Eaten by missionaries

Mutterings of a contrarian Liberal. The title comes from a phrase attributed to William Spooner: 'Her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul.' Although it was a slip of the tongue, its sense of people doing the unexpected is an intermittent theme of this blog.

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Number 1: Matthew Sweet - Devil With the Green Eyes

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Before I begin, I should say that what I've learned from this little exercise is that perhaps I ought to try to listen to a bit more cur...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Number 2: Vigilantes of Love - On To Bethlehem

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I take a further turn into obscurity today, albeit again with an artist who really deserves to be much better known. In many ways the best s...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Number 3: Felice Brothers - Crime Scene Queen

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Around 20 years, there were two bands I heard about via music magazine sampler CDs and whose work I started to follow and by one route or an...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Number 4: Bruce Cockburn - Closer To The Light

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Bruce Cockburn has long been an artist I feel that I should like more than I actually do. He ticks all the boxes: sort of folk rock style si...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Number 5: John Hiatt - Through Your Hands

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John Hiatt is hard to categorise as an artist. He seemed to come out of the New Wave movement and could have been seen as an American Elvis...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Number 6: Pernice Brothers (featuring Neko Case) - I Don't Need That Anymore

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Now I'm back on the more familiar ground of indie, Dylan-influenced music that I think of as the sort of thing I listen to. Despite the ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Number 7: Sailor - The Old Nickelodeon Sound

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Writing up this list is bringing home to me quite how untypical many of the songs I've listened to the most this year are of my usual pr...
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Former long-time Liberal Democrat councillor; Watfordian, by birth Coventrian, Anglo-Scot, husband, stepfather, grandad
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