From the Depths

“…and women-folk raised me and I was full grown before I knew I came from a broken home Sent to live with my grandma down south when my uncles was leaving and my grandfather had just left for heaven , they said And as every-ologist would certainly note I had no strong male figure...
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Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again The Smiths – Panic
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I had seven faces Thought I knew which one to wear But I’m sick of spending these lonely nights Training myself not to care Interpol – NYC
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…You don’t measure up to the expectation When you’re unemployed, there’s no vacation. No one cares, no one sympathizes You just stay home and play synthesizers
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Lesley Gore – Maybe I Know Lesley Gore – Look of Love “She wasn’t the most soulful girl group singer by a long shot, but she projected an archetype of female adolescent yearning. Her best songs survive as classics, particularly the irresistibly melodic “Maybe I Know” and “Look of Love” (both written by Ellie...
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I know you had a fucked up life, growing up in a stupid town...
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Chasing Dorotea – In April I met her one summer in Prague She had just dyed her hair dark as my soul I think she said she liked Nick Cave and the Bad  Seeds but I could be wrong ‘Take no kisses’, she said ‘You don’t look well enough and I’m in love with...
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Girls At Our Best!
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I'm just me I can't deny I'm neither here, there nor anywhere...
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For this year's Valentine's Day, we're time-travelling back to the 60s, folks. Enjoy!
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Wendy & Bonnie – By the Sea (Genesis, 1969) (known by most of the world as “that song playing in the beginning of Super Furry Animals’ Hello Sunshine“)
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You might say, that we should build a city of tears..
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Nothing’s Going to Happen “Maybe all the children in small rooms will fall silent at a wall or windowAnd forget to breathe for just one minuteBecause of some beauty that has not been altered, damned or pointed outBy the clumsy dark oafs that train themNothing’s going to happen.” Maybe “Maybe you know who you...
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from Wikipedia: “Patience and Prudence (last name McIntyre, but not used professionally) were two sisters who were a young singing act in the 1950s. Their father, Mark McIntyre, was an orchestra leader, pianist, and songwriter, who accompanied Frank Sinatra on piano during the 1940s. In the summer of 1956, he brought his daughters, 11-year-old...
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  We usually reserve this section (“From the depths…”) to individual songs. This time it’s an album. An album I somehow managed to completely ignore in 2008 but that I now can’t get enough of. An album that I came across while randomly shuffling through my library – which fact, of course, proves once...
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