Thursday

It looks as though my company might be limping on for a few months yet, which could be either a good or a bad thing. If I find another job I won't get redundancy money; if I stay and things really do crash, the pay-off will be low.

Shuffle 'Not Classical or Spoken' this morning:

Hoedown - ELP. Madness, but it woke me up,
Orion - Metallica, which really woke me up,
Approaching Silence - David Sylvian. At 30 minutes, this is a really pleasant piece of music, but not suitable for the noise of the tube, so I skipped to...
Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk. I discovered Talk Talk a couple of years back. It think I'd dismissed them as pop when the records first came out, but the last few records are great,
Miss Sun - Average White Band. Classic funk from a bunch of white Scottish guys. Groovy,
Bodhisattva - Steely Dan, not my favourite track, but there are interesting things going on with the rhythm,
Eden - Talk Talk, from Spirit of Eden. A beautiful, if strange, album. Must get Mark Hollis' solo record (records?),
Darshan (remix by The Grid) - Sylvian/Fripp,
Listen to the Band - The Monkees,
Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd,
Best I Can - Rush,
Grown Ups Are Just Silly Children - Roy Harper,
The Crying Tree of Mercury - Smashing Pumpkins. Another recent find. I'm fairly ambivalent about a lot of their stuff I've heard, but this is very good,
Scratching On The Bible Belt - Rain Tree Crow. My very first CD. My wife and I used to listen to it over and over, and tried to have a track played at our wedding; the DJ, however, just had a turntable, so we played Eno's 'By This River'.
Whalesong - Greenpeace CD. Hmmm, I thought I'd removed this from my iPod. Really rather annoying,
A Love You Can't Survive - Richard Thompson, from 'The Old Kit Bag',
A Passage Of Life - Kitaro. More New Age stuff, bought becasue of Jon Anderson's involvement on a few tracks,
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison.

T - 3; M - 4; D - 4