As a teenager growing up in England , I first heard Tom Verlaine at the local indie disco (the only one in my town ) , vinyl and the John Peel show our only access to new music and this track only a b side but .. they should know that I cherish it as does my brother and others who heard it at that time . If it’d had a third chorus and middle 8 (ha!) I’d have released it as a single .. I would correct the first line, isn’t it ‘as happy as a can of beer in a winos hand “ ? which I think is a painfully poetic and beautiful.. his vocal delivery is affecting x
As a teenager growing up in England , I first heard Tom Verlaine at the local indie disco (the only one in my town ) , vinyl and the John Peel show our only access to new music and this track only a b side but .. they should know that I cherish it as does my brother and others who heard it at that time . If it’d had a third chorus and middle 8 (ha!) I’d have released it as a single .. I would correct the first line, isn’t it ‘as happy as a can of beer in a winos hand “ ? which I think is a painfully poetic and beautiful.. his vocal delivery is affecting x