December 2009
1 post
listening to "Great Lake Swimmers - Various... →
beautiful song.
August 2009
3 posts
listening to "Radiohead - Faust Arp" →
In Rainbows is my joint second-favourite Radiohead album.
listening to "Radiohead - Videotape" →
Sad Sunday music.
listening to "Thea Gilmore - Saviours and all" →
I have been searching for this song for EVER. What a tune.
July 2009
1 post
listening to "The Lake - Aqualung" →
listen to me, I can only say this once
June 2009
2 posts
listening to "Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd" →
Haven’t heard this for yonks! Amaaaaaazing song.
listening to "Urge for Going (Joni Mitchell) - " →
Love this song.
May 2009
14 posts
listening to "Jenny Again - Tunng" →
@misterscience: “Finally found a non-imeem version” This is great.
listening to "Not Dead Yet - The Weepies" →
@misterscience: “Something different from the Weepies…”
listening to "Ocean and a Rock (blip.up) - Lisa... →
I’m going to see Lisa Hannigan at Latitude this summer!
listening to "Swansea - Joanna Newsom" →
I woke up singing this.
listening to "Lesson Learned - Ray LaMontagne" →
Excellent song.
listening to "Better - Regina Spektor" →
I really, really like Regina Spektor. This is a great song.
listening to "Of Angels and Angles - The... →
Lovely little song.
listening to "Of Angels and Angles - The... →
Lovely little song.
listening to "Fugitive Motel - Elbow" →
Probably my favourite Elbow hotel - they always remind me of The Smiths.
listening to "One Day Like This - Elbow" →
Perfect song for a sunny Tuesday.
listening to "Unplayed Piano (val.blip.up) -... →
This is a Damien Rice song I hadn’t come across before - lovely.
listening to "I Think It's Going To Rain Today -... →
Very good cover.
look what I'm doing, I'm updating my blog
Well, I have a diary now so I kind of stopped regaling the internet with the ins and outs of my not-very-exciting life.
Today I thought about writing a poem, but didn’t actually get as far as writing it.
listening to "The Call - Regina Spektor" →
Fitting, I think, for the moment.
April 2009
9 posts
listening to "Another Year - Amanda Palmer" →
I agree.
listening to "Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon" →
Yay, I haven’t heard this for actual AGES.
listening to "Just Like the Movies - Regina... →
“Don’t say goodbye like you’re burying him, ‘cause the world is round and he might return.”
listening to "Faust Arp - Radiohead" →
Probably my favourite track from “In Rainbows”, along with Videotape.
listening to "American Tune (live) - Gretchen... →
This is an amazing cover of a Paul Simon song I like.
listening to "Flightless Bird, American Mouth -... →
My favourite song.
listening to "Lux Aurumque - Eric Whitacre -... →
This is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful - Lux Aurumque, Whitacre
listening to "Pelleas et Melisande - Sicilienne -... →
Fauré is my second-favourite composer in all the world, ever. Second to Purcell!
listening to "Faure- Claire de lune Op 46 No 2 -... →
Terrible soprano, beautiful song - au calme claire de lune, triste et beau, qui fait revait les oiseux dans les arbres…
March 2009
11 posts
listening to "Piazza, New York Catcher - Belle →
This was the song I was looking for - beautiful.
listening to "Take Your Carriage Clock And Shove... →
Found this looking for another B&S song. Love the string arrangement.
listening to "Cast A Hook In Me - Laura Veirs" →
..of whose songs this is my favourite.
listening to "Time For Yourself - Earlimart" →
I like Earlimart a lot. Seriously under-rated band. The female singer makes me think of Laura Veirs.
listening to "Chinese - Lily Allen" →
Also a TUNE. Sorry, but..
listening to "The Fear - Lily Allen" →
TUNE.
listening to "babylon_-_david_gray - " →
David Gray - Babylon. I like the chorus.
listening to "Track 09 - Shearwater" →
Shearwater - The World in 1984 I love this song to bits.
listening to "The Obvious Child - Paul Simon" →
RB @austengrrl - this is a TUNE. One of my favourite Paul Simon songs.
listening to "No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand" →
Just listened to this. Must download/buy the new FF album…they were awesome at Latitude.
listening to "All the Trees of the Field Will Clap... →
been listening to this quite a lot lately.
February 2009
24 posts
listening to "Candle in the Wind - Elton John" →
just don’t ask. For some reason, even though I hate Elton John, I need to hear this song.
listening to "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect -... →
And we are vagabonds, we travel without seatbelts on, we live this close to death.
listening to "Eleanor Put Your Boots On - Franz... →
I was looking for Eleanor Rigby but couldn’t find anything that wasn’t a bad cover. So I chose this.
listening to "Sao Paolo - Guillemots" →
I love, love, love this song. A friend of mine used to teach Fyfe Dangerfield.
listening to "This Year's Love - David Gray" →
Having a Gray day.
listening to "Colleen - Joanna Newsom" →
This is my favourite Joanna Newsom song.
listening to "Expecting to Fly (Neil Young cover... →
Another good cover.
listening to "Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy... →
Brilliant cover. Genius!
listening to "Hospital Food - David Gray" →
tell me something I don’t already know.