"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.

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

LJ Ate my post. Again!!!!! Argh!!!!

Now saving posts before I hit send.

I've always been scared to google the lyrics for "King Is White and In the Crowd" in case it isn't a surrealist fantasy about Martin Luther King being re-incarnated.

Waterfront is a superb song because it always rains in Glasgow, and when Jim sang it at the Barrowlands the place would have erupted, if it hadn't been heaving already. I've just recalled that my dancing style in the early eighties was far, far too influenced by Jim's performance that night...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

LOL!

And I think the less I say about dancing, the better...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm now going to check if I have Sparkle in the Rain on CD - I know I had the 12 inch on vinyl as well as the LP, but can't remember if I ever mp3-ed them.

This is the ideal opportunity to go and buy a Shuffle, you know. The Oxford Street Apple Store is a wonderful temple to shiny gadgetness.