Thursday, 19 October 2023

Mid-Life Crisis Songs #103: When I Was A Young Man


If you look closely at the picture above, you might be able to make out a flock of geese flying south for the winter in V formation. My camera wasn't really up to capturing it, but whenever I see a migration such as this, I feel rather humbled. Kind of puts my daily commute into perspective, much as I like to grumble about it.

A number of my fellow bloggers have waxed lyrical about the latest long player by former Go-Between Robert Forster. 

Here's Walter...

And here's The Blogfather himself...

I've a feeling someone else has also sung its praises, but aging memory, etc. etc. Apologies if it was you.

Anyway, it's a great record. Deeply personal, largely dealing with his wife Karin's battle with ovarian cancer and how that affected them both, but the gentlemen above have covered this much better than I could.

The closing track is the one I keep coming back to though, as the perfect Mid-Life Crisis tune. It's about looking back on your life without regret, only contentment. That's what I'm trying for.



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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous19 October 2023 at 14:18

    If I was still making a year-end list, this album would be right up there. Good call. - Brian

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    1. Rol19 October 2023 at 15:11

      "If I was still making a year-end list..."

      Never say never, Brian!

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  2. C19 October 2023 at 15:23

    I love the photo. Nature humbles me all the time - the birds, the spiders, the trees, the worms, whatever: they're the ones who've got it right, we're just clumsy intruders. But hopefully clumsy intruders who can look back at life without regret too.

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  3. Khayem19 October 2023 at 20:25

    It may have been me, Rol. I’ve kind of written around the album, not about it, a few times. You left a lovely comment when I posted a Dubhed Selection on RF’s birthday in June, which also featured When I Was A Young Man as the closing song. If I do an end of year best of, this album is definitely in there.

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  4. Khayem19 October 2023 at 20:27

    I love the photo too. The gaggle of geese are like a crack in the clouds.

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