strangeways

There are some songs that are real growers, requiring patience and repeated listens to before they blossom fully into the agelessness of an enjoyable classic.  Then there are others that introduce themselves by smacking you upside the head with their undeniable greatness.  And i've made a condensed (coz my memory fails me) list of my personal instant classics.


Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

Snow Patrol - Run

The Streets -Dry Your Eyes

Kasabian - Club Foot

Muse - Starlight

The Twang - Either Way

Supergrass - Alright

Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger

Vertical Horizon - Grey Sky Morning

BRMC - Whatever Happened to My Rock n Roll?

Wolfman & Pete Doherty - For Lovers

looking back i'm quite surprised by how many are from 2003-05, which i had thought were something of a musical doldrums.  and supergrass! ah man, that brings back some memories, watching mtv at cousins' in the summer - 94/95?  when i was 11/12? that is ages ago already. fantastic times.

i'm quite unapologetic about liking taylor swift. she's got some great tunes. nice lyrics, near blissful melodies.  i think she's a genius.

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Teardrops On My Guitar

White Horse

even this one, which i've only just heard for the first time right now is really likable.  a little cackhanded but its a grower.
You Belong With Me

so  i was rooting around in my archives of poetry and verse and all that, and came across this simple piece i am inexplicably quite proud of.  there are very few that have proven to be satisfying or stood the test of time, but this one from 5 years ago still hits a good nerve.on a personal level i'm comfortable giving it a 4outof5, despite being rather twee in structure and of cliched cynicism in content - though the two combined, i think, offset eachother nicely.

the only thing i don't like- apart from the middle where it gets sloppy - is that it sounds so, well, cynical.  really the words were there so i wrote them down.  felt bad enough about it thought to write a counterpart which is more positive - if dismissively pastoral.

anyway...


A Wedding Hymn

I am here
to pay my respects
to the freedoms deceased
each wedding begets

Flowing white satin
with accents of lace
this Mourning
with joyous brave face

as sure and sudden
as the sun fades
and the tide falls beneath the ocean
all return
e'en the past forgotten
in thrashing waves
of bitter burning emotions

The choir of laughter
jangling tins on strings
let the court jester
have his merry day as king

All the men dressed in black
discreet with their wisdom
Acquainted with the dire fact
a wedding day is sad and solemn

i'm so desperately hoping chicago wins. what an epic series, what a great sport.

this is almost more exciting than the heady days of jordan and pippen.


please, please, please win tonight.

i swear everyday i think about how great this band was and could have been.  surprisingly i don't actually have this album, afraid it will be one of those never-meet-your-heroes situations, four good songs but the rest turn out to be completely awful.

the singles though are fantastic and still give me a buzz 3,4 years on.

the upper room :
All Over This Town
 Black and White
 Combination

ah man, i've gotta get this album. modern classic, definitely.

i like this one

life in technicolor ii

i'm pretty sure quakers invented rocknroll.  almost positive.


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The Racket 
Girls and football and rock'n'roll

And if you do
baby give up
About a girl i know
brown eyes and a bottle of gin
Even if you go you'll never really leave
On the pier
Helpless man
I like the sad scenes
The fighter
Keep the fires burning
the boy who fought the war


La Raquette!
Filles et football et rock' ; n' ; pain.

Et si vous faites.
Le bébé abandonnent.
Au sujet d'une fille je sais.
Yeux bruns et une bouteille de genièvre.
Même si vous allez you' ; le ll partent jamais vraiment.
Sur le pilier.
Homme délaissé.
J'aime les scènes tristes.
Le combattant.
Gardez la combustion des feux.
Le garçon qui a combattu la guerre.

i'm not sure why, but the name needs an exclamation mark when translated into french.