When you are looking for that right combination of melancholy with an uplifting melody there are few better places to look than the rich back catalogue of Terry Halls work.
Sad songs sung to a very bouncy melody are his stock in trade and each has a certain place at a certain time in any ones life.
So, stressful and sad news has been the order of the day this week, and regardless of how people deal with such news there is always a need to actually deal with it.
REACTIONS
I have always thought I react to news rather distantly, or in poor proportion to the closeness of the News. It’s just my way. It all boils to the surface in the end, be it in song or poem or TV rant. I am often more effected by the loss of someone I respect but have never met than someone I am related to but don’t respect.
So needing to be uplifted without making whimsy of serious news I turned to Terry Hall and his collaborative album with Blair and Anouchka and track number 2 ‘Missing’
‘The kids are crying, the dog is dying, and I just got the flu…….. because we’re missing you’
Blissfully dark irony.
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Good post.Hope you are OK
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