Somebody To Love by Ramones
Iona School
Victoria Centre
National Ice Centre- I think I’m scared of Mark E Smith. #
- Ten o’clock & light enough to read outside. Didn’t go to the new pub ‘cos it was too full & smelt of paint. #
- Delicious Library is the nads – http://bit.ly/G5dFs #
- Debs has a new job – the times may be a-changing. #
- A life of luxury, or what? http://yfrog.com/5kgxkj #
- Camped out at the marina drinking beer in the rain. Commuting in from here tomorrow.
http://bit.ly/zUAeC # - Avoided the bank holiday weekend & waited until the afternoon before heading out to Beeston & back. #
May 242009
I’ve just glanced at the paperwork and coincidentally the completion date for the purchase of the Maggie Winn is exactly one year ago today. So the next job is to do the sums and find out exactly how much she’s cost us over the first year, something which I’ve ben avoiding.
Deep breath, here we go …
- Chilean wine. Definitely worth the three quid I paid for it. #
- Buying Chilean wine on the recommendation of our new global colleagues. #
- The vote was cast for Angel, season two. #
- Just finished the family watching of Buffy season 5, not sure whether to move on to season 6 or catch up with Angel. Hmmm. #
So, the twelfth studio album which will inevitably be compared to the previous double, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. More orchestral but less coherent it’s certainly not on a par with that. The only single I’m aware of without checking is ‘Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word’, which I think typifies the softer feel of the album after Rock of the Westies. ‘Cage the Songbird’ refers to Edith Piaf so my limited musical references were being broadened but even tracks like ‘Crazy Water’ and ‘One Horse Town’ can’t lift this to the ‘essential Elton’ status of Captain Fantastic. Maybe a harder edit to a single album would have helped? Too late now.
- About to learn the joys of Powershell. #
- On earlies, and almost a pleasant drive to work. Almost. #
- Finally moored again.
http://bit.ly/MZTzL # - Not the prettiest place to stop for lunch, but It does the job.
http://bit.ly/14xkal #
May 162009
Another live album five years after the first, I can forgive him that. One side recorded in the UK & one in the States with pretty much exactly what you’d expect to see on the track listing.
It all hinges on the next two – Blue Moves and A Single Man. Perversely I’m hoping for a crash in quality between them or my years of prejudice against the following thirty albums will have been for naught & I’ll have a lot of catching up to do. Or not.
May 112009
Sorry people, I’ve been a bit off-topic lately while I got the Elton John thing off my chest.
Have no fear, that’s on hold for the moment (I’m Eltoned out & the speakers need a bit of a clearout – Abdou should do it, & restore them to their rightful place at the top of my last.fm profile) so normal service can be resumed.
Sadly I’ve not got much to report. We’re now back in the moorings after bottling out of close maneuvering last week due to the high winds and staying moored on the canal, but that’s about it. We took a quick trip up the Beeston cut for lunch but didn’t stay long, and we were nice to the people on a cute little thing (Something Bute) who were ‘out for the first time’.
Beyond that we’re looking a bit scruffy, so need to push paint & varnish up the agenda.
- And relax. #
- Some children have no sense of imminent danger. #
- Trying to tire the little darlings out at the park. #
- Looking after other people’s children for birthday tea. What fun. #
- No. 1 daughter is twelve years old today. #
- Spyder spyder burning bright / in the cobwebs of the night / what immortal hand or eye / gave you so many legs, you freaky fucking bastard? #
- Made it to Holme Pierrepont.
May 092009
To begin with the title is a pun that really pisses me off for some reason – I think I was about to fall out of love. This came straight after Captain Fantastic & I didn’t want to sully that. The sleeve was so normal after previous fun & games, and adding insult to injury there was a track with the word ‘funk’ in the title. I sure as hell wasn’t going there, I was busy discovering The Who, but ‘I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)’ held out some hope with its abstruse reference in the title. I’d watched my westerns & know who Robert Ford was. ‘Island Girl’ however was solidly in the debit column and I wasn’t convinced.
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At last. For me the apogee of Elton John albums with a sleeve to entertain for hours (and indeed concern – there’s a crocodile shitting in the corner!), and a gatefold to boot even though it’s a single album. The back half is a pocket containing a poster and a couple of booklets, one of which is a comic strip of the Elton & Bernie story so far. And back then we thought that was it – oh the innocence.
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We knew it was autobiographical, hence (perhaps) the lack of hit singles. It didn’t matter; this one was for the album buyers, it stands alone and is best experienced from start to finish. No dipping in for this one, there’s a very full sound and just when you’re losing heart it comes back at you – We All Fall In Love Sometimes.
This is the last album that Elton John, Davey Johnstone, Dee Murray, Nigel Olsson, and Ray Cooper (the ‘classic’ lineup) recorded together for some time, so I feel the end approaching …
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