Following my selection of joyous songs about sunrises, here are more mixed responses to the approach of darkness.
This is a beautiful song from folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary , unusual in having brass accompaniment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=E57BmAfqqTg&NR=1
Here’s another piece of folk history, this time from Canada’s Gordon Lightfoot, abut a woman called Sundown who ‘does things that you don’t confess….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rR7E6NfY4
Here’s an amazing video with Nitin Sawhney’s Sunset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj6JiXjErTI
Here’s Elton John with a very old tune to raise awareness of the problems of the North American native peoples, Indian Sunset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2t4XpeEuXA
And one of my favourite bands of all time, The Kinks with what they do best, brilliant slice of ordinary life, here with Waterloo sunset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3gX47rHGg
And this is dedicated to the late great Ray Bradbury, ‘I’m Dreaming of a Blue Sunset,’ showing a moon going down on Mars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIksHVxEH2c