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Carbon Leaf: One Prairie Outpost
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I’m sorry, beautiful, but I can’t stay with you because I’m off to fight fascists.
I’m not exactly a communist, but I approve of this message.
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Phoenix – Full Live Performance & KCRW Interview (2013)
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"You're My Home" is a single by Billy Joel. It was originally on Joel's 1973 album Piano Man, and also appears on #SongsInTheAttic (1981), #TheUltimateCollection (2000), #TheEssentialBillyJoel (2001) and #12GardensLive (2006). The song appears as a #Bside on "Piano Man" and "All My Life" singles. The song was also covered by #HelenReddy on her album #LoveSongForJeffrey, which was released as the flipside of her "#KeepOnSinging" single.
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"You're My Home" is a single by Billy Joel. It was originally on Joel's 1973 album Piano Man, and also appears on #SongsInTheAttic (1981), #TheUltimateCollection (2000), #TheEssentialBillyJoel (2001) and #12GardensLive (2006). The song appears as a #Bside on "Piano Man" and "All My Life" singles. The song was also covered by #HelenReddy on her album #LoveSongForJeffrey, which was released as the flipside of her "#KeepOnSinging" single.
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"You're My Home" is a single by Billy Joel. It was originally on Joel's 1973 album Piano Man, and also appears on #SongsInTheAttic (1981), #TheUltimateCollection (2000), #TheEssentialBillyJoel (2001) and #12GardensLive (2006). The song appears as a #Bside on "Piano Man" and "All My Life" singles. The song was also covered by #HelenReddy on her album #LoveSongForJeffrey, which was released as the flipside of her "#KeepOnSinging" single.
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"You're My Home" is a single by Billy Joel. It was originally on Joel's 1973 album Piano Man, and also appears on #SongsInTheAttic (1981), #TheUltimateCollection (2000), #TheEssentialBillyJoel (2001) and #12GardensLive (2006). The song appears as a #Bside on "Piano Man" and "All My Life" singles. The song was also covered by #HelenReddy on her album #LoveSongForJeffrey, which was released as the flipside of her "#KeepOnSinging" single.
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EELS Play “Last Stop: This Town”
Listen to this track by Los Angeles-based pop music concern headed up by Mark Oliver Everett, EELS. It’s “Last Stop: This Town”, a single from the group’s second LP Electro-Shock Blues released in September 1998. That album was a kind of concept record of sorts, with many of the songs on the record dealing directly with family history, illness, and personal bereavement. These themes are come by very honestly. In the span of months, Everett aka “E” suffered the loss of his sister Elizabeth who died by suicide, and his mother Nancy who succumbed to cancer.
After his losses, E became the only living member of his immediate family. His famous quantum physicist father and Many Worlds theorist Hugh Everett III died in 1982 at the family home. A 19-year-old Mark Oliver Everett was the first person to discover him. Mental illness in his family, estrangement, death, and loss characterized his existence more than most. He even refers to it as the curse in many places in his work even beyond this album. Being of the John Lennon school of songwriting, E drew from his own emotional pain that was still very raw when he set out to follow-up his debut album.
With all that in place, you’d think the new material would come out in morose shades of gray to black, full of mournful lyrics and relentless minor chords. Yet, this song and many others on the album all seem to have a wider perspective than expected. In fact, the songs are expressed in a colourfully varied musical palette, grim in places, but also wistful, and even playful. The video for this song that served the record as a single is downright goofy, with animated depictions of gene splicing that, perhaps indirectly, is yet another ode to his family and to his heritage in the world of science.
E singing with his beta-carotene infused clone in the video
for “Last Stop: This Town”.Family is as strong a narrative thread as loss is on the album, making them inseparable. Along with his father and mother, E’s sister Liz is a recurring main character throughout. In other places on the record, she’s the principal narrator. Switching up perspectives is what helps E to keep the songs balanced and from being too downcast and monochromatic. In his quest to find peace in loss, it seemed that imagining emotions and events from points of view other than his own freed him up to better examine his own feelings and to express them in artistically viable ways.
In this song, he takes his grief and inverts it in an unconventional way. At least a part of the inspiration for this tune came from Francis, his neighbour and landlady. E had been away to attend his sister’s funeral. He hadn’t informed Francis of the reasons for his trip. But when he returned, she had news for him. First, she informed him that she had a talent for seeing dead people. Next, she’d seen the apparition of a young woman entering E’s abode only hours before he arrived home.
