Loving your lyrics. You also have possibly the best biog we've ever read on SC, total genius! :)

I am loving the vibe of this!! Really cool! :)

Over and Over the needle is stuck,
The same old question, who did you...?
Muck about with behind her back
Like it or not now, you're on different tracks

A lifetime together then you hit forty five
And then you wonder if this is your life
A meeting of eyes with a wow and a flutter
Change record you thought of everything but her

From Hi-Fidelity
To No Fidelity
Should of let the balance be
Pressed Auxiliary

No extended play,
Nothing stereo,
Just a single now, 
Back to Mono

All you're left with is a box of L.P.s
Your wedding album and her set of keys
Turn out the lights, put that old record on
Drown out the misery with another sad song

A hiss and a crackle at the end of side two
Round and round in the run off groove
Turn it over drop the needle again
It's  same old album but the song's not the same.

Featuring the fantastic Mike Vaughan on Drums and piano https://soundcloud.com/mikevaughanmusic
And on liquid lead guitar the lovely Geoff Kinch https://soundcloud.com/southern-drift
Thanks so much guys as usual x



Back To Mono

'Wry Genius' -Mojo Magazine

Congratulations, you have stumbled across The Sturmey Archers time capsule that has lain buried beneath the Soundcloud sunken garden since the beginning of the 21st century. No doubt you are reading this from a future where music has become just that stuff in the background of funny video clips of dogs and babies. But historians amongst you will probably of heard of a time when music actually meant something to people. 

In the second decade of the 21st century a law was passed that decreed that all lyrics to songs should be about 'this night being the one' and stuff about 'putting your hands in the air'. These were strange times when songs about unique thoughts that sprung into individual's minds were considered retro, but musicians that copied German bands from thirty years previously were thought to still be original.

It was in the context of these times that small groups of renegade songwriters decided to carry on with the virtues of rock and pop's golden age and actually write songs about things, thoughts, feelings and other stuff. These were sometimes profound and and sometimes silly, but the words meant something, the music was playful and adventurous, and the tunes could be whistled by milkmen if they ever got the chance to hear them. They were on a mission to be at the very least, mildly entertaining.

Eminent musicologists of the time scoured the planet to find examples of this music that wasn't rubbish so they could bury it for future generations to enjoy. You now, the lucky archaeologist and future pop picker, have in your grasp the key to a world of wry world play, mad thoughts and old fashioned chord progressions. N.B. If Apes have taken over the planet, sorry for all the trouble we've caused.

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