'The Message'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I will never not love "Maggie Mae."
We used to listen to that in the car when I was a kid, on one of his albums that got played on long journeys. My mother liked to deconstruct the lyrics:
I'll get on back to school, one of these days... "Ah, that's what you should have done, Rod. You wouldn't have made all this great music, but you would have been well-educated."
As Perkins notes, early Rod is great stuff.
Every Picture Tells A Story is a stone classic: "Mandolin Wind," "Reason to Believe," "I'm Losing You," the title track.
All those first four Mercury albums are loaded with great tracks: "You Wear it Well," "The First Cut is the Deepest," "Gasoline Alley."
And don't forget the stuff he did with The Faces.
New British postage stamps!!! [link]
New British postage stamps!!!
Nice! Though that choice for a Pink Floyd album is odd.
Seems like Coldplay should have a DVD coming out of the sleeve too.
Love the stamps! Blur made it into the collection. Cool.
This just in - I fucking love Pink. Jeezy, I want to see her live. I love that she's such a great performer and so outspoken and has a sense of humor about herself. Oh, yeah, and the music is fun, too.
Signed, just watched the Pink Chronicles on Fuse.
One for Corwood:
When you're both a music writer and a performer in a town as incestuous as Nashville, the occasional conflict of interest is inevitable. In this week's print edition of the Scene, you may have noticed this piece in the music section I wrote previewing the legendarily mysterious outsider-folkie Jandek's first ever appearance in Nashville. If you managed to make it to the show, then you might have also noticed me playing drums for Jandek. I know how it looks. You see, at the time I wrote the article I had no idea that, 48 hours prior to the show, I would receive an invitation to provide percussive services for the very artist I was writing about. Despite the obvious conflict presented, I decided that--since I wrote the piece before knowing I'd be involved in the show--this was a victimless breach of my journalistic integrity, and that the opportunity to be one of the few musicians to ever work professionally with Jandek was too unique to pass up.
Jandek: The Strangest Gig I've Ever Played
Thanks! That's a great, great story.
Random question: For those who like Phillip Glass - do you like Einstein on the Beach? Or is that one not so popular even amongst Glass-heads?
That composition pretty much made his reputation, right?
Anyway, I love EotB. I have it on LP and a different recording on CD. I might get the other one on CD too....