I asked the painter why the roads are colored black
He said: „Steve it’s because people leave
And no highway will bring them back.“
[Silver Jews (David Berman) – Random Rules]
Archive for the ‘ENG’ Category
März 11, 2026
5278
März 3, 2026Draußen vor Disco
Eyes closed. Lasse Kopf kreisen
Dreht sich schon alles?
5257
Februar 22, 2026Tune that started me
And lots of other people
To learn the guitar
[John Renbourn – Anji (David Graham) von Live in Kyoto 1978]
5241
Februar 15, 2026Ten days from Cape Town
Bœuf et homard gratuit
Inselglück finden
5220
Februar 5, 2026The guitar jangles
Her irresistible voice
Breezy student tune
[The Sundays – Here’s Where the Story Ends von Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, 1990]
5172
Januar 13, 2026Etwas zieht mich rein
In diese düstere Welt
Hey man, this is deep!
5149
Januar 3, 2026Cool female chanting
Tuneful noisy rock with punch
From Toulouse with love
[Diabologum – Palladium Rock von Le goût du jour, 1994]
5097
Dezember 17, 2025When I hear this though
We never listened to it
I must think of you
[R.E.M. – Talk about the Passion from Murmur, 1984]
5094
Dezember 15, 2025The pulse of the earth
Where England and Japan meet
Give me an island
[Yussef Days feat. Minami Kizuki – Amami]
5090
Dezember 11, 2025Vacuum cleaner
Changing into reverse gear
A new sound is born
[My Bloody Valentine – Slow from You Made Me Realise EP, 1988]
5068
Dezember 1, 2025Zum Runterkommen
Nach einem stressigen Tag
Follow the bass line
[Khruangbin – White Gloves ii]
5054
November 23, 2025This is how it starts:
He slipped in the shower stall
Hit his head and died
[Eleventh Dream Day – Among the Pines from Prairie School Freakout, 1988]
5045
November 20, 2025She’s a girl, she’s strong
Supernova full of love
Ultimate Ballad
[The Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother, 1969]
5030
November 14, 2025Early nineties vibes
An irresistible voice
Ethereal stuff
[Lush – Love at First Sight (The Gist), 1994]
4985
Oktober 28, 2025I blee-ee-ee-eed
(everything is breaking down)
I blee-ee-ee-eed
[Pixies – I Bleed von Doolittle, 1989]
4969
Oktober 20, 2025Don’t remember shit
about this but it captures
Luxembourg good times
[Prefab Sprout – The Sound of Crying, 1992]
4958
Oktober 13, 2025Nuclear missile
Hitting USA mainland
In eighteen minutes
[Kathryn Bigelow – A House of Dynamite, 9 out of 10]
4951
Oktober 9, 2025Is it just a walk
in a New York winter when
the ice is cracking?
[Suzanne Vega – Cracking, 1985]
4885
September 5, 2025Piano Magic
American Analog …
The bliss of slowness
[Modern Nature – Radio]
4874
September 2, 2025There was a time when
classical guitar music
almost saved my life
[Rolf Lislevand – Intro / Libro primo d’intravoltura di lauto: Toccata sesta von Libro primo]
4844 Sirāt
August 20, 2025Bridge for dead people
Hair-thin, sword-sharp, hell below
Paradise ahead
4842
August 19, 2025Beautiful actress
puts headphones around his ears
so that all will change
[The Shins – New Slang, 2001]
What is the happiest song of the Smiths?
August 13, 20254828
August 12, 2025When you need it most
A stroke of the forearm’s hair
A slow motion hug
[Bonny Light Horseman – The Roving, 2020 (via)]
4818
August 9, 2025Direct, dense, cosy
Warm, intimate chord shower
To look forward to
[Joan Shelley – Real Warmth (out Sep., 19th) listening party]
4813
August 7, 2025No one wrote lyrics like you
We miss you so much
[Silver Jews – Random Rules, 1998]
4803
August 3, 2025Life is but a dream
Haunting us until the end
This is the soundtrack
[The Rolling Stones – Heaven from Tatoo You, 1981]
4784
Juli 13, 2025Jingle-jangle joy
Don’t think about tomorrow
The eighties are back!
[Gwenno – Dancing on Volcanoes]
4730
Juni 13, 2025Funk meets rap meets jazz
Cool dance into the weekend
Wait. Another war?
