The Music Meme

Today's entry:

Day 19- A song you’re currently obsessed with

"Sickie Boy" by Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3

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I don't think anyone has ever accused me (or spuffyduds ) of being an early adopter in any sense except occasionally the cultural.  We were among the first people I know to get into Harry Potter, for example, picking up on the word of mouth even before the first US publication, IIRC; we certainly got the British version of Chamber of Secrets before it came ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning, while I was insomniating here in my LJ, I was listening to Robyn Hitchcock's Ole Tarantula! album and musing on the structure of popular music albums.

I failed to recognize something far more immediately significant about the song I was hearing.  Check out the opening verse:

A man's gotta know
His limitations, Briggs, or
He will just ( Read more... )