I see this as a more polished version of Lindsey's "Law & Order" – as if Lindsey had asked the incomparable McVie/Fleetwood rhythm section to play and Nicks and Christine to harmonize. as Nicks isn't in great form (with the exception of "Gypsy"), and McVie's two slushy ballads almost sink the album ("Only Over You" and "Wish You Were Here"). I love "Book of Love," the call-and-response piano and guitar hook of "Can't Go Back" and, best of all, "Hold Me," which might be the Mac's greatest example of pop songwriting.
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Supposedly by "Mirage" - and certainly by "Tango" - Lindsey had to start assembling Stevie's singing from several different takes, because she was in such (sniff sniff) terrible shape. How she managed to have a solo career at the same time has always been a mystery to me.
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I bought Mirage today b/c I was fed up with only knowing "Gypsy" and "Hold Me" (and both of those are brilliant).
"Eyes of the World"!!! is this tune amazing or whut. I want that guitar riff to go on forever and ever. Odd how for all his excesses Buckingham always cuts his tunes too short. He sounds quite crazed on this album - moreso than on "Tusk" which is practically mannered by comparison.
"Oh Diane" is awful.
Alfred, how can you hate "Wish You Were Here"?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
I used to own this, didn't like it much overall. Perhaps a revisit is due. How anything could be better than "Gypsy" is hard to conceptualize, though.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
Yes it's hard. It actually doesn't sound so good in the context of the album, but i have loved that single for ever and ever, from a certain angle it is the ultimate Nicks song. Buckingham's guitar solo...
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Wish You Were Here" revives the intro piano part from "Silver Springs" and goes downhill from there. I've warmed to "Only Over You," however. "Love in Store" still smokes, though: I get chills when the three voices sing "NEVER TAKE YOUR LOVE AWAY."
The Mac revived "Eyes of the World" on their 2003 tour – an excuse for Buckingham hysteria.
Listen to "Can't Go Back" and "Book of Love" back to back, Tim. Oh – what do you think of the Stevie songs?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
Love "Gypsy" of course (see prior post). "Straight Back" I still need to absorb. The other one depends on whether I can accept rootsy Stevie in my life.
"Can't Go Back" and "Book of Love" have the most weirdly grunty vocals. Like them both a lot on first listen.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
speaking of 80s nicks, can anyone tell me about this: http://www.discogs.com/release/723670
i keep seeing it around in bargain bins, is it worth getting?
― creme1, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
All the Stevie songs obviously better than "Welcome to the Room, Sara" which I find unlistenable.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm talking about the Mirage Stevie songs, but I assume that applies to The Wild Heart too.
"That's Alright" may be the last time cocaine allowed her voice to go that high.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
I don't think her voice really "settled" until Say You Will, by which point the damage sounds naturalised.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
Say You Will is really great...I've been meaning to replay since I discovered Marcello's marvelous defense a couple of months ago.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
only one bad track, which is quite a feat given how long it is.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
Seriously, Say You Will is so underrated. I'd say well over half of the tracks on there, if they were transported onto other FM albums, would be considered highlights.
"Red Rover"! "Smile At You"! "Bleed To Love Her"! "When I See You Again"!
― Tim F, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
The real highlight is "Thrown Down," which on the most basic level (craft) is terrific, and makes an excellent case for Nicks' continuing growth as a songwriter (Buckingham's guitar filigrees on the chorus are superb too).
It sounds tired to keep repeating how much McVie is missed; she's the emollient, whose grease would have prevented the album from feeling twice as long.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
I really shoud buy this. I love the others, but memories of Oh Diane put me off.
― Keith, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
Oh, and Tim – email me when you get a chance.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
WHERE IS IAN
― 69, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
I am loving this album so much! I have been listening to it obsessively. Every song is good except for "Oh Diane" and even that is bearable now. And the best bits are just amazing - like the snarled chorus of "Book of Love", Stevie's plaintive "PUHLEEASE!" on "That's Alright", or just the entirety of "Eyes of the World", NOT TO MENTION "Hold Me"....
The moment you know Lindsay is crazy though is on "Empire State" with the intensely grunted "STRAIGHT!!!!.... STRAIGHT THROUGH THE HEART OF ME!"
