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What are you listening to right now? v2.0

I had this as an earworm and was listening to it...



... when YouTube decided what I really wanted to hear next was this. Which is ridiculous but a lot more fun.

 
Going to see these youngsters on Friday - is it me or is it the spit of Mega City Four but with kookie indie kids and a smidge less distortion?

 
my undergraduate band used to open with




That is a fucking tune. What did you play?

Slightly embarrassing fact - I listened to Pere Ubu for over a decade thinking they were a Senegalese band (mates with Youssou N'Dour), and the singer was called Pere Ubu.
I think it was because of a mix tape I was given with Youssou N'Dour on one side and Pere Ubu on the other.
 
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I recently came across an American artist called Kate Wolf. Very sadly, she died at the age of 44 from leukemia.

Like Eva Cassidy, a flame that burned fiercely, but for far too short a time.




These Times We're Living in​



Down by the river the water’s runnin’ low
As I wander underneath the trees
In the park outside of town
The leaves turned brown and yellow now
Are falling on the ground
Remembering the way you felt
Beside me here when love was new
That feeling’s just grown stronger
Since I fell in love with you

Now we’ve only got these times we’re living in
We’ve only got these times we’re living in

Winter wood piled on the porch
Walnuts scattered on the ground
And wood smoke risin’ to the sky
An old man comes home from work
And he hugs his wife in a sweat-stained shirt
Walks through that door to
Where it’s warm inside
And I’m walking as the wind
Rustles in the fallen leaves
My footsteps picking out a tune
My heart sings silently

Now we’ve only got these times we’re living in
We’ve only got these times we’re living in

See the roses dried and faded
The tall trees carved and painted
With long forgotten lovers’ names
The old cars standing empty
And dogs barking at me
As I walk through the quiet streets the same
If I could I’d tell you now
There are no roads that do not bend
And the days like flowers bloom and fade
And they do not come again

Now we’ve only got these times we’re living in
We’ve only got these times we’re living in


Green Eyes.



Every night we light the candle
That stands beside our bed
But sometimes the flame's too much to handle
That's what you said
That's what you said

And you should know
Because you built a fire in me and you made it burn
You followed me watching every move
Matching every turn

Your green eyes, they don't miss a thing
They hold me like the sun going down
Warm me like a fire in the night
Without a sound

You were waiting till I heard
Just as patient as that love light in your eyes
You never threw away a word
Or ever talked in a disguise

I ought to know
You were a beacon to a sailor lost at sea
I saw it in your eyes when you looked at me
So openly

Your green eyes, they don't miss a thing
They hold me like the sun going down
Warm me like a fire in the night
Without a sound

The first time I ever saw your laughter
Break loose inside and tumble out to me
My heart knew it had found what it was after
And it came so easily

We should know
After all the years of the hard and heavy times
Now, our days go by like best friends' story lines
Yours and mine

Your green eyes, they don't miss a thing
They hold me like the sun going down
Warm me like a fire in the night
Without a sound
Without a sound
 
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