"If Only You Could See Me..."

[rhythmaning]

The joy of iTunes? That might surprise you since I have gone on at length about how I don't have an MP3 player, and if I did, it wouldn't be a Ppod. Fuck, it surprises me, too.

But I am staying in my brother's flat, and he doesn't seem to have his hi fi set up (in other words, I couldn't get it to work), but he does have iTunes on his PC.

So yesterday morning I played through four different versions of John Coltrane playing Afro Blue.

And now, prompted by f4f3, I am listening Simple Minds' wonderful New Gold Dream album.

A bit strange though: for years - more than twenty years - I have heard the words of The Big Sleep with the casual, throwaway line "Communication laugh"; which I have alway loved. (I have played around with the grammar; I feel it should have question mark at the end.)

A quick search on the 'net finds umpteen sites which tell me I am wrong. "Communication lost", they all say.

I've just listened to it again. And again. I am right. And if I am not right, my version is better.

Right. Now I'm off to play Waterfront. Obsessively. Shame bro' hasn't got the 12" inch version.

[Edit] Sometime I shall try explain just why Waterfront is such a brilliant track. Jeez.