Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHYOXyy1ToI

When routine bites hard,
And ambitions are low,
And resentment rides high,
But emotions won't grow,
And we're changing our ways,
Taking different roads.

Then love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Why is the bedroom so cold?
You've turned away on your side.
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect runs so dry.
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives.

But love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

You cry out in your sleep,
All my failings exposed.
And there's a taste in my mouth,
As desperation takes hold.
Just that something so good
Just can't function no more.

But love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Bruce Springsteen its ’Born To Rain’ in Sunderland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G3hy2IZxp8

Dave & I drove up to Sunderland's Stadium Of Light - in appalling rain - to see Bruce Springsteen's first UK appearance on tour (21st June) following the release of 'The Wrecking Ball'. We set off feeling unlucky - though wisely Margaret told me not to go if I wasn't looking forward to it! Once we parked in a multi-story we walked into town in rain that faded and found Luciano's restaurant almost straightaway. Though we were three hours early for the booking for two they welcomed us ... just as well as we enjoyed a leisurely meal and left to get in the stadium for 6.15pm. Springsteen came on at 7.08 - perfect!

It was a brilliant concert ... the moment he came on he strolled out on the central runway, looking up into the light drizzle & said “Sunderland, this is what it’s supposed to be like. I don’t want 75 degrees and sunny.” ... he was bound to get the crowd immediately on his side and to forget the weather. "When I come to Sunderland, England, I want it just like this!" ... what a showman!

The set list was awesome ...

Badlands
We Take Care Of Our Own
Wrecking Ball
Death to My Hometown
My City of Ruins
Spirit in the Night
Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?
Jack of All Trades
Youngstown
Murder Incorporated
Johnny 99
Working on the Highway
Shackled and Drawn
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
The Promised Land
Point Blank
The River
The Rising
Out in the Street
Land of Hope and Dreams
Encore
We Are Alive
Thunder Road
Born to Run
Hungry Heart
Seven Nights to Roll (Moon Mullican cover - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbJy9V4MeKw)
Glory Days
Dancing in the Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (and stopped when he got to "When the change was made uptown
And the big man joined the band" - images of Clarence Clemons came on the screens, to rapturous applause.)

Badlands
We Take Care of Our Own
Wrecking Ball
Death to My Hometown
My City of Ruins
Spirit in the Night
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
Jack of All Trades
Youngstown
Murder Incorporated
Johnny 99
Working on the Highway
Shackled and Drawn
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
The Promised Land
Point Blank
The River
The Rising
Out in the Street
Land of Hope and Dreams
Encore:
We Are Alive
Thunder Road
Born to Run
Hungry Heart
Seven Nights to Rock
(Moon Mullican cover)
Glory Days
Dancing in the Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out



Dave kept remarking that it was more religious than rock ... and that the crowd was fantastic!

It was all great but I thought 'Jack Of All Trades', 'Johnny 99' & 'Waitin' On A Sunny Day' excellent and 'The River', 'The Rising' and 'Born To Run' were knock out.

We walked out in stunned silence ... we had been to a fantastic concert / religious ceremony! Got home about 12.30 - happy.

Here's a review by Katy Wheeler in the Sunderland Echo published on Friday 22 June 2012 09:36

It was more like born to rain as wet weather and fog threatened to put a dampener on Bruce Springsteen’s debut performance in Sunderland. But The Boss was never going to disappoint his legion of fans – more than 50,000 in fact – who travelled from across Wearside and beyond to see the first night of his Wrecking Ball UK tour. “Sunderland, this is what it’s supposed to be like,” he yelled in his inimitable gravelly tones as he arrived on stage. “I don’t want 75 degrees and sunny. When I come to Sunderland, England, I want it just like this.” From that moment on, it didn’t really matter what the weather threw at the crowd – their hero was on stage and that’s all that seemed to count.

This was the first time I’d seen Springsteen live and he proved to be as impressive as his fans had promised. You can’t fault his enthusiasm and passion which was etched across his face as he gave emotion-fuelled performances of tracks from Wrecking Ball, such as We Take Care of Our Own, Land of Hope and Dreams and the title track. He was given a warm Wearside welcome by a sea of outstretched arms and ponchos, some fans draped in U.S flags in homage to the rocker’s home country. Clad in black jeans, grey shirt and waistcoat, Bruce’s outfit and his stage was plain and simple, but this was about the music: no gimmicks, no effects, just rock ‘n’ roll in its purest form. In keeping with this, Bruce was, of course, backed up by top-class musicians in the form of his E Street Band. Guitar, saxophone, harmonica, trumpet, violin and more – they played them to perfection.

