a floored and pointless observation relating to the seemingly extraordinary wealth of music beginning with b:
beatles, beach boys, beethoven, bob dylan, boards of canada, bonnie prince billy, brian eno, bear in heaven, beastie boys, bjork, beck, billie holiday, beach house, beirut, ben e. king. there’s a dozen or so for you to ponder already.
VAN MORRISON'S Astral Weeks was released ten years, almost to the day, before this was written. It was particularly important to me because the fall of 1968 was such a terrible time: I was a physical and mental wreck, nerves shredded and ghosts and spiders looming and squatting across the mind. My social contacts had dwindled to almost none; the presence of other people made me nervous and paranoid. I spent endless days and nights sunk in an armchair in my bedroom, reading magazines, watching TV, listening to records,…