I know that songs have their own contexts, their own lives, but as well as living in their worlds it interests me that they live in ours, and it’s us that give them meaning, introducing them to friends they may not otherwise have met and forcing strange connections and arranged marriages. Songs that give you a snapshot of then as well as letting you deeper into now, and even a glimpse of the future, how wide it is, how deep it is, how much of it is mine to keep. And how do we treat this gift? Do we concentrate on the happy times whilst eternity fails to go by? Can we fail to remember that history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes? This is a playlist, in the telegraphic, schizophrenic sense of the word, of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace.
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. – The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager Part 1 mp3
Elvis Costello – Tomorrow’s (Just Another Day) mp3
Billy Bragg – As Long As You Hold Me mp3
The Trashcan Sinatras – It’s A Miracle mp3
R.E.M. – Nightswimming mp3
June 14, 2009 at 7:20 am
It is funny how these songs influence our minds and decisions. They might be so inconsequential to the writer, but they can change everything for the listener. The line that currently haunts me is one from Elvis Costello’s The Beat: I don’t wanna be a lover. I just wanna be your victim. I can recognise how I can love it so. The delivery is one thing, but lyrically, it squarely relates to me. It sums up my attraction to destructive people and situations.. and yet it somehow encompasses my avoidance of relationships entirely. I don’t want to be a lover. I just wanna be your victim.
Am reading this at the moment, have you seen it?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Modfather-My-Life-Paul-Weller/dp/0099476592/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top