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 07:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
EYES OF THE - EYES OF THE - EYES OF THE WORLD
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 11:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
I just heard this for the first time. It might not be as "classic" as their '70s albums, but it sure does have a lot of stunning songs. i agree with the original post that the Nicks material is sub-par, but only in the strictest "songwriting" sense; the band as a whole is still top-notch on the Nicks tracks and they sound great. But I have a pressing concern about the opinions of everyone on this thread: what do you all have against "Oh Diane"??? I remembered reading about how it was supposedly bad, and when I heard it I was shocked by how beautiful it was! It's so good! I don't get you guys!
― aaron d.g., Sunday, 9 September 2007 22:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's just the hack Elvis impersonation that annoys. I like it more than I did initially. It's still the worst (or least good) song on the album.
Re Stevie - "Gypsy" is of course fabulous, and I'm totally in love with "That's Alright", the chorus is brilliant. Only "Straight Back" is a bit off in the songwriting dept.
― Tim F, Monday, 10 September 2007 07:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Straight Back" sounds like it's missing...something: a melody, a bridge, a middle eight. I can't put my finger on it.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 10 September 2007 11:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
xxpost I know! It's one of my favourite off this one. Eyes of the World is classic.
― I know, right?, Monday, 10 September 2007 11:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
only just got this - why did it take me so long???
― just sayin, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 20:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Can't go backcan't go back
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 20:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
<3
― just sayin, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 20:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
A new Remastered & Expanded version of Mirage is due for release in mid-2011 buy Rhino/Warner Music Group. CD 1 will be the original album remastered and CD 2 will feature bonus material taken from the Mirage era, such as B-sides and outtakes. A track listing for this release has not yet been announced.
― just sayin, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 20:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
!!!!!!!
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh my god
― Davey D, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
I can't wait for the Tango reissue. The B-sides and 12" mixes from that era were amazing.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
after all these years i still don't have a copy of mirage to call my own. if i had my way i'd chop 'oh diane' off the tracklist but oh well
― bouquet brigade (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Awesome. I love this hyperactive uber-Buckingham all treble, all the time edition of FM. Sp precise yet so crazy at the same time.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
idg why people hate o diane, i love it
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Only Over You" and "Straight Back" are the only duds.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Spot on description Josh.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Eyes of the World" certainly fits that description.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
We never polled this iirc? Could it be because Gypsy would be the ahem, "landslide" winner?
I would like a proper release of this haunting SNicks demo of Gypsy with just her on organ/vox.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
its where buckingham drowning bad songs in crazy production really just resembles him jumping up and down on the other side of the room trying to create a diversion while stevie nicks sticks coke up her arse
― plax (ico), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
but the exoticism is discrete and isolated: the title track and maybe "Caroline" (that's where I assume you hear the "Tonight Tonight Tonight" allusion) and the Rousseau cover art.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love typing the ellipses for "Welcome To The Room...Sara."
I do kinda love the friend-in-need bits in "Isn't It Midnight" and "When I See You Again" -- Buckingham just says, "Alright, bitches, stand back: I'm taking over."
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw tonight is a night i feel like talking abt music
― plax (ico), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
welcome to the room sarah is some full on garbage but you can tell just by reading the name come on
lol
― Lamp, Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Caroline" (that's where I assume you hear the "Tonight Tonight Tonight" allusion)
Yes. But I'd say that there's a kind of submerged (or restrained) exoticism to the sound throughout, esp. the interlocking of buckingham's guitar playing and the synthetic wall hangings, even if the result is quite restrained (see in partic. "Family Man" and "You and I").
I love typing the ellipses for "Welcome To The Room...Sara.
Waiting for Drake to make "Welcome to the Room #Sara"
― Tim F, Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
tango in the night kindof reminds me of the soundtrack to a clockwork orange
― plax (ico), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pretty good:
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Buckingham is shockingly candid about the band's bad faith.
FInding myself in rare agreement with Alfred... what could this mean?
You've realized I'm awesome?
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
you've realized I'm... awesome?
