May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I know that from seeing the Velvet Underground documentary my feeling on Lou Reed was left being quite….disparaging. There was little positivity to be gained from how he was portrayed in that. A remarkable writer and intellect, yes…but not a person you could imagine yourself wanting to spend much time with. Jim talking about the…
Sometimes for me the songs that should sound the easiest to decipher are the ones I struggle to gain clearly defined meaning from. This Is It is a case in point. For as clear as the lyrics are in the song, there’s enough ambiguity in the meaning for me to question whether MY interpretation of…
I don’t know how long this new idea will last, but this is the start of a new concept for a weekly post here. It’s going to be called the “Billy Breakdown” and will basically be a short (or long-ish, depending upon how much I feel needs to be discussed) discussion about the previous evening’s…
Differing tastes. Songs that you don’t initially warm to and songs you love from the get go. This is the theme for MMM this week. I was pondering what I was going to write about this week – thinking that I more often than not choose earlier tracks. It’s my bias coming to the fore…
There was a live YouTube stream last night by the ProSynth Network. Mick MacNeil was on for a big three hour marathon. Sadly I missed it as I was having an evening out in Edinburgh seeing Beauty And The Beast for my birthday. Thankfully it is available to view back which I will do in…
Some brilliant, dark, melancholic Brel as we continue our waltz towards Halloween…
The only thing that seems to make me happy right now is to endlessly listen to Jonathan Richman. It’s these kind of things that make me wonder whether I am on the spectrum because of my silly, confused traits. I need an outlet. I need to vent. This is what this place is for, for…
It’s Halloween on Sunday, and I’ll be 51 – YAY! Pfft! Lol What am I doing to celebrate? Not much – but more than I got to do last year. A milestone birthday, “celebrated” in the middle of a pandemic was ssoooo joyous! Lol Anyway, this year I get a night out in Edinburgh, seeing…
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I have been back listening to a random shuffle mode playlist of Minds songs over the past couple of nights. Perhaps my “Seven Year Itch” has been quelled? Sometimes I get distracted. My thoughts wander. As I am so familiar with some of the tunes, and this will sound awful – but….you can “zone out”,…
Ghost Dancer (aka Stuart Greaves) has shared another gem of a bootleg, this time of SM some seven months into the New Gold Dream tour of ‘82/‘83 – midway through the North American leg of the tour in April/May of 1983. Playing the Ritchie’s Club in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recorded by a member of the…
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