Music today was, you guessed it, Bowie’s Hunky Dory (1971) – what a great album it is. I just love all the songs, the sounds, the words, the overall production. Today felt like I might be better off with a Life On Mars. Song Of The Daze The musical musings in this post are an […]
Music today has been two albums, Genesis‘ Trespass (1970) and of course Kevin Ayers‘ Bananamour (1973). I can’t imagine them being albums that are mentioned often. Kevin Ayers did little in the later years despite being in Soft Machine and being prolific in the seventies. Bananamour features the track Decadence that the ex-band covered on […]
Music today was Porcupine Tree’s Lightbulb Sun (2000), one of my fave Porcupine Tree albums. Progressive and melodic, real songs, interesting musical sections and that eerie speech by the leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult who killed themselves whilst declaring they were aliens and going back to their dimension beyond the stars before the Earth […]
Music today has been in keeping with Nick Drake, on the gentler side of early seventies singer-songwriters with Bridget St John’s Songs For The Gentle Man (1971). Very much a contemporary of Drake, she was signed by John Peel’s Dandelion label and with help of Peel, John Martyn and Al Stewart went on to make […]
Today was Nick Drake’s birthday (1948), so he would have been 73. Can you imagine the records he might have made if he hadn’t died at the age of 26 on the 25th November 1974? I wonder what Hendrix might have done if he’d lived, after all, he only really made three studio albums and […]
Music today was Revolver (1966) by The Beatles because it keeps on coming up in seshes, the simplicity of Eleanor Rigby, transformed by strings, the harmony and guitar part on And Your Bird Can Sing, the influence of Love You To, the bass playing and the drumming on Tomorrow Never Knows, the sentiment of I’m […]