― plax (ico), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
I once again should recommend that "Destiny Rules" making-of "Say You Will" DVD, which makes it explicitly clear that this band is and has been for eons incapable of doing anything without Lindsey's guidance/vision. It's telling that several of the tracks on "Tusk" are essentially just him, with token input from the others, and there's no reason to believe that "Mirage" and "Tango" don't follow that pattern as well. Basically, he hunkers down to make a solo album, gets the call and decides whether or not to donate said works in progress to the new album. Sometimes the others contribute bits and pieces to more or less complete tracks, sometimes they don't. "Say You Will" in particular has several songs totally indistinguishable from the versions he recorded for (the original) "Gift of Screws"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well, sure...but Buckingham needs McVie's warmth and soul, Nicks' batshit craziness, and that remarkable rhythm section.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Say You Will" in particular has several songs totally indistinguishable from the versions he recorded for (the original) "Gift of Screws"
yeah this was both disappointing and sort of awesome when i realised
― down in the eustachian tube at midnight (electricsound), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've seen that doc, by the way, and the two moments I remember: (a) Nicks getting miffed at Buckingham criticizing her approach to songwriting ("Would you call Bob Dylan structure-less?") and Mick Fleetwood rising to his full height and glowering and scaring Buckingham, reminding him and all of us that while Buckingham is the Genius, Fleetwood is The Leader, and it's his band.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm reminded also of the dearth of good criticism of FM in the mid to late nineties when I discovered them. I finally heard my parents' vinyl copy of Rumours in late '96 and bought the '88 greatest hits, after which I got TITN and Tusk in quick succession. Besides Greil Marcus' famous piece positing Tusk as a punk album (I hadn't read Simon Reynolds' essay yet), it was still considered at best a Noble Failure.
The success of The Dance changed all that. I had 18 and 19-y-o friends discovering Rumours that winter and being totally blown away. That was the period when the Tusk revival inched forward.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fleetwood is The Leader, and it's his band.
Clearly you forget the moment when Mick sits Lindsey down and tells him the label and managers (each member appears to have his or her own manager) wants him to tone down the weirdness and cut the album down to a more commercial single album, and Lindsey looks him right in the eye and basically says "fine, I'll take all my songs and release my solo album instead." And Mick, fearless leader, immediately backs down.
Also, Stevie brings a giant dreamcatcher to her first day in the studio.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, and "Tusk" revival began in earnest when Spin, way back when, listed it as one of the top 10 most underrated albums. The same list, if I recall, started the "Paul's Boutique" revival.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
(Or was it overlooked albums?)
I remember, but how many solo albums does Buckingham sell? Besides, by Say You Will it looked pretty clear that each member had made his or her peace with everyone else's idiosyncrasies.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
and McVie was the only one who said, "Fuck this, I'm leaving to release a solo album" (which didn't sell).
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
finally, as much as I love "Trouble" and at least five or six other Buckingham solo tracks, Stevie Nicks has plenty more solo moments I care for.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
(which didn't sell).
there's a v good reason for this
if these were the sort of songs she was likely to be contributing to 'say you will' i for one am glad she wasn't involved
― down in the eustachian tube at midnight (electricsound), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
I dunno about albums sales, but certainly especially Stevie but also Lindsey were no slouches in the solo album department, even Christine, back when any of them were selling records, FM included.
If anything, it's probably most accurate to suggest FM is simply the best vehicle for Lindsey's brand of weird. Wolf in sheep's clothing and all that. FM are one of those totally mainstream bands, like Steely Dan, where sometimes I wonder whether the average fan truly has any idea how strange this stuff actually is.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
McVie is a formulaic writer, for better or worse: she bangs out tunes on the piano which require Buckingham's arrangements to make them special. But those tunes are essential to FM. As much as I believe in Buckingham as The Genius, I can't give him most of the credit; it always looks like these other people are appendages to His Vision. It's too facile, too beholden to auteur theories about art.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's probably most accurate to suggest FM is simply the best vehicle for Lindsey's brand of weird.
otm
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Like Tim, I'm a fan of Say You Will: still enormously underrated. But whatever the tension produced by accommodating three different songwriters, McVie is missed. Forced to contribute all the tunes, Buckingham and Nicks include at least three pieces of filler apiece. There's something to be said about fractious democracy.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
FM are one of those totally mainstream bands, like Steely Dan, where sometimes I wonder whether the average fan truly has any idea how strange this stuff actually is.
Perhaps this goes without saying: I think "average fans" do pick up on this stuff pretty readily but maybe are less inclined to try to put it in context like "ironically, Buckingham's work was much stranger than much of the post-punk and new wave that purported to react against 70s soft rock etc etc."
Forced to contribute all the tunes, Buckingham and Nicks include at least three pieces of filler apiece.
w/r/t Nicks I'd say the killer to filler ratio is higher on SYW than on any album she's been involved in since Tusk.
― Tim F, Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
stevie's songs on SYW are the best since tusk imo, 'gypsy' excluded
― down in the eustachian tube at midnight (electricsound), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Goodbye Baby" and "Throw Down" are A+.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^
i love running through the garden as well
― down in the eustachian tube at midnight (electricsound), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Thrown Down" boasts the most Mirage-like production btw: all restrained fury.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
In addition to the above I particularly love "Destiny Rules".
