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Fantastic song on a fantastic album. Not sure what else to say.
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever!
Jan 27, 2025
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Everything about this song and album. A friend of mine put me on to this and I still remember the night I listened to the whole thing. Life altering shit!!! A no-skips album.
The freedom your being sold is just submission
Wanna keep you content and under supervision
They got you convinced that ignorance is bliss in
Some ever-changing mind
Erasing human condition
I donāt have time to worry about if I am trapped and if thereās any way out
I donāt have time
Word. āļø
Oct 3, 2024
I finally figured out how to play this on guitar instead of piano as it's constructed here (it's in a different tuning -- drop C, CGCFAD which is also what Nirvana's "On a Plain" is in)
I think it's Faces' greatest song, from among many candidates -- Rod Stewart basically isn't on it, he's barely on this album TBH -- it was written and sung by Ronnie Lane.
You might read this if you want a deep dive/interpretation: https://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/3776097665/faces-glad-and-sorry-when-they-reconvened-to
āCan you show me a dream/Can you show me one thatās better than mine/Can you stand it in the cold light of day/Neither can I.ā
This is the bit that really gets me, everytime. "Even when we try our best to share each otherās dreams, bare our souls, give up our inmost thoughts, even when we intend to stand shoulder to shoulder and face the world, building something new togetherāthereās always a point at which it falls apart, and despair creeps in, and itās all gone past recovery... Itās that cold, hard recognition as the morning dawns and all my stupid fantasies of achievement, of desire, of love, scurry away into the shadows. Another one gone, how many more left to live?"
Songwriting is magical and this one has "it."
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Particularly, the Peel Session version. I listen to this most days before work, Mark E. Smith was always able to create this bleak atmosphere, pulling all the annoying things from the mundane. All punk seems like a charade in comparison to this, this is the only song that matters sometimes, all that anger.
Dec 29, 2024
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I'm not obsessed with it but it's always sweet when the barista does something cool. This one yesterday made me smile because after seeing a few others I realised the guy was doing PokƩmon! Fairly certain mine is mew or Mewtwo, I saw him do a horsea, pikachu, and squirtle too...
Mar 4, 2025
Koudelka was a photographer who documented Europe from the 60s onwards, recording the lives of travelling people, Soviet invasions, struggles with poverty, and more. He later became a member of the Magnum society and continued his work into old age. If you have the time, it's really worth digging into his work as he had a real eye for striking images that provide a lot of context for the situation he was in. He used to travel with very little besides a sleeping bag and camera so he often experienced the harsher side of life while on the job. At times his photos were smuggled out of the soviet borders, and published anonymously, to keep him safe. Check the link for a good starting point on Magnum's website!
Feb 10, 2025
