Music

This week I discovered that even after about 30 years of not hearing - or even thinking about - the song I want your love by Transvision Vamp, I still remember all the lyrics.

But ask me what I had for dinner on Sunday, and I draw a complete blank.

I’m really enjoying the new Counting Crows album: Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!, but it’s so short! Especially because the second half just runs into eachother, making it sound like one long song. It ends before I’m ready for it to stop.

Thought I’d put on Apple’s personalised “Feel Good” station while working today. After an hour or so, I’m just skipping songs or listening to Powderfinger.

After 5 years of an Apple Music subscription, plus the data from my old iTunes library, how can Apple get its automated playlists so wrong?

Tonight I picked up my guitar for the first time time in a very long time to try to play some Taylor Swift with my daughter on her birthday. My fingers ache!

We’ve agreed our goal is to duet “Exile” by the end of the summer holidays.

I’ve spent the past few hours listening to Nintendo Music and I have to say, the urge to go and play Nintendo is strong.

So now that Apple Music has finished announcing its top 100 albums, I just want to say how crap I think the list is.

No Foo Fighters Colour and the Shape. No Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet. No Pearl Jam Ten.

I’ll keep listening through them, but I think Apple’s methodology was massively broken.

Ooh! Apple Music is running down its list of the best 100 albums. My mission is now to listen to all of them. Might even try and drop short reviews here as replies.

I am absolutely, 100% earwormed by every track on the new Paramore album. The only way I can get one song out of my head is by mentally singing another song from the album. It’s great. 🎵

I guess I spent a bit of time getting ready for that David Gray White Ladder gig this year.

Tonight I had a couple of glasses of wine and then bought tickets to take the family to go and see David Gray next weekend.

I should have bought those tickets months ago. I am so excited - he’s an amazing performer and now I get to share it with the kids.

I’m listening to a playlist created by my 13 year old. It’s filled with rock from the 90s, peppered with some tunes from the 80s, an echo of my own teenage years.

Listening to the cast recording of the Aussie Jesus Christ Superstar from the 90s for the first time in years and am shocked I still remember more than 3/4 of the words. My son is mortified.

The last couple of Muse albums didn’t really do it for me, but I’m digging this one 🎶:

A moment of silence for my Bon Jovi Cap, which broke yesterday about 6 weeks before it’s 21st birthday. It came from the 1995 concert at Eastern Creek, after I got sunburnt and hailed on. It will long be remembered. 🙁😢😭