E recounts the story from his autobiography:
“Initially, it really spooked me when Francis told me this and I was feeling a little scared about sleeping in the house that night. But then I thought about the timing of it and I tried to look on it in a more positive, less spooky, light. Kooky or not, I liked the idea of Liz coming to say good-bye one last time, even if she just missed me by a few hours. If there’s gonna be a ghost in your house, you might as well think of it as a friendly ghost.”
~ Mark Oliver Everett, Things Your Grandchildren Should Know (2008)
As he says, kooky or not, the idea was a comfort in the middle of a grieving period. It was also the spark of an intriguing idea: what if the dearly departed felt a similar sense of grief in leaving the dearly bereft behind? What if they wanted to say goodbye to their loved ones and the world as much as those who remain to grieve their passing?
This empathetic perspective informs the lyrics. The music is supportive by never being sombre. In fact, “Last Stop: This Town” is more celebratory than funereal. Music box celesta, cheerful beats, a Kurtis Blow sample, and lighthearted vocal interplay punctuate its Sixties girl group melody. There’s even a subtle melodic reference to Scottish folk song “The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond”, another bright tune about love and loss thought to date back to the 1740s and Bonnie Prince Charlie. That reference handily suggests that the weight of bereavement was never an easy one to bear.
Importantly, “Last Stop: This Town” doesn’t trivialize how difficult saying goodbye to a passing loved one is. It doesn’t shy away from the troublesome thoughts that often arise when we experience the burdensome and overwhelming feelings caused by that loss. The opening line hits as hard as anything associated with that experience: You’re dead but the world keeps turning. This line contains an ocean of feelings and thoughts. How dare the world continue as normal when I’m in so much pain? Why isn’t the hole in my life obvious to everyone? In this world of billboards and factories and smoke, where can I find any source of comfort now that you’re gone?
E seems to find that comfort in storytelling and in the imagination. In writing this song, he gives shape to his grief. He paints a picture of his sister as a person who isn’t really gone, but is just on a long journey somewhere else. Whether he believes that or not is immaterial. By writing a song about her last errand before flying away from the world forever, he’s immortalized her. He’s preserved her essence in his world and freed her of the torment he knew she felt in her own. By making her a part of his song about grief, he’s taken steps to freeing himself, too.
With this song and the record off of which it comes, EELS solidified their sound. E made a habit of writing songs about hard subjects with lightheartedness, candour, and respect for how difficult and sometimes absurd living in this world so often is. In doing so, he does what artists are meant to do; allow us to connect to our own stories and feelings with greater clarity through their art. In so doing, this song helps make us feel less alone as tides turn one way or the other in our own unpredictable lives.
EELS is an active musical vehicle today, with a lineup that’s revolved around E’s songwriting. You can learn more at eelstheband.com.
You can read this interview with E on American Songwriter from 2013, a few years after the EELS record Tomorrow Morning came out. That release was the last in a trilogy of albums that in turn came out before he released Wonderful, Glorious. In it, and among other things, he talks about the inherent optimism and sense of gratitude in being alive in his music even though he’s often pegged solely as a writer of bummer rock.
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"Songs in the Key of Life" by Stevie Wonder released this day in 1976.
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Jaden & Rich The Kid Collab On Intimidating Cut “RED CLOAKS”
Jaden and Rich The Kid don’t share all that much in common stylistically, but they do sound pretty…
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#RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glowsAll of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
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Emma Swift Sings “Beautiful Ruins”
Listen to this track by Nashville-based classic pop songwriter and singer Emma Swift. It’s “Beautiful Ruins” a single from her second record, 2025’s The Resurrection Game. That record is the follow-up to her superb and critically acclaimed 2020 debut album Blonde on the Tracks, a selection of curated and gorgeously rendered Bob Dylan songs. That release accomplished a few things for Emma Swift, not the least of which was clearing a creative block to make way for original work that retains a similar mood and atmosphere of reflection, rumination, and crystalline melancholy.
