Country Life

[davids]

Tidal's got the "Deluxe Edition" of the first album. Highly recommended - I'd never heard the John Peel sessions of those early tracks.

...I'm up to "The Bogus Man" on For Your Pleasure.

Over the first five albums they just keep getting better and better. They just keep distilling the magic as, superficially, the music gets more accessible. All the noise and strangeness turns inward, the band gets almost incomprehensibly tight... "Nightingale" and "Just Another High" blow me away every time.

[j44ke]

My impression is that the chickens next door are more into Beyoncé. And definitely Dolly Parton. But that's a generational thing.

[lumpy]

Tidal's got the "Deluxe Edition" of the first album. Highly recommended - I'd never heard the John Peel sessions of those early tracks.

...I'm up to "The Bogus Man" on For Your Pleasure.

Over the first five albums they just keep getting better and better. They just keep distilling the magic as, superficially, the music gets more accessible. All the noise and strangeness turns inward, the band gets almost incomprehensibly tight... "Nightingale" and "Just Another High" blow me away every time.

I'll have to check it out. I'm a big Eno fan but I prefer the albums Roxy made after he left. In my book Country Life is the pinnacle. Listening to Psalm off Stranded right now, that's a very fine one too.

[davids]

I'll have to check it out. I'm a big Eno fan but I prefer the albums Roxy made after he left. In my book Country Life is the pinnacle. Listening to Psalm off Stranded right now, that's a very fine one too.

Excellent.

I listened to the first five in my office today. I'll stand by my opinion of "Nightingale" and "Just Another High".

Still... Stranded thrills me from the first notes. And it really doesn't let up, does it?

[davids]

And I keep meaning to say this: Paul Thompson may be the most underrated drummer ever.

[BBB]

A lovely racoon!

The racoon might be concerned if one of the chickens said "I am Groot".

[lumpy]

Excellent.

I listened to the first five in my office today. I'll stand by my opinion of "Nightingale" and "Just Another High".

Still... Stranded thrills me from the first notes. And it really doesn't let up, does it?

I'm really enjoying it. I haven't listened to it nearly as much as some of the later albums. On the original topic, we saw a sharp-shinned hawk smite, subdue, and fly off with a male cardinal by the birdfeeders yesterday.

[johnmdesigner]

The next generation of NYC dumpster divers.
The garbage cans are a little empty at the moment.

[j44ke]

Here's as mystery maybe those who hunt or have lived in the country for a while can explain. I've seen this before, but never this curly hair. Usually straight bristly hair that looks very obviously like deer hair. The areas are kind of circular, lots of clumps of hair, many of them attached to small pieces of skin, all of it kind of mixed up in the leaves and pine needles as if it was somehow stirred or hastily buried. It has been described to me as a deer getting rid of winter coat, as something that happens during rutting season between bucks and does, and as evidence of a bobcat kill where the hair is removed to get at the flesh. Bobcat also tend to bury things. But I never see any evidence of blood or guts, though I have found several fresh skeletons elsewhere on the property. I would think at least the hair would be bloody. Does seem aggressive in some manner though. This one looks like someone's sheepdog got eaten.