Pharmacology

I didn't intend to go into hiding after my last ultra-mega-super-post, but unfortunately I have found myself in the clinging arms of the sickness, and I have spent the last week sweating, swallowing pills and having very strange dreams.

I have also spent a long time wishing I had a stereo with a remote control. Reaching out from under the covers to take a sip of water has taken a 20-minute battle of will, so getting out of bed to reach the CD player has occupied the best part of an afternoon.

This was the best musical medication I discovered... a slow, sensual, disco jam from Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, which you can find on his 'It's a Feedelity Affair' compilation. The best disco you ever go to will be full of girls, and they'll be playing this.

LINDSTROM - MUSIC (IN MY MIND)



I have found more aural anaesthetic in the shape of the excellent Joakim album 'Monsters and Silly Songs'. It's had plenty of praise elsewhere, and rightly so. There's a dazzling variety of tracks, not all of which I can recommend as a soundtrack to feverish hallucinations. The brilliant 'Love-Me-2' for example, sent me hiding beneath the covers as monsters descended from the ceiling. Much as depicted on the cover in fact...



So my speaker therapy has come from tracks like 'Lonely Hearts', which is probably the most 80's record made since the 80's. And that's saying something!

JOAKIM - LONELY HEARTS