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August 4, 2021 EXPLORING PARRY BEACH TO POINT HILLIER After days of soggy, horrible weather, we finally got a slightly better forecast and ventured out to Parry Beach an hour’s drive from home, for a day’s happy exploration of the local area. We still got wet on and off, but it was good to be …
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January 26, 2021 OPENING TRACK I think this is a terrific album opener – heart on the sleeve, in your face, setting the tone and preparing you for what is to come. When I first started listening to this song, while doing stuff in the garden (i.e. not analytically, just in the background), every time …
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January 23, 2021 ALL MANNER OF GRIEF THE PROMISE How time will healMake me forgetYou promised meTime will healMake me forgetYou promised meLove will save us all and time will healYou promised me… How love will saveMake me forgetYou promised meLove will saveMake me forgetYou promised meTime will heal us all and love will saveYou …
Is anyone else here who lived through the 80s (or earlier relevant epochs) experiencing a sense of history repeating itself, with the invasion of Ukraine and all that entails, and the consciousness that there’s nuclear weapons in the hands of madmen? When I was a teenager, there was a painful awareness of this. Here’s a …
January 11, 2021 FIRST IMPRESSIONS – SELF-TITLED 2004 ALBUM The general vibe about this album from other people had been fairly negative – including from my husband, who sampled it in a record shop when it came out but decided he didn’t like the sound. But you know what, I’ve just given it a spin …
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July 27, 2021 LIGHTS BEACH TO HANGING ROCK This little expedition was done on the Thursday just before the Sand Patch/Grasmere trek, but it can be hard to keep up with writing these things up if you’re potentially doing 2-3 of these a week because you’re on holidays. We don’t photograph and write up every …
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January 6, 2021 MANIPULATION, ANYONE? Unlike most of the other tracks on this album, Wendy Time is not a lovely track to listen to, but if you’re writing a tune about shameless manipulation and terrible pick-up lines, you probably don’t want a lovely tune – but one that reflects the nausea-inducing scenario related. And in …
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December 31, 2020 The end of the year was rapidly approaching and two Cure albums are still queueing – I’d rather like to listen to them, so I better get finished with looking at Wish. LOVE GONE WRONG, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS (finale) Cut is a jagged sort of number, a lament for a …
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December 5, 2020 LOVE GONE WRONG, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS (continued) End was one of our personal favourites on Show, which we had for yonks before Wish. I guess we’re not particularly into shiny music most of the time, so a song like this appeals to us way more than Friday I’m In Love, …
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November 24, 2020 I’m really enjoying our new acquisition Wish, on multiple levels – musically there’s so much on there that’s lovely, and even the stuff that’s not I think is the way it is to reinforce the story told by the lyrics – e.g. Wendy Time isn’t exactly a beautiful song, but the quacking …