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1990

This chanson had driven me nuts for years. I knew the song from listening to it on the Tout Ici French radio or as a small clip on the Stingray Hits video station. (Yes, a station that plays music video.) Finally, I had to ask my source in Montreal and voila! This is it. The downfall and zaniness of life in the decade that mattered.

Welcome to 2020 – 1000 hours and counting down

DATE ARTIST ALBUM FORMAT TRACK ALBUM TIME RUNNING TOTAL CASSETTE TIME
2019-12-28 NILS FRAHM SCREWS ALBUM SIDE A/B 00:28:00 00:28:00  
2019-12-28 CRASS Sheep Farming in The Falklands flexi SIDE A 00:05:22 00:33:22  
2019-12-28 U2 NO LINE ON THE HORIZON ALBUM SIDE A 00:17:00 00:50:22  
2019-12-30 BOB DYLAN LIVE AT BUDOKAN ALBUM SIDE B 00:26:42 01:17:04  
2019-12-30 SUPERTRAMP EVEN IN THE QUIETEST MOMENTS ALBUM SIDE A/B 00:43:25 02:00:29  
2019-12-30 APHEX TWIN SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS 1985-1992 ALBUM SIDE A/B 00:34:20 02:34:49  
2020-01-01 EMMYLOU HARRIS LUXURY LINER ALBUM SIDE A/B 00:38:35 03:13:24  
2020-01-02 BOBBY WISEMAN SINGS WRENCH TUTTLE IN HER DREAM CASSETTE SIDE A   03:13:24 00:29:07
2020-01-05 ELUVIUM COPIA VINYL SIDE A 00:18:50 03:32:14 00:29:07
2020-01-05 ELUVIUM COPIA VINYL SIDE B 00:21:00 04:12:55 00:29:07
2020-01-05 GLENN GOULD WELL TEMPERED CLAVIER VINYL SIDE 1/6 00:19:41 03:51:55 00:29:07
2020-01-08 The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me VINYL SIDE A 00:16:16 04:08:11 00:29:07
2020-01-08 The Replacements Don’t Tell A Soul VINYL SIDE A 00:19:14 04:27:25 00:29:07
2020-01-27 Stevie Nicks Bella Donna VINYL SIDE A 00:19:28 04:46:53 00:29:07
2020-01-18 Skye Wallace Skye Wallace VINYL SIDE A/B 00:33:21 05:20:14 00:29:07
2020-01-18 EMMYLOU HARRIS LUXURY LINER VINYL SIDE A/B 00:38:35 05:58:49 00:29:07
2020-01-18 The Eagles Hotel California VINYL SIDE A/B 00:36:58 06:35:47 00:29:07
2020-01-21 Gillian Welch The Harrow and the Harvest (ACNY-1109LP) VINYL SIDE A/B 00:46:07 07:21:54  
2020-01-21 Steely Dan Gaucho (MCA 6102) VINYL SIDE A/B 00:37:48 07:59:42  
2020-01-22 Rolling Stones It’s Only RockN’ Roll (COC 79101) VINYL Side 1/2 00:48:01 08:47:43  
2020-01-25 Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine VINYL SIDE 1/6 00:48:41 09:36:24  
2020-01-26 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin (8122796641) VINYL Side 1/2 00:37:02 10:13:26  
2020-01-26 ELUVIUM COPIA (TRR110) VINYL Side I 00:18:50 10:32:16  
2020-01-27 Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence Temporary Residence Limited ‎– TRR085, Temporary Residence Limited ‎– TRR085LP VINYL Side 1/2/3 00:48:42 11:20:58  
2020-01-27 Bjork Debut (TPLP31) VINYL Side 1 00:48:15 12:09:13

How Soon Is Now

It was already the thrill hearing Johnny Marr at the Phoenix Club performing The Smiths classics. I was a photographer at that Morrissey concert at Massey Hall back in ’97 when the punters at the front were making desperate lunges towards the stage and their hero and security was punting them back into the crowd or out the side door and losing the battle. Morrissey went off stage while the band played and the surge of the crowd was on taking over the stage. Morrissey came back on to finish the song but a zealous security guard mistakenly stagerushed an upset Morrissey off stage towards the back. The show was over. Now I never thought that Morrissey himself would ever be back in Toronto again, and to perform this song live at Sony Center makes things complete. At least that’s the way I see it or mis-remember it as usual.