I was listening to Kate Bush’s bizarre 1982 track “Leave It Open” the other day. There’s an ending vocal passage (starting at 2:34) that’s hard to decipher. When I first heard the song years ago, I thought she was singing “Leave it open / Let us in,” but I later found out it’s “We let…
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“Rocket Man”, gnomes and kids on Mars
As I wrote about in a recent post, the music of 1972 seems to be appearing with regularity in my life lately. I was at my local health food store last week and Elton John’s “Rocket Man” (from his 1972 Honkey Chateau album) was playing on the in-store sound system. As I walked through the…
Kate Bush’s “Never For Ever”
“A lot of people think it’s hilarious that all the ideas are coming out from under my skirt. But the good and bad things pour out of me in the form of music. It’s terrible, it comes out like diarrhoea! And it’s to hint that so much of it comes from a sexual need, from…
Mystery, Reinvention and iamamiwhoami
Everybody likes a good mystery, and while I may have come to it a little late, it’s still an intriguing tangle of threads. A little while back I stumbled upon a video for a song called “Play” by an artist called iamamiwhoami. It struck me as a pretty freaky video and something a little different…
2011: Favorites of the Year
This was going to be my top 10 favorite albums released in 2011, but it’s turned out to be 15. And why not? Why does everybody always have to do top 10 lists? Top 15 lists are better. Really. Here they are (in no particular order), with a sample track from each: A Hidden Wholeness,…
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