Steely Dan

Agree Jaco’s bass can be be mesmeric but kind of intrusive. On Coyote’s it’s brilliant. Or Song For Sharon. Or Hejira’s title track. Yet it meanders into being virtuosic for its own sake. A tendency more ev […]

Beautifully written and cogently articulated piece. Rarely, under the broad mantle of what might be called Pop have any works been so sophisticated, in its true sense, or as adult in form and content as that of […]

Don’t understand the questions, let alone the answers

Misread Braveheart as Beefheart. You can make up whatever lyrics you want to the Captain. They’ll make at least as much sense as the originals.

Agree with Tigs only to add there is little “probably” about it. Any group that produced Denis Edwards, Eddie Kendricks, the lesser known Paul Williams and my favourite singer of them all, David Ruffin, is as […]

Agree

Seen – screen.
Much to my surprise, I am enjoying The Crown. Period drama is not my thing but encouraged by my Significant Other, I gave it a try and I have to say it is very well done. Absolute hokum, but […]

I too am loving Bitches Brew. It’s a bit of a (re)discovery for me as I tended to eschew Jazz Rock as a genre for the past few decades. However, I’m enjoying this and other stuff from the era like Chick Corea and […]

Know what you mean about Sleepyhead. Sort of a TV crime drama pitch in search of a novel. I’m not sure Billingham does character quite as well as he does plot twist. That does not make him unique amongst crime […]

For Emmental Reasons
Wake Me Up Before Taleggio
Chèvre Breath You Take
Things Can Only Get Cheddar
I Knew The Bride When She Used To Roquefort Roll
Gouda Be Loved (And Be Loved)

Brie My Baby
Knowing Brie, Knowing You
Help Brie ( I think I’m falling)
Briecause The Night
Let It Be Brie
Brie Here Now

@H.P. Saucecraft did this sort of thing rather well. That arch, provocateur stuff. Oh well.

Here’s a Canadian anthem

Joni Mitchell
A Case Of You

And talking of Twisted Sister and just in time for next Christmas

O Come All Ye Faithful

That’s me. Talking of silly and twisted, here’s those twisted Sisters Of Mercy covering the greatest song of unrequited love in the pop canon

Emma
Sisters Of Mercy

A caricature of his former self. Too often descending into repetition and self-parody. Late night rambles and a foggy, druggy vibe. Past their best but I expect we’ll miss them when they are gone.

Enough about […]

How about Sandie Shaw covering Led Zeppelin?

Your Time Is Gonna Come

Is the Pixies, Sonic Youth and PJ Harvey covering The Fall “unexpected”? They would seem to occupy a similar musical hinterland.

Agree The Fall covering Sister Sledge is unexpected and if Sister Sledge were to […]

Hot Chocolate were miles better than Abba

@Dai – that article is a beautifully written piece. Thank you for sharing it. Read it earlier as I took shelter from the rain in a coffee shop in Soho. It was the perfect accompaniment.