'Ariel'
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.
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....
Einstein on the Beach is my favorite Phillip Glass. Not that I own it, but I used to check it out of the library.