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Happy Birthday!

@Craig Sawyers posted the lyrics of this eerily prophetic 1982 track in another thread and that made me dig up the video.

Can't remember if this has been posted before.

Today rec is from the Texas offspring. Says it is his favorite country band covering his favorite alt-rock song.

Honestly I would not mind a Malibu love nest.

Man is singing my very middle-aged song for what it's worth.

2007 doesn't seem almost 20 years away. 🫣

Bit of a segue from the last one. Norwegian alternative country?

I'm such a sucker for this kind of sound. 🤤

We should go back to this point in time.

Kind of reminds me of Dead Can Dance.

I feel like it was important for him to reconnect to the core sitting-in-a-log-cabin-being-sad energy.

Oh we are so fucked. If Brent had that good a time yesterday there is like 100% chance of Armageddon today. I better walk the dog before the comet hits.

Happy birthday! I recommend listening to The Clash. That's not necessarily birthday-specific -- it's just always a good idea.

Happy birthday! I hope you don't fall off a bike today.

Irish feminist country is good country.

Joy Division's first televised performance, on the BBC youth channel. It is said that every single British teenager that saw it immediately went out and started a band.

Happy Birthday!

Early 80s X.

I saw The Waterboys (although it might have been just Mike Scott solo at that point with a backing band) live at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1994. They kicked ass. As they do here.