Was listening to it tonight. I'm loath to call any lp a work of genius but man, he was on a higher level of consciousness when he made that. That's the thing with true artists; the money and the industry and the ephemera don't mean jack in the end. They may be tortured and made unpleasant by it but they can't help it, the art has to channel through them. And mostly it abandons them after a short time leaving them desperately trying to recapture something that didn't really belong to them in the first place.

Hooray!

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Some songs with the same title can be so different - St. Elmo's fire by Eno (v.good) and John Prine (v.bad).
Some with the same title can both be great - Come Together by the Beatles and Spiritualized

And some - Power of Love by Jennifer Rush, Huey Lewis and FGTH -can all be shite (all in the same year as well, what a downer '84 was)

is playing up today - big shout out to Neil Young, Spiritualized and Acid Mothers Temple for helping it along. My own daft fault I know, and I do love Neil and Jason's music, but couldn't venues give out a warning sign and free earplugs on arrival, like the strobe warnings? I know it's not very rock n' roll but hey, what is these days?

remember during one or other of the moon visits in the 70's, ITV having a mock-up of the moonscape, and 2 blokes dressed in spacesuits copying what the actual astronauts were doing, presumably becase ITV didn't have the rights to it?

I know it sounds bizarre; I remember one of the suits falling over during World of Sport, causing Dickie Davies to crack up.

was watching the Quo at Glastonbury tonight and wished they would play Living On An Island, really nice, mellow Summer song. then I thought what other records are really unrepresentative of their owners, like Love is like Oxygen by Sweet, and She's a Rainbow by the R. Stones and that one by Velvet Underground about Sticking like glue...

Stumbling into work today, off the train, through Birmingham Pallasades, umbrella engaged, ready to battle the wind and drizzle when suddenly I was swept up by the wonderful sound of Kelly Marie, Feels Like I'm In Love. With the syndrums boom-booming through the crappy sound system, the ecstatic melody and sheer joy of her voice forced me to pull over into the doorway of Claire's Accessories and soak it in for two minutes. Oh how I wished it could be followed up by Pilot, Oh It's Magic, or Funkytown by Lipps inc, but it was Seal or somebody, so off I trotted.

Was listening to Mr D's Love and Theft on spotify the other day and was struck by how different it sounded to the cd, the vocal seemed much more forward in the mix and no, that's not a bad thing.
Btw, isn't Lonesome Day Blues a great song, definitely in Bob's top hundred

Still sounding great 40 years on