Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To Poll the Bright Lights Tonight

(xp) OTM. Also he can't half belt out a song, his singing is so much more powerful than you might expect.

xp kinda cheezy! can't believe you think that.
https://resources.tidal.com/images/cc75bbd5/de97/4229/ba12/b6805c5a1b16/1280x1280.jpg

Great interview with Linda.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/12/they-said-i-was-worse-than-the-sex-pistols-folk-legend-linda-thompson-on-trashing-dressing-rooms-and-losing-her-voice

Excellent thanks
Had never seen this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnP07s_O14Q

Looking for a Richard interview I listened to earlier this week and saw this
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5bCNtLtEvdx9A3IKJI7Eas?si=7ec8d81819e24247
where he's on a show with Lemmy I think.

& the one I heard this week which is current
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4K6lez0e8FfYg5GKJZZL96?si=ae505645dacd452a

This album is obviously alltime, but jeez, I could vote for any of these:

The Calvary Cross
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
When I Get to the Border
Withered and Died
The End of the Rainbow
The Great Valerio
The Little Beggar Girl

But I would probably vote for that last one. I have such an irrational love for the narrator's cheerful cynicism, how it's almost worth it to her to be in her desperate situation just to be able to pull one over on these rich assholes.

the linda interview ignited one of my occasional attempts to enjoy nick drake but lol no dice, p good songs (some of them) but such a boring voice

The fact that Linda's brother is Brian Pettifer always kind of blows my mind.

xp switched to pour down like silver, much happier now*

*= sadder but in a good way

mark s, Bryter Layter is the one if you don't like the other two. the instrumentation and songwriting is more "fun" and less obviously folky

yes i know them all, i have the 1986 fruit-tree CD set and i've owned bryter layter on vinyl since i was a teenager -- BL is perkier yes but i think it's time to accept i am just not drawn to his voice

There's like three instrumentals on it, or sumthin', too.