ANGRY

 

"Angry"


Don't get angry with me, I never caused you no pain
I won't be angry with you, but I can't see straight

It hasn't rained in a month, the river's run dry
We haven't made love, and I wanna know why
Why you angry with me?
Why you angry?

Please just forget about me, cancel out my name
Please never write to me, I love you just the same
I hear a melody ringing in my brain
Just keep the memories, don't have to be ashamed

Don't get angry with me, I'm in a desperate state
I'm not angry with you, don't you spit in my face

The wolf's at the door with the teeth and the claws
My mouth's getting sore, I can't take anymore
Why you angry with me?
Why you angry?

Voices keep echoing, calling out my name
Hear the rain keep beating on my window pane
I hear a melody ringing in my brain
You can keep the memories, don't have to be ashamed
Don't get angry with me

Angry
Angry

Angry, don't be angry with me, if we go separate ways
Angry, yeah, don't be angry with me, let's go out in a blaze

Angry, don't be angry with me, don't you spit in my face
Angry, don't be angry with me, don't get, don't get

Angry, don't be angry with me
I'm still taking the pills, and I'm off to Brazil
Angry, don't be angry with me

Angry (Please), don't be angry with me
Come on
Angry, don't be angry with me

Mmm .... what's old Mick trying to tell us here?

His eyesight and bodily functions are failing? The Viagra isn't working? His fillings are falling out? He has tinnitus  (I hear a melody ringing in my brain)?

It's called old age Mick and, at nearly 80 so you should be experiencing symptoms like these.

Robert would say, "don't be angry, just forgive" or some Christian stuff like that but as a big rock and roll star you and the Stones don't have to listen to crap like that.

What you do instead is put out a new (last?) album that, on listening to the one track that I was able to on-line 'Angry' sounds a lot like all the other stuff - which I like - that you've put out over a phenomenal 60 year career.

That's OK and I'm interested in hearing the other tracks in anticipation that at least one will match the classics like "Can't you hear me knocking', 'Midnight Mile', 'Angie', 'Paint it black', 'Love in Vain', 'You can't always get what you want' etc.

What I didn't like is the silly video featuring a skanky Las Vegas pole-dancer type woman who's young enough to be your great-granddaughter, writhing about dangerously atop a moving car. Pathetic!

SALVATION AND REDEMPTION - NOT JUST THE DOMAIN OF RELIGION

I'm aware that I haven't posted for a couple of weeks. This hasn't been because I haven't been listening to and appreciating music in the catholic manner that I've adopted for most of my life.

By 'catholic' I don't mean this ... 

.... although I do love listening to Gregorian chants and various Latin hymns, but I mean 'catholic' in the dictionary meaning, not the catechismal one.

I like a wide range of music with appreciation being fluid through time and place. Every now and then I discover new music or rediscover 'old' music that has been meaningful to me and, guess what - it usually still is.

This evening, when searching for something else, I found Steve Marriott's (Small Faces) 'Afterglow Of Your Love' song (1968) which he wrote as a tribute to his wife Jenny Rylance. It's a beautiful song of time, place and sentiment and no doubt will have resonance with everyone who has a pulse.

For me, it immediately brought back time and place which, in 1968, was secondary school in the 5th form (5P) in the prefabs that were just behind (to the west) the science lab block. Readers of this and connected blogs will be aware that the writer of Richard (of RBB), a kind of music blog, got all confused about the locations of the various pre-fab classrooms around the science block. The 3P and 3G classrooms were to the east of the block and not beneath it. Beneath it was an open space and, no surprises here, a couple of staircases that provide access to the two science classrooms above.

Anyway, I digress.

I was a great fan of Small Faces then and still am although I hardly listen to the music now. When I do I'm always pleasantly surprised at and rewarded by the great lyrics and song structures. Inspired by listening to 'Afterglow Of Your Love' I then quickly found this, 'The Autumn Stone,' (1968) another Steve Marriott composition.

It's another lovely and lyrical love song like 'Afterglow' and you can read into it Marriott's infatuation with Jenny Rylance.