At times slow and mournful, such as with The River

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpvjZbMaOH4

other times rousing, like during Hungry Heart, this was a show which ran the whole gamut of emotions. Never more so than when they paid tribute to late E Street Band saxophone player, Clarence Clemons, with a montage of images of the great musician. Bruce seemed genuinely appreciative of the fans who had paid at least £55 to be there and two of them were given the ultimate reward when they were given the chance to bop alongside their hero for Dancing in the Dark. The two lads chosen were no Courteney Cox, who was plucked from the crowd in the song’s video, but they gave it their all.

It was inevitably the more classic Springsteen tracks which drew the greatest crowd reaction. Thunder Road, Born to Run and Glory Days were given a roaring reception at the home of the Black Cats. Even the club’s bosses Martin O’Neill and Ellis Short were spotted near the front of the stage, lapping up the atmosphere. In true Springsteen style, Bruce put in a lengthy performance at more than three hours. And, for a 62-year-old, he never let up. There was no mistaking who was The Boss of that stage.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh1bH0116I8

... and a comment in The Daily Telegraph - theveeman

It was sometime around 9:15pm last night, as The Boss played the opening chords to 'The River' on his harmonica, that I realised I was witnessing the greatest performance I'd ever seen. Up until that point I knew I was experiencing a cultural highpoint in my life, but that was the moment when I knew all other gigs would be marked by how they compared to this.

To attempt to review Bruce Springsteen based solely on his music is a difficult task, one that almost does an injustice to the man. He is more than a mere singer, more than simply the leader of his E Street Band. He is a philosopher, a hero, a political barometer, an icon, a legend; he is, quite simply, The Boss.

Because of the iconic status he holds and the reverence he instils in his devoted fans, his core followers have often likened his concerts more to a religious than a musical experience. The way in which he commands the audience, the manner in which his songs have bookmarked the lives of those listening to him down the years, the lessons he teaches us about life, this is something only to be found amongst the very elite of artists. There was certainly a feeling of a captivated faithful in the crowd last night and we weren't disappointed by what we witnessed.

A set at over three hours long, spanning 5 decades of a stellar career, we were all invited to The Boss' 'house party' for the night. From the opening of 'Badlands' to the closing with '10th Avenue Freezeout' the energy levels never dropped below maximum. Even the slower-paced tracks such as 'Thunder Road' and 'Point Black' were delivered with such intensity that every member of the audience felt like he was speaking directly to them.

The material from his latest album, Wrecking Ball, stood up well alongside the back catalogue; the politically charged 'Jack of all trades' striking a chord with the many families affected by the economic troubles we're facing.

Allied to the music, Springsteen has always had the human touch that shows he really is one of the good guys. Even the North-Eastern rain raised a smile as he told us 'This is what I wanted in Sunderland' and 'Give me some of that good old English rain'. He embraced the elements of our native land just as he embraced the audience with his performance.

Throughout the night, Springsteen paid tributes to the late 'Big Man' Clarence Clemons (his place in the band taken by his nephew Jake who received rapturous support every time he stepped up to deliver a saxophone solo). A departing that Springsteen has described as elemental, like losing the rain, the crowd shared in both the sorrow of his loss and the recognition of a glorious life. In '10th Avenue Freezeout', the song that would close the night, the band stopped at the line 'The Big Man joined the band' to show a collection of pictures of Clarence on the big screens. The applause that accompanied the pictures was one of the loudest of the night and there were many misty eyes around me.

The truest thing I can say about last night is that, having seen hundreds of gigs in my life, it was the best by far. The smiles on the faces of those in attendance would surely be all the evidence others may need to say that this is not simply the view of one fan, but a feeling shared by many.

62 years old and as good as ever.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real...

20 Great Albums

1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver - tracks 1 & 2 Perth & Minnesota, WI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH6w7yAO6m4

Perth
I'm tearing up, across your face, move dust through the light
To find your name, it's something faint, this is not a place
Not yet awake, I'm raised to make

Still alive for you, love
Still alive for you, love
Still alive for you, love

In a matter of a month, from forests for the soft, gotta know been lead aloft
So I'm reading all your stories, what I know, what it is, it's boring, wire it up
You're breaking new ground

Minnesota, WI
Armour let it through, borne the arboretic truth you kept posing
Sat down in the suit, fixed on up it wasn't you by finish closing
Ramble in the roots, had the marvel, moved the proof be kneeled fine's glowing
Storing up the clues, it had it's sullen blue bruised through by showing
Settle past a patience where wishes and your will are spilling pictures
Water's running through in the valley where we grew to write this scripture:

Never gonna break, never gonna break
Never gonna break, never gonna break
Not for a part in any gamut of the dark

Doubled in the toes annex it, minute closed in the morning
Did not lose it in the stack's stow, I'm a gonna lay that call back on ya
You know it won't beseech you, we're laying in an open field
I will let you grow,
No need to notice
So carry on my dear, what is clear up in the daylight is we're hung here
Fall is coming soon, a new year for the moon and the Hmong here

Never gonna break, never gonna break
Never gonna break, never gonna break
All that it seems
Bellows tracing through the streams

