Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"

Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" for my son Miles.

Reggae masterpiece POLICE AND THIEVES

This is one amazing piece of creation by Lee "Scratch" Perry, with Junior Murvin singing from Scratch's Black Ark circa 1976. I nearly lost my ever-lovin' mind the first time I heard it, about a year ago!
I hope you can dig it half so much.



POLICE & THIEVES
(Junior Murvin-Lee Perry)

Police and thieves in the street (oh yeah)
Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition
Police and thieves in the street (oh yeah)
Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition
From Genesis to Revelation yeah
And next generation will be hear me
All the crimes committed day by day
No one try to stop it in any way
All the peacemakers turn war officers
Hear what I say
Hehehehehehehey
Police and thieves in the street (oh yeah)
Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition
Police and thieves in the street (oh yeah)
Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition
Oh yeah
All the crimes committed day by day
No one try to stop it in any way
All the peacemakers turn war officers
Hear what I say
He-he-he-he-he-he-hey
Police and thieves in the street (oh yeah)
Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition
Police and thieves in the street (oh yeah)
Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition
Police and thieves
Police...

Bright Eyes' "At the Bottom of Everything"

This standalone flash player is called radio.blog. It comes from a music file sharing site I discovered this week, www.radioblogclub.com. I don't know much about it, but I like it.

"Lose This Skin" by Tymon Dogg with The Clash

This wild Irish rose of a song has been one of my favorite pieces of popular music since I first heard it in 1980 or so, on The Clash's Sandinista! LP. Tymon Dogg was a musician & busker from Liverpool who gave his young friend Joe Strummer some of his early lessons on guitar & ukelele. Mr. Dogg wrote this mysteriously wonderful song & sings it with a commitment & abandon that have never ceased to charm & touch me.

LOSE THIS SKIN
(Tymon Dogg)

Come with me, I won't hide
We're going on a ride
We meet each day, use time to see
While we're young and almost free
I've got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in
Got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in
Do not turn or hate to see
All the things you think we've got
Do not turn or hate to see
What happened to the wife of Lot
We're alone or so they say
We're not on our own in that way
When we're alone it's real tough going
We tend to take a part in someone else's play
Come with me, I thought he said
But that's not him anymore, he's dead
What's it like to be so free
So free it looks like lost to me
I've got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in
Got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in

Tymon Dogg is alive & well & still making music. Visit him on the web at www.tymondogg.net, www.tymondogg.com, & www.myspace.com/thequikening.

George Michael's Guilty Feet

Like it or not, here's a great chorus of songwriting by George Michael (plus a couple of lines of verse, also well-expressed):

I'm never gonna dance again

Guilty feet have got no rhythm

Though it's easy to pretend

I know you're not a fool

I should have known better than to cheat a friend

And waste a chance that I'd been given

So I'm never gonna dance again

The way I danced with you

Time can never mend

The careless whisper of a good friend

"Guilty feet have got no rhythm" Wow. I have read on the 'Net that Mr. Michael was 17 when he wrote "Careless Whisper".