Showing posts with label Songs for tomorrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Songs for tomorrow. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Songs for tomorrow: This Time Tomorrow

You know I've run out of blogging ideas when I start trying to resuscitate old series.

Completely unrelated to that, here's a new post for the Songs For Tomorrow theme.

From 1970's The Kinks versus Powerman and The Moneyground, Part One, this finds Mr Davies in familiar territory, mourning the loss of Albion, railing against apparent progress and feeling separated from normality. We've all been there, Ray.

This time tomorrow
What will we see
Fields full of houses
Endless rows of crowded streets
I don't know where I'm going
I don't want to see
I feel the world below me
Looking up at me

There's a nice bit of what I thought was rough and ready banjo in there too, though Wikipedia tells me it was, in fact, a National Steel resonator guitar. So what do I know?

There, that was alright, wasn't it?

In other news, I might have an original idea for a post sometime soon (but don't hold your breath). Until then, I'll just keep treading water with more of the same pointless ballsackery.

Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Songs for tomorrow: Tomorrow Is A Long Time

One of the beauties of Amusements Minor growing up is that I get to share more diverse things from my own younger days with him, whether that's music, books, film or television. Example? Well, just recently we've started watching The Walking Dead - he's just about old enough for zombies, and the brutal dispatch thereof, we think.

Anyway, we've just got to the downbeat end of the very first series, specifically when Rick and co flee the CDC seconds before it goes up in smoke. That episode closes with this absolute pearl from Bob Dylan, a song for tomorrow is ever there was one.

Wednesday, 8 June 2022

Songs for tomorrow: Tomorrow Started

Of its time but still timeless. Does that make sense?

Wednesday, 1 June 2022

Wednesday, 25 May 2022

Wednesday, 18 May 2022

Songs for tomorrow: Only Tomorrow

Continuing the temporary comeback of this series (because I've got naff-all else to write about), here's some My Bloody Valentine, from mbv. Guitars and amps teetering on the edge here, I think.

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Songs for tomorrow: Tomorrow

Haven't done a post in this series for nearly two years, so let's remedy that with some Cranberries. Is there a more instantly recognisable vocal sound than that of the late, lamented Dolores O'Riordan? Maybe, maybe not, but there can't be too many. This is from their second bite of the cherry, the comeback, and was a single in 2011. It's nice enough, I reckon, with its early-Sundays guitar motif, but it didn't trouble the charts at all. Shame. Parent album Roses made it to number 17, at least.

Friday, 26 June 2020

Songs for tomorrow: Maybe Tomorrow

Are Stereophonics a Marmite band? Maybe. This is alright though, isn't it? Or MOR-by-numbers? What do you think...?

Friday, 19 June 2020

Songs for tomorrow: Tomorrow Never Dies

We've already had the Bond theme that never was, from Pulp. Well, here's the song that got chosen instead, from Sheryl Crow. No, it's not her usual fare, but this woman can really sing (witness her flawless live vocal in this TOTP performance). There are some lovely chord changes in here as well, within the constraints of the Bond franchise remit. Nice pastiche video too.

I sort of have a bit of a minor crush on Sheryl, truth be told. Is that okay? And at what age do you stop getting minor crushes?

Friday, 12 June 2020

Songs for tomorrow: Tomorrow Never Knows

No, not the groundbreaking Beatles original but this slow-burn cover by long-dead bluesman Junior Parker. And if it sounds vaguely familiar, well, maybe you know it from the excellent soundtrack of dystopian masterwork Children Of Men...

Friday, 5 June 2020

Songs for tomorrow: Tomorrow

Been saving this one. This is the twelfth post in a weekly series that started the day after Boris said we could turn the tide in twelve weeks... not sure how the line "Would you put your arms around me?" fits with social distancing either...

Friday, 29 May 2020

Songs for tomorrow: No Tomorrow

From Suede's decent comeback album, Night Thoughts. With apologies for the overly stocked supermarket at the start of this video...

Friday, 22 May 2020

Songs for tomorrow: Maybe Tomorrow

This will resonate for readers of a certain age. By Terry Bush, apparently.

Friday, 15 May 2020

Songs for tomorrow: All Tomorrow's Parties

Can't help but wonder whether anyone has sped up or pitch-shifted Nico yet? In the same way Dolly Parton's Jolene was so effectively slowed down...

Friday, 8 May 2020

Songs for tomorrow: Wait Until Tomorrow

God, it's hard to find good embeddable versions of Jimi Hendrix. Maybe the eternal wranglings over his estate just mean that everything gets taken down. Anyway, I found this, the version from Jimi's Radio One sessions album, but needs must...

Friday, 1 May 2020

Songs for tomorrow: Tomorrow

Sorry Rol, it was inevitable given the name of this series...

Friday, 24 April 2020

Songs for tomorrow: Make Tomorrow

This might be new to you. It's rather lovely.

Friday, 17 April 2020

Friday, 10 April 2020

Songs for tomorrow: Tomorrow

I'll be honestly, I've scheduled these songs for tomorrow posts a long way in advance. I hope that doesn't prove ill-advised. But this is scheduled for week four in the series, and as I'm writing this I predict that we might be in need of just about the most positive song about tomorrow that you're likely to hear...

Friday, 3 April 2020

Songs for tomorrow: Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day

I used to genuinely love watching repeats of The Monkees during school holidays. I'm biased but I think it's aged alright too, all things considering.