I've always admired Ian Dury, as his enigmatic song...
...was being played constantly many years ago, and the timing was one of turmoil for the Scrobs family, but funnily enough, we got over all that, and the song still reverberates!
The other day, I asked myself, 'Hey Scrobs, is Ian Dury on Desert Island Discs'? And of course, it was!
Ian Dury Desert Island Discs...
I didn't realise how talented that man was, and how he comes over as a thoroughly nice bloke, but that's show business I guess!
It seems ages since I played some music by 'The Carpenters', and as time has moved on, and I'm now without, and missing terribly, Senora O'Blene, I have to revisit my favourite songsters from our past, which is sometimes very difficult.
The other day, YouTube put up a link to Karen Carpenter's piece from years ago, where she shows off her prowess as a fabulous drummer - it's here: -
She was so talented on drums - with a superb bass player and of course, her brother, they made some marvellous music! Some of the best guitar riffs are also here in that fabulous song, 'Goodbye to love' too!
Don't you really miss the days when there was no screeching, thin, weedy voices, squealing inane 'lyrics' to a pretty dire 'beat'?
Scrobs was watching the excellent film last evening, 'The Train', yesterday, with the superb parts played by Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield. It's a good story, with plenty of suspense and drama and well worth a revisit. The final stages have a background of an engine cooling down, with an unmistakable noise of contracting metal - rather like my old Riley 1.5, but that's a different story! Somehow, that noise adds to the scene as a kind of programme music, there doesn't need to be anything else, and I found it added to the finale in a most unusual way!
Earlier in the day, I was mucking around in the kitchen, and decided to make some bread in the air fryer - a pastime which attracts me more than somewhat, as I'm forever trying to perfect a skill which is taking ages...
While everything was steaming up, my Alexa was playing the fabulous album, 'Aerial', by Kate Bush, and the song 'Joanni' popped up. Now, I love that song, it's one of my all-time favourites, partly because I used to play the whole lot on an ageing MP3 player on the train, and woke up one day, with the unforgettable 'clunk' of the percussion ringing in my ears, and also just in time for me to get ready to get off before I ended up in Hastings!
My theory, which actually needs testing by the ridiculous BBC 'Verify', is that the drum beat was pinched from the final moments of 'The train', and I challenge anyone to disagree...
