dream_albums ovenbird An obscure album by the Tragically Hip lists the band members in the liner notes as A, C, M, Bony, and Bonny. 250713 ... raze the sixteenth and final track on an unnamed the the album is a song called "days like", and in it matt johnson sings, "look at the sun shine on everyone." his voice leaps up an octave before the shine. the chorus is a question: "can you go home again?" the answer comes in the closing seconds: "i can't go home again." 250714 ... raze i only saw the title on the front cover: "lair", by david lee. the artist was a man with dark hair and a private smile. i was left to guess at the sound of the music he made. 250806 ... raze i asked chatgpt about "the philosophy behind chris bell's 'i am the cosmos'" and was instead treated to a treatise on "the devil at daybreak", a 1978 album made by a man named hunter. 250808 ... raze "town crier" had mysteriously gone missing from elvis costello's "imperial bedroom". there was mention of the song on the album's wikipedia page, though, with talk of the audience's "electric applause" every time it was performed in a live setting. 251023 ... raze before "running_on_empty", there was "the chase" ep — a stopgap collection of live tracks on which a second lap steel player traded licks with david lindley. 251207 ... raze i couldn't find the "five albums" randy_newman box set i was looking for at a local record store, but they had the deluxe edition reissue of "sail away". now called "four sides", it included something called "the christmas glass concert". tempted as i was to take it home, the $89 asking price seemed a bit steep to me. 260112 ... raze "we_are_here" is the forgotten bryan ferry solo album of the 1980s. it usually gets overlooked because of the painfully cheesy cover photo, but it's bryan, so you know it's bound to be good. 260118 ... ovenbird I receive a rare Bruce Springsteen box set in the mail that is packaged in a hand stitched leather folio. The liner notes are embossed on the leather. Eight CDs are tucked into pockets like a CD wallet and the back has a leather patch of authenticity. 260127 ... raze there's a deleted donovan greatest hits record that somehow doesn't contain a single song from any of his studio albums. tracks include "vinvet furret" and "churress". 260209 what's it to you? who go blather from