A smog-free Tuesday

[caddyman]

I have successfully managed to negotiate the route to work past and not via any number of tobacconists on the way in. This is a good sign, though the little brutish white sticks are preying on my mind again. I am still not convinced of the efficacy of these patches, having managed to be a complete grump on Sunday (though not yesterday), to the extent of snapping briefly unexpectedly (unexpected by me as much as anyone) at ellefurtle simply for suggesting going for a beer. Luckily, I think that was the only instance and it subsided as quickly as it appeared. I don’t mind snapping at people if they deserve it and I decide to do it, but just growling for no reason is not something I like to do. Hopefully that’s the one and only instance: in previous attempts to give up smoking – admittedly all failed – I haven’t had a burst of temper like that. Don’t like it.

In the meantime, I’m still feeling very hot and that’s bugging me. Again, I feel fine, just hot and considering that the weather is rather cool at the moment and I am not wearing anything under my shirt, I should be pleasantly cool. I’m not.

In other and more fun matters, I think I baffled Furtle at the weekend with one of my new music acquisitions: Gather in the Mushrooms an anthology of British Acid Folk from 1968 -72.



We have yet to listen to the three CD set, Strangely Strange but Oddly Normal an Islands sampler from around the same period.



I suspect that at least some of this will be more up her street, with examples of late Psychedelia and early Progressive in the form of such luminaries as Traffic, Spooky Tooth, Quintessence and Nirvana¹. We shall see. I expect very few of my dear readers to comprehend the glory of this music.

¹The original Nirvana, not Kurt Cobain’s grunge band.

Comments

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

"I expect very few of my dear readers to comprehend the glory of this music."

Clue me in, Bry. Who's on it, and what songs are they playing?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Well you asked. I think thye only person you might have heard of on the first album is Sandy Denny, but here is the more interesting track listing from the second sampler, cut and paste from Amazon:

Disc: 1
1. Supernatural Fairy Tales - Art
2. Paper Sun - Traffic
3. Harpsichord Shuffle - Wynder K. Frog
4. Rainbow Chaser - Nirvana
5. Pearly Queen - Tramline
6. Sunshine Help Me - Spooky Tooth
7. Dusty - Martyn, John
8. Meet On The Ledge - Fairport Convention
9. Song For Jeffrey - Jethro Tull
10. Carpenter - Clouds
11. I Keep Singing That Same Song - Heavy Jelly
12. Black Mass - White Noise
13. Over The Green Hills - Free
14. Worry - Free
15. Giants - Quintessence
16. Queen Of Scots - Amazing Blondel
17. Feelin' Alright - Traffic
18. Sing Me A Song That I Know So Well - Blodwyn Pig
19. Sailors Life - Fairport Convention
Disc: 2
1. New Day Yesterday - Jethro Tull
2. No Time To Live - Traffic
3. Three Hours - Drake, Nick
4. Lost In My Dream - Spooky Tooth
5. Stormbringer - John & Beverley Martyn
6. Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal - Dr. Strangely Strange
7. Notting Hill Gate - Quintessence
8. Banks Of the Nile - Fotheringay
9. Wild World - Cat Stevens
10. Painted Chariot - Incredible String Band
11. Cat Food - King Crimson
12. Groon - King Crimson
13. Northstar Grassman And The Ravens - Sandy Denny
14. Suite In C - McDonald & Giles
15. Siege Of Yaddlethorpe - Amazing Blondel
Disc: 3
1. Knife Edge - Emerson Lake & Palmer
2. Thunderbuck Ram - Mott The Hoople
3. Northern Sky - Nick Drake
4. Thru The Night - Alan Bown
5. Dark Dance - Robin Williamson,
6. I Am The Walrus - Spooky Tooth
7. Glistening Glyndebourne - John Martyn
8. Fire And Water - Free
9. See My Way - Blodwyn Pig
10. See The World (Through My Eyes) - Vinegar Joe
11. Peace Train - Cat Stevens
12. Watercolour Days - Clouds
13. Low Spark Of The High Heeled Boys - Traffic
14. Song For Suzie - Heads Hands & Feet

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Lordy, an eclectic lot. Have been listening to some Free lately: not enough guitar, I think. Always liked John Martyn and have played some of his stuff myself now and then ("Head & Heart", "One Day Without You"). Always wanted to hear some N Drake to see what the fuss was about, but never have.

I can imagine that such a compilation will be very much of its Anything Goes era: self-consciously earthy and experimental. Lovely.

[sack-boy.livejournal.com]

And on Mushrooms?

Hmm, interest bunch of stuff, reaasonably eclectic but straying into the more mainstream rather frequently ... Perhaps.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

The pubs in Wales are already smoke free - travelling expenses would be a bit of a b****r tho'.
OH OH Fairport! and Vinegar Joe OH jealous now.

[evil-chalkie.livejournal.com]

If you wanted to burn me a copy of those I wouldn't say no :)
(cheeky of me I know)