Last track - Back Of The Moon.

This must be his answer to Dark Side of the Moon.

BACK OF THE BACK OF THE MOON

"I'm going to tell you how it's Gonna be."

Hints of Graceland.

Change of tempo.

Bo Diddley!

Sax.

Saxophone!!

The mixing of styles here is reminiscent of Ricky-T.

It is now over.

All the band's here.

It is over.

I found that a very affecting album. The miserable songs worked better than the happy ones - and, fortunately, there were lots of miserable songs. I still insist that Bomber's Moon is the most moving anti-war song of all time.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.

I quite liked that.

His vocals are a bit weak. But I suspect it's better than any album Paul Simon has made since about 1974.

You've got admire a man who can put their own similar song after The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda and it not getting a total slap down.

Talking about which:

In fact it's better than a lot Richard Thompson's ones too.

It's done.

Musically, lyrically and thematically it was effective and tasteful in an admittedly morose, almost mawkish, sense, but it also tended to drag with a fair few songs lasting for a lifetime.

He seemed to have assembled some very good musicians, but other, dare I say, better, bands would've spun out anything long with really exceptional musicianship rather than just a repetition of the sung chorus.

Of course, I'm being churlish, but then again, I am a churl and a member of the metropolitan elite, so I can't help it.

That said, it was most notably and commendably socialist.

A kind of working class lament you'd be hard pressed to find now, in the time of an hopeless Post-Thatcherite Br*xitism where the North has surrendered itself seemingly to knee-jerk rage.

Harding was presenting a world that, at the time, was trapped in the pitch black dark of a seemingly endless Thatcherite Winter.

I genuinely respect him for that, as I'm also genuinely touched by his tribute to the forgotten men of the disingenuously labelled 'Golden Generation'.

Just young lads who died for God only knows what.

I shall give it 4 stars.

BTW, I always think this is by Mike Harding.



But it isn't.

When I was a kid, people like DLT and Noel Edmunds would play it on Radio One and, oh, did they ever laugh...

Nightjar wrote:

BTW, I always think this is by Mike Harding.



But it isn't.

When I was a kid, people like DLT and Noel Edmunds would play it on Radio One and, oh, did they ever laugh...

Have you heard the B-Side?