Monday, January 27, 2025

My Music Monday

Maybe because it's the 183rd day of January, maybe it's the times in which we are now living, but I'm feeling a few grades below melancholy. 

I suppose that would be 'depression'. 

This makes for sad music. 

Sad-ish reading too. I'm about to start my sixth book of the month today. Let's hope it's a little more up than the last five. I mean, no book on Josef Mengele is going to be a laugh-riot, you know? 

The others have all been fiction - some with more updated references that still reflect (or include) some of today's political landscape - as is this new one which I'll be cracking today. 

Anyway, back to music. 

Years ago I whittled down my XM stations, to lower my bill, there are certain times of the year they provide me all stations. They do this for a week or two, I'm assuming to entice me to re-up with all 13,091 stations - 99% for which I have no need or want. 

The last time happened around t-giving and they never took any away, though it seems my pricing did not change. I'm sure it will come back to bite me. 

I'm normally not a fan of one artist stations. Does Phish need their own (no!)? Does Pearl Jam (no!)?  Does Jimmy Buffet (fuck no!)?  The only one I let slide is Tom Petty.  But lately I've been stopping on Bruce Springsteen's channel - especially if the selections are from Nebraska or the River. These are two of Springsteen's more down disks. 

I like both disks. The former is very stripped down, just Springsteen, no E Street Band. The latter has the band, but the songs that stand out are the non-radio ready songs....like the title track. 

I was torn between "the River' and Nebraska's "Highway Patrolman". While I love the latter, it might even be too down for you. But at some point you should give it a listen. 

I'll go with the title track to the River.  It's unofficially a sequel to "Thunder Road". Where that was an upbeat song, this is the reality of "Thunder Road"'s after the fact. 


2 comments:

rebecca said...

Great song & album

Travel said...

Looking forward to a happy Monday, we will outlive HWSNBN, that Monday can be something from the Wizard of Oz movie.