LOST in MUSIC
So I was sitting in Wetherspoons on Deansgate yesterday reading about Beckham going to LA. I was relieved not to have to waste any more sympathy on him because he’d been rejected by Steve and Fabio.
I picked up the Arts section to find a great article by Laura Barton.
It stresses how powerful music is in our lives.
She’s writes beautifully about how the words, phrasing, notes and often a slight imperfection can create something you have to play over and over again.
I’ve never been a huge Dylan fan, but one long hot summer, I became obsessed by his song *To Ramona*.
It was mainly the words and his emphasis - I loved the phrase ‘Your cracked country lips I still wish to kiss,’.
Here is the article - well worth a read
I picked up the Arts section to find a great article by Laura Barton.
It stresses how powerful music is in our lives.
She’s writes beautifully about how the words, phrasing, notes and often a slight imperfection can create something you have to play over and over again.
I’ve never been a huge Dylan fan, but one long hot summer, I became obsessed by his song *To Ramona*.
It was mainly the words and his emphasis - I loved the phrase ‘Your cracked country lips I still wish to kiss,’.
Here is the article - well worth a read
posted by KAZ at 11:13 am
11 Comments:
*Love Minus Zero (No Limit)* was my Dylan all-time string vest.
She knows there's no success like failure/And that failure's no success at all.
Someone bought me that album for my 21st.
Charlie Stubbs' song was Oasis' Whatever. If he survives I don't think he'll be able to listen to it again.
I can't listen to the same song twice in a row. Those cds with different versions of the same song wind me up.
Ramona could use a good lip balm.
Geoff, what do you mean, if Charlie Stubbs survives? Do all his jilted lovers show up seeking revenge?
Geoff: Like many other things - I did it a lot of it in my youth. Though replaying something on a vinyl LP was not exactly convenient.
I’ll be gad to see the back of Charlie Stubbs - the nastier he gets the more he forgets he’s from Lancashire and reverts back to being the posh git that he is in real life.
Mj: So do I in this weather.
No more on the subject of Charlie Stubbs - but I don’t think he’ll be joining Fred Elliot in Pantomime at the Palace theatre.
A song I have to listen to more than once on my mp3 player is "Just Because" by Jane's Addiction. It's not that it's my favourite song ever or anything, but there's a compulsion to listen again.
Another is "Volcano" by Damien Rice.
And "Eagle" by Abba.
We might end up being neighbours this year. I've been looking at apartments just off Deansgate. Will Manchester be able to cope?
Anx: It’s not the obvious ones is it - it’s the ones that creep up on you quietly.
That’s great Lubin - you will be very welcome.
Manchester is brilliant nowadays and seems to get better every day.
I used to work in ‘the village’, which is a great place to socialise . Even the Arndale is cool since its makeover.
The Northern Quarter is supposed to be the place - but I don’t know it too well.
I can remember getting Subway Sect's Ambition after ordering it from Small Wonder records in the back of the NME and playing it twenty times in a row. Then again, I was about sixteen, so that's my excuse.
Manchester seems to have so much going for it. It's certainly better than bloody London.
Dylan was cool but overrated and clearly had no idea how to play that toy guitar of his. I preferred Dougal and Zebedee.
Betty: The grass is always greener!
I’ve wanted to live in London since I was 15, but recently Manchester has improved so much I think I’ll stay put.
I used to read the NME before Julie Burchill was in it.
Zebedee dooh dah to you GB:
The banana daiquiris are on me tonight!
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