Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #30

Let me die a youngman’s deathnot a clean and inbetweenthe sheets holywater deathnot a famous-last-wordspeaceful out of breath death When I’m 73and in constant good tumourmay I be mown down at dawnby a bright red sports caron my way homefrom an allnight party Or when I’m 91with silver hairand sitting in a barber’s chairmay rival

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #25

She asks me to kill the spider.Instead, I get the mostpeaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin.I catch the spider, put it outsideand allow it to walk away. If I am ever caught in the wrong placeat the wrong time, just being aliveand not bothering anyone, I hope I am

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #24

A plague of nostalgia for a fictive past,Not merely dead, never born,is the most desperate form of escapism.Accident of birth, the pride of the insipid.Blood still runs, rose-tinted,Spilling on the red rockIn starvation and wasteIn fanfaresand marchesand broad arching melody.Wastelands ruled by ruined kings.Curses never lifted. Wastelands Ruled By Ruined Kings – Jute Gyte https://rateyourmusic.com/list/DanOrDanny/artists-with-self-titled-tracks-800/1/

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #23

Not the same shape in changing lightBut different shapes in the same lightThat penetrates everything There is no being behind doingOnly fiction added to the deedThe cold ashes of a dead fire The locked prison of the momentA great door through which there is no passageAll roads disgorge to black decay In the highest circlemystery

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #22

I, The Arch, never sleepsWho of us would not be glad to lift the veil?Built of nothing but solitary thought,a structure rises precipitously upward. Thersites born again as ape or eggThe golden mind of Gracchus turned to leadIn the shadow of a great ringThis ain’t a dream anymore, it’s the real thing. Horse dung in

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders #106 Tracey Chapman

I’m thinking of starting a band and naming it Tinnitus. The name is relatable and has a nice ring to it. Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter who was born March 30, 1964 in Cleveland Ohio. Tracy entered music when she used to busk around Harvard when she was a student there in the mid-1980s,

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders #104 The Travelling Wilburys

Anybody interested in a ride in a helicopter? I need one person to accompany me this Saturday. We leave from Barton Airfield and will fly over Ambleside, where we’ve ill have breakfast in the Lakes; then we’ll fly along the whole of the Yorkshire Moors, before returning home. If interested please contact me, preferably someone

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders #102 Blue Oyster Cult

I never got the fuss about Hotel California, it’s just a bad Yelp review with a two minute guitar solo. And speaking of guitar solos and classic rock songs, today’s OHW is (Don’t Fear) The Reaper by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult taken from the band’s 1976 album Agents of Fortune. The song, written

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders #99 The Kingsmen

I breed racing snails. One of them had been underperforming for a while so I thought I’d try removing his shell to save weight. It didn’t work. If anything it made him more sluggish. The Kingsmen are a 1960s American rock band from Portland, Oregon. They are best known for their 1963 recording of R&B

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #17

Come now in my solitude where can see; and inspiration shouts in beats like the pounding of my awareness; and it drives into the heart of the mystery where hope is the revolutionary naming every illusion, a false friend, an enemy – in the mystical struggle that uncovered the master illusion – Life! Life!! Life!!!