"The band is just fantastic, the sound is really fat. Oh by the way, which one's Matt?"

Have a Cigar as done by John Foxx & the Maths

World Party -- Take It Up. It is impossible to be depressed while listening to this song.

 

I got an extra glimpse of the truth today.

Staring at my breakfast, when I thought I heard it say:

"Fighting is no good. Success an empty lie.

The treasure hunt is lonely until you realize,

We came to take it up, we came to take it up, we came to take it up!

We came to raise it up, we came to take it up, we came to move it uuuuuuppppp!"

 

(Wicked Hammond organ, Doodle oo doo etc.) 

The Kinks -- Complicated Life:

 

"Gotta stand and face it,
Life is so complicated.
Ladi dah di dahdah, ladi dah di dah dah
Gotta get away from the complicated life, son,
Life is overrated, life is complicated,
Must alleviate this complicated life.

Gotta get away from the complicated life, son,
Gotta get away from the complicated life."

How do you do regret better than this? You cannot. 

 

 

Tom T. Hall - Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine.

 

 

How old do you think I am he said

I said well I didn’t know

He said I turned 65 about 11 months ago


I was sitting in Miami pouring blended whisky down

When this old grey black gentleman was cleaning up the lounge

There wasn't any one around but this old man and me

The guy who tended bar was watching ironsides on tv

Uninvited he sat down and opened up his mind

On old dogs and children and watermelon wine


Have you ever had a drink of watermelon wine he asked

He told me all about it though I didn't answer back

Ain't but three things in life that's worth a solitary dime

That's old dogs and children and watermelon wine


He said women think about themselves when their men-folk aren't around

And friends are hard to find when they discover that you're down

He said I tried it all when I was young and in my natural prime

Now it's old dogs and children and watermelon wine


He said old dogs care about you even when you make mistakes

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate

As he moved away I got my pen and copied down that line

On old dogs and children and watermelon wine

Yazoo, "Winter Kills"

 

I actually have no idea what she's saying, from approximately 1:30 to 2:00, but I only just realized it was there.  It must have hit me totally subconsciously, because I was just listening to the Reconnected Live album, and she says the same thing.  I'm pretty sure.  Anyone know?

 

EDIT:  Got some of it from the remix on the Reconnected EP ("Electronic Periodic's Sub/Piano Mix"):

 

 

 

So basically you stick to free and loose?
I watch you sometimes when you're reading
And I wonder if you really believe everything we talked about
And that's why you're always? failing
Perhaps you just frighten me
You always seem to be moving blindly
in and out of emotions
Such confusion

Sometimes I really want to hate?/hurt? you

"And if you live by the rules of 'it's over'
then I'm sure that that makes sense"

 

Dido, "White Flag" -- I know this is supermarket drivel, but it reduces me to a tear-well-up-eyed mess every time I ear it.  There's something about the clear purity of her voice and straight delivery that just adds to the sincerity and heart-felt-ness of this song.  To me, anyway.

"The Island of Doubt

It's like the taste of medicine"

 

Talking Heads, "Crosseyed and Painless"