[Us3 – Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) von Hand on the Torch, 1993]
4729
Juni 12, 2025thirty-six minutes
twenty km, three hills with
two-seven-o watts
[ergometer stats]
4714
Juni 6, 2025Time runs at half-speed
A world made of cotton wool
A voice from heaven
[Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe – Play On]
4709
Juni 3, 2025Harmony is when
everything is falling
into its‘ right place
[Big Thief – Incomprehensible]
4691
Mai 25, 2025when cutting branches
slowly creeping up the limbs
my friend Hangover
4674
Mai 20, 2025There was a moment
when this song ruled my small world
Frankly it still does
[Catchers – Cotton Dress von Mute, 1994]
4669
Mai 18, 2025Passing Great Britain
with a horse pulling a cart
towards the Hebrides
[Vashti Bunyan – Wayward: Just Another Life to Live]
4641
Mai 11, 2025Just a blade of grass
Just another bale of hay
And the horses pass.
[Vashti Bunyan – Diamond Day, 1968]
4640
Mai 11, 2025He said something that
would change my life forever.
‚Do not hide your light.‘
[Vashti Bunyan – Just Another Life to Live]
4635
Mai 7, 2025Half a billion streams
Sound of my early twenties
Indestructible
[Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World, 1985 (song exploder)]
4633
Mai 6, 2025Crisp, cool percussion
Kid’s choir, variophone
Organic music
[Talk Talk – Happiness Is Easy von The Colour of Spring, 1986]
4608
April 27, 2025Beach Boys vibrations
Catchy, psychedelic tune
I hear Nick Drake’s Know
[Cream – I Feel Free, 1. Song auf dem US-Release ihres Debüts Fresh Cream, 1967]
4600 Bye, David Thomas
April 24, 2025World deconstruction
Rock’n’roll made of debris
Off to the stars now
[Rocket from the Tombs – 30 Seconds over Tokyo (live 1975)]
4587
April 18, 2025Spring is here again
And he likes to shoot his gun
Knows not what it means
[Nirvana – In Bloom, 1991]
4574
April 11, 2025slackers can jangle too
pedal steel guitar heaven
opaque words flowing
[Pavement – Father to a Sister of Thought von Wowee Zowee, 1995]
4555
April 3, 2025My hands in your hair
I need to feel your heartbeat
The Rhythm we made
[King Crimson – Heartbeat, 1982]
4549
April 1, 2025rad delivery
rad word trip, rad beats, rad breaks
rad effects, rad vid
[clipping. – Run It]
4523
März 23, 2025We move in silence
.. found a way to shape my rage
Peace, love, unity
[Greentea Peng – TARDIS (hardest) from Tell Dem It’s Sunny]
4521
März 22, 2025In rear mirror
present moving away
Heading towards past
4490
März 11, 2025polyrhythmic drums
tight, not a second wasted
bass kills, guitars blast
[Smashing Pumpkins – I Am One from Gish, 1991]
4488
März 10, 2025From out of the blue
Wrapped me around her finger
And vanished again
[The Cranberries – Linger, 1993]
4474
März 3, 2025Some kind of fatigue
Guitars stopping the time pass
Cortez memories
[Eleventh Dream Day – Just Got Home (in Time to Say Good-Bye), 2021]
4469
März 1, 2025There is no music
I ever listened to that
touched me more than his
[Jeroen Berkven – A Skin Too Few. The Days of Nick Drake]
4445
Februar 21, 2025US youth, wake up!
Your president, a tyrant
You know what to do
[Wipers – Youth of America, 1981]
4440
Februar 18, 2025an abundant voice,
a lyrical sax improv,
a graceful smoothness
[Anna Gréta – Once Upon a Summertime (by the way I find this longer version is far superior to the one from her new album Some Other Time, a tribute to Monica Zetterlund’s & Bill Evans‘ Waltz for Debby from 1964)]
4438
Februar 12, 2025clash of old and new
joined up like a sound puzzle
can’t you see the light?
