Ok, so I am a fan of music. I listen to it, I like it, and sometimes I need it to move me from one state (usually low) to another (generally higher one). It is more than jst being there in the background, or a soundtrack to a disco night out.
I like music, Johnny Marr with his guitar was (and still is) my hero, but I also like lyrics: they are what changes a nice tune into a fantastic song. They mean something, they allow you to remember a thing, however brief; they describe a picture, an image or a scene.
Elbow write amazing lyrics: they evoke a time and a place and transport you there immediately. And Mr. Garvey has written some truly beautiful lyrics as in Puncture Repair...
I leaned on you today
I regularly hurt but never say
I nearly wore the window through
Where was air sea rescue?
The cavalry with tea and sympathy
You were there
Puncture repair
I leaned on you today
I regularly hurt but never say
You patched me up and sent me on my way
I leaned on you today
My desert island discs would never include Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Chopin or some of the stuff spouted by the great and good who appear on the programme, but Lloyd Cole, Elbow, Scott Matthews, Snow Patrol and others really write songs that mean something, songs that matter...
