Blog: Said the Gramophone

The Essex Green - "Don't Know Why (You Stay)" .Cars drink gasoline. Old men drink gin. Turntables drink electricity. Young men drink beer. Trees drink sunlight, drink rain. We drink songs. We drink like fishes. (Fishes drink saltwater.) On a hot day I'll drink a hundred songs. On a lonely day I'll drink myself sick. And the thing with songs, the thing that makes them better than booze, hooch, moonshine, is that you can drink the same song a hundred times & get just as drunk with every listen. You can listen to the same song a thousand times and [...]

• Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I'll Be Glad
• The Essex Green - Don't Know Why (You Stay)