The songs that explore his youth, the rivers and hometowns and his personal past are among his best from my point of view ... Basil, 5.15am, Tunnel of Love, Southbound Again, Get Lucky, Before Gas & TV...
I was often joking that his then next album would be called Geordieland for years now as that term sums up pretty well what's HIS ... where his roots are, where he comes from, what shaped him... I must say that an album called CULLERCOATS would fit in with these my dreams pretty perfect ...
Laughs & Jokes... and Basil are his most personal song ever, with mentioning Vince and the Gatehead Girl, and the Note in the letterbox... really hope he carries on to write more really personal stuff and does less book-in-lyric-transformations... lyrically wise spoken...
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