Never gonna break, never gonna break
Never gonna break, never gonna break
All at it's seems
Swallows swelling for the beams

2. The Mountain Goats
Album - 'All Eternals Deck' - track 'Prowl Great Cain'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j47lkX6WtHA

Gather jewels from graveyards,
When I get home bury them again.
Wonder if you'll ever get the chance
To ask me why I turned you in?
I saved my own skin but I live to fight,
I live to fight another day
Still remember how brave you were
When they came to take you away

And I feel guilty
But I can't feel ashamed
Prowl through empty fields,
Great Cain

Thought I'd seen the ghost up on the boulevard,
Between the broken bits.
It's hard to tell gifts of the spirit,
From clever counterfeits.
Sleepwalk through my days and mark the hours
Until these dark times fade,
Like a caterpillar crawling out
Along the surface of the blade

And I feel guilty,
But I can't feel ashamed
Prowl through empty fields,
Great Cain

Rummage through the gutted storehouse now,
And lick the sweat from my brow.
Saw the trucks roll out this morning,
Not sure when they're coming back again.
Feel the prickings of my conscience,
In my chest every now and then.
Sometimes a great wave of forgetfulness,
Rises up and blesses me
And other times the sickness howls
And I despair of any remedy

And I feel guilty,
But I can't feel ashamed
Prowl through empty fields,
Great Cain

3. M83
Album is 'Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming' - track is 'My Tears Are Becoming A Sea'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjE6c546Kgw

I'm slowly drifting to you
This star is a planet
I culminate
The beauty gets away from you
I'm on my way
I'm on
I'm on

4. Girls Album 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost' - track 'Honey Bunny'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuDoYhQI2o

I know you're out there
you might be right around the corner
and you'll be the girl that I love
No one could take you
No other man can make you an offer
'Cause I'll be the one that you want (always)

I've been messing with so many girls
who could give a damn about who I am
They don't like my boney body
They don't like my dirty hair
Or the stuff that I say
Or the stuff that I'm on

I'm gonna get you honey

I know you're somewhere
And nothing's ever gonna phase me
You'll look at me and know I'm the one
And you will love me
For all the reasons everyone hates me
And we can do whatever we want (always)

I've been messing with so many girls
Who could give a damn about who I am
They don't like my boney body
They don't like my dirty hair
Or the stuff that I say
Or the stuff that I'm on

Mama, she really loved me
Even when I was bad
She'd hold my little hand
And kiss me on the cheek

And when I cried
She would hold me closely
And tell me "everything will be alright"
That woman loved me;
I need a woman who loves
Me, me me me me me (yeah)

I know you're out there
you might be right around the corner
And you'll be the girl that I love [x4]

5. St. Vincent (Annie Clark) Album 'Strange Mercy' - track 'Strange Mercy'


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JwXCBi-Eh8

Oh little one I know you've been tired for a long, long time
And oh little one I ain't been around a little while
But when you see me, wait

Oh little one your Hemingway jawline looks just like his
Our father in exile
For God only knows how many years
But when you see him, wait
through double pain
I'll be with you lost boys
Sneaking out where the shivers won't find you

Oh little one I'd tell you good news that I don't believe
If it would help you sleep
Strange mercy

If I ever meet that dirty policeman who roughed you up
No I don't know what
If I ever meet that dirty policeman who roughed you up

I'll be with you lost boys
Sneaking out where the shivers won't find you.


6. Wild Flag Album 'Wild Flag' - track 'Romance'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J8n9R8rnB8

Hey, hey, can you feel it? The way it sways you,
The hum in your chest?
You make my feet move, you turn my head loose
That's why I love you the best

Hey, you fill up the spaces, those empty places
The corners and cracks
You kill my sickness, my only witness
You're all that I have

Hands down we like, we like what we like
Hands down we like, we love, we choose you
We've got an eye, an eye for what's romance
We've got our eyes, our eyes trained on you
You watch us dance, we dance 'til we're dying
We dance to free ourselves from the room
We love the sound, the sound is what found us
Sound is the blood between me and you

Back when I had no story, nothing to form me
You got under my skin
You were my maker, my re-creator
My reason to live

Can't stop the bleeding or this leaving
Though I've tried
And when I return, with them fresh burns
You're waiting inside

Hey, you've got me crawling
You've got me spinning
Shake, shimmy shake
First you wreck me, then resurrect me, it's too much

Hands down we like, we like what we like
Hands down we like, we love, we choose you
We've got an eye, an eye for what's romance
We've got our eyes, our eyes trained on you
You watch us dance, we dance 'til we're dying
We dance to free ourselves from the room
We love the sound, the sound is what found us
Sound is the blood between me and you

Hands down we like, we like what we like
Hands down we like, we love, we choose you
We've got an ear, an ear for what's romance
We've got our ears, our ears trained on you
You watch us sing, we sing till we're crying
We sing to free ourselves from the room
We love the sound, the sound is what found us
Sound is the love between me and you

Carrie Brownstein Guitar - Janet Weiss Drums - Mary Timony Guitar - Rebecca Cole Keyboards.