"I was nowhere
Till you changed my mind
Love is sent through being good to you
Then you were somewhere
Somewhere hard to find
Only what you always were, it's true
I'm looking for an open door
Where I can sit, and play in peace with you
Tomorrow changes
Fields of green today
Yesterday is dead, but not my memory
We were strangers
And then you came to stay
The sweetest spring dawn morning sings to me
So now I've found a living sound
That moves, that breathes and then makes love to me"

In 1968 and 1969 I was infatuated with a girl, Tina, and the song 'struck a chord' with me.

Ten years later I was infatuated with a woman and the song and the lyrics again fitted perfectly.

"I was nowhere

Till you changed my mind"

Twenty years later when I met The Old Girl the song and lyrics were again a match as fresh as if they'd been just written. Time and place and sentiment. Long may these things last.

'TELEVISION' AT 'HOME'

 I've been listening to music during the day - on the laptop through headphones because The Old Girl was working. I mostly accessed YouTube and searched for favourites and rediscovered lots of good stuff.

Here's a clip of Television's 'Marquee Moon' which has great guitar work and a nifty bass line. Maybe Robert has never listened to this. I'm interested in his opinion.

I also found on YouTube a copy of the 'lost' live recording of Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George, and others at Ultrasonic Studios New York in 1972. This made for interesting listening with the highlight being Raitt performing Steve Winwood's 'Can't Find My Way Home. There are 'tidier' versions out there that she's sung but this one just shines.

Note: This is not a filler post it is just sharing something nice OK?

"STEADY ON, IT'S ONLY PALMERSTON NORTH" *

 Robert look away now. This post has positive references to an article in the latest New Zealand Listener.

Richard will be interested though. The article is about Don McGlashan's coming national tour and profiles his musical career. This covers his work with familiar bands like Blam Blam Blam, The Mutton Birds, The Front Lawn, From Scratch, The Plague, The Whizz Kids, and musicians Harry Sinclair, Mark Bell, Tim Mahon and others. I'd like to see him and will check out the dates and venues.

There are lots of McGlashan's songs I like. They fit nicely in the New Zealand music history and stand up well to international offerings.

Remember Don't Fight It Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both Of Us ?:

That song reminds me of the Australian band Mental As Anything's song If You Leave Me Can I Come Too:

They all look so young!

It's worth a read and, like me, a trawl through YouTube to listen again to some great songs. 

* "We'd all get up and go crazy and at the end of the night everybody on stage would be crying and hugging each other. One night, somebody from the audience said, "Steady on, it's only Palmerston North." I always remember that."

- Don McGlashan ' The road, his dominion'.  - NZ Listener

"TURN THAT JUNGLE MUSIC DOWN"

 I mentioned in an earlier post that I got the stereo CD changer going again so, while The Old Girl's still away (back in a few weeks) have been enjoying my '70s music (as she calls it).

This morning it's been a selection of Steely Dan songs with 5 CDs in the changer and set to random play.

I have my strong favourites like 'Do It Again', 'Pretzel Logic', 'Riki Don't Lose That Number', 'Deacon Blues', 'The Royal Scam' etc. but today the sublime 'Babylon Sisters' stood out.

This is from Steely Dan's 'Goucho' album that has this great image on the cover.

This song is so slick and smooth it slips into the consciousness with its sleazy lyrics and subtle chords. I love it.

The word is that when Donald Fagan put this song together (as usual using many great session musicians) he pushed them to hundreds of takes and, when finished, brought some back for a redo because he didn't like one bass line. The guy's a perfectionist but the result in this and in almost all of Steely Dan's music is an enduring sound that perfectly matches the quirky and esoteric lyrics.

I strongly recommend this.

IT'S AN OLDIE BUT A GOODIE

Not these nutters

 

Unkind readers might suggest that this is a filler-post but The Music Curmudgeon hasn't posted for a while and needs to get the ratings up.

Besides, the other bloggers haven't been doing much and one of them complains if my posts are too long, have no images, don't mention him and have no fawning references to imaginary beings.

Given the latest musical offerings from all both of them I thought that this might inspire them to get cracking.

COFFEE AND A ROLL

 I saw this photograph of the Popular milk-bar in Courtenay Place (no year attributed) in the Neighbourly site 'Old Wellington Region'.

It's a great photo - very evocative and would be great inspiration for a Tom Waits-type songwriter. There's a story behind the woman in the hat.

Mind you, the great Ray Davies wrote and sang this song about a cafe which is good.

But here's Tom Waits: