Dawn Chorus - Day 3

Oh dear, not a good day today. I have that dreary nonsense by Passenger going round in my head! I have no idea why. I don't like the song, not even sure what it's called and I can't remember the last time I actually heard it but I have some line about "only miss your lover when you let her go"  on repeat in my brain. Im going to listen to some Pink Floyd to get rid of it

Dawn Chorus - Day 2

Following yesterdays first entry of The Dawn Chorus, I did think of changing the name to Morning Glory but thought better of it as I am a mature, sensible man who holds no truck with such juvenile smut...honest!

 

Anyway, todays' second entry is Adeles' "Don't You Remember from her 21 album.

The reasons why this might be on my mind and entered my unconscious sleep will become clear in a few weeks,  so stick around to find out why, it's good. Actually that's just my Ham fisted way of getting anyone reading this blog to keep coming back!

The Dawn Chorus

Most mornings I wake up with some song or piece of music going round my head and I thought it might be fun to keep a record of these on a daily basis. It's not a particularly original idea I know, Shaun Keavney on Radio 6 has his "Ear Worms" feature going in a similar vein. Luckily, in the sense that I don't have to get up that early, I rarely hear this. So I'm starting my own version. So, the inaugural "Dawn Chorus" is John Grants' "Pale Green Ghosts

On A Roll

Having got the hang of scheduling I'm on a bit of a roll at the moment. I've scheduled posts up into mid February, so far, which gives me time to listen to stuff as well as blog. Hopefully, this will allow me to keep the momentum going. For anyone who reads this *snigger* the next few posts will be out on a a weekly basis on a Saturday to, hopefully, catch the weekend crowd. 

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Another album from the last year. If you're ever looking for a definition of the description "Bleak Beauty" listen to this. Like a lot of the stuff I've been listening to recently it's electronic and, largely, instrumental, with the exception of a few sampled, hard to discern, voices. It's great and reminds me of 80s film sound track for something like Escape from New York Friday 13th or Halloween . It's one of those albums that keeps on giving. Every time you listen you hear something new.

John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

I love John Grant and this is probably my favourite album of 2013. It's, pretty much, perfect. Musically, there's icey 80s electronica combined with darkly humourous, self depreciating, almost self loathing, lyrics which give the album its heart. It's not as instant as his first, solo, album but in some ways, the fact that it takes a little more time and effort to get into, in comparison, makes it, ultimately more rewarding. And its got Sinead O'Connor doing backing vocals!

Carole King - Tapestry

OK, so, five months since my last posting. I had, basically, given up on blogging but I mentioned to someone on twitter recently that I'd had a blog and I thought I'd give it another go with this short entry.

I originally intended to blog about This Album, which I bought after hearing it in full for the first time at a friends, way back, even before some previous posts. However, I couldn't really think of what to say, so I left it and moved on to other stuff.

I think the album suffers two "problems". The first, not a problem really, is that there are some really, justifiably, classic songs on here that'll be familiar to most people. So, beyond the sense of familiarity and recognition, there's little to grab the attention since, and this is the second problem, there are some, justifiably, none classics on here, such as "Smackwater Jack" which sounds really dated.

Ah well, it feels good to have got this one out of the way, in blog terms. We'll have to see whether it's going to spur me on to make further entries???