My failure to realise the song you posted was a song I thought I loved.

Until this morning I thought it ‘Nebraska’. Now I would go for ‘The River’. Sure, it is a double, with an album’s worth is disposable, but the good’uns are his best.

Really? Clearly a longer time since I’ve listened to it than I thought. It really isn’t great, compared to how the song brushes up in versions by others. Which is a shock, mind, with muscle memory otherwise c […]

Well, that’s answered it for me, by being a rusty bucket din. A favourite Springsteen song, this is by some distance the worst version I have heard of it. (The original released version isn’t even the best, wit […]

Someone has to, the law of averages and all.

Which particular mot is juste? I’m gunning for “oh”.

I told you so!

They were cool in my house. Before Martyn Ware ate Ian Craig Marsh.

Thanks, Colin. I just don’t much like live albums, I think. It would have been good to read your essay, but I only had access to the music. And at least it wasn’t just a soundcloud stream. But what about the fli […]

Warren Zevon liked a snappy title. “Roland the headless Thompson gunner”

Jesus on a greyhound. (Bus, rather than a runny dog.)

“Love is a bourgeois concept” by Pet Shop Boys. Despite being past their imperial phase waspiness, it is still near perfect.

I like his odd facial tics and shudders, that punctuate every gap between his carefully chosen words. (Or his well learnt lines, I guess.)

Mother!!!!!!!

Who? That would be his greatest legacy, especially if in his lifetime. “Do you know who I am?” Not a clue, guv, but you can’t sit here all night. Move on!

Message from Nigel to Forks: “I’ve put up your post and, if you come back and see, we are all a much friendlier, kindly bunch these days” Oops……

Sally Free and Easy, if a remix, or so, back.

Sometime in the mid 80’s, my sister suggested we crash the St Thomas’s Hospital Summer Ball, held a few miles away from where she and her husband lived. Given I had paid and been to many as a student, 75-80, this […]

Ultra huge crowds can become very claustrophobic very quickly, if the space is limited. One of the reasons I avoid stadium gigs. I was about 5 people from the front at Glastonbury, and quite pleased with that, 20 […]