Rufus & Chaka Khan - You Got The Love

One of the best albums ever made I think.  I used to have it on vinyl AND CD - like a choob I got rid of both (tiny house, clutter etc..) and now that I would like to buy them again, I find that, of course, you have to pay £70 and upwards for vinyl and about £30 to £50 for the CD.  

Life's Soundtrack. Captain Beefheart - Old Folks Boogie {1966}

I'm not a big fan of Captain Beefheart except for 'Safe as Milk'.  I first heard that album a long, long time ago during what might be termed my 'stoner years', my favourite tracks being Zig Zag Wanderer and Autumn's Child.  Unfortunately I had to leave that fertile soil in order to 'earn a living'.  Such a shame when that happens.  I wonder what would ensue if we could all just not have to do that.  But that's a whole other conversation.

This song comes from the Safe as Milk era and I don't think I'd ever heard it before it cropped up on Youtube today, along with ads for funeral plans and stairlifts.

Life's Soundtrack. Nick Cave performing A Rainy Night in Soho at the funeral of Shane MacGowan

You're the measure of my dreams...the measure of my dreams...

Life's soundtrack. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God (Official Audio)

Love this.  The older I get the more I appreciate Nick Cave, who is even older than me by the way and still out there.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are touring https://x.com/nickcave/status/1768562959574339655?s=20 later this year.

Life's soundtrack. Keith Richards - I'm Waiting For The Man (Lou Reed Cover) (Official Video)

Interesting cover.  I like it.  The original has been part of my life's soundtrack, along with the rest of the 'yellow banana' album.  

Harry Nilsson - Sail Away (Audio)

Love this.  

Tune of the Day - Warren Zevon - My Shit's Fucked Up

This is a splendid song,  splendidly performed, on the theme of ageing.  Short and concise.  Unfortunately only available if you click through to Youtube, because of the sweary words presumably.  How fucking stupid is that.  You can watch 'pron' of every possible variety, practically anywhere (which we are led to believe is all fine and dandy - reader, for a number of reasons, it isn't, and I may write about why, later) but you can't listen to the words of a song.

Anyway.  I recommend that you do listen to it.   I've been worrying about my shit getting fucked up i.e. the implications of ageing for about, hmmmm....maybe twelve or thirteen years.  I started worrying when I really didn't need to.  I  thought I was old, but I wasn't, I was merely middle-aged.  Now I've crossed a line where I really am pretty old, it's a different game altogether now and I worry far less about the fucked up shit than I did back then.  Because I'm still here and I appreciate how lucky I am to have made it this far without falling off the ledge.

Life is so weird.  Gloriously so.  I try to live in the moment and I feel blessed to be alive.

Today's tune - Velvet Morning - thoughts

I absolutely love love love this song.  Going back to the age thing, what awes me especially and what I find totally remarkable is that someone as young as Richard Ashcroft was when he wrote this, could produce something so evocative and relatable for someone...well I was going to say 'of my age', however this song was written thirty years ago and I'm just ten years older than him, so...I wouldn't have ben that much older at the time.

This is getting overly complicated and I need another gallon of tea before I sort it out to have it make sense.    Having said that, perhaps it shows that there is surely an eternal thread that runs through us all and connects us regardless of where we happen to be on the space/time continuum.  

As you might notice I'm still very much in a 'Verve' and 'Virginia Woolf'  phase.  There are worse places, to be fair.   I will move on eventually...

Roger Waters Mother The Wall Live at Berlin

This is just a wonderful song and a wonderful performance.  I do love Sinead.