Superstition, Stevie Wonder, Talking Book Talking Book is one of “those” albums for Kevin and I. Listened to it in Maui. The horn section is the peanut butter to the clavinet’s jelly, and the drums are the bread. “When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer” counts as one of the… Continue reading Widowhood Season 8.14: Keep me in a daydream
Siberian Khatru, Yes, Close To The Edge To me, this song is the prog equivalent to a movie using a “party song” to tie everything up in a neat bow and play until the credits finish rolling. Does this mourning really get easier with time? Apparently so. But then again, other things have popped up… Continue reading Widowhood Season 8.13: The mo(u)rning that comes into view
The King of Rock and Roll, Prefab Sprout, Two Weels Good/Steve McQueen Ah, yes, Prefab Sprout, some rather find britpop, if I may say so. Vaguely remember when Kevin played their stuff for me for the first time. I’m pretty sure this song was one of the first ones. It was one of the most… Continue reading Widowhood Season 8.12: All the pathos you can keep
Firth of Fifth, Genesis, Selling England By the Pound This has to be one of my favorite Genesis songs. I think if someone wanted an example of 70’s prog rock, I might bust this one out. It’s not This is one of the first early Genesis songs Kevin played for me in our earliest days.… Continue reading Widowhood Season 8.11: ‘Til lured by the siren’s cry
Us and Them, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon This is OUR song, really. “All for Us and None for Them” was a motto we’d say sometimes when facing adversity. This song is also still hard to listen to. It doesn’t make me “ugly cry” as much anymore. If I hear it in… Continue reading Widowhood Season 8.8: Us And Them
The Real Me, The Who, Quadrophenia The album Quadrophenia entered my life in 1994, a couple years before I met Kevin. That was a particularly difficult year for me, for reasons that need not be included here. Alongside The Dark Side of the Moon, Quadrophenia was an album we bonded over. Who couldn’t resist a… Continue reading Widowhood Season 8.9: ‘Cause it Runs In the Family
From the Beginning, ELP, Trilogy I did hear this when I was away in college, thanks to a neighbor. But then Kevin played it and said it was how he felt about me. What girl could resist such great vocals . . . and those dreamy solos? I wish I could say for sure that… Continue reading Widowhood Season 8.10: But There It Is
New Frontier, Donald Fagen, The Nightfly This was the first song Kevin played for me from this album. He was obsessed with finding the video for it that he’d only seen a couple times. I think it took him until after the turn of the century to find the whole thing. For many years, he… Continue reading Widowhood Season 8.7: New Frontier
Two of Us, The Beatles, Let It Be My seminal memory of this song is Kevin and I driving in his ’67 Mustang fastback, circa 1997 going to visit his Dad on a Sunday. (It might have been on the way to NAMM. Again, it was awhile back!) It was a bright day, not too… Continue reading Widowhood Season 8.6: Doris gets her oats
Surf’s Up, The Beach Boys, Surf’s Up Back in the days before music was easy (and free) to obtain, if you damaged your copy of an album, you pretty much lost your ability to hear that music until you obtained a copy again. Both Kevin and I grew up listening to The Beach Boys. However,… Continue reading Widowhood Season 8.5: The child is father of the man