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[Neil Dewhurst]

List songs, list songs, list songs.

I thought remembering who sang "Hey Mathew" was pretty low, but being
able to recall the words to McDonalds adverts is through the barrel,
still digging.  Now we've got days of the week in, it's time for months
of the year.  "April, come she will", from the Graduate, lists months
and what happens in them.  And, erm, there are lots of others.  A number
of Tindersticks songs have list-ish elements to them.  Marbles is a
mumbled list-like story, My sister has a brief list of things his sister
sees, and Cherry Blossom sounds like a list, although its very difficult
to make much out.

If anyone out there has a copy of Brittle Days, the Nick Drake tribute
album, I'd love to here it.  And to those who have fallen in love with
Bryter Layter, try Pink Moon.  29 minutes of heavenly acoustic tunes.
It's weird to think that a lot of people will now be familiar with at
least one Nick Drake song.  I think it was "The thoughts of Mary Jane"
which appeared on a double album of love songs from "Heartbeat". (For
those of you not familiar with heartbeat, it's a cheesy rural cop show,
set in the late 60's with musical background to match, starring a cheesy
quiff-headed ex soap actor who had a number one hit of his own, and a
man who was once respected for his performances in a sharp political
satire.  The other recent moment his music has been widespread was
BBC2's Christmas season, featuring the beautiful Northern Sky as
soundtrack.

PS I love listening to incidental music in promotions for programmes, or
seasons of programmes, purely for the why the hell did they choose that
song factor.  Everyone seems to be using "Air" at the moment.

Must work, must work, must work.  Bollocks.
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