Just to change tack briefly, I see my favourite live band Muse have just announced a North American spring tour next year supported by Evanescence. Well worth catching if you never have, even if you aren't a huge fan of their music (and apologies if I have said that before).
Very different to the T-Trucks, a band I wasn't aware of until here but will certainly listen to some more

flotsam - Muse is the favorite band of The Warning and Amy Lee has an incredible voice. That sounds like an awesome tour.

She does indeed SQF. Here's hoping they continue South together!!

In a very convoluted round about way I recently discovered this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPco24LS31A. I had no idea that they wrote it, or the tragic related stories around it.

Interesting: I always assumed that Nilsson had written that song, and that Badfinger were just helped along by the Beatles!

I'll have to check that out.

I always liked the original track of Take Me On. Though it was relentlessly poppy and bouncy, it was good to dance to and yet very tuneful, in its way. It popped into my head one day, and I found that version on YouTube.


I love some of Nilssen's music. His cover of Everybody's Talkin' give me goosebumps every time I hear it.



Flotsam, I haven't listened to much Muse, though I love some of the more trippy stuff i listened to today. I'll have to check out more of it.

A Canadian band mentioned in a book I have just finished reading and which sounds promising, The Weather Station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJTViDWuofM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShxnKKohIS4


(I also see that the band, or at least the vocalist has been around for quite a few years on the folk circuit before some reinvention)

Just feeling nostalgic. One of the loveliest love songs ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyI9flHHT2Q&t=189s

And another favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_HTGdLXL4

Mark Knopfler is one of my favourite guitarists, right up there with Gilmour.

Brothers in Arms is one of my favorites too, hagatha. Mark Knopfler is a guitar god, for sure.

Forget Gilmour, Knopfler is the man and Brothers In Arms is a great album, but I probably prefer his solo outing Sailing to Philadelphia https://www.youtube.com/watch? and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsIthFb-AmUv=GtxuWycNgfo

... also pretty cool with Willy DeVille https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H538ET8GoeU

Oh, come now. David Gilmour is awesome. Without him Floyd would have ended up just being a 60's silly song curiosity. That's my take on it, anyway.

I really like that Willy DeVille track.

I was never heavily into Pink Floyd although I loved some of their material, and a friend of ours happens to be part of the road crew for the Australian Pink Floyd Show.

I really liked Mink DeVilie and fairly recently stumbled across two Willy DeVille solo albums: The Miracle (with and produced by Mark Knopfler) and Backstreets Of Desire (with various well-known guests) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0QQLRtzNYE and for a bit of crazy fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk-UmP2uhPI

I only ever heard of Mink DeVille peripherally, never heard any of the music. It's pretty darned good. I'll have to seek out more. Again, there's Mark's guitar, though, unmistakable.

EDIT: Remember this song? No idea why it's in my head today. Haven't thought about it for decades, and now here it is again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-48Za7VZR_c

I listen to Hammock quite frequently Hammock website I've collect a number of their albums over the years

I was listening to some Hammock yesterday - very mellow sound which is probably great to chill you out after a stressful day, or perhaps in the background to keep you a bit chilled during a stressful day...

This ancient song popped into my head just now while I was washing dishes and I had to Google it to remind me why I liked it when I was a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx4k-5mHxIg

I hadn't thought about Bobby Darrin for years.

It's funny how songs just pop into your head one day after decades -- and usually you remember the lyrics even after l that time.

The two songs from him I always remember are Multiplication and his version of If I Were A Carpenter: I hadn't realised he died so young.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x-NZ7TaoT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjFRLOktHXo

Don't remember Multiplication but I remember this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8iPUK0AGRo

and this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUWyODR1_sA

Apropos of nothing, this popped up on the radio recently as part of a segment about songs that stars left well and truly behind them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oet1pKb0Vo
I remember it but hadn't heard it in forever, and he certainly didn't perform it at any concert I ever saw!

That's...awful.

It is isn't it
Thank goodness Ziggy came along!

A lot of British bands were doing silly "fantasy" stuff back then. Syd Barrett's version of Pink Floyd and Genesis were major offenders. But that one takes the cake.

I was always a little disappointed that Bowie effectively disowned The Laughing Gnome.

Meanwhile here is something to perhaps get you in the mood for New Year's Eve, Carlos Núñez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vViYSl0tHpM

...and Ed Alleyne-Johnson doing hard rock... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzEHSH2k2IU

Just because you can never have too much of a good thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8L997umwIM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7p1UmzikNI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0y64uK1p0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPoj7hVLR1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4cla8FpETw