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It's interval act time! Sam performs his 2023 single with Brian May at a small and intimate concert in Liverpool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziG157jZ4-E
#PeakOfThePops #SamRyder #MountainsFriday

Ten years after the massive hit "When Susannah cries", Espen came back with more heartfelt lovelorn janglerock.

This one's about the girl of his dreams, who turns out to be even better than he dared imagine.

From 2008's "Army of One", since when Espen has concentrated on writing and producing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cDJ6bkbOM4
#PeakOfThePops #EspenLind

"Take me somewhere greener than these empty streets
Where the mountains grow
I need something deeper in the air I breathe
Where it feels like home"

You can take the gal out of the Caucasuses, but you can't take the Caucasuses out of the gal.

From 2023's "Lay Your Hands Upon My Heart".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gscZQaWKjAk
#PeakOfThePops #RosaLinn #MountainsFriday

A song about paradise: the paradise of someone's dreams, never quite to be reached.

George McClintock wrote the song as a sarcastic pastiche of the Roaring Twenties, Burl Ives had the hit with a bowdlerised version.

The song inspired a real-life Big Rock Candy Mountain resort, near Marysville in Utah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7kT-4HXorg
#PeakOfThePops #BurlIves

The final studio album crystallised everything that made A-ha: yearning and soaring vocals, melancholy hooks.

This title track speaks to the dissonance between nature and the big city, between open fields and busy streets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq890a_inBw
#PeakOfThePops #Aha #MortenHarket

A really well-crafted song: spiralling lyrics and a sonorous Hammond organ build a sense of place - for me, a foggy autumn morning.

Tom Hingley's mournful vocals leave us wondering if he's celebrating a new connection or mourning a lost one.

From 1990's "Island Head" ep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJxy78sr9bQ
#PeakOfThePops #InspiralCarpets

Having been around since the turn of the century, Biffy Clyro built a loyal audience from their stage shows. "Mountains" was their biggest hit, a loud rock song about how the singer and his companion are inseparable, like the mountain and the sea.

A 2008 single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfzwM4pdyxU
#PeakOfThePops #BiffyClyro #MountainsFriday

Yesterday, "Over the hills and far away" was sung from the view of a woman waiting for her robber lover to return.

Today, "Mountain sound" is that robber lover and her sidekick, wanting to get away from those crimes. Will they be reunited? Who can tell!

Keflavík's finest folk band broke through internationally with this hit from 2012's "My Head Is an Animal".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdepfFzqn9c
#PeakOfThePops #OfMonstersAndMen

A cover of Patty Griffin's song, it's about Martin Luther King Jr, how he kept on going whatever was asked of him.

Standalone single from 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWmud1OGkuA
#PeakOfThePops #AllisonCrowe

"You're not scared of climbing mountains. You're scared that you can't make them move. I would move them for you."

Buxton's greatest living troubadour shot to fame in autumn 2012, performing "Mountains" on national television. In the testing decade since, Lucy's found her level of fame, and is beloved by her crowd.

From 2013's "Join the Club"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuYuuF_JyKM
#PeakOfThePops #LucySpraggan #MountainsFriday

Composed by Kern and Hammerstein for 1937's film "High, Wide, and Handsome", this definitive rendition came two decades later.

Peggy Lee brings a timeless mix of hope and wistfulness to this tune, setting out the plans she has to grow old with her beloved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu-z8mJKzs4
#PeakOfThePops #JeromeKern #OscarHammerstein #PeggyLee

Bluegrass and country singer Lillie Mae was a child star as part of the Forrest Carter Band.

This song comes from her album with Jack White, his name is a great way to open doors and get people to hear your music.

From 2017's "Forever and Then Some".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJRJb6rYgk
#PeakOfThePops #LillieMae

Samu the singer is leaving town, and voices a mixture of regret and nostalgia, with confusion over his future plans. "I'm gonna come back to walk these streets again. Bye bye, Hollywood hills forever"

Sunrise Avenue were in their emo-pop phase, and at the peak of their commercial success

From 2011's album "Out of Style"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azPQZSlC2zk
#PeakOfThePops #SunriseAvenue

"Mountains" is an avalanche of noise, claps and snares and shouts. As we'll find a lot of people do, Prince uses "mountain" as a shorthand for adversity, something to conquer.

The video was shot in Nice, around the time of footage for Prince's film "Under the Cherry Moon"; there's a cameo from Kristin Scott Thomas.

Second single from the 1986 album "Parade".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WmPeLOLDnA
#PeakOfThePops #Prince #MountainsFriday