Music today has been Tori Amos – Ocean to Ocean. She was always accused of being too much like Kate Bush but these days she sounds quite like herself. This is her latest album released at the end of October 2021. Music Of The Daze The musical musings in this post are an excerpt from […]
Music today has been Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (1971) and the second album from this multi-talented insufferable maniac (so legend has it). He must have wondered why Prince was more popular than him but then he seems to be more of a thinker than a natural showman. I saw him once in LA, […]
Music today has been Alex Lifeson’s new band Envy Of None. A completely different record to his past with a core of singer Maiah Wynne and Andy Curran on bass and featuring different drummers and other musicians. Rush fans, know now, it’s nothing like Rush. Music Of The Daze The musical musings in this post […]
Thank you to everyone who posted extensive birthday greetings today in all those different places that seem to be available these days, phone, Instagram, email, groups, pages, personal email, via Olivia, carrier pigeon. As it’s my 64th birthday, I can only do this once, so I apologise in advance: Author Ian MacDonald characterises McCartney‘s “When […]
Music today has been that classic first Sugarcubes album Life’s Too Good (1988) and its lead single that introduced the world to the enigma that is Björk. See below for the lyrics, worth the price of admission on their own. She lives in this house over there Has her world outside it Scrabbles in the […]
Music today has been The Sensational Alex Harvey Band’s first album Framed (1972). I was always a mega-fan of this band, although they were ‘just’ a rock ‘n’ roll band, they could be inspiring and different. They went from barroom rock ‘n’ roll to covers of Leiber & Stoller, Muddy Waters and on their second […]