Monday, January 01, 2007

"a girl like you" - edwin collins

"this old town's changed so much, don't feel like i belong, too many protest singers, not enough protest songs"

when this was one of those pleasant-enough-but-radio-saturated indie songs that characterised the mid 90s i could take or leave it, but when i heard him play it acoustically for an xfm session, where he dumm-ed the guitar riffs, it was strangely haunting - especially this third verse.

and its still true now - maybe it always was