There's a new Robyn Hitchcock album on the way that features Johnny Marr on one track. He co-wrote the song, too.
Very cute Marr-less video: [link]
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
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.
Jon B. - Mar 06, 2010 5:53:02 am PST #2628 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
tommyrot - Mar 06, 2010 3:31:32 pm PST #2629 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've been mostly Pogues-less since I switched away from cassette tapes, but now eMusic has added the Pogues, so I've acquired If I Should Fall From Grace With God and Rum Sodomy & The Lash.
If anything, I love these albums more now than I did before, back in my 20s. And I gotta say "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is by my favorite anti-war song.
billytea - Mar 06, 2010 4:10:28 pm PST #2630 of 6436
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
If anything, I love these albums more now than I did before, back in my 20s. And I gotta say "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is by my favorite anti-war song.
I hadn't realised the Pogues had covered that. I played it (the original) when I visited Gallipoli. It's a pretty powerful song.
tommyrot - Mar 06, 2010 4:11:59 pm PST #2631 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Who did it originally? I'm only familiar with the Pogues version.
Dana - Mar 06, 2010 4:27:44 pm PST #2632 of 6436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Is it an Eric Bogle song? My favorite Irish pub in New Orleans used to play it.
billytea - Mar 06, 2010 4:31:53 pm PST #2633 of 6436
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Is it an Eric Bogle song? My favorite Irish pub in New Orleans used to play it.
Yep, Eric Bogle. He's a Scottish-born Australian folk singer.
Dana - Mar 06, 2010 4:34:57 pm PST #2634 of 6436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Now I have an earworm. A really depressing earworm.
Hayden - Mar 07, 2010 11:55:57 am PST #2635 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
According to several news outlets, it appears that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse committed suicide yesterday. He was one of my favorite living songwriters, up there with, well, Vic Chesnutt. And now both of them are dead by their own hands in just over two months. Perhaps I need to listen to more uplifting music. As I write those words, though, my iPod serves up Jay Reatard.
DavidS - Mar 07, 2010 12:02:45 pm PST #2636 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
it appears that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse committed suicide yesterday.
Fuck!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 08, 2010 10:14:02 pm PST #2637 of 6436
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Tragic. Sparklehorse was awesome.