7. PJ Harvey Album 'Let England Shake' track 'Let England Shake'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7mcM9kWPHw

The West's asleep,
Let England shake,
Weighted down
With silent dead.
I fear our blood
Won't rise again.
Won't rise again.

England's dancing days are done.
Another day, Bobby, for you to come
Home & tell me indifference
Has won, won, won.

Smile, smile Bobby, with your lovely mouth.
Pack up your troubles, let's head out,
To the fountain
Of death and splash about,
Swim back, forth, back, back, laugh out loud.

Until the day is ending,
And the birds are silent,
And the insects are courting.
By the shores,
Heavy stones,
Are falling.

Smile, smile Bobby, with your lovely mouth.
Pack up your troubles, and let's head out
To the fountain
Of death and splash about,
Swim back, forth, back, back, laugh out loud.

8. Owen Pallett - 'Heartland' is the album and the track is 'Lewis Takes Off His Shirt'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNWyXd0cIVo

As soon as I got on the horse, I forgot about the math.
Forgot about the odds against an adolescent standing up to all of Owen's wrath.
The heat of prairie summer, impossible to take.
I grab the hem and lift the fabric over my sweet head.
I know what you're looking for, and I'm never gonna give it to you.
I'm never gonna give it to you.
I'm never gonna give it to you.

Government rule established by a dazzling light show.
A hegemony armoured with a thousand-watt head and seven inches of echo.
I keep up my velocity, my spurs are in her sides.
I don't know what I'm doing, and it is the only way.
Toward the range I'll ride singing, I'm never gonna give it to you.
I'm never gonna give it to you.
I'm never gonna give it to you.

"I am overrated," said the sculptress to the sea.
"I've been praised for all the ways the marble leaves the man,
And I was wrong to try and free him."
And as for me, I am a vector, I am muscle, I am bone.
The sun upon my shoulders and the horse between my legs,
This is all I know.

My senses are bedazzled by the parallax of the road.
I concentrate to keep contained the overflow.
My knuckles grip so tightly, my fingers start to bleed.
If what I have is what you need,

I'm never gonna give it to you.
I'm never gonna give it to you.
I'm never gonna give it to you.

9. Lykke Li (2nd) Album - 'Wounded Rhymes' track - 'I Follow Rivers'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZYbEL06lEU

Oh I beg you, can I follow
Oh I ask you why not always
Be the ocean where unravel
Be my only, be the water and I'm wading
You're my river running high, run deep run wild

[Chorus]
I I follow, I follow you deep sea baby
I follow you
I I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey
I follow you

He a message, I'm the runner
He's the rebel, I'm the daughter waiting for you
You're my river running high, run deep run wild

[Chorus]
I I follow, I follow you deep sea baby
I follow you
I I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey
I follow you

You're my river running high, run deep run wild
I, I follow, I follow you deep sea baby,
I follow you
I, I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey,
I follow you
I, I follow, I follow you deeps sea baby,
I follow you
I, I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey,
I follow you

[Repeat till end]
I, I follow, I follow you deeps sea baby,
I follow you
I, I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey,
I follow you

10. Elbow Album - 'build a rocket boys!' - track - 'Lippy Kids'


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kdIa7aKmJY

Lippy kids on the corner again
Lippy kids on the corner begin settling like crows
Though I never perfected that simian stroll
But the cigarette scent, it was everything then

Do they know those days are golden?
Build a rocket boys!
Build a rocket boys!

One long June I came down from the trees
And cursed on cue
You were freshly painted angel walking on walls
Stealing booze and outlawing hungry kisses

Nobody knew me at home anymore
Build a rocket boys!
Build a rocket boys!

Lippy kids on the corner again
Lippy kids on the corner begin settling like crows
And I never effected that simian stroll, no

Do they know those days are golden?
Build a rocket boys!
Build a rocket boys!

One long June I came down from the trees
And cursed on cue
You were freshly painted angel walking on walls
Stealing booze and outlawing hungry kisses

And nobody knows me at home anymore
Build a rocket boys!
Build a rocket boys!

