THIS SUMMER, by Squeeze

Squeeze is still a fav anytime of year.

ray lamontagne and the pariah dogs

This is now one of my all time favourite songs for the summer...aptly titled For The Summer. I can't seem to locate the official music video, which drives me crazy, so for the best audio, I'm posting this very unofficial video.

Sun Kil Moon

I can't remember where or when I discovered Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek) and his captivating song "Carry Me Ohio", but I'm still in love with it. The album was from late 2003, but I think I was a little late in discovering it. I'm going to guess 2008.

Citizen Cope "Sideways"...found on soundtrack "Ghost Town"

Hello Jim, Farewell Paul Quarrington

Definitely off the down troden path of pop music, the brilliant Paul Quarrington still reminds me that songwriting and the Canadian perspective is important and real. He was born in July, 1953 and in May of 2009, he got the sad news of being diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. On January 21, 2010, Paul Quarrington passed away at home in Toronto. The documentary of his work is encapsulated in the Bravo documentary Life in Music. So who was Paul Quarrington? He was a Canadian, a screenwriter, a playwright, a singer, a novelist, a musician, an educator, a creator.

Paul Quarrington Life in Music (Trailer) from MovingStories.TV on Vimeo.

Big Jet Plane, Now Playing

Angus and Julia Stone are the brother and sister dynamic duo from Australia, signing on to Nettwerk Records for their North American distribution and world domination. I love their artist website, just as cool and innovative as their sound. Nothing like the drivel that drowns our daily airwaves, poisoning our senses with gruesome sounds. No, this band is different. You're gonna like em.

Angus and Julia Stone - Black Crow (2010) from Nick Murray Willis on Vimeo.

Angus and Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane from kirill dolmatov on Vimeo.

The band is Blue Foundation. The Tune is Eyes on Fire

Danish band Blue Foundation

Little Things, James Bright featuring Rachel Lloyd...an All Chilled classic

Brigitte Bardot

From 1981 Squeeze, Labelled with Love...Brilliant songwriting

She unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle
And shuffles about in her candle lit hovel,
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens
She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens,
The black and white t.v. has long seen a picture
The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture,
The postman delivers the final reminders
She sells off her silver and poodles in China.

Drinks to remember, I me and myself
And winds up the clock
And knocks dust from the shelf
Home is a love that I miss very much
So the past has been bottled and labelled with love.

During the war time an American pilot
Made every air raid a time of excitement,
She moved to his prairie and married the Texan
She learnt from a distance how love was a lesson,
He became drinker and she became mother
She knew that one day she'd be one or the other,
He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy
Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty.

Drinks to remember, I me and myself
And winds up the clock
And knocks dust from the shelf
Home is a love that I miss very much
So the past has been bottled and labelled with love.

He like a cowboy died drunk in his slumber
Out on the porch in the middle of summer,
She crossed the ocean back home to her family
But they had retired to roads that were sandy,
She moved home alone without friends or relations
Lived in a world full of age reservation,
On moth eaten armchairs she'd say that she'd sod all
The friends who had left her to drink from the bottle .

Drinks to remember, I me and myself
And winds up the clock
And knocks dust from the shelf
Home is a love that I miss very much
So the past has been bottled and labelled with love.
The past has been bottled and labelled with love.
The past - has been bottled and labelled with love.

William Fitzsimmons, coming to the Waldorf May 13

• You Broke My Heart by William Fitzsimmons

More William Fitzsimmons music on iLike

Hey Rosetta!

I’ve been asleep for a long, long time
Blond hair to brown and then brown to white
My mom is buried beside my dad
But I was asleep for all of that

I shut my eyes for a moment’s rest
‘Cause I get so tired
What thing transpired while my body slept?
Beset my mind

All the schools that I went to have all been closed
And all of my teachers are dead I suppose
The songs that we sung have all gone quiet
What happens below as you sleep at night?

I shut my eyes for a moment’s rest
‘Cause I get so tired
What things transpired while my body slept?
Beset my mind

The river’s up, the reeds are caught
Halfway across what never was
The water rose and swept in slow
When the reeds awoke they were half below

I’ve been asleep for a long, long time
Blond hair to brown and then brown to white
My ma is buried beside my dad
But I was asleep for all of that

I’ve been asleep for a long, long time
Blond hair to brown and brown to white
My ma is buried beside my dad
But I was asleep for all of that
For all of that

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

The Canadian Underdogs Win Album of the Year at the Grammys

There's hope....

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British Prime Minister is snubbed by Morrissey & Marr

Britain's austerity measures are having an ill effect for Prime Minister David Cameron. Poor old David must be crushed. I'd hate to be him.

Something old, something new, something to remember

I enjoyed an amazing Remembrance Day morning in West Vancouver at the Cenotaph with a great community. I visited the Legion for a short time, but really not my thing. I was back home in the afternoon, cozy in my flat with some telee and music.

New Favourite Song

I'm not just about re-arranging furniture and buying throw pillows. This blog proves it. Just be careful in stepping into my other life on Mainstream Melancholy.

Saturday Night at the Movies

Spoon,

Another exciting Saturday night. Pouring rain, dark, no energy to go out. But Austin City Limits had Spoon on. That's something to save the dreadfulness of this night. Great band. Touring nowhere near to YVR though.

Cute Kelowna Boys, Yukon Blonde, saving this dreadful dark and rainy Saturday morning

Yukon Blonde

The New Arcade Fire - coming in August

In the suburbs, I
I learned to drive
And you told me I'd never survive
Grab your mother's keys, we're leaving

Satchel, the song Suffering, featured in the Beautiful Girls' Soundtrack

one of my favorites of today, The Stars, do my favorites of yesterday: The Smiths

A BRILLIANT cover from The Stars....

1979 Classic

from their latest EP, Modest Mouse's weirdest video ever, but a great tune

Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin from Old World Monkey on Vimeo.

Tops for 2009

My Top Ten for albums of 2009 have been submitted to the North Shore News - many thanks to audiophile John Goodman. I have given him the caveat audiens for my picks - being far more folk/roots and of course, singer-songwriter stuff. No Lady GaGa (gag-gah) from me. How vile. This is the year of really geeky looking guy bands. And a lot of Canadians.

10: Morrissey - Years of Refusal


9: Andrew Bird - Noble Beast


8: Wilco - Wilco


7: Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest


6: Bruce Cockburn - Slice O' Life


5: Joel Plaskett - Three


4: The Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels


3: Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Break Up

Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Relator @ Yahoo! Video

2: Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix


and my number one pick for 2009....

1: Neko Case - Middle Cyclone *** A highlight of the year and an obvious highlight to her recording career. Neko Case is outstanding in her vocal talent and this album is a must have by anyone's standards!