In fact the only Nicks song on the album whcih I think is a misfire is "Silver Girl".
― Tim F, Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't care for the one about 9-11 in which she's searching for a vocal melody using her new vocal style.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, that 9-11 one is a dud that comes distractingly early in the album.
Re: mainstream acceptance, I don't know. I have plenty of friends who think of both Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan as simply mellow hanging with your pals music, and live neither attracts the freaks that flock to, say, Yes shows (who had the most eccentric hodge-podge of fans I've ever seen at a show). But FM and SD are just so skewed, the former massively high-strung for such a "mellow" act and the latter so clinical and cynical for relax-and-have-a-good-time smooth operators. Their popularity, especially as MOR staples, is like a great sleight of hand trick.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2011 02:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean, splitting the difference between two bands, it'd be as if XTC were playing outdoor summer arenas and blasting from SUVs.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2011 02:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't think it's necessarily the case that skewed intensity and maintream acceptance are mutually exclusive or even inversely proportional (although I accept that things can trend that way) - hence songs like "Don't Stop Believing", "Under Pressure", "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
"simply mellow hanging with your pals" is different and I'd agree with you there, but mainly because neither FM's Greatest Hits nor Rumours if taken in isolation give a good sense of how weird the band can be (of course if you are familiar with, say, "The Ledge" and "Empire State", then you can also hear those qualities of weirdness and over-intensity nestled within tunes like "Go Your Own Way" and "Rhiannon").
I think Steely Dan is a much better fit for your argument in terms of the songs being both generally beguiling to a broad audience and so idiosyncratic simultaneously.
― Tim F, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
I remember: (a) Nicks getting miffed at Buckingham criticizing her approach to songwriting ("Would you call Bob Dylan structure-less?")
hah, he even takes a sort of dig at her songwriting in that clip from '82 upthread: "Stevie Nicks writes poetry, and...has a certain sense of melody which isn't always very well-developed..."
thing is, when "gypsy" goes into its sole diversionary little bridge part i don't think it really serves the song particularly well. i mean, one of the great things about "gypsy" (and "sara"!) for me is their "structure"-lessness and the relentless repetition of their "plonk-plonk-plonk-plonk-plonk..." themes
― dell (del), Thursday, 10 February 2011 04:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
And she became enough of a craftsman to write sturdy solo hits on her own, albeit often arranged by hacks.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 13:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Who you callin' a hack?"
Actually, totally forgot this guy goes all the way back to the Buckingham-Nicks album, and co-wrote a few doozies with Warren Zevon. Wikipedia offers the further illuminating factoid: "Wachtel and his wife Annie were arrested in 1998 on suspicion of possession of child pornography after questionable images were found on the computer in their bedroom, after they had taken it in for repair. Wachtel was sentenced to three years probation after pleading no contest to the charges."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
"book of love" is a little underwritten, but the chorus hits and the harmonies are incredible. manages to be deeply satisfying.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 22 July 2012 18:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
It was on my ballot! I found it a little underdeveloped and "tweaked-out Lindsey mode"-ish when I first encountered it, but it grew on my a lot and I find myself with the chorus stuck in my head on a regular basis.
― Clarke B., Sunday, 22 July 2012 18:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
"Book of Love" is one of my very favourite FM tunes. LB's vocals are insane. It's like the florid sequel to "Not That Funny Is It" (my other favourite LB tune).
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 July 2012 20:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
If the weaker half of Mirage was as good as the stronger half it'd be my favourite Fleetwood Mac album, I think.
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 July 2012 21:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, that record is strange within their discography for the vastness of the gulf between its strongest and its weakest material...
― Clarke B., Sunday, 22 July 2012 21:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
and viewed by the band (and Lindsey) as their one sellout "compromised" recording.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 July 2012 21:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
I like how it sounds like 1982 (i.e. the slow fade of the seventies studio rock ethos) yet nods towards a DIY ethic that never really took hold.
"Eyes of the World" and "Hold Me" made my ballot, while "Love in Store" is a fine third single.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 July 2012 21:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
ok...I think I love "That's Allright" after all those years: the banjo, Stevie holding those high notes.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 August 2012 23:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh...the album was #1 exactly thirty years ago!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 August 2012 23:46 (9 months ago) Permalink