Category Archives: Music for a Sunday

Yup, the January blahs have set in. Here’s the cure, my all-time fave song from this group: Live or on the record, “North Winds Blowing” really deserves a LOT more recognition than it ever got. It will never NOT be … Continue reading →

I just swabbed a bloody deck, and I’m feelin’ mighty hearty now. So, with no further ado… “It’s your money that we want, and your money we shall have!”

Gulag arpeggio!

…because I’m still on a Supertramp kick: But I do care that it’s not Roger Hodgson singing or on the keys anymore, he was much more nimble. The badass saxes from the Paris live recording of 1980 are also sadly … Continue reading →

…and neither does the great Roger Hodgson:

I have to confess something: When this song first came out, I didn’t care for it. At ALL. It was weird and depressing, it seemed self-indulgent and overdramatic, it didn’t hang together, you couldn’t really dance to it, blah blah. … Continue reading →

Wonderfully minimalist stuff from 30 years ago (yes, really — it’s been THAT long!) And it still sounds fresh and new. Annie’s vocal attack is the very definition of sui generis.