Song 23: Ben Folds – The Luckiest So here is the point in which I betray my gruff manly exterior and expose myself to be a puppy dog cry-baby lady man? Oh wait, in order for that to be true I would have to have a gruff manly image to shatter, wouldn’t I? Never mind, [...]
Song 22. Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Hill So we rumble on towards the end of the 30 day song challenge with all the enthusiasm of a wounded buffalo approaching a watering hole ring fenced by lions. Once again we find ourselves covering old ground, as I can’t really see the difference between today and ‘day [...]
One thing about fandom in general that I find appealing is its constantly shifting nature. There are always new and exciting things to come along and take your attention away from those things that you’ve listened to or watched or read that one time too many. You can get bored of a band, or a [...]
Song 20. Today Is The Day – The Descent. Not an essay for once, I’m busy doing work on Blood On The Motorway. No, really. You will probably have gathered by now that I don’t have to be angry to listen to angry music, It is somewhat of a default position for me, in fact [...]
Song 19: Neurosis – At the End of the Harvest. It used to be that my stock answer to the question of my favourite album was a quick one to answer. VS, by Pearl Jam, next question. This was until quite recently. A regular release schedule of two years for each new Pearl Jam album [...]
Day 18: Healer, by Torche It is a more complicated thing than it might seem, wishing a band success. Whenever I discover a band for the first time it is either by word of mouth or other recommendation (praise the Lord for the gift of Last.fm) and that link seems so personal, so unique. For [...]
Truth be told I no longer listen to much music radio. I tend to hear about new bands through word of mouth, or Last.fm. All the radio I consume these days tends to be after the fact, through various BBC podcasts, and these have the music stripped cruelly from them, or in the case of [...]
I think I need to break out of this challenge and do a proper blog post soon, it’s starting to do my head in a bit, but then there is the whole thing of leaving it unfinished that fills my little black heart filled with dread. So persist I must for now, fuelled as I am by [...]
Back when I entered my teenage years with the shocking lack of gusto that would later categorise my entire life approach, this would have been a much easier thing to have done. Back when I was first listening to the music of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and hell even Bon Jovi, it felt as though every single lyric [...]
Well yes I seem to have forgotten that this is a daily task. And indeed was going to be a daily blog. I seem to have even forgotten that I was doing a 365 project. Oh well. In my defence this is yet another rubbish topic. A song that NOBODY would expect you to like. [...]
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