Don’t forget the classic:
Me and Julio down at the pickelball courts
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Memory’s Hazy After All These Years
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What’s that you said, Mrs Robinson?
The battery’s gone out in my hearing aid
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I am a rock, I took viagra.
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To be fair, it’s a good album, with great guitar work by Simon, and uncomfortable focus on all that stuff, plus death, God, and being old. He’s 81, and he sounds like a very old man.
Wait
I’m not ready
I’m just packing my gear
Wait
My hand’s steady
My mind is still clear
I hear the ghost songs I own
Jumpin’, jivin’ and moanin’
Through a heartbroken microphone
Wait
Life is a meteor
Let your eyes roam
Heaven is beautiful
It’s almost like home
Children! get ready
It’s time to come home
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I saw bits of an interview he did with Stern where he detailed the extent of his hearing loss.
I’m watching Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday celebration and hardly believing Sheryl Crow is 61 years old.
Yeah, well Fast Times at Ridgemont High is closer to the Casablanca than it is to today.
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Too good/weird not to share.
[Safe for work but sound is required]
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Love this album, don’t know where to put this, but I’m guessing some of you vinyl afficionados don’t have a record quite like this:
Tracy Chapman popped up at the Grammy’s to perform “Fast Car”. She killed it, obviously.
“Fast Car” was first introduced to the world at the Nelson Mandela 70th birthday concert at Wembley Stadium (old, proper Wembley). Tracy had already performed her set, but when Stevie Wonder was unable to play because of a technical fuck up with his equipment they had a situation with 100,000 people waiting for music, but they had nothing but static.
So Tracy agreed to go back on a perform a couple of songs from her as yet unreleased new album to fill the hole. Just Tracy, a guitar and a couple of songs that no one had heard before. I’m sure the production staff were shitting themselves.
One of those songs was “Fast Car”.
(The other song was “Talkin’ 'Bout a Revolution”. Talk about vibes!)
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That whole album is great, I’ll have to listen to it while working today.
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That was the best Grammys show I’ve ever seen. Annie Lennox with Wendy and Lisa was another highlight. Jon Batiste killed it. Joni Mitchell! And goddamn Miley…
I saw this guy at Rebellion Festival in Blackpool last year. One man band with backing tracks but put on a hell of a show.
Meryl Streek - Death To the Landlord
Seems like a well adjusted, easygoing sort of chap.
No complaints or issues from this guy.
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The dancing bear at 4:04. Ha.
Hardly 2023 music, but Siri pulled this gem from its memory bank this morning. Such a great/under-appreciated band (who happen to be from South London).
Formed by lead singer/songwriter Pete Perrett with a lineup of talented session musicians, the band’s sound was boa constrictor tight, while simultaneously sounding loose and almost improvised. This is exemplified by the guitar solo that makes up pretty much the last third of this song, where the band seems to all be playing their own songs over each other but it all fits together like a jigsaw and they arrive at the same spots at the same time over and over again.
FYI, this is from the “Peel Sessions”, which were “as live” studio recordings produced by the BBC’s famed indi music champion John Peel. So what you are hearing is pretty much what you would’ve heard had you seen them at the Anerley Arms, just the other side of the hill from Selhurst Park.
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