Wrote this around 1985.

A fiddler man of some renown had played his songs each night

For 40 years and more he'd played and tried to make it right

The children used to gather around and dance with youthful glee

But now he plays alone because the kids have MTV

I think I started posting around 2005. Was married with a 4-year-old kid and living in semi-rural Oregon, working for a family-owned funeral home and doing everything there was to do there with an insane on-call schedule - I mean weekends where I got maybe 6 hours of sleep from Friday to Monday morn...

enframed wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 2:13 pm Voted incorrectly on account of not knowing Icelandic. I'm the only crap vote.

So did you think that everyone else had voted crap?

Guess I'll never get to hear those Jane's bass lines live after all.

Not crap. Wish she had acted more. Vespertine is in my top ten.

If you've ever had an interest in seeing what this band is like live but didn't want to get the total experience with like, other people, they are livestreaming most of the shows on their current US tour free-of-charge on YouTube. This weekend is Red Rocks and The Gorge is on the 14th, and those are...

I liked it, but it's probably only 4th or so in the Alien pantheon for me.

With that said, I'm going to seek out everything David Jonsson does, because he was magnetic and incredibly dextrous in this.

I really like it, and I know Cave himself has been making the rounds being his usual articulate self in describing his process and its result, but when you read reviews it's like he opened a door, walked into a room with the world's press waiting inside, said the word, "Joy", left, and the...

Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch I read an interview with Ambrose Kenny-Smith from King Gizzard and he was way hyped on this record. I'd never heard of this artist, so I had a listen and damn. I'm wondering if any of the people I know in Santa Cruz might let me sleep on their couch in October, sin...