"It's a Tuesday night..."
"...and I can't be with the people that I love tonight - they left me all alone and I can't forgive them; I guess I'll be on my own."
The start of "Simple", one of my favorite songs by the Beta Band... it often comes on the Shuffle on Tuesdays, when I am very frequently alone. The lyric only ever gets to me for a moment usually, and I think of my loved ones and feel really good about them. Once or twice that lyric was 100% dead on. And even then it didn't bother me too much because that song is just so fucking awesome that I can't be unhappy when I'm listening to it. I love music.
My iPod right now is stuffed full of favorites - early XTC singles, Duran Duran B-sides, Duran Duran album tracks from my favorite albums, the High Llamas, 30.06's Hag Seed which gets me into air-drumming trouble when I'm riding the bus, My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything, Robyn Hitchcock, Tipsy's second album... God, what else. A lot of random stringers; a few Blur tracks, a random Scritti Politti or so.
The Scott Walker blitz has to wait until I have, y'know, more than one of his albums. Even so, I have my doubts that it'll make good iPod commute music; in fact, most of what I have on there now is not suitable for listening to while I'm also trying to read a book. A perfect band for that - and also equally marvelous when I have no other distractions - is the Beta Band. Yes, this is all so very old-school. It's slightly embarrassing, but it's not just simple nostalgia. There aren't very many consuming memories associated with these albums, mostly because I listened to them all half to death in many different settings. 30.06 comes close, though; I remembered today on the bus seeing them play live somewhere, Satyricon or something, and screaming myself hoarse singing along. Beautiful times. I don't really miss it, or I should say, I miss it like I miss my very first orgasms. The ones I have now are better.
The start of "Simple", one of my favorite songs by the Beta Band... it often comes on the Shuffle on Tuesdays, when I am very frequently alone. The lyric only ever gets to me for a moment usually, and I think of my loved ones and feel really good about them. Once or twice that lyric was 100% dead on. And even then it didn't bother me too much because that song is just so fucking awesome that I can't be unhappy when I'm listening to it. I love music.
My iPod right now is stuffed full of favorites - early XTC singles, Duran Duran B-sides, Duran Duran album tracks from my favorite albums, the High Llamas, 30.06's Hag Seed which gets me into air-drumming trouble when I'm riding the bus, My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything, Robyn Hitchcock, Tipsy's second album... God, what else. A lot of random stringers; a few Blur tracks, a random Scritti Politti or so.
The Scott Walker blitz has to wait until I have, y'know, more than one of his albums. Even so, I have my doubts that it'll make good iPod commute music; in fact, most of what I have on there now is not suitable for listening to while I'm also trying to read a book. A perfect band for that - and also equally marvelous when I have no other distractions - is the Beta Band. Yes, this is all so very old-school. It's slightly embarrassing, but it's not just simple nostalgia. There aren't very many consuming memories associated with these albums, mostly because I listened to them all half to death in many different settings. 30.06 comes close, though; I remembered today on the bus seeing them play live somewhere, Satyricon or something, and screaming myself hoarse singing along. Beautiful times. I don't really miss it, or I should say, I miss it like I miss my very first orgasms. The ones I have now are better.