There are lots of songs, more than I can think of just now, that I used to listen to a lot and then for one reason or another just haven’t listened to for ages. I spotted one last night, flicking through a list of artists to find some recently acquired things. This was, I think, one of the earliest things I downloaded back in the day, knowing nothing about it other than its name and that it was available. I think it’s a wonderful song, though – country/folky-but-not-quite, resigned and determined, quiet and clear.
There’s something else about this, which is that there are quite a few cases, and it seems to be particularly true of things I found when I started finding music online, where I only know one song by a band, which I like very much but never seem to go looking for more. Happy with what I have of them? Worried that I won’t like anything else by them as much? Don’t know. I do kind of look around to see if other people are recommending the band or other things by them and I don’t remember seeing anyone else write about these for ages and ages. Anyway…
Girlyman – Young James Dean mp3
Additional – the news that the O2 and AEG are offering people ’souvenir tickets’ instead of refunds for the Jackson concerts. Gotta laugh.
