendrix - "Voodoo Child"

Grimes - "Kill vs Maim", JJ - "Ecstasy", Cocteau Twins - "Fifty Fifty Clown", Sigur Ros - "Saeglopur (Sea Fool)", Beach House - "All Your Yeahs", Cults - "You Know What I Mean",

Music by . . . The Cowsills (Hair), Fleetwood Mac (Tusk), Haddaway (What Is Love), Madness (Our House), Madonna (Holiday), ABC (The Look of Love), Electric Light Orchestra (Mr Blue Sky, Turn to Stone, 10538 Overture), Eagle Eye Cherry (Save Tonight), Edwyn Collins (A Girl Like You) and Eric Clapton (Layla). Guilty Pleasures? Hells Yeah . . For The Love of God . . . Get these songs . . . OUT OF MY HEAD . . . ! ! !

This is essentially a rerelease of the first Deep Forest Album supported by the addition of club remixes. It is a wonderfully skillful blend of voices from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Solomon Islands and Burundi . . . married with electronica melodies, chants and lullabies as produced by Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. The voices of the Efe people are predominately featured. "Deep Forest" is one of my favorite World Music albums from the 1990's.

Velvet Underground Alumni John Cale dazzles with this requiem for the dead of the Falklands War. Alternative Classical with a Dylan Thomas Libretto ? Yeah. Got it here. "Words for the Dying" is de rigueur for the Living.