Despite the rather curious non marketing of having no name and plain white labels this latest solo effort from Jack White is an explosive and intoxicating mix of Blues and Garage Rock...
I watched the Mrs Browns boys movie the other day and there was a song that opened and ended the film that I liked. I googled it and it was by The Script. Anyway here it is Hail Rain or Sunshine.
So I don't know if anyone uses Last.FM, but I was procrastinating while at work and looking through my scrobbles (or plays) from 2011, and I was scrolling through the pages and then a name came back that I hadn't seen in ages. Trespassers William. It was a later song I'd discovered by them but looking at my stats, I then remembered two songs and apparently I first listened to them on May 4th 2007. And then I have to wonder, how did I discover them on May 4th 2007? Did a friend send them to me? I mean Spotify wasn't a thing there so there were limited ways of discovering new music... So the two songs were: They both seem like the kinda emo-ish music my friends and I might have listened to them in those days. The second one seems particularly fitting nowadays as it's about being distant from someone and them forgetting you, and it's like... the people I was friends with then I have not spoken to in years. Decades even. So the lyrics "For I've not seen you in the flesh for so long That I'm not sure we would know each other at all" Seems very apt. Would I recognise them, would they recognise me? Who knows. And also the lyric: "All that I say now is nothing to you" Again apt, as I'm now nothing to them, just a distant memory or something. Bleak. But if you like stats and being able to see exactly what you were listening to at a certain time on a certain day in a certain month in a certain year, then I'd recommend last.fm. It's good for rediscovering old music that you listened to ages ago and forgotten about, as you might have gathered.
So I don't know if I posted this one before (anyone know if it's possible to view all your posts in a thread? I know it used to be) But anyway So I discovered this song on the Spotify Best of the Decade For You playlist which came out in around 2020 or 2019 or something, and strangely I hadn't heard it until then, but I really like it. I like the fact that at the beginning of the song the narrator is question whether love is meant for them and whether it's just something that you know, maybe isn't meant for them... but then by the end of the song, she's realises love is meant for them, and what's more she and her partner (whomever that might be) are meant to be together... It gives me hope, that maybe it isn't a case that love is not meant for me.
A mere 38 years since their last album release this is a brilliant collection of Hammond heavy 60s revival Mod/Garage Rock from Medway's finest, The Prisoners. This is the superb Small Faces like title track...
Frank Carter & Sex Pistols come together to to raise funds for 'Bush Hall' the historic London venue under threat of closure. Their 3rd and final live performance in Shepherds Bush.
So something a bit different, I don't know how many of you know Enya. She did May it Be in the Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack, which I think is the best LoTR credit song, just about pipping into the West which has a great deal of poignancy (but I prefer Enya's voice to Annie Lennox's, sorry Annie). She's always been a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, I know she's not cool and possibly the kind of music old people listen to (in fact I think there was an episode of South Park when Kyle's (I think) grandfather is trying to encourage Kyle to help him commit suicide, and one of the ways he tries to convince Kyle is by playing what I think is an Enya song)... I think my dad owned her album Memory of Trees which I remember playing in the car on summer holidays, so she's been a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. My favourite song by her has always been Anywhere Is (which maybe I'll post later) but I wanted to post this song because it is one of my favourites, also while Anywhere Is seems to be about the journey through life, this song has a bit more poignancy. Also I really like the video. I just love the relationship shown by the four girls in the video, like they're portrayed to be really close siblings, with Enya being an older version of one of them (probably the one in the white hat, as she appears on camera most) and is travelling back to her home, wherever that might be. The way they interact and play in the snow together and create Chinese lanterns together, it's just really sweet, and then when the song reaches its climax, you see the four of them, smiling, standing side by side, being the first point in the song where you can really see them all together. I know it's all acting and they most likely weren't related or knew each other before the video, but I feel like they do a really good job of showing that sisterly bond. Also it's pretty interesting how each of the photos triggers video footage of the event the photo pertains to, like the photo is a photo, but then the video is the memory of the event. And then during the chorus the world literally goes gold, like the memories and the feeling of going home is literally lighting her world. As I've mentioned a few times in the past, I've ended up living on my own in the West Midlands, not entirely through choice and I don't really have a home in beautiful Hampshire anymore, although I sometimes visit my sisters and stay for a weekend or whatever. It's a different vibe, you know? Like yes I'm welcome and I appreciate it, but like, I'm a guest or a lodger or something. Like it's not my room, it's the guest room that I'm staying in, for example. But still, when I do go back, it does feel like I'm 'on my way home', because even if I don't have a place in Hampshire that's mine, it'll always be my home. Screw the West Midlands. Actually it's not bad, but it'll never be home. Also I am part of quite a big family, and we were quite close when growing up. We're still fairly close but you know what adulthood is like... So this video doubly resonates. It's embarrassing to admit, but the other night I was watching the video and I can't deny, I did cry a bit. Though I was drunk and I occasionally get a bit emotional when drunk. Also since first saw this video, I've wanted to take a journey on a train at night while it's snowing. I fulfilled this dream in about 2014 or something? But then I realised unless there's little light coming from inside the train and maybe a gap in the cloud with moonlight shining out, you can't really see the snow very well, except when you come across an outside light and for a few seconds you can see it, but not quite the same! Sorry for the ridiculously long post, hopefully someone found it... interesting, maybe?
Oh yes, I know Orinoco Flow. Her only Number 1 as far as I'm aware. It used to be one of my favourites, and while I still like it (and I love boats/ships!), it's probably been overtaken in my estimation by others such as China Roses, Wild Child, and of course On My Way Home. Talking of the latter, anyone else like the video? Though I can't ever imagine Enya ever being huge, no offense to her.
This is a great little KEXP set from Ride showcasing some new songs and also a couple of their classics...
Bass guitar legend, Herbie Flowers has passed away aged 86... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjw41pp7vmo Here's his most famous bassline... He also played on this among many other classics... R.I.P. Herbie...
