Monday 18 March 2024
One Track Mind #3: When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman
Sunday 17 March 2024
Snapshots #335: A Top Ten Automatic Songs
10. It's rude to do that, er, ladies.
It's rude to point... er...
The Pointer Sisters - Automatic
9. Bruce Willis Is A Ghost! (Plus seven.)
Spoilers!
Bruce Willis was a ghost in The Sixth Sense. Add 7 and you get...
8. Leave! Do I have to tell you twice?
Go! Go!
7. Cuban drums.
6. Bridal armament needs unhooking.
"Bridal armament" was an anagram...
5. Suicidal star.
He was the main man in Suicide... and Vega is one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
4. Stevie plays solo, without Paul.
Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney sang Ebony & Ivory, about black and white living together in harmony on the piano keyboard. If Stevie were on his own, it'd just be...
The Black Keys - 10 A.M. Automatic
3. Sonja decked me for making a mess of this one.
"Sonja decked" was an anagram...
Dee D, Jackson - Automatic Lover
A hit in 1978, the same year as this...
2. Shakin' all over.
The Vibrators - Automatic Lover
1. Still the top, even after The Boss left.
Saturday 16 March 2024
Saturday Snapshots #335
(I'm worried this one will be too easy. Can you break the Snapshots record?)
10. It's rude to do that, er, ladies.
9. Bruce Willis Is A Ghost! (Plus seven.)
8. Leave! Do I have to tell you twice?
7. Cuban drums.
6. Bridal armament needs unhooking.
5. Suicidal star.
4. Stevie plays solo, without Paul.
3. Sonja decked me for making a mess of this one.
2. Shakin' all over.
1. Still the top, even after The Boss left.
The answers will be published without any further assistance from me, tomorrow morning.
Friday 15 March 2024
The List #1
In 1992, INXS released their best album, Welcome To Wherever You Are. It contains the somewhat prescient song, Not Enough Time. When I hear this song in my head, it goes "Not enough time for all that I want to do" (although the actual lyrics are slightly different). Those lyrics pop into my head more and more frequently as the clock ticks ever onward... in a similar fashion to the way the lyrics to We Have All The Time In The World fill my mind whenever I'm in a rush to get somewhere and I find myself stuck behind a Louis.
I sometimes wonder if I like too much music. If I'd be better off if my tastes were more niche and not so varied. Because there really is NOT ENOUGH TIME to listen to everything I want to listen to. Every time I visit the tube of you, a new band pops up demanding my attention. On first listen, a lot of them sound intriguing... like this lot, who may well be of some interest to Martin...
Brigitte Calls Me Baby appear to be the latest in a long, long, long line of bands who want to sound like The Smiths. But how many of those ever made it big? Suede? Gene? (Not really.) The Killers? (As soon as they did, they stopped trying to sound like The Smiths.)
Lead singer Wes Leavins (with his enormous Morrissey quiff) claims to be more influenced by Sinatra, Orbison and Presley... ✔, ✔, ✔... but it's The Smiths I hear (and see) in the videos above and below... and that's why they're on the list.
Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Impressively Average
"The List."
Often, when I hear a song I like on another blog, I'll leave a comment saying "That's going on the list." Similarly, when I hear something interesting on the radio. Like this little beauty from Irish singer-songwriter Ultan Conlon...