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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Meg-Lui-_Dreams_-The-Cranberries-featuring-Sufjan-Stevens-Official-Video.mp3 The Cranberries were at their most popular right at the time when I was at my most insistent that music should be loud. Their first big hit was “ Zombie ” – a song that checked the few boxes that mattered to me, including big guitars and lyrics angsty and political enough that they felt important. It felt like Ireland had their own Rage Against the Machine. So when I dug deeper and found that most of their songs were quieter and more thoughtful, I felt I’d been duped. Like “Zombie” was just a trick, a bait-and-switch designed to get me to unwittingly purchase tickets to Lilith Fair. Thankfully my musical tastes have matured in the decades since, and I can now appreciate the beauty of not only a song like “Dreams” but this phenomenally beautiful cover, released just a few days ago. What makes this a beautiful song: 1. Meg Lui’ s voice fits the song extremely well; the same smoothness and strength of tone as Dolores O’Riordan but without the Canadian Goose affect (which, despite my mature musical tastes, I still can’t stand). 2. Sufjan Stevens plays a variety of instruments and gives the song that quintessentially Sufjan-like grandeur. 3. Starting at the second verse it strays from the chord structure of the original, underlying the familiar vocal line with a moody unpredictability that makes it (appropriately) dreamier. Recommended listening activity: Reading a kids book in the adults section of a library. Buy it here. The post Week 831: “Dreams” by The Cranberries (Meg Lui cover feat. Sufjan Steven

What do you do when you revisit a beloved movie from your childhood, only to find out it's not quite what you remember? If you’re Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, you write a song about it. Their forthcoming album, A Beginner’s Mind, is a journey back into childhood nostalgia and perspectives, shaped by films the pair watched while recording together. Through their songwriting process, Sufjan and Angelo strip away what was dark or violent in their source material, transforming it and reflecting back something that, in their words, is pure and good. For the playlist of songs curated for this episode head over to https://bit.ly/oos-source-material . Music In This Week’s Episode: Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, Fictional California Pixies, Debaser The Ataris, So Long, Astoria Fugazi, Walken’s Syndrome Dolly Parton, 9 to 5 Regina Spektor, Fidelity Roxy Music, 2HB Deep Blue Something, Breakfast at Tiffany’s Show Notes: A Beginner’s Mind, by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, is out one week from today, on September 24. The first six tracks of the album are available for preview now on Bandcamp . Credits: This show is produced by work by work : Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, Mayari Sherina Ong, Kathleen Ottinger and by Hanif Abdurraqib. The show is mixed by Sam Bair.

"I Have the Best Duets" On this episode of Best Song Ever: Luke starts the episode off with a startling revelation that he once went to a Sheryl Crow concert and Brian sneaks in Sheryl Crow lyrics throughout the rest of the episode. Luke vacation shames Brian once again for some reason and the dear […] The post BSE 60: Laura Veirs feat. Sufjan Stevens, Rejjie Snow, Bishop Nehru, Born Ruffians and Many More appeared first on Ghettoblaster Magazine .