May

[Sweder]

It's funny . . . Cohen sings about their perceived lack of beauty yet I always think of Janis as gorgeous. She plainly wasn't, at least in the two-dimensional, photographic sense. Yet whenever I hear that voice . . . Great stuff.

It's been an odd day, musically speaking. Earlier I caught up with the Good Doctor's latest film review podcast. Apart from semi-slating Iron Man - a must-see film simply for featuring the eponymous classic by Sabbath - he started banging on about the Comsat Angels. Actually he was saying that the Comsats were a 'better band than Joy Division' - apropos of his review of the new JD biopic. I remember the Comsats. They were a favorite of one of the weekend DJs at my local, the Royal Charter (aka The Fishes) in Kingston. Dick was a large man who filled his days landing passenger aircraft at Heathrow. Dick always wore the same vast T-shirt depicting a young woman having her pants pulled down. The tagline read
'Get 'Em Down Safely With Air Traffic Control'

I ordered a copy of the excellent Waiting For A Miracle from Amazon right away.
Dick might have been aptly named for many reasons but he had great taste in music.