Category archives: Bewildered Songs
Songs for the Bewildered: The Place Where We All Intend To Die
Back in the fun-stuffed, joy-filled, gloriously utopian days of the early 1980s, three things seemed sure and certain. 1) Nuclear Armageddon was imminent and inevitable. It was 2 minutes to midnight and jttery fingers hovered over red buttons. We were… continue reading »
Songs for the Bewildered: Nikita
You hipster musos might like to pretend that the first record you bought, with your own precious pocket money, was Music for the Masses. Or Purple Rain. Or Rain Dogs. But it wasn’t. Like me, the first record you bought… continue reading »
Songs for the Bewildered: Space Invaders
As part of an ongoing project to make my 14-month-old daughter as gargantuan a nerd as her daddy, I recently decorated half her room with a charming Space Invaders motif. It rocks. And she loves it (or appears to). In… continue reading »
Songs for the Bewildered: Hungry Eyes
So there we were tonight watching (like the cool cats we are) the extras on the Dirty Dancing 20th Anniversary Special Edition DVD (I know, I know…) when on comes the video for “Hungry Eyes”. Three minutes and forty-five seconds… continue reading »
Songs for the Bewildered: We’re Going out the Same Way we Came in
A twiddled knob? A pair of headphones loosely clasped to a pair of ears? A graphic equalizer being slyly manipulated by a finger? Standing around in a cardigan? The classic hallmarks of no-budget, guerrilla music-video-making. Big Tom (one of Ireland’s… continue reading »
Songs for the Bewildered: Pal of My Cradle Days
Writing about music close to one’s heart can be be tricky. The challenge of trying to capture – through clumsy, clunky prose – its ethereal and deeply personal pleasures is a challenge this blog has rarely taken on. It’s far… continue reading »
