when love comes by

one of those tracks that i love coming across in a shuffle



deborah harry - when love comes by

my interest

dear project leader:

so the question becomes...why do i care so much whether music companies make money?

i don't.

1. i care that i don't get fined for unauthorized downloads.
   
2. i care that bands for whom i have an unnatural affection stay in the game.
   
3. i care that i can constantly find new stuff to supplement my attachment to the old.

so my fear is that if the music industry crashes completely, music searches will become increasingly non-productive. but this is antiquated thinking: very little of what i "discover" anymore is a result of a record company releasing a 45 RPM.

the truth is, i'm getting old(er). i have a persistent ringing in my ears, most likely from four and a half generations of clubbing (disco - new wave - house - electronica (all overarched with hi-energy)), during the night hours; and thirty years of headphone wearing (walkman - stereo outfit - PC - discman - ipod), during the daylight and get-me-to-sleep hours.

i only ask for that my hearing holds out 32 more years. and please debbie, don't retire before 2042!

whiteout

dear project leader:

this alien doesn't know why this track was never released as a single off debbie harry's album last year.

debbie harry - whiteout

she assumes an odd "character" (vocally) to sing this one; that would have probably been changed if it was actually a single. (but since nobody except 14-year-olds are played on TV or radio anymore, this alien guesses "singles" aren't really what they used to be.)

she said:

The chorus says it all, but it's about losing the chance of a relationship because the other person is involved with drugs. It's a fairly obvious parallel in a lot of people lives. It was fun to write a really straight-out rock song that had a great sort of punk feel to it.