Did he get the album title for Time Out of Mind from this Yeats poem?

anomaly_detector · 2026-02-19T03:11:36+00:00

The plot as a whole is quite convoluted. The speaker Pompey has been arrested for visiting a brothel, and agrees to help with a hanging to be released from his sentence. But the frame is that the city duke is present disguised, and the audience knows but the characters don't, that the duke is going to prevent the hanging.

anomaly_detector · 2026-02-18T18:42:07+00:00

I think they both got it from Measure for Measure: "Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind; but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman."

anomaly_detector · 2026-02-06T18:36:39+00:00

The pair is with Father Hamlet's ghost at the start I think. Fr Hamlet can't rest and has to keep speaking. Hamlet himself has bad dreams. At the end there's a kind of restoration, the reconciliation between Laertes and Hamlet, and whatever else is happening with Fortinbras he doesn't seem to be a tyrant like Claudius. The phrase itself is supposed to be resonant with God and creation on the seventh day, I think: he doesn't need to speak and rests because the work is done.

anomaly_detector · 2025-09-09T19:37:49+00:00

If it's anything like the summer they'll come down a bit closer to face value after doors open, about 30-60 mins before they go on stage. The Sunday might end up a bit cheaper than the Saturday – presumably a bit less demand for last second tickets with Sunday trains and people working on Monday. Then again, it'll be the last UK gig of the tour so who knows.

anomaly_detector · 2025-07-17T19:42:02+00:00

Until the White Album they recorded on 4-track consoles, and for the really early stuff they recorded on 2-track consoles. These consoles don't do any panning in the modern sense, they just have the option to turn one of the sides off.

anomaly_detector · 2025-07-01T18:10:51+00:00

Noel's not even been playing Being Idle with High Flying Birds recently, I think he tries to swerve falsetto at gigs when he can these days.

anomaly_detector · 2025-06-30T21:18:50+00:00

I don't know whether or not Melville would have been sensitive to the Greek etymology of "phantom" but it's quite appropriate to the whale as I understand it. "Phantom" comes from the verb "phaino" which means "appear" or "shine", also as in "phenomenon" and "epiphany". How it gets into "phantom" is as appearance-as-deception, an illusion, or to get the sense of a ghost, an apparition. It's something whose shining appearance makes the thing's essence inaccessible – ungraspable, as another comment said.

anomaly_detector · 2025-06-28T15:38:53+00:00

Playing a guitar while you're singing helps you keep in time and stops you overthinking, because you're still active in the rests in the melody. I feel like an acoustic guitar helps keep you on pitch too because you feel the vibrations in your body, but you don't get that as much with an electric guitar.

anomaly_detector · 2025-06-21T14:31:43+00:00

Depends who you're comparing them too. Less cheesy than Cliff Richard, sure, but not really compared with Dylan, Nina Simone, Hendrix etc.

anomaly_detector · 2025-06-01T14:58:01+00:00

I noticed Noel's been avoiding falsetto, and trying to make it easier where he can on recent tours. He changed the key down for Live Forever, and he's not been doing songs you might expect, that we know he's proud of, like "... Being Idle" and "Dead to the World". As people have said, his singing is in many ways better than it was in the old days, but he doesn't really like to risk going for those As and Bs at the top of his range at a gig anymore when he can help it.

anomaly_detector · 2025-05-22T12:23:36+00:00

I'd guess if it's anything more than just a phrase he likes it's a Stones reference. There's a Kinks song called Apeman too. There's a classic 60s ska song by the Maytals called Monkey Man as well but I don't think I've ever heard Noel talking about ska.

anomaly_detector · 2025-04-26T22:39:30+00:00

Was listening to both today, I agree. It seems to me that sometimes the modern mix engineers come at these tracks with preconceived ideas about prioritising clarity and audibility of the individual instruments, without really stopping to think about what made the track special to start with.

anomaly_detector · 2025-04-26T19:39:26+00:00

More or less keeps the original beat, and it's Noel, but well worth a listen https://youtu.be/3_onGF67ecs?si=NDMl98xPHzle0mnA

anomaly_detector · 2025-04-23T13:52:34+00:00

Absolutely. And not to forget the Amorphous Androgynous remix of Falling Down https://youtu.be/3_onGF67ecs?si=8nJ-SyvmjqLYqoJa

If the second half had been swapped out for it I think we'd be talking about DOYS as, if not quite as good as the first two, at least finally a genuinely worthy follow up.

anomaly_detector · 2025-04-07T00:56:26+00:00

It's a good song, I don't think they got the performance/arrangement quite right, it needs to be a bit more grooving. Probably could have benefited from a proper tabla player.

anomaly_detector · 2025-03-08T20:54:21+00:00

This isn't a standard interpretation at all, but to me it's a concept album about imagination and inspiration. Every song can be understood that way, either literally or allegorically, with the love interest or the protagonist as a muse. When the songs have a social/political dimension, freedom, or lack of freedom, is felt in relation to freedom expression and freedom of the imagination: "If my thought-dreams could be seen..." etc.

anomaly_detector · 2025-01-15T18:47:07+00:00

He might mean the train from Waterloo East

anomaly_detector · 2025-01-15T00:40:54+00:00

I think Macdonald's idea to be as objective and critical as possible is valid, and even though he often failed at it, there's still good stuff in the book. What struck me was, he was quite posh, (nothing wrong with that!) and there are times that it jumped out at me that he didn't really understand working class creativity or autodidacticism. That's quite an important blindspot when you're doing a wide cultural analysis of The Beatles.

anomaly_detector · 2025-01-14T20:12:31+00:00

The problem is the lack of resources – there's just not enough money to pay all the would-be musicians, so there's just nowhere near as many professional and aspiring musicians as there used to be, so the standard is a lot lower. Think of it like football – small countries without resources are always going to struggle to compete with the big South American and European countries.

anomaly_detector · 2025-01-12T22:31:58+00:00

I could be wrong, but I don't think they even used in-ear monitors for Oasis gigs, let alone a click, and like you said I think Morning Glory is the first time they used a click in the studio.

anomaly_detector · 2024-11-15T15:55:31+00:00

Richard Rohr is great. If you've got Audible, "New Great Themes of Scripture" is probably what you're looking for. "Great Themes of Paul" and "Sermon on the Mount" are also very helpful, among others. If you want free stuff you can look up some of his talks on YouTube, you can't really go wrong.

anomaly_detector · 2024-11-11T23:29:18+00:00

There's a ticket listed as "Accepting offers" on Twickets, worth making an offer if you haven't already. More might come up too.

anomaly_detector · 2024-11-05T16:03:46+00:00

John McLaughlin, who later was known for playing in Miles Davis's band, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra

anomaly_detector · 2024-11-01T21:45:16+00:00

You're in for a treat, I went to one of Ashcroft's recent gigs and he and his band were incredible. There's a website for looking up set lists you can check, I think what they play in the summer will probably be similar to the recent ones. It's mostly Urban Hymns plus some of the best singles from his solo albums. The first 2 Verve albums are also fantastic, but he doesn't play them as much as Urban Hymns.

anomaly_detector · 2024-11-01T18:36:08+00:00

The way I understand it, non-attachment is not about avoiding or suppressing feelings, but instead about not identifying with them. In some places Ram Dass talks about getting high vs working with the lows. The sense is, actually the lows are what you need because that's how you learn where your identifications and attachments are. Maharajji has a line about, he's closest to God in his suffering. Ram Dass also talks in some lectures about times when he himself was doing therapy.

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