Now listening to....

...in keeping with the 'theme/feel' from a time before modern conveniences really managed to 'screw things up' - I find this group to be a breath of fresh air.

One of the songs off of this album really does go along with that 'Upstairs/Downstairs' essence a sort of 'I am rich and you are not and therefore you will do my bidding' air.

There is a song called We both go down together:

Here on these cliffs of Dover
So high you can't see over
And while your head is spinning
Hold tight, it's just beginning

You come from parents wanton
A childhood rough and rotten
I come from wealth and beauty
Untouched by work or duty

And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, my love
We both go down together

I found you, a tattooed tramp
A dirty daughter from the labour camp
I laid you down in the grass of a clearing
You wept but your soul was willing

And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, my love
We both go down together

And my parents will never consent to this love
But I hold your hand

Meet me on my vast veranda
My sweet, untouched Miranda
And while the seagulls are crying
We fall but our souls are flying

And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, oh my love
And oh, my love, my love
We both go down together

Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Picaresque
Year: 2005
Title: We Both Go Down Together

It just conjures up a time when a young woman could have been 'ravaged' by the young 'master' of a house and no one would have batted an eye. The Decemberists manage to somehow capture this and set it to music - brilliant.

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Oh yeah I was also listening to this while I worked on my 'syllabus' for my Yoga class - despite the fact that someone I know thinks David Crosby did not deserve his last liver transplant....regardless - I love the album.