People Keep Getting Older

I first heard the words “My friends are gone and my hair is grey/I ache in the places where I used to play” when I was sixteen and, at that age, I assumed it was some sort of sorrowful commentary on the failings of the flesh. Now that I am older and all of those things are happening to me I realize that…

Erasure’s Andrew Ivan Bell turns 50 today. You know what is one of the happiest songs I know? This is one of the happiest songs I know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWR3OenaPk

Everyone will tell you Soul Asylum was much better before they got big, but that is what everyone says about everything they love that they knew prior to its becoming popular, so a lot of times it is just wrong. I mean, no one…