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Hey, That's No Way to Say GoodbyeLeonard Cohen I picked up this beauty of an album in a little basement record store in Amsterdam while the city sizzled. “Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme” is a line that will never leave me.
Five Years - 2012 RemasterDavid Bowie “And it was cold, and it rained, so I felt like an actor. And I thought of ma and I wanted to get back there.” Everyone has felt these two sentences, if anyone claims otherwise they’re lying through their teeth.
If You Turn Back Now - Live at Carnegie HallCameron Winter I didn’t quite understand the buzz of this track when it was walking its bootleggers rounds. I didn’t quite understand the buzz when the album woke, rolling the stone from its cave. I listened to it again when autumn began, on my way to Amelia. I understand the buzz.
Born to RunBruce Springsteen I was raised to this track, specifically the first 10 seconds as it was my dad’s ringtone throughout my childhood. It’s Sunday morning watching my brother’s run on a battered pitch more mud than grass. Vinegar fumes wafting around a Citroen Picasso, picking at chips. Hoisted towards the big light by rolled shirt sleeves, only to rub a bald head.