“Beautiful Ruins” is one of the highlights on her follow-up album, serving as its third single. It finds Swift conjuring the classic pop sound of the late 1960s, but also sounding completely timeless. This tune blends a sumptuous orchestral folk pop sound behind Swift’s pure and Sixties British folk-influenced lead voice. Her singing comes off as an interior monologue, lending the song a quiet and contemplative intensity. True to that approach, her lyrics deal in images and emotional evocations rather than a straight narrative. There is a definite sense that this material is highly personal. Yet there are elements to it that make it more universally resonant, too.
The album came out of less than ideal circumstances. Emma Swift suffered a nervous breakdown, finding that she needed space and time to heal and reflect. The new songs that appear on her second album came out of her process of recovery, lending a facet of meaning to the title The Resurrection Game. Some of the time she spent recharging and reflecting was in her native Australia. Swift writes in her Substack:
Where “The Resurrection Game” song is set in Northern California, this one takes place in regional Australia, in the wheat belt between Sydney and Melbourne. It’s inspired by my early life, and also by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice, whose poems were hugely influential in the making of this record.
~ Emma Swift, Nothing and Forever (August 13, 2025)
Like Louis McNeice before her, Emma Swift conjures the themes of mortality and hope in this song that seems to come from her interior reflections, and sounding like a cathartic release as she sings it. The reference to coming from the place of many crows that pick at her bones is suggestive of the struggles she faced. Yet even in those opening lines, there is a distinct tone of gratitude at having come out on the other side of her harrowing experiences with that much more insight on her own identity and what is valuable to her. The song explores the dynamics of how events and turning points, good and bad, are interwoven into the fabric of a life to make it unique and ultimately something to be celebrated.
Emma Swift in the video for her song “Beautiful Ruins”. The video is a montage of images reflecting the song’s lyrics and themes of struggle, beauty, and hope.“Beautiful Ruins” collects opposites—beauty and ruination being two— and places them in the same space. As gloriously forlorn as the song is in terms of delivery and tone, it’s also coupled with an undeniable sense of hope. The music and the arrangement helps to draw this into focus, with a Joe Boyd-like quality that can be heard in a similar way in a song like Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky”. That comparison is not just because of the soaring string arrangements as matched with acoustic instrumentation heard in both songs.
Like that earlier song, this one is sung in a voice full of blue melancholy, but also one that tells a story of how beauty can be found even in the middle of struggle, often being all the more vivid because of it. “Beautiful Ruins” goes beyond the reductive idea that sad music, or songs about what it feels like to be sad is meant to make the listener feel that way as they listen. In truth, it can make the listener think about how happiness and sadness in all their variations and combinations are so intertwined that they become extensions of who we are. When we cast our memories back, each happy one or sad one is revealed to contain elements of both.
Emma Swift’s song suggests that maybe all feelings are like that under most circumstances, experienced as they are in combination, but always present. We hold them inside of ourselves and they live there together. Wherever we find ourselves, those feelings stay with us, waiting to be manifest as we take in the world around us. In this, our hardships and joys and our emotional reactions to them aren’t separate from each other or from us. In a subtle way, “Beautiful Ruins” suggests the idea that the episodes human beings face in our lives are also inextricable from who we are and who we become. Our life experiences shape the way we learn to cope, change the way we see things, and affect the ways we express ourselves. They make us who we are.
When we build things up, sometimes events lay it all to waste, and we have to start again. When that happens, we pick through the rubble to salvage the good in what we find so that we can build something new and more true to the people we’ve become. “Beautiful Ruins” ultimately is a song about being glad to be alive so that we can do that work, and be able to tell stories about the things that have happened to us. In singing it, and in hearing it sung, the gap between devastation and delicate beauty doesn’t seem quite so wide. Sad songs, or ones of struggle like this make us feel less alone, whether we’re singing, listening, or both.
Emma Swift is an active singer and songwriter today. You can learn more about her at emmaswift.com. You can also follow her on Bluesky.
Visit the Emma Swift Bandcamp page for new releases and touring information.
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The green green grass of Homer Simpson
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I should be so Loki
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Scooby doo doo doo de da da da
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Walter Whiter shade of pale
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♪ Stimpy The Best ♪
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♪ Mork Like An Egyptian ♪
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♪ Fonzie Good Ship Lollipop ♪
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♪ Knocking On Kevin's Door ♪
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♪ Smells Like Bean Spirit ♪
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♪ Poirot, Is It Me You're Looking For? ♪
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♪ I Kermit On The Grapevine ♪
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Anna Friel!
Like I just got home!
Anna Friel!
