http://www.toad-music.com Very few musicians are composers and not all composers are musicians Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:34:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It does happen you wake up one morning and you can see clearly, to add complication to the matter it is the cracks that you see. In perfect worlds we pursue things with the up most ideal that they really exist and I guess that it does, intill that dream ... http://www.toad-music.com/2010/02/it-does-happen-you-wake-up/ Probablay their grestest album although I do have soft spot for Steel wheels. Rocks off is the opening track on Exile on Main street. Generally not a track performed that often.  The performance below is taking from a live concert at Twickenham in England. Where they perform as good as they ... http://www.toad-music.com/2009/03/rocks-off/ I remember this from years ago. Not one of Lou's most well known tracks but something of unique beauty. I have to confess that it did make me cry to hear it. So simply yet so profound.  In the mist of things we do we sometimes forgot what it is ... http://www.toad-music.com/2009/03/think-it-over/ Doing it Style Council style, never the easiest emotion to express and when it is expressed it usually comes out as  some uncoordinated distorted sound but not Mr Weller and team. If you going to get pissed about something there is no better way than to do it with this ... http://www.toad-music.com/2009/02/doing-it-with-stylewalls-come-tumbling-down/ I first heard this song when I was about 19, kind of wished that I had heard it about 4 years earlier. It is from the classic album Rain Dogs which includes such classics as 'Tango in till they're sore', 'Downtown train' which was covered by Rod Stewart . I am ... http://www.toad-music.com/2009/01/singapore/ I actually think the words in this song below are much stronger than the music. though the backing singers do add a nice touch. It draws a picture of struggling psyches in a relationship. Where the pursuit  of love has turned sour. It is another Dylan classic. Of course one may ... http://www.toad-music.com/2009/01/changing-of-the-guards/ Johnny Cash who dominated music for over 5 decades is one of my great listening pleasures. I only got into him in the nineties. Many people have a slightly skew idea of who he is and what he does. I had a girlfriend who thought he was John Wayne. In ... http://www.toad-music.com/2009/01/cash-is-king/ Of all the songs that are worth singing this has got be my favourite. One can question the misuse of love songs or the importance of them generally. This raises above it, as it is a simple state of being. Jackie Wilson was a soul singer ... http://www.toad-music.com/2009/01/jackie-wilson-said/ This is a relative recent track from Bob, although Mr Dylan is probably one of the most significant poets of the last century, I do consider that he writes from a depressed point of view. Still he does have an incredible art with words. This version that has been ... http://www.toad-music.com/2009/01/born-in-time/ This is actually quite an old song, I know there is a version by Johnny Mathis which I have not heard. The one that did it for me was Bryan Ferry's version (linked here or in the play list on the right) from the film with the same name. A ... http://www.toad-music.com/2008/12/in-the-mood-for-love-2/