Can I be out of line Сan we get back together? You drink I’ll pour the wine Сan we get back together? Your girlfriend’s prettier than mine Can we get back together? I’ll have you home by nine or whatever … Continue reading Hiding Songs: Ha by HTRK
I lived in the country where the dead wood aches In a house made of stone and a thousand mistakes Where the glory of morning got crushed by the burden of day I went down to the seaside, it was … Continue reading Hiding Songs: I Don’t Ever Want To Change by The Drones
Here she comes breakin’ through my window In the early morning hours For the moment, I am disrupted But in time she’ll make me smile All the wonderous animals Roamin’ round the earth Bring us songs of calm They do … Continue reading Hiding Songs: Lily And Parrots by Sun Kil Moon
I’ve caught an autumn flu and I’m bedridden. But sometimes it’s so nice to be sick, don’t you think, because I can go to bed and I don’t have to do anything and I can watch nature documentaries and read … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Cabin Fever by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
A grief came riding on the wind Up the southern river Thames I was sitting on the bank with my mouth open And I felt it entering I began thinking about our wedding day And how love was a vow … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Grief Came Riding by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
No show Isn’t that how it goes? No show He makes He’s making room for me in the city He makes He can break me With one hand to my head Go in dark, dear Dissipate my fears, letting me in He lets me in He knows That I love him, I know he is home He knows Sirens Sirens are far from me Safe and alone He can make me Move into a city on my knees He can take in everything Hoping he lets me in I, I let you in I am writing about him home I … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Break
Come to me, O come to me, Come to me, O come to me, Come to me, O come to me, Come to me, O come to me, Come to me, O come to me, Come to me, O come to me, Come to me, O … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Game
Watch the road Please Pinky watch the road Please Pinky will you watch the road Please Pinky watch the road Please Pinky Pinky Pinky’s Dodge Going fast away Purple, going up away Orange, blown away Pinky’s dream, glowing away Pinky … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Dream
Flew off early in the haze of dawn In a metal dragon locked in time Skimming waves of an underground sea In some kind of a dream world fantasy Sun a hot circle on a canopy ’25 a racing blot … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Seconds, Minutes, Hours
Slight of hand Jump off the end Into a clear lake No one around Just dragonflies Fantasize No one gets hurt You’ve done nothing wrong Slide your hand Jump off the end The water’s clear And innocent The water’s clear … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Metaphor
I’d like to laugh at what you said But I just can’t find a smile I wonder why you can’t I struggle with myself Hoping I might change a little Hoping that I might be someone I wanna be Looking … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Smile
Well ring the bell backwards bury the axe fall down on your knees in the dirt I’m tied to the mast between water and wind believe me you’ll never get hurt now the ring’s in the pawnshop the rain’s in … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Let Go
Drinking while sleeping Strangers unknowingly keep me company In the hotel bar Looking out a window that isn’t there Looking at the carpet and the chairs Well the only words I said today are “beer” and “thank you” Beer, thank … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: a song from an artist/singer who shares your name
Girls move to the back Boys move the front My hunger is hungrier Than the stars Glucose, cellulose, saccharine You fill me up then make me starve Eat yr heart Your body’s so perfect You fill me up then make … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Heart
OK, well I’ve been pretty bad blogging SLS for both April and March but if it makes any sense in a modern online world I’ve been offline for those, so sorry to Helen and anyone else who care? I’ve got … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Brother/Sister
Side A: Rubber Bullies Side B: Stayin’ Alive It’s been out for a few days so I’m a little late but I’m still waiting for the 7″ color vinyl, why can’t they just email it? Off course a promo video for the … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Rubber Bullies by TFS + Cover Versions: Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive by TFS
Sunday comes alone again A perfect day for a quiet friend And you, you will set it free I see new morning yound yr face Everybody sez its another phase And now, now its come to me See the magic … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Days
O what a mess you’re getting me in, You should stop having so many children, You breed like a white wedding christan Who never heard the word that greed was a sin. And when you talk it’s the operator If … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Numbers
And when it’s dark he makes the highplains On his quarter horse, with a canvas sack And the stars they bleed together like the flames inside a forge The Earth is molten, time is stretching on a rack Yet he … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Letters
Listen to me if you wanna know If you wanna change yourself I know the place to go We got a ceremony, I’m gonna paint your face Just follow me, just walk this way Stompin ground, stompin ground Stompin ground, … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Earth
And the letters that you wrote me, oh Shows I wish I was I wish I was at home I’m home It was alone I just couldn’t hear the phone Quit making the foam My eye muscle is bright In … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Phone Calls/Calling
OK, so that was a hopeless week blogging but here’s a Saturday morning cover post which you might not heard yet? It’s a discovery while I was looking for something else but I just can’t help but post it up … Continue reading Cover Versions: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Here Comes My Girl by Sun Kil Moon with Magik*Magik Orchestra
Well, that didn’t take long! TFS new B-side cover was originally by Aussie 80’s greats the Divinyls released on the album Temperamental in 1988. Now in 2018 on yellow vinyl with Fiona Kitschin and Erica Dunn on main vox for TFS. … Continue reading Cover Versions: Divinyls’ Back To The Wall by Tropical Fuck Storm
New song with the video clip to You Let My Tyres Down, the number three song and the next in line of their 7″ singles set. Now with the debut album now announcement today, titled A Laughing Death In Meatspace coming … Continue reading Wicked Songs: You Let My Tyres Down by Tropical Fuck Storm + Shall Be Released: A Laughing Death In Meatspace by Tropical Fuck Storm
I walk into the corner of my room See my friends in high places I don’t know which is which or who is whom They’ve stolen each others faces Janet is there with her hi-hatting hair Full of bedroom feathers … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Goodbye/Farewell
Comfort Of Strangers by Beth Orton which is the title track from her 2006 album and here are the lyrics: I know the stars that shine on me Are brighter than you and I may ever be I know there’s … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Comfort
The song Linger would have to be my fave by The Cranberries and that track been on repeat a few time this morning after reading that so very sad news at only 46 lead singer songwriter of The Cranberries passing away, … Continue reading Remembering: Dolores O’Riordan
Oh My by The Drones written by Gareth Liddiard from the album Havilah (2008) and the lyrics are: People are a waste of food You’ll never hear the end They’re only ever happy When they’re burying their friends And they … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Natural Disasters
Falling lyrics are: Don’t let yourself be hurt this time. Don’t let yourself be hurt this time. Then I saw your face Then I saw your smile The sky is still blue The clouds come and go Yet something is different … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Falling
That one is from a whole album of covers but off course I’m banging on about the Cave cover today! They’re sisters too, if you didn’t know which I didn’t until they did a Nick song. It was out about … Continue reading Cover Versions: Nick Cave’s Into My Arms by Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer
That’s a song original for Sun Kil Moon and The Album Leaf collaborative album from 2013 called Perils From The Sea, sometime listed as Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaVelle or Sun Kil Moon and The Album Leaf, for some reason? Sung by 22 year old … Continue reading Cover Versions: Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaVelle’s You Missed My Heart by Phoebe Bridgers
Who knows this old track for 1940’s? After yesterday big huge post it’s just this one and only song for my Tuesday post! I’d watch one of my fave movies on the weekend just gone, the track was made famous … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) by Tex Williams & His Western Caravan
So two posts today again, it’s two days in a row so can I be the first to shout “SNAP!” and slap my hand on the table too! Anyway continuing my never ending blog posts of Mr. Cave with now … Continue reading Cover Versions: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Skeleton Tree by Julia Jacklin
I guess this is a no brainier after yesterday’s post. I’ve wanted to for a while now to put all these together in the same post but haven’t for some reason. So with a couple of extras here it is … Continue reading Cover Versions: The Drones’ Shark Fin Blues by Ben Salter & Missy Higgins
Out of nowhere comes a new EP by Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld with this cover of Neil Young. Working on four new songs including the cover over the European winter and after the Spring EP a couple of years ago … Continue reading Cover Versions: Neil Young’s My My, Hey Hey by Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld
Edit (30/3/17) so I’ve been now corrected by The Drones twitter account, thanks guys. It’s his new band called National Cocktail Favourites but I do hope you’re letting NGV website person know too because that’s where I got it from. So … Continue reading Cover Versions: Jonathan Richman’s Vincent Van Gogh by Gareth Liddiard’s Cocktail Favourites
