Joy Division: New Dawn Fades
Suppose I could have picked anything from 1979’s Unknown Pleasures album as part of my ‘going doolally’ season. Here it is with a ‘reimagined’ video.
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King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man
Three drummers giving it some stick on a 2015 live performance of the 1969 classic from In The Court of the Crimson King.
The unbearable beauty of funeral music
THERE is something about music at funerals that reduces my wife and me to quivering wrecks. The majestic Nimrod, from Elgar’s Enigma Variations, was played at both services for Margaret’s mother and father, … Continue readingThe unbearable beauty of funeral music
Beach Boys: I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
Brian Wilson on his struggle to fit in with the rest of mankind, from Pet Sounds in 1966.
Emile Ford and the Checkmates: What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?
A contender for World’s Longest Pop Song Title, this was written by Joseph McCarthy, Howard Johnson and James V Monaco for the 1916 Broadway production Follow Me. It was a hit … Continue readingEmile Ford and the Checkmates: What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
The Sabs’ gentle ballad performed by a rather chubby Ozzy and the boys at Live Aid in 1985.
Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin: Sanctus
This track was used prominently in the 1968 film If . . . It is from the Missa Luba, a setting of the Latin Mass in styles traditional to the Democratic Republic … Continue readingLes Troubadours du Roi Baudouin: Sanctus
Pixies: Where Is My Mind?
One of the highlights of their 1988 album Surfer Rosa. Here’s a live version from Glastonbury more than 25 years later.
Warren Zevon: Basket Case
Touching tribute to his old lady from Wozza on his 11th studio album, 2002’s My Ride’s Here.
Making silage while the sun shines
WRAPPING a bale of newly cut grass in black plastic and leaving it out in the sun sounds like a recipe for something unspeakable, if not explosive. However this is … Continue readingMaking silage while the sun shines