This song did not come across my radar when it first came out. I in fact wasn’t aware of it until Fi introduced me to it many years later. I was aware of the artist’s perhaps most well known hit, in which he counselled a younger man caught in flagrante delictio by his partner to…

Ok so obviously I bit off more than I can chew. I was able to sustain a post a night for some time, but it’s not something I’ve ever been able to do. That being said, the project continues, just not leading up to the 50th song happening on Fi’s birthday in a couple of…

OK so today’s song was going to be a wonderfully sweet sounding one. Linger is a beautiful song but on re-examination, really terrible to link a song about a relationship to. Unless that relationship includes someone begging their unfaithful lover to let them go because they can’t. Dolores O’Riordan does, however, link well into the…

I couldn’t resist.

*Full confession: I’m guilty of bad research here. I wanted to include this song, and good old Google told me it was released in 1991. Google was wrong, and I having seen one of the first post-Split Enz concerts featuring Crowded House and Schnell Fenster in approximately 1988 I should have known. I’ve already written…

Fi and I had a shared play list on the Grooveshark platform in our long-distance days. We have talked about aspects of our relationship during that time being asynchronous – chats when we were both busy being one such example – and having a shared soundtrack to listen to was one way we managed that…

I know the hipster thing is to say you were into a band before they broke big. I wasn’t into They Might Be Giants before they broke big, but I was into them immediately when they broke big. Mulitplatinum album Flood was their first release with a major label, and aged 19 I owned a…

It’s a big thing to move country. New Zealanders have always been big on parochiality, and Australians were a big target. How they spoke sounded silly to us; I remember our cousins visiting asking if they could have a “bescuit”. We could be very parochial within the country too. One famous photo depicted an eight…

I recently had a conversation with our daughter about what I was and I wasn’t allowed to call her. Apparently I can comment on her fashion choices, tell her that she is looking pretty as a result of her fashion choices, but I’m not allowed to call her beautiful. I briefly tried to make a…

Full confession, before Fi and I were together there was some flirting going on. She was quite the fashion queen in her time (and still can be when she chooses) and she’d post outfits on Twitter for review. I’d comment honestly that the outfit would look great and the only thing that could improve it…