“I value mental damage and spiritual vulnerability in all genders as it goes”

It’s the final “as it goes” that lifts this sentence beyond the merely mesmeric to an atemporal touchstone.

You don’t know what you got until

If you like Scott Walker the documentary 30th Century Man is excellent. Contributions from Richard Hawley, Brian Eno, Alison Goldfrapp and David Bowie amongst others. Insights into his complex character and a […]

Nicely articulated BB.

For me, Joni Mitchell is underestimated by a predominantly male rock critical base who tend to value vulnerability or victimhood in female artists. She, conversely, tends towards traits […]

Mingus is mixed in execution but is inventive and profoundly imagined. Like Bowie in some ways, Mitchell is not afraid to experiment and, if necessary, to leave her audience behind.

The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey […]

It’s the hope…

I was that soldier. Or sailor.

Some very fine examples of the genre on that thread contributed by The Afterworderati

“Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale”
Love

Was there this very more morn – Warwick Avenue (Duffy)

Ocean Drive by The Lighthouse Family.

A true Afterword favourite

After Lewisham 1977, we regrouped in a flat somewhere near Tulse Hill. Nowhere near where i lived. No where near the life I lived. A levels coming up. Where am I? Who cares. I’m scared and exhausted. Exhilarated […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7sn9Fd_EAc&list=PL47CDC1AD51E3AFB0

Right now. A wee malt. Playing some Roberta Flack and Laura Nyro and Curtis Mayfield and this:

Donny Hathaway
Giving Up

Wonderful

Don’t know what it is about Van but he can get to me in a way very few if any other artists can.

The Future Of The Future.

And it still sounds like it

That is a deeply affecting piece of music Mr H.

Sausage roles.

I auditioned but didn’t measure up.

I claim the right of no reply to no reply.

No Reply was The Beatles’ most exemplary song. According to Hepworth, David.

Brexit, The Beatles and Our Once (and probably not) Future King.

Cuh.

The Leave vote was – as presented – a vote for something.

The alternative – as presented – was a vote for nothing.

For change. Or no change.

Who, if asked would not want a different car? Or house? Or life? […]

The best Beatles song of today or any other day is A Day in the Life.

They were a pop group. Something else. Something more. They changed everything.

And after the song’s final chord, there was nothing […]