🎵 🖇️ Blog Challenge - Music Edition - thank you for the inspiration @Annie
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Love The Waterboys and today discovered these two tracks via The Rockenteurs in a conversation with Mike Scott.
🔗🎵 Hopper’s On Top (Genius) by The Waterboys
🔗🎵 Andy (A Guy Like You) by The Waterboys
If these two are any example of the other 23 tracks - it is going to ROCK.
TIL that Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote 🎵 Universal Soldier - a song that for some reason (maybe because I only ever heard his version and it was a relatively big hit in the UK) … had always assumed Donovan wrote. 🤦♂️
I found out by reading 🔗 this - which is a sad story that I have no opinion about.
? If you’re feeling stressed, hum a few bars of Alice’s Restaurant
💬 Dave Winer
Yesterday .. (If you’re feeling stressed) reminds us to tune into Alice’s Restaurant and hum a few bars. Me? 🖇️ I remind you of one specific verse late in the song
Either way - it’s all good - delivered nearly 60 years ago.
BUT
It is now 2025 - the same year as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones won Grammies - so nothing has changed right?
🎵 I know - who cares - its just a …
Thank you Roger
The words throughout the 4 part ‘series’ courtesy of Roger Waters - so fitting to end this post with one of his.
Picture a courthouse with no fucking laws
Picture a cathouse with no fucking whores
Picture a shithouse with no fucking drains
Picture a leader with no fucking brains
If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying