May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This year feels like it has been a long one. I started university back in January and I am now working through the second module of my DipHE English. There was excitement at the start of the year with some Simple Minds related releases happening. The first being from the band themselves with the release…
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In the latest edition of Rolling Stone magazine, they have gone over the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. There is now a new, revised list from the magazine. The first list was published in 2003. In 2012, they revised this list. We’ve now had this second revision. I went through the whole list, praying…
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Today, my heart just wasn’t in doing a Simple Minds song. It is a rare day indeed when that happens. I even tried not doing a lyric piece, but one of my “Why I Love” write ups instead…and it lead nowhere. But…this is how it would feel, if I really *could* make a success of…
Today’s ear worm…
It’s been in my head for the past 24 hours. Post is one of my absolute all-time favourite albums. I played it over and over and over….and this is probably my favorite track from it…if not my favourite Bjork track (there are several jostling for poll position to be honest). You guessed it…it can bring…
Jim linked to a little clip from Radio 4 about the nation’s “Desert Island Disc” – the British public’s most popular choice was Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. And it would be on his own list, he said. I had heard in the past that he listens to it most mornings. Well, in the past…