I am listening to music
again.
Or at least I have
listened to the same album around four times, I think it is?
Found myself going back
to Lakeside to return some suits, I did not end up wearing mine, and
this time I remembered there as an album I had intended to buy the
day it came out. I didn't.
Those that had read
recent posts as well as those that keep coming back over long periods
of time will know that I stopped listening to my cherished music. I
lost the urge. To do almost anything … other than dragging my arse
out of bed to a boring life that now seemed doomed.
My DAB alarm clock
going off was the only hint of music in my life, both literally and
metaphorically speaking.
I could not find the
album, despite knowing exactly what the cover looked like, but my
brother did. Then I had it, Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool was in my
hand! Would I be calm enough for the coming weeks and months to enjoy
it and listen to it enough times?
I ripped the album as
soon as I got back to the house and then let the album play from
beginning to end while I did a few searches.
I had heard the first
track in my brothers car some days beforehand and I liked it and
after a couple more listens loved it. An odd title of 'Burn The
Witch' and I had seen a video that was a cross of Camberwick Green
and The Wicker Man.
The next rack played
and called Daydreaming and I liked that too.
I even liked the
following and third track, Decks Dark.
The fourth track called
Desert Island Disk was mellow and smoothly melodic to the point of
almost trance inducing, yes I know when I should listen to that one
next, or what state I should be in.
The fifth track called
Ful Stop and deliberately misspelled is a lot more attention grabbing
and heavier than the first four tracks. Struck me as being good
enough to use as a intro track on a very good movie.
If there is a weal
track on this album then it would be the sixth track which also
happens to be the shortest track on the entire album of 11 songs.
Identikit is the
seventh song presented here and this is a somewhat hypnotic,
spiralling and with a catchy bass beat that made me thinking of Thom
Yorke spinning. Someone complained there was no guitars so they
obviously did not get to track 7. What sounds like a guitar to me is
used to great effect here and has almost sounds of Mike Oldfield from
his very early days.
The sound of the whole
album goes back up to the peak of the very first track, Burn The
Witch, when we get around the track eight, The Numbers.
At this point I thought
that there could not be many, if any, people not liking this album
and even given it an average to low score. But sure enough there were
which had me scratching my head. I had a great track with the first
one and again with the eight one and not really a single bad one from
one to the other. Even with my love for Radiohead it rarely goes this
well and my head spins to another beat that could be fitting on a
classically good movie.
With the ninth track,
Present Tense, I do get possibly now the weakest out of the ninth
tracks, not bad and great background music, just weaker than the
previous tracks.
The track at position
nine and claims the longest title on the album by far and maybe the
longest title ever is Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man
Beggar Man Thief Baker & Candlestick Maker … wait? I got
carried away, the title stops with 'Thief', lol. Eleven words in the
title. Nice track and has kind of a note of haunting.
The eleventh and last
track is True Love Waits and here I get the weakest track of all.
But when I look back I
have some great tracks, eight very good and two OK tracks and I
realise I get ten songs I liked which beats the previous The King Of
Limbs which only had eight.
To think I was supposed
to be out photographing and filming British Wildlife today. I did
manage to get two miles but it felt cold and there was a wind. So I
changed my mind, came home … nearly did one of my odd nodding off
moments while profusely sweating. Felt like I was starting to
violently shake as I was almost asleep and snapped out of it.
So I did a few things
to wake myself up, came back to the PC and played A Moon Shaped Pool
and typed this out.
Now I need to drag my
other second bike out and go and get some food … and some tobacco!
Something a little
different for a blog that normally exposes corruption in the public
services and private companies with an array of links to secretly
recorded audio?
I should be typing out
a post about receiving my acknowledgement about an appeal to have a
case heard in court, DWP, and the outcome (only partial) of my
appointment at Chase Farm Hospital which has already taken place and
the can they will do on my head at Royal Free Hospital at some point.
Oddly the Doctor or
specialist looked surprised when she told me she did not think I was
epileptic, from the seizure and blackouts I had been having, and I
said neither did I and had ruled it out? I guess maybe she was
impressed with my deduction?
Some deductions are
extremely easy, even it needing a little research.
You simply compare the
notes and throw any theory to one side that contains .. discrepancies
and once you are left with the ones that for perfectly you are left
with your conclusion.
LMAO.
