Always with her as she writes, dances, dines, or drifts off to Bedfordshire:
A Synesthesia of gestures and melodies and moving images.

Entries in live (13)

Thursday
Apr222010

David Bowie, "Heros" (Two Versions, BEST)

Oh my god, you sexay man, you!

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them just for one day
We can be Heroes just for one day

And you, you can be mean
And I, I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we're lovers, and that is that

Though nothing will keep us together
We could steal time just for one day
We can be Heroes for ever and ever, what d'you say

I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing will keep us together
We can beat them for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes just for one day

I, I can remember
Standing by the wall
And the guns shot above our heads
And we kissed as though nothing could fall
And the shame was on the other side
Oh we can beat them for ever and ever
Then we can be Heroes just for one day

Thursday
Apr222010

Suede, "The Beautiful Ones" (Two Versions)

Ah, the good old song that made the '90s so freakin' beautiful.
The first is live, uncut, performed on August 10th 1999, and the second is the official studio version.



High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine, shaking their bits to the hits,
Drag acts, drug acts, suicides, in your dad's suits you hide, staining his name again,
Cracked up, stacked up, 22, psycho for sex and glue, lost it to Bostik, yeah,
Shaved heads, rave heads, on the pill, got too much time to kill, get into bands and gangs

Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones, the beautiful ones

Loved up, Doved up, hung around, stoned in a lonely town,
Shaking their meat to the beat,
High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine,
Shaking their bits to the hits,

Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones, the beautiful ones.

You don't think about it, you don't do without it, because you're beautiful,
And if your baby's going crazy that's how you made me, la, la, la, la...

Thursday
Apr222010

Brett Anderson, "The Wild Ones" (Live, Acoustic)

My man plays "The Wild Ones" live, acoustic.

There's a song playing on the radio
Sky high in the airwaves on the morning show
And there's a lifeline slipping as the record plays
And as I open the blinds in my mind I'm believing that you could stay

And oh if you stay
We'll all chase the rainblown fields away
We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun

Oh if you stay
We'll be the wild ones, running with the dogs today

There's a song playing through another wall
All we see and believe is the D.J. and debts dissolve
And it's a shame the plane is leaving on this sunny day
Cos on you my tattoo will be bleeding and the name will stain

But oh if you stay we'll ride from disguised suburban graves
We'll go from the bungalows where the debts still grow every day

And oh if you stay I'll chase the rainblown fears away
We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun

Oh if you stay


We'll be the wild ones running with the dogs today
We'll be the wild ones running with the dogs today

Saturday
Mar062010

Elton John, "Benny and the Jets" (Live)

My favorite Elton John, I should say. Since the 1990s. Anyone familiar with the fact that this song was featured in the film, My Girl(1991)?  I don't know what it is, it must be Benny and the Jets, this song just rings the bell. My song. B-B-B-Benny and the Jets!

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Hey kids, shake it loose together, the spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather, we'll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around, you're gonna hear electric music, solid walls of sound

Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet, but they're so spaced out
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful, oh Bennie, she's really keen
She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Hey kids, plug into the faithless, maybe they're blinded
But Bennie makes them ageless we shall survive, let us take ourselves along,
Where we fight our parents out in the streets to find who's right and who's wrong,

Oh, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet, but they're so spaced out
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful, oh Bennie, she's really keen
She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Bennie, Bennie and the Jets! Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets!

Wednesday
Mar032010

Amy Winehouse, "You Know I'm No Good" (Acoustic, Live)

The lyrics are sublime. I see myself in them, always been a good-for-nothin' myself.

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Meet you downstairs in the bar and heard
Your rolled up sleeves and your skull T-shirt
You say, "What did you do with him today?"
And sniffed me out like I was Tanqueray

'Cause you're my fella, my guy, hand me your Stella and fly
By the time I'm out the door, you tear men down like Roger Moore

I cheated myself, like I knew I would
I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good

Upstairs in bed with my ex-boy, he's in a place but I can't get joy
Thinking on you in the final throes, this is when my buzzer goes
Outside to meet you, chips and pitta
You say, "When we married", 'cause you're not bitter
There'll be none of him no more, I cried for you on the kitchen floor

I cheated myself, Like I knew I would
I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good

Sweet reunion Jamaica and Spain, we're like how we were again
I'm in the tub, you on the seat, lick your lips as a I soak my feet
And then you notice a little carpet burn
My stomach drop and my guts churn
You shrug and it's the worst, who truly stuck the knife in first

I cheated myself like I knew I would
I told you I was trouble, You know that I'm no good
I cheated myself like I knew I would
I told you I was trouble, yeah you know that I'm no good