Music
A great unreleased (as far as I know) live version of my favourite Genesis song. π΅
Genesis Live at the Rainbow (1973) - Cinema Show (2009 Remaster) - YouTube
Keep The Change by Mattiel. π΅
Itβs my birthday and Iβm at work alone today. The good thing about lone-working is that I get to choose the radio station and I choose BBC Radio 3. Classical music is βdepressingβ according to my usual colleagues. I find it anything but. π΅
There must be something magical in Lyon, France, that makes it produce so many great bands. This is one of my favourite albums from last year (Bandcamp link). Odessey & Oracle - Crocorama π΅
Bob has been on a run of fantastic albums recently. I’m looking forward to the new one very much.
The former HΓΌsker DΓΌ and Sugar frontman is back with a career box set and an incendiary new album, having come to terms with childhood trauma, his sexuality and the death of his bandmate
Via: Bob Mould, alt-rock’s gay icon, takes on American evil: ‘My head’s on fire!’ | Music | The Guardian
Earworm of the day: Troublemakers by Lavinia Blackwall. π΅
It’s been a while since I fell in love with a song I heard on the radio. Love this one.
πΆI grew up on buying vinyl records but I’m not wholly back into the resurgence of the format. I’ll buy the odd special edition but I just don’t have the energy to care about looking after a new collection.
Cardiacs' Tim Smith: a one-man subculture who inspired total devotion | Music | The Guardian:
Tim Smith, who has died aged 59, made a bizarre kind of rock music that was so wrong it was right β and his boundless enthusiasm was so infectious it created an army of followers.
Kraftwerk: their 30 greatest songs, ranked! | Music | The Guardian:
From cycling soundtracks to anti-nuclear protest music, we celebrate the work of the late Florian Schneider and the groundbreaking group he co-founded
Good list.
Oh, won’t you stay
We’ll put on the day
And we’ll talk
In present tenses
Joni Mitchell, Chelsea Morning π¬π΅
Sad to hear that Dave Greenfield of The Stranglers has died. The Black and White album was one of the first records I ever bought and I still have the same copy.