Lyrics:


Well, the moon is broken and the sky is cracked
Come on up to the house

The only things that you can see is all that you lack
Come on up to the house

All your crying don't do no good
Come on up to the house

Come down off the cross, we can use the wood
You gotta come on up to the house

Come on up to the house
Come on up to the house

The world is not my home
I'm just a-passing through

You got to come on up to the house
There's no light in the tunnel, no irons in the fire
Come on up to the house

And you're singing lead soprano in a junkman's choir
You got to come on up to the house

Does life seem nasty, brutish and short
Come on up to the house

The seas are stormy and you can't find no port
Got to come on up to the house, yeah

You gotta come on up to the house
Come…

Have you got 18 minutes to spare?

Or this one from one of the greatest debut albums ever.

Running time 3:48

The lates 70's was one of those music turnaround periods which moved in to the sounds of Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, The Police, The Cards etc... I think it was dubbed the new Wave. And let's not forget The Clash and others I've missed.

When I was in uni I was in a large 12 story residence. I think there were about twenty rooms on my floor. Back then everyone had state of the art turntables and massive amps and speaker systems. I always remember when about ten of us dropped the needle at the same time, at full volume and shook the whole building playing this one.

running time 4:20

Play this on a 6-second interval.

Timing:

It's hard to get it exact. The closest I could come was about 10 but it seemed to work.

Think “Comic book guy”
When this came out the mother of Jeans best friend went into the record store and said “I want sexual healing, can you give me sexual healing Steve ?”

While the main influence of my youth and formative years was Springsteen, Cohen was always up there and the older I get the more I realize how Cohen was a in a league of his own all through his career and surpassed both Springsteen and anyone else.

I can't think of another artist who not only delivered at such a high level, but also did so consistently throughout the whole of his/her career.

Examples from his first and last album - and amazingly everything in between was just as good. (No, we don't talk about "Death of a ladies man" - anything bad about that can be blamed fully on Phil Spector (as so much else)).

The Springsteen gig I went to on the day that Bob Marley died was almost perfect.

Springsteen live is the ultimate musical experience - he's never slowed down on that front and he's probably the most solid and consistent performer ever throughout a very long career.

When it comes to albums though, while his more recent ones are certainly very good, they don't quite reach the level of the stuff he did before Human Touch/Lucky Town.

From the wayback machine: Coming again?

One more from the wayback machine,

The man who invented rock'n roll:

We used to have a sacred institution in this country called the generation gap. I had to learn to swing dance when I was a kid because my parents thought it was cool, but I would have died before I let any of my friends see me doing it.

Then one day I turn on the TV and this appears:



I knew the end was near because these kids were dancing like old people. On the other hand, all of sudden I could get girls half my age to dance with me at the Carousel Lounge, so all-in-all I was good with it.

John Prine is in critical condition and on a ventilator because of Covid-19.

****ing hell.

Selected quatrains from John Prine's Hello in There:

John and Linda live in Omaha
And Joe is somewhere on the road
We lost Davy in the Korean war
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore

. . .

Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more
She sits and stares through the back door screen
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen

. . .

So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello"

I was still in the Army when this came out. AFR wouldn't play it. Guys got copies, made copies, and passed them around. If this is all Prine ever wrote he'd be one of my heroes. Sam Stone just makes it better.

Pink is one of the finest people to have ever existed

so far I've gone from this:




with a bunch in between

to this:


thank you youtube

so far I've gone from this:




with a bunch in between

to this:


thank you youtube