A couple of 2023 listens from recent days, The Returner by Allison Russell & Everything Is Alive by Slowdive 🎶

Thanks, Sita, very kind of you to say, & ditto! 🎶✌️❣️💫

#5CoverSongsGratitude

One More Cup of Coffee

“But I don’t sense affection, no gratitude or love”

Original by Bob Dylan (1976)
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Covered by the White Stripes (1999)
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Thanks to @indigobunting.bsky.social & @pops1971.bsky.social for hosting!✌️🎶🙌❤️

#5CoverSongsGratitude
#MusicChallenge

Station to Station

“It’s too late to be grateful
It’s too late to be late again
It’s too late to be hateful
The european cannon is here”

Original by David Bowie (1976)
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Covered by Melvins (2013)
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Thanks, Sita! Really like both versions! 🎶✌️💜

A couple of listens for on the road tonight, In Times New Roman… by QOTSA & V by Unknown Mortal Orchestra 🎶🚙🛣️

It is wonderful, a nice surprise this year!

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#MusicChallenge

Bit late to the party but here goes…

The Big Light

“And I’m thankful that I didn’t open another bottle of inspiration”

Original by Elvis Costello (1986)
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Covered by Johnny Cash (1987)
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#NowPlaying Bird Machine by Sparklehorse 🎶

A few jazz albums from 2023 that I’ve listened to this morning. All worth checking out but the first (Bad With Names by corto.alto) & last (the self-titled Nite Bjuti) were my faves of these. Two standout moments for me were

Mechanisms
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Stolen Voice
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A listen from earlier today, Blur’s The Ballad of Darren 🎶

A listen from earlier today, Drop Cherries by Billie Marten 🎶❤️

Thank you, yeah a real classic, one I can happily play time & again. Still on a high from seeing Natalie the other night so she’s just replaced the Kinks on the wall 😆👍

#NowPlaying Idle Moments by Grant Green 🎶 #Jazz #BlueNote

Yeah they’re going to be a really hard act to follow as both are masterpieces. If the third can be anywhere near as good then it will be one of the great trilogies in music history, here’s hoping 🤞

Yeah that’s right, I listened to an interview where she said the third part of the trilogy is going to be about the future & hope, how to deal with all the aspects she’s covered in the other 2 in a way that makes life more liveable & less based in fear, so am excited to hear that one! 🎶💥

Thanks, Colin, yeah she was amazing! Great to hear she was fabulous in Glasgow as well! Can’t wait for the next album & tour now!

I was gutted when I couldn’t use my tickets for Colours Festival so it was wonderful to see her in Leeds last night. Titanic Rising is an amazing album from a truly great artist 🎶❤️

Still on a high after seeing Weyes Blood last night at O2 Academy Leeds with @jamesthewhit.bsky.social. Second time lucky at catching the In Holy Flux tour and it was well worth the wait. Meant a lot to me 🎶💗

Really vivid colours, love being in places like that at this time of year! Thanks, Sita, hope you have a great weekend as well! 🍁🏞️🌅

Beautiful photos, Sita! 🍁😍

Played a new arrival on my dinner, the 25th anniversary edition of R.E.M.’s Up ⬆️ Still think this is one of the band’s most underrated albums. The likes of Hope & Falls to Climb are among my fave of their latter-day songs 🎶

Thank you! 🎶😊

Thank you, you too! 🎶

Brilliant! 🧙‍♀️

Thanks to @indigobunting.bsky.social & @pops1971.bsky.social for the wonderful challenge & to all who’ve taken part!

#CraftyTunes

Day 31: Any Craft

Aimee Mann: Goose Snow Cone (2017)

“Thought I saw at my feet an origami crow
It was only the street hidden under the snow”

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Love this song!

Thank you! 🎶🤘

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Day 30: Turn/Carve

Tom Waits: Walk Away (1996)

“Carve my initials in an old dead tree
I’m going away but I’m going to be back when
It’s time to walk away and start over again”

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Day 29: Forge/Blacksmith

Motörhead: Ridin’ with the Driver (1986)

“Iron child out of Vulcan’s forge
Metal scream and thrash
Red steel in the driving wheel
Hear the pistons clash
Black dragon breathin’ big black smoke
Howlin’ up the tracks”

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