30 Days of Music
Day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" by The Smiths
It's one of my favourite Smiths songs and it was released as a single (I own it on record 7 and 12 inch versions), only for someone to remark once it had been released that the chances of it being played on radio, even if the radio played Smiths songs, was actually nil - so if I heard it on there I would be terribly happy. Maaaaan everything about it just makes me want to cry in joy. The gears that the guitars shift through, those waltzy drums and then that lyric that sums everything up so strikingly. Ok now I'm not going to be able to stop listening to it.
Just because I doubt I will be on the compooter tomorry I will do the next day too
Day 19 - a song from your favorite album -
"Rotund For Success" by Severed Heads
The title and best song from what has become my favourite album. It is just the most gorgeous confection to me, I can't get over the love. Equal parts pounding, hard bass drum, ethereal synth and Ellard doing his most sweet, soft vocal - he almost sounds to me a bit like he's trying the same trick Green from Scritti Politti did with his voice, although it is less babyish but it works. Then awesomely it's a song about a God of some sort falling in love with a mortal (I think, although maybeI am being too literal in the interpretation), with such surreally brilliant lyrics, "Aircraft adorn my hair, small boats adhere to my feet I might be omniptent but I can be discreet.". I also like the bit where he says "I would be a bridge, you'd be the thrall of a car." Because I find the image a peculiarly brilliant one.
I've ranted but I have no choice, the love I feel for it compels me.
LONG LIVE ELLARD RIP SEVERED HEADS
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I went to the Brighton and Hove History Centre today and was promptly annoyed at myself for not going there earlier in the day because a few hours in there wasn't enough. I was in absolute heaven, they had all these old movies of Brighton some from the mid 1890's that were illuminating and thought provoking. So many lives, those who mugged for the camera, those who walked through it's frame without noticing it, all dead now but all undoubtedly they lived, for there is evidence.
I found it all touching and stirring to my imagination.
I cried.
They also have a library of Brighton and Hove crime books, I was reading a captivating one when I was gently asked to leave by the librarian.
Waaaa I wanna go back. Won't be able to till Tuesday but you better believe I will be there then far beter for me than going outside and catching skin cancer....I like how brown my limbs have gone but I don't like catching the sun on my face at all....I don't want face wrinkles...my face is so chubby FAT and babyish tht I don't think I would rock the mature look too well....although you never know.
Essentially I have nothing to say.
"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" by The Smiths
Click to viewIt's one of my favourite Smiths songs and it was released as a single (I own it on record 7 and 12 inch versions), only for someone to remark once it had been released that the chances of it being played on radio, even if the radio played Smiths songs, was actually nil - so if I heard it on there I would be terribly happy. Maaaaan everything about it just makes me want to cry in joy. The gears that the guitars shift through, those waltzy drums and then that lyric that sums everything up so strikingly. Ok now I'm not going to be able to stop listening to it.
Just because I doubt I will be on the compooter tomorry I will do the next day too
Day 19 - a song from your favorite album -
"Rotund For Success" by Severed Heads
The title and best song from what has become my favourite album. It is just the most gorgeous confection to me, I can't get over the love. Equal parts pounding, hard bass drum, ethereal synth and Ellard doing his most sweet, soft vocal - he almost sounds to me a bit like he's trying the same trick Green from Scritti Politti did with his voice, although it is less babyish but it works. Then awesomely it's a song about a God of some sort falling in love with a mortal (I think, although maybeI am being too literal in the interpretation), with such surreally brilliant lyrics, "Aircraft adorn my hair, small boats adhere to my feet I might be omniptent but I can be discreet.". I also like the bit where he says "I would be a bridge, you'd be the thrall of a car." Because I find the image a peculiarly brilliant one.
I've ranted but I have no choice, the love I feel for it compels me.
LONG LIVE ELLARD RIP SEVERED HEADS
***
I went to the Brighton and Hove History Centre today and was promptly annoyed at myself for not going there earlier in the day because a few hours in there wasn't enough. I was in absolute heaven, they had all these old movies of Brighton some from the mid 1890's that were illuminating and thought provoking. So many lives, those who mugged for the camera, those who walked through it's frame without noticing it, all dead now but all undoubtedly they lived, for there is evidence.
I found it all touching and stirring to my imagination.
I cried.
They also have a library of Brighton and Hove crime books, I was reading a captivating one when I was gently asked to leave by the librarian.
Waaaa I wanna go back. Won't be able to till Tuesday but you better believe I will be there then far beter for me than going outside and catching skin cancer....I like how brown my limbs have gone but I don't like catching the sun on my face at all....I don't want face wrinkles...my face is so chubby FAT and babyish tht I don't think I would rock the mature look too well....although you never know.
Essentially I have nothing to say.