I let you sleep with the lights on.

May I crawl behind your eyes?

If I could go back someplace I never was, but was in proximity to, within a facsimile of, this would be on the list.

(Because, you know, there'd have to be a list.)

Bambi, it's better with a man oh, yeah

GODDAMN. 

That's probably more guitar right there than I got in September, but, hell baby, beggars cannot be choosers.

Turn Up the Future/Turn Off the Past

Tonight I'm not missing my new 2011 discovery!

I saw you long ago.

This song caught me a few months ago upon playing Brotherhood for the first time in forever. And, oh man, I played the hell out of this cassette.

Today I just realized that this, the concluding track, is my second favorite New Order song, and I know why I like it so very much.

Thre's nothin' to it just say you wanna do it

I never realized someone named George from Florida sang this little gem. Despite the repeated plea for a "woman" to "take me in your arms," I had thought a lady sang this massive early disco hit, one that even inspired John Lennon.

Won't you help me understand?

You used to be a stranger.

I think this emerged when I was not supposed to like New Order any more, the post-Factory era or what have you.

It's so gorgeous, though, and it has always made me feel happy and hopeful--because that's what New Order in the 90s--not the 80s, when they sounded propulsive and, well, regretful--did.

Just wait til tomorrow
I guess that's what they all say...

I love you-ooo, baby, oooowaaahhhhaah

Excerpts from a new creed, inspired by a clip provided by a friend who has known me long and well.

...We believe in the Holy Purple,
Prince, who gives it 2 U
Who proceeds from the Father and Son.
With the Father and Son he is worshiped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Revolution.

We believe one funky, Dancetastic Church
We acknowledge The One
To lay down the groove
We look for the Godfather of Soul,

And to know when to hit it and quit.  

 

Amen.

The Best of 2012: I Keep Thinking About A New Thing

My Completely Unsolicited, Utterly Belated, Entirely Unnecessary, Wholly Egocentric Best Of 2012 List:

1. Field Music, Plumb

I have routinely walked, glassy-eyed-stumbled, faintly perceived while troubled on a bus, scurried to pick up lunch under a wild sky, bracingly trekked by lake, belted aloud with, felt in my soul this album for a solid year, February to February.

And it's the best thing I heard all year.

And so the/my best tracks, in ascending order: