beautiful

I've spent a LOT of time since May downloading, ripping CDs, borrowing bits of other peoples' playlists - and still my lovely lovely birthday iPod is not still yet half full.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the course of all this, I've been listening to some music I've not heard for many years.

I still know all the words to every track of
Rumours
American Pie
Band on the Run
Fragile
Tumbleweed Connection
Relics
Selling England by the Pound
Hunky Dory
The Kick Inside
Bridge over Troubled Water
The Best of Bread

I wonder which others are also lurking in my head, waiting to be re-awakened?

Oh and some Carpenters, obviously - not sure which album though.

I probably also still know all the words to Cherish, given the chance to test my knowledge (not in too much of a hurry with that one...).

Which are your most nostalgic know-all-the-words-forever albums?

Oh and one other, Tapestry which I was listening to this morning:

"I have often asked myself the reason for the sadness
In a world where tears are just a lullaby
If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try
You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart
And people gonna treat you better
You're gonna find, yes you will
That you're beautiful as you feel."


Its not as easy to believe these words as it was when I was a teenager. Sometime its hard or impossible to believe it, or to do it, or both.

But on the whole I do still think its true. And I don't know how I would keep on getting up in the morning if I didn't believe it most of the time.