I am willing to bet this is the best song you'll hear today. It's eight years old now, but sadly more relevant than ever... in a world where the country dashes head-first into self-inflicted economic chaos, small mad dictators throw missiles at their neighbours, teenagers drown themselves in a morass of algorithm-led anti-social media, and we all quietly avert our gaze from the inevitable climate disaster. All aboard the handcart - hell ahead!
Be careful, I fall into playing this on a loop - you may do the same.
Good call - definitely the best thing I've heard all day. I was talking with someone recently and remarked that when I'm at work, only chatting with the occasional customer for nine hours straight, it's almost too easy to briefly leave the woes of the world outside. Then I listen to the Radio 4 news as I drive home from my shift and am quickly reminded of the awful truth that everything's shit.
ReplyDeleteI have to make myself step away from the BBC News app for the same reason.
DeleteMy goodness, even eight years ago things were this shit, and now it's a whole load worse. I got myself in a real pickle this time last year because of the state of the economy, politics and more. I pulled myself together by the time we got to 2022 but here we are in a much worse state nationally and globally than we were last year - I'm being a shallow female but when I get this stressed it affects the state of my hair and it's not good right now! I should sue Liz Truss and Co.
ReplyDeleteI know they must have had their own issues, but I sometimes wish I could have my life over again and live through my parents' era. A much calmer time with a nightly news bulletin (with feel-good stories at the end) and a local paper. I too have had to remove that app.
Powerful song.
One of the few advantages of not having much hair is that stress levels can't affect it!
DeleteAnd yes, a really powerful song, I think.
Powerful stuff
ReplyDeleteYes, every line counts.
DeleteWe are sensitive souls. It's hard.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether listening to songs like this helps or exacerbates though.
DeleteA song - and artist - that I'd not heard before, Martin, but you were spot on, I've listened to it repeatedly since. Chris was warning us about "all the shite on Radio Four" back then. I've tried to limit listening to or watching the news to a couple of times a day. Partly, to resist the stultifying effect of the constant surge of bad news and hopefully focus on doing something good, however small, each day.
ReplyDeleteStultifying is exactly right. I find it best to ration my news intake, whilst there are some subjects that Mrs Amusements can't discuss with me at all any more. I applaud your focus of doing something good every day, that seems like a positive thing.
DeleteNothing grand, Martin, some days it's just a smile and a kind word.
DeleteSometimes that's all it takes.
DeleteCouldn't get this to play when your first posted it. My computer is now in the repair shop so I'm listening to it now on my work laptop. Very good... his version of Jerusalem is pretty speciakl too.
ReplyDeleteI had an idea you'd like it.
Deletestunning, thanks for posting
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. And hello, new commenter!
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