Reviewing your parents' music collection
A monochrome watercolour landscape with a lonely tree in the distance. Almost faded, misty, forlorn. The opposite of inviting yet a view that somehow entrances attention. It may only be for a second. A second of interest followed by a deep feeling of loneliness and a quick desire for a view more lush and colourful.… Continue reading Like Rivers to the Ocean – Genesis play “Wind & Wuthering”
Your parents were rebels once. They were slamming doors, screaming at their parents, turning their music up way too loud, flinging themselves onto their beds and screaming into pillows. They were young once and full of anger, full of teenage angst in the days when there was no such word as 'teenage angst' but the… Continue reading Slam the Doors, Turn Up the Noise – Patti Smith Broadcasts Teenage Frustration on “Radio Ethiopia”
Sometimes, you can grasp the entire essence of an album by just listening to one song. Sometimes, there is this that one track that outshines any other on the record. Sometimes, this one song already says it all. And how convenient, when the song in question wears the same title as the album. Al Stewart's… Continue reading Why have an entire album when one song is enough? Al Stewart already says it all with ‘Year of the Cat’
The Dad Anthology 