Category Archive: Music

The Nautical Disaster

There are very few poets left in music.  Gord Downey of the Tragically Hip is one.  See here:   I had this dream where I relished in The fray and the screaming that filled my head all day. It was as though I’d been spit there, settled in , into a pocket Off a lighthouse …

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Star Me Kitten

Perhaps another of the great R.E.m songs lost in media…. Keys cut, three for the price of one Nothing’s free but guaranteed for a lifetime’s use I’ve changed the locks And you can’t have one You, you know the other two The brakes have worn so thin that you could hear, I hear them screeching …

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You

Perhaps the most underrated R.E.M. song of all time.   Let the sun beat through the clouds, Let me kiss you on the mouth. All my childhood toys with chew marks in your smile. Let me hold your syrup close to mine. Let me watch you, Hollywood and Vine. And I want you like the …

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