11. Richmond Fontaine - Album: The High Country; Tracks: 'Let Me Dream of the High Country' and 'The Mechanic Falls in Love with the Girl'


'Let Me Dream of the High Country'

It’s time for him to get up
But he won’t until he’s late
Then he coughs and yells, ‘Oh fuck’
He bangs around and turns on all the lights and
Yells at me for misplacing the keys
That he always leaves some place he can’t find
High Country, please let me dream
He slams the front door
and his truck coughs away
I have an hour until
It’s still dark and the bed is now free
It’s mine and not his
Not in a home that his mother owns
Stuck on some logging road
I’m saving, but until
High Country,
please let me dream of the High Country

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms0wCwhzycA



another track - 'The Mechanic Falls in Love with the Girl'
My dad got sick so I moved back to town but
Month after month it started grinding me down
I should have just stayed away
he never liked me anyway
Even when he was sick
There are so many churches here
and it’s always raining and
At home no one says anything at all,
and what ain’t seen
Is how to be when you feel like
you’ve been set in concrete
I can’t stop thinking about you and the way
you were on the phone that night
Your voice suddenly fell apart with the sound
of his truck coming home
You said once we both had eyes that were dying
But maybe we ain’t dying
Maybe we’re just meant to be
It’s all a wreck and we both know it’s true
But what if you could leave with me and
I could leave with you too
It ain’t always wrong to give up and run

12. Real Estate - Album 'Days' track 'It's Real'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HWcViTXdYc

I don't know who's behind
The wheel
Sometimes I feel like I don't know
The deal
When I tell you how
I feel
Believe me when I say
It's real

Oh whoa whoa whoa oh oh
Oh whoa whoa whoa oh oh
It's real

I carved our names into
A tree
I walked on decomposing
Leaves
I skated on the frozen
Sea
It's real as far as I
Can see

Oh whoa whoa whoa oh oh
Oh whoa whoa whoa oh oh
It's real
[x4]



13. Destroyer - 'Kaputt' eponymous track



http://vimeo.com/18442047

Wasting your days
Chasing some girl's alright.
Chasing cocaine
Through the backrooms of the world all night.
Wasting your days
Chasing some girl's alright.
Chasing cocaine
Through the backrooms of the world all night.

Sounds, Smash Hits, Melody Maker, NME,
All sound like a dream to me.
All sound like a dream to me.
All sounds like a dream...
Sounds, Smash Hits, Melody Maker, NME,
All sound like a dream to me.
All sound like a dream to me.
All sounds like a dream...

Step out of your toga and into the fog,
You are a prince on the ocean...
(In a pinch, in the sky, in your eye)
Step out of your toga into the ocean,
Look they got your prints on the fog...
(In a pinch, in the sky, in your eye)

another track - 'Suicide Demo for Kara Walker'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3hkPtQqk08



Brown paper bag, don't stop me now,
I'm on a roll.
Plain brown wrapper in your pocket.
Is it still the invisible man you're consorting with,
Woman?

Now that you got it all...wrong...
You got it all...Backwards Girl.
Enter through the exit and exist through the entrance
When you can.
Seen you consort with your invisible manhole.

Fool child, you're never gonna make it.
New York City just wants to see you naked
(And they will).
Though they'd never say so.
Wise, old, black and dead in the snow:
My southern sister...

"Sister, Sister" was the name of the band.
Flesh and blood, my death close at hand! Sister,
This is not about me and it's not about you, I swear!
No hard feelings, nothing personal, soft sculpture rides the air,
For free...

Words words words...
Longings longings longings...
All in vain...
Just ask Vanity, abandoned out in the rain
By the world, another proud American...

And as proud Americans, we let it slide...away...
Harmless little Negress,
You got to say yes
To another excess...
Let's go for a ride today...

In possession of eyes, that's it...
In possession of eyes, that's it...
A southern bunkhouse, blue skies up above,
A kindly figure of feminine grace and wit passes for love,
These days...

All that slender-wristed white translucent business
Passes for love, these days...
Mushhead genius
Passes for love, these days...

Four more years... Four more years...
Four hundred more years of this shit
(Fuck it)!
I look up I see the North Star, I look up I see the North Star
When I look up at the bar through these tears...

Four white pillars, Yankee-style...
All of America loves to lights his pipes...
All of America live to light his pipe at night...
To which Dixie responds - "Freeeee...

Me..."
And unlashes his sashes...
Again...

Maybe or maybe not ("fast forward" she said)...
Maybe once the seed is sown ("fast forward" she said)...
"This bird has flown south," she said.
"Don't talk about the south," she said.
It's not you, it's nothing personal,
No hard feelings, nothing's there...
Soft sculpture rides hard on the air...

Now that you got it all...wrong...
You got it all...backwards girl...
Enter through the exit and exit through the entrance...

When you can...

14. Feist - album is 'Metals' track here is 'How come you never go there?'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2uVRMBD5RY

How come you never go there?
How come I’m so alone there?

I went up to the window
Lightning banging on the cymbals
I ripped into the night
Came storm into your eyes

My horse had worked the fields too long
My bear had lost his innate calm
It’s true enough we’re not at peace
But peace is never what it seems

Our love is not the light it was
When I walk inside the dark I’m calm
While we look for where it went
It’s only echoes in the melody

How come you never go there?
How come I’m so alone there?