[The Weather Station – Mirror]
Tamara explains it:
XXIII
Februar 12, 2025two beds, four couples
sensed your body, your perfume
end of a party
—
guide dreamt of time machine to
see his father play outside
4311
Dezember 17, 2024Train is a-rollin‘
from Bavaria to Hesse
approaching Mainhattan
[The Go-Betweens – Here Comes a City]
4308
Dezember 16, 2024Charm, ease, joy, youth, looks
Voice, soul, tune, words, moves, groove, band
She has got it all
[Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather (Tiny Desk Concert)]
4262
November 29, 2024Streicherteppiche
Musik für wunde Seelen
Black is beautiful
[Michael Kiwanuka – Floating Parade]
4252
November 24, 2024Touch me deep inside
Suddenly change direction
Let the funk explode
[Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin – Modul 46 (orig. from Holon)]
4219
November 8, 2024Gothic Synthiepop
Die Stimme kenne ich doch
The eighties are back
[Levin Goes Lightly – Numb]
4216
November 6, 2024Morgens aufgewacht
Die Sterbeglocken läuten
Bye, democracy
4208
Oktober 28, 2024not folk music, not jazz,
not pop music, not funk, it’s
just balladeering
[Lee Konitz on Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, Craig Taborn – Vinterhymne]
4202
Oktober 23, 2024The lyrics naïve,
the build-up legendary,
what a killer song!
[Neil Young – Cortez the Killer (Live Rust) (via)]
4201
Oktober 23, 2024Wouldn’t it be great
to leave the machines on stage
and go to the bar?
[New Order – 5 8 6]
4167
Oktober 5, 2024take me on your trip
you will not be so alone
flutes will follow us
[The Weather Station – Neon Signs]
4157
Oktober 1, 2024The Scottish accent
The seamless fingerpicking
The cat everywhere
[Donovan – Summer Day Reflection Song]
4148
September 25, 20244107
September 3, 20244062
August 14, 2024How I missed your voice
In all those twenty-three years
It hasn’t changed a bit
[Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Empty Trainload of Sky]
4060
August 13, 2024Trippin‘ through the night
The American nightmare
Going on and on
[Alan Vega, Alex Chilton & Ben Vaughn – Fat City]
4001
Juni 30, 2024Warm piano tune
Dreamy sax out of the mist
Northern wistfulness
[Keith Jarrett’s European quartet with Jan Garbarek – My Song]
3991
Juni 27, 2024A long time ago
Your voice helped me to get through
times of lovesickness
[Sally Barker – Nocturnal Visions (snippet)]
3979
Juni 12, 2024Cover me, darling
Serge’s Wortspiele mit „ex“
n’ont pas pris une ride
[Françoise Hardy – Comment te dire adieu]
3904
Mai 4, 2024Les jeux sont faits: Poe,
Kafka, Beckett and Camus
Splendid company
[Paul (Auster) is dead]
3899
Mai 3, 20243875
April 28, 2024Melancholia
The story of his life told
with clattering beats
[Pet Shop Boys – New London boy]
3864
April 26, 2024heavy shoegazing
gimme that jazz sax improv
release me from rock
[Swervedriver – Never Lose that Feeling]
3848
April 13, 2024a fragile beauty
all we have is here and now
a gracious present
3819
März 26, 2024Gimme all that trash
Bait me with noise explosions
Do not sing, just talk
3809
März 23, 2024Lush, almost baroque
The keyboard has been drinking
Bass, flute and sax. On!
3807
März 23, 2024The gloomy eighties
Female voices approaching
Guitars are dreaming
[Four Tet – Skater, thanks to Nick]
3779
März 9, 2024gimme triphop vibes
let’s dive into the club night
not a second lost
3769
März 5, 2024Berner Sennenhund
gekreuzt mit Neufundländer
A puppy to watch
3758
Februar 29, 2024Ein schwankendes Schiff
bei völliger Windstille
It’s the age, stupid!
3749
Februar 26, 2024we are approaching
an ultimate level of
sophistication
[The Smile – Bending Hectic]
3661
Februar 2, 2024Zähflüssiger Strom,
quer durch den Midwest fließend,
made from guitar chords
[Ratboys – Black Earth, WI]
3615
Dezember 30, 2023Hot vibes from Oslo
Just in time for tomorrow’s
silvester party
[Fieh – Grendehus Funkadelic live@Palace Grill]
3613
Dezember 29, 2023hitting the soft spot
between the left and the right
side of the matter
[bar italia – bibs]
3609
Dezember 27, 2023Klavier und Stimme
im fruchtbaren Zwiegespräch
Is love always blind?
[Sunny Kim – Love (Unconfined)]
3605
Dezember 26, 2023bright, chiming guitars
glimmering in the sunshine
vibes from down under
[RVG – It’s Not Easy]
3595
Dezember 12, 2023music from a soul
stuck deep down in the basement
visceral power
[The The – Song without an Ending]
3564
November 25, 2023edgy guitar sound
where punk and avant-garde meet
having full control
[Sonic Youth – Schizophrenia]
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