Friday 19 April 2024
Friday 5 April 2024
BEATS OF LOVE
116. Sworn by Dream Boys
MUST SAY, it's great to have Horsebeach's Pure Shores spinning on the turntable. Ryan has made the song his own with his inimitable charm and colourful way around a song.
This song is short but packs a real punch with its subtly crafted breaks and soaring fallen angel voices. A band should sound like one person, albeit a superhuman one, so Horsebeach has a distinct advantage, as do bands comprising siblings, and in this song, the trans-Atlantic Dream Boys truly do sound as one. No mean feat.
There's nothing greater than hearing a short blast of perfect guitar pop. It's arguably the only enduring gift left to give that commerce and media styling hasn't tainted.
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Ehm3s5f2OQF9bYGeqBJnD
Friday 22 March 2024
Friday 15 March 2024
BEATS OF LOVE
114. One Goodbye in Ten (Album mix) by Shara Nelson
BOB STANLEY wrote a moving piece in the Guardian about his friend Shara Nelson.
Thank God Shara heard Only Love Can Break Your Heart and began to hear this absolute dynamite. For this alone, she deserves countless blessings.
Friday 1 March 2024
Friday 23 February 2024
BEATS OF LOVE
112. This by Me
This
is like the lottery of childhood friendship
tossing words about boisterously for sheer fun,
then crying out loudly for Mum
once the fighting starts
Who reflects herself
across my mental plane
in a translucent ocean wave
Suddenly, after a big cheery splash,
everything is unruffled, calm even
and I think, 'something's amiss, I must've plagiarized this'
Friday 9 February 2024
I awoke having my hair playfully stroked with Bob Marley playing on her cassette player and thought I'd gone to heaven. Fast forward to the following Friday evening and I'm half cut but paralyzed by nerves, unable to call the number she'd given me. Then my good mate Stu, in exasperation, took the phone and, impersonating me, arranged my date.