We waste time on blame and weak revenge
Waste energy on projections
We’re living proof we've got an echo
And stop looking through the halo

We carry on as if the time is through
You carry on as if I don’t love you
And so we find the way to die
To cut the heart out of the doubt now

The room’s full but hearts are empty
Like the letters never sent me
Words are like a lasso
But you’re an instrumental tune

How come you never go there?
How come I’m so alone there?



15. The Drums 'Portamento' is the album - track here is 'Money'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqYgNiZdfh4

Before I die I'd like to do something nice
Take my hand and I'll take it for a ride
You hit me yesterday because I made you cry
So before I die let me do something nice

I want to buy you something but I don't have any money
I don't have any money

And if I have a car I would trade in my car
If I had a gun I would trade in my gun
and we ran from the country [?] the city
Well there's something to be done [x4]

I want to buy you something but I don't have any money
I don't have any money

16. Handsome Furs - with an album called 'Sound Kapital' - the track is 'Serve The People'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIKeQTjeo0M

Dog's in the capital howling at dawn
Someone's driving by with the radio on
Someone making noise from the center of town
You kick em in the head and you kick em when they're down
and you don't serve the people

50 million souls living out on the ground
50 million people gonna float gonna drown
From the north, further north where
Kids were making noise when their generators on and the cops said move along
Serve the people
They don't really want to know
They don't serve the people
Keeping everything under control
Oh

And it's diamonds and gold for the idiot sons
All the privileged thieves gonna make things run
Well I believe in heart and apocalypse sound
You kick em in the head and you kick em when they're down
And you don't serve them
You don't serve them
You don't serve the people
No, you don't serve them
No, no, you don't serve the people
Saying oh my god, waiting here so long
I'm feeling changed, I feel a change
Saying oh my god, waiting here so long
I feel a change, I feel a change
And you don't serve them

17. Patrick Wolf - 'Lupercalia' fifth studio album by English-Irish singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf.



'Time Of My Life'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boyl6Iaw2Y4

From the east to the south
I tongue the roof of my mouth
To new days of doubt without you
First gear
I face the trouble ahead
Final word has been said
Long distance spread between us
I tell myself to
Hold on
It won't be long
Till I grow through this struggle
Time to wake up
Find my soul

Happy without you
Happy without you
Happy without you
Happy without you
Happy without you

Not called for weeks now
Six days without sleep means
I am a slave to my early grave
If I do not be brave, behave
Seize myself out of this mess
I have created of myself, yet again
Yet again I say
Hold on
It won't be long
Till I grow through this struggle
Time to wake up
Find my soul

Happy without you
Happy without you
Happy without you
Happy without you
Happy without you

We go on
Heart beats strong
Still whole
Unbroken
As we divide
Our love, goodbye
Thanks for the time
Time of my life

Happy without you
Happy without you
Happy without you
Happy without you

Time
Time
Of my life

Time
Time
Of my life (So happy without you)

Time
Time
Of my life

Thanks for the time of my life (Happy without you)
Happy without you
Happy without you

'Lupercalia IV'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZgqAh5moLc&feature=relmfu

18. Yuck ... the album is 'Yuck' - the track is 'Suicide Policeman'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-_zKmqU9XE

If you conjure up a fear
Make it loud so I can hear the tambourine
I just want to let you know
I could be your suicide policeman

Don't you go
'Til my eyes have left your face

Everybody hopes and waits
I can't believe
Everybody hopes and waits
I can't relate to my predicament

Brother, if you're feeling low
Tell me one thing I should know of your situation
I could stand out in the hall
I could be your suicide policeman

Arrest your fall
When you're afraid to hit the ground

"Suicide Policeman" as written by Max Joel Bloom Daniel Blumberg

19. Dum Dum Girls ... album entitled 'Only in Dreams' - the track is 'Bedroom Eyes'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBSs3-RfLKk

Finally relax my weary limbs, just lay still
The ceiling undulates, the fault of some strange pill
I see your body in the doorway, so it seems
I must accept my eyes betray these half-dreams

Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes

The hours to the sunrise creep, but I don't care
There is no hope for any sleep if you're not here
In another scene, in another bed you're sleeping
So won't you come and visit me when I'm dreaming

Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes

I fear that I'll never sleep again
I fear that I'll never sleep again
I fear that I'll never sleep again
I fear that I'll never sleep again

Whoa-oh
Whoa-oh
Whoa-oh
Whoa-oh

Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes
Oh, I need your bedroom eyes

"Bedroom Eyes" as written by Kristin Gundred

20. The Antlers .. album called 'Burst Apart' - the track is 'I Don't Want Love'


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqgDDxTr7ME

You want to climb up the stairs
I want to push you right down
But I like you inside
So you can push me right now

If I kneel before you
And I won't go unknown
Keep your hands to yourself
When you follow me home

I don't want love
I don't want love

You wake up with open hands
?
I should have helped ?
You slept in my home

So if I see you again
Desperate in stone
Keep your prison lock dead
And I will leave my god at home

I don't want love
I don't want love

"I Don't Want Love" as written by Michael Jay Lerner, Peter Joseph Silberman, Darby Austin Cicci

Plan B - "Writing's On The Wall" (Live at Cafe de Paris)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7s6M_X9T9I

We used to have fun
Now all we do is fight
We know something's wrong
It's clear something hear ain't right

We ain't over but the writing's on the wall
We keep trying just so we can say we gave it all
We ain't over but the writing's on the wall
This time next year, we'll be no more, yeah

Talk about tomorrow, girl
It's only gonna end in tears, baby yeah
Our time is borrowed, girl
All we got left's right here

We used to talk
Now all we do is shout, oh yeah
Our heads full of thoughts
We could both do without

We ain't over but the writing's on the wall
We keep trying just so we can say we gave it all
We ain't over but the writing's on the wall
This time next year, we'll be no more, oh yeah

Talk about tomorrow, girl
It's only gonna end in tears, baby yeah
Our time is borrowed, girl
All we got left's right here, mm mm yeah
All we do is try
Try to make it all okay, baby yeah
We both know it's a waste of time
Things are never gonna change, mm mm

We both know we're hanging on here
But no one's gonna say it
So we'll just carry on like always
Acting like nothing's wrong, yeah

We ain't over but the writing's on the wall
We keep trying just so we can say we gave it all
We ain't over but the writing's on the wall
This time next year, we'll be no more, oh yeah

Talk about tomorrow, girl
It's only gonna end in tears, baby, yeah
Our time is borrowed, girl
All we got left's right here, mm mm yeah
All we do is try
Try to make it all okay, baby yeah
We both know it's a waste of time
Things are never gonna change, oo ooo
They ain't gonna change
No no

We ain't over but the writing's on the wall
We keep trying just so we can say we gave it all
We ain't over but the writing's on the wall
This time next year, we'll be no more

The Stone Roses - "I am the Resurrection"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QnK0yql8s

Down down, you bring me down
I hear you knocking down my door and I can't sleep at night
Your face, it has no place
No room for you inside my house I need to be alone

Don't waste your words I don't need anything from you
I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do

Turn turn, I wish you'd learn
There's a time and place for everything I've got to get it through
Cut loose, cause you're no use
I couldn't stand another second in your company

Don't waste your words I don't need anything from you
I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do

Stone me, why can't you see
You're a no-one nowhere washed up baby who'd look better dead

Your tongue is far too long
I don't like the way it sucks and slurps upon my every word

Don't waste your words I don't need anything from you
I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do

I am the resurrection and I am the light
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like

I am the resurrection and I am the light
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like

Elbow - "One Day Like This"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfVejpYc8Zc&feature=related

Drinking in the morning sun,
Blinking in the morning sun,
Shaking off the heavy one,
Heavy like a loaded gun.

What made me behave that way?
Using words I never say,
I can only think it must be love.
Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day

Someone tell me how I feel,
It's silly wrong but vivid right.
Oh, kiss me like the final meal,
Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight.

'Cause Holy Cow, I love your eyes,
And only now I see the light.
Yeah, lying with me half awake,
Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day.

When my face is chamois-creased,
If you think I'll wink, I did.
Laugh politely at repeats,
Yeah, kiss me when my lips are thin.

'Cause Holy Cow, I love your eyes,
And only now I see the light.
Yeah, lying with me half awake,
Stumbling over what to say.
Well, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day.

Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Holy Cow, I love your eyes,
And only now I see you like.
Holy Cow, I love your eyes,
And only now I see you like.Holy Cow, I love your eyes,
And only now I see you like.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.
Throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NFV8dHrZYM





or the live 'Snow Patrol' cover ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkn5Dxxi3Ho&feature=fvwrel

Procul Harem - "A Whiter Shade Of Pale"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA

We skipped a light fandango,
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor.
I was feeling kind of seasick,
But the crowd called out for more.
The room was humming harder,
As the ceiling flew away.
When we called out for another drink,
The waiter brought a tray.
And so it was that later,
As the miller told his tale,
That her face at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

She said there is no reason,
And the truth is plain to see
That I wandered through my playing cards,
And would not let her be One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast.
And although my eyes were open,
They might just as well have been closed.
And so it was later,
As the miller told his tale,
That her face at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

Maurice Ravel - 'Boléro'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm1Bk2uiAeI&feature=related

Rimsky-Korsakov - 'Scheherazade'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNymNaTr-Y&feature=related

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Gergiev · Vienna Philharmonic · Salzburg Festival 2005

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade

George Cziffra playing Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsody #2'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnChH3cFPnY&feature=related

Vivaldi's Four Seasons - 'Winter'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdFHJXciAQ

Vivaldi's Four Seasons - 'Autumn'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x4GC0-Z0ZI

Vivaldi's Four Seasons - 'Summer'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3qO2V1AXY

Vivaldi's The Four Seasons - 'Spring'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kTei0XrCs

Curved Air - "Backstreet Luv"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUnjMI81vAA&feature=related

Summer's comin',
Time to dream
The day away
And she's so sunny
Is the girl you met today

Will she make it?
Can she take it?
Like to try love,
Such a shy love.

