you get on that horse, you gotta ride it!!!

So I’ve been thinking lately of the whole process of finding a new (to you) band and then attempting to describe that new band to like minded friends….As far as I can tell there are two schools of thought in describing a band…Either
A) Make up genre to describe the new band. i.e. “Hillbilly funk metal” (Primus) or “Preware calypso blues” (C.W. Stoneking).
or
B) Describe the influnces to make it sound like a perfect union of two completely unrelated bands. i.e.
They sound like the Reverend Horton Heat crossed with Wolfmother…

Now it’s entirely possible that you hate the Reverend Horton Heat and you hate Wolfmother, so you have to modify your description to meet your friends tastes (or suffer their confused looks), but it never ends up working correctly because the combos are usually unimaginable or unlikeable. Though the resulting band is probably better than the sum of it’s 2 parts (is this gestalt?)…

You can choose to take this to a further extreme…i.e.
Imagine if Hank Williams and Sublime had a baby, and at the same time the Pogues and Queens of the Stone Age had a baby and then the offspring of those two bands combined to have a baby…who had a crazy Nick Cave like uncle who influenced them as a child and then they grew up and….(you get the idea).

It still never ends up right and you just have to listen to a band to understand them…

So since neither of my formulas work you just have to take my word for it and listen to a band when I recommend them 😉

I better just go back to writing about midgets in wheelchairs…or the weather….or smoting….

…and so now the weather…It rains every night. I think it’s rained every day for about the past month. What kind of summer is this?

Nick Cave

Shortest occupation ever!!!

Last night listening to Nick Cave outside until I was shaking from the cold. Only to repeat this morning…
For once I was glad my flat has an overheating problem (normally way to hot in here).
People say his lyrics are depressing, but I don’t think so. I think they’re lovely.

My Funeral
I am a crooked man
And I’ve walked a crooked mile
Night, the shameless widow
Doffed her weeds, in a pile
The stars all winked at me
They shamed a child
Your funeral, my trial

A thousand Marys lured me
To feathered beds and fields of glover
Bird with crooked wing cast
It’s wicked shadow over
A bauble moon did mock
And trinket stars did smile
Your funeral, my trial

Here I am, little lamb…
Let all the bells in whoredom ring
All the crooked bitches that she was
(Mongers of pain)
Saw the moon
Become a fang
Your funeral, my trial

Weeping Song
Go son, go down to the water
And see the women weeping there
Then go up into the mountains
The men, they are weeping too

Father, why are all the women weeping?
They are weeping for their men
Then why are all the men there weeping?
They are weeping back at them

This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the men and women sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won’t be weeping long

Father, why are all the children weeping?
They are merely crying son
O, are they merely crying, father?
Yes, true weeping is yet to come

This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While all the men and women sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won’t be weeping long

O father tell me, are you weeping?
Your face seems wet to touch
O then I’m so sorry, father
I never thought I hurt you so much

This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While we rock ourselves to sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won’t be weeping long
But I won’t be weeping long
But I won’t be weeping long
But I won’t be weeping long

Death is not the end
When you’re sad and when you’re lonely
And you haven’t got a friend
Just remember that death is not the end

And all that you held sacred
Falls down and does not mend
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end

When you’re standing on the crossroads
That you cannot comprehend
Just remember that death is not the end

And all your dreams have vanished
And you don’t know what’s up the bend
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end

When the storm clouds gather round you
And heavy rains descend
Just remember that death is not the end

And there’s no-one there to comfort you
With a helping hand to lend
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end

For the tree of life is growing
Where the spirit never dies
And the bright light of salvation
Up in dark and empty skies
When the cities are on fire
With the burning flesh of men
Just remember that death is not the end

When you search in vain to find
Some law-abiding citizen
Just remember that death is not the end

weird how when I was a teenager (back in the old skool day) I would buy one cassette and listen to it over and over (for months). I can’t imagine doing that nowadays. there’s so much music available you should really never ever have to listen to a bad song, yet I still do.

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