Bill Nighy

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ill-advised by Bill Nighy · He Showers In The Dark · 21 May 2026 podcast

And now it's time for this week's playlist.

And as promised to Robin and his question about songs that you compulsively hum or sing as you go about your day.

And indeed, the playlist is called Songs That Like Hound Me because I like putting the word like in between stuff.

And as well as the songs I've already mentioned, which was Pete Townshend's song The Kids Are All Right for The Who, which has been with me for, I don't know, half my life in my brain.

And You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, and all the other songs from Blood on the Tracks, that Bob Dylan album.

and Guilty by Randy Newman.

In addition to those three, there's also a song by the band called When You Awake, which is almost the song that haunts me the most.

When I do neurotically launch into a song for one reason or the other, either because I'm

you know, anxious or because I'm jubilant, which isn't that often, but is this one.

The first line of which is, holy told me there's a fork in the road.

So I walked on down the road a mile and went to the house that raised a smile.

And I've sung that ever since, you know, before this century.

I Heard It Through the Grapevine was a song I learned all the way through because the only bit I knew was, I know a man ain't supposed to cry, but these tears I can't keep inside.

And I didn't know anything more of it.

And then I'd have to sing the chorus.

So now I do, I did once know, I'm not sure if I still do, all the words to I Heard It Through the Grapevine.

Then Take Some Time Out for Love, which is a little known early Isley Brothers tune, which I discovered somewhere recently.

a million years ago, and we used to play it at the Stop Making Love Club above the co-op in Caterham High Street when I was in charge of tune selection and dancing because I used to have to go on the floor and dance in the hope that somebody else might dance with me.

And then Bob Dylan's I Threw It All Away, which is a kind of perfect country song

which he just produced after he stopped being the kind of artist that we'd known him as for the first four or five years, and then he kind of became a country artist briefly.

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