Racket back street
Leanin' on a wall.
She reads a story of her life
Before it all

Did she give love?
Could she feel love?
Did she find love?
Was it real love?

Where's your smile today?
Did she let you try?
Try to see she didn't mean to
Make you feel so sad.

Racket back street
Sittin' on a wall
She tells a man that she knew
Before it all
When she made love
She tried to find love
When she gives love
She will find love.

Summer's comin',
Time to dream
The day away
And she's so sunny
Is the girl you met today

Will she make it?
Can she take it?
Like to try love,
Such a shy love
Where's you smile today?
Did she let you cry?
Try to see she didn't mean to
Make you feel so sad

Amy McDonald – "Mr. Rock & Roll"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR7SdaXHPH4

So called Mr Rock & Roll
He's dancing on his own again
Talking on his phone again
To someone who tells him that his balance is low
He's got nowhere to go
He's on his own again

Rock chick of the century
Is acting like she used to be
Dancing like there's no-one there
Before she ever seemed to care
Now she wouldn't dare
It's so rock and roll to be alone

Chorus:
And they'll meet one day, far away and say
"I wish I was something more"
And they'll meet one day, far away and say
"I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before"

Mrs Black & White she's never seen a shade of gray
Always something on her mind, every single day
But now she's lost her way
And where does she go from here?

Mr Multicultural sees all that one could see
He's living proof of someone very different to me
But now he wants to be free, free so he can see

Chorus:
And they'll meet one day, far away and say
"I wish I was something more"
And they'll meet one day, far away and say
"I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before"

He'll say "I wish I knew you, I wish I met you when time was still on my side"
She'll say "I wish I knew you, I wish I loved you before I was his bride"

And so they must depart
Two many more broken hearts
But I've seen that all before in TV, books and film and more
And there's a happy ending every single day

Chorus:
And they'll meet one day, far away and say
"I wish I was something more"
And they'll meet one day, far away and say
"I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before"

Culture Club - "Karma Chameleon"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw&feature=endscreen&NR=1

There's a loving in your eyes all the way
If I listen to your lies, would you say?
I'm a man without conviction
I'm a man who doesn't know
How to sell a contradiction
You come and go
You come and go

Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon
You come and go
You come and go
Loving would be easy
If your colours were like my dreams
Red, gold and green
Red, gold and green

Didn't hear your wicked
Words every day
And you used to be so sweet
I heard you say
That my love was an addiction
When we cling our love is strong
When you go you're gone forever
You string along
You string along

Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon
You come and go
You come and go
Loving would be easy
If your colours were like my dreams
Red, gold and green
Red, gold and green

Every day is like survival
You're my lover not my rival
Everyday is like survival
You're my lover not my rival

I'm a man without conviction
I'm a man who doesn't know
How to sell a contradiction
You come and go
You come and go

Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon
You come and go
You come and go
Loving would be easy
If your colours were like my dreams
Red, gold and green
Red, gold and green

Men At Work - "Land Down Under"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEgCkOfl4jE

Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."


Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,

"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Lying in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said,

"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Rod Stewart and the Faces -"Maggie May"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD_6KqP7K0g&feature=related

Wake up Maggie, I think I've got something to say to you
It's late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused, but I fell I'm being used

Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone

You stole my heart and that's what really hurts
The morning sun when it's in your eyes really shows your age
But that don't worry me none, in my eyes you're everything
I laughed at all of your jokes, my love you didn't need to coax

Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone

You stole my soul and that's a pain I can do without
All I needed was a friend to lend a helping hand
[From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/r/rod-stewart-lyrics/maggie-may-lyrics.html]
But you turned into a lover and mother
What a lover, you wore me out, all you did was wreck my bed
And in the morning kick me in the head

Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more
You led me away from home
'Cause you didn't want to be alone

You stole my heart, I couldn't leave you if I tried
I suppose I could collected my books and go on back to school
Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living at playing pool
Or find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand

Oh Maggie, I wished I'd never seen your face
You made a first class fool out of me
But I'm as blind as a fool can be

You stole my heart but I love you anyway
I'd never seen your face
I'll get on back home, one of these days

Emmylou Harris - Bob Dylan's 'Every Grain Of Sand'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa_XxS3GqAY&feature=related

In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
There's a dyin' voice within me reaching out somewhere,
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair.

Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake,
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break.
In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.

Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear,
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer.
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name.
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.

I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light,
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space,
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face.

I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me.
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Pachelbel's Canon in D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1L4sVxuKZg&feature=related

Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o&feature=related