What song are you listening to right now?

[Requiescant]

The similarity of the main riff and The Beatles' 'Getting Better' is intentional

 

[goinghome]

Shame Is The Name
&

 

[The Wild Turkey]

Turks A Lot

 

[Name]

 

[Name]

 

[Name]

 

[Tibby]

Dizzy ~ Siouxsie and The Banshees

 

[The.Boy.Racer]

 

[mabuk]

Jasmyn - "In The Wild"

 

[Mozzer1980]

 

[Mozzer1980]

 

[Mozzer1980]

 

[Mozzer1980]

 

[Name]

 

[Name]

 

[Name]

 

[Requiescant]

Some excerpts from tonight's soirée.
Frankly, The Smiths live in Falkirk

 

[123xyz]

I can't express how much this song reminds me of the work of Breece D"J Pancake , the short-story writer , especially his key work "Trilobites" , although that's probably the unabashed Southerness in its mention of guns.
Such longing for integration into his girlfriend's family and belief that such is viable ...

 

[123xyz]

And this one reminds of Sylvia Plath more than any other song . The same blue icy-cold tone and sound we find in "Sheep In Fog" if I had to pick one of Sylvia's to match this track ...


It took me literally a decade or more to get over crap like "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy" and realise Plath was far more , and far more skilled , than just some mindlessly confessional poet who couldn't get over having a big feeling inside their body ...


And the vocal style in this track is far less embarrassing in terms of cultural appropriation than Portishead's earlier " smoky , sultry " efforts ...

 

[123xyz]

And this from the best war film of all time . No spectacular , theme-track accompanied killings or escapes or dying. Just the horrific ordinariness of death in a POW camp as a Japanese officer who finds himself in love with David Bowie ( who plays a captured British commando ) watches the man of his dreams being tortured to death and can do nothing but salvage a lock of his hair when its done. Beautifully sad and human , particularly as an exploration of male passion and love for another man without any dreary lisping or other camp nonsense ...