Meagan Dreams EP 12: Beginning, Middle, End

Join me for this week's installment of Meagan Dreams as I play and discuss songs that refer to or are about the beginning, the middle and the end of something. (A point in time, a relationship, a story, an idea?) You can listen to this show online at eardrumbuzz.net - I’ll be live on air from 6 PM to 9 PM Pacific time tonight, Tuesday, September 10th.

 

Flyer image and design are by Patrick Dickson - it depicts these concepts simply by representing them as three individual points on a horizontal line, but as we all know, journeys, narratives and stories are rarely linear.

 

“she said you know that good times are so hard to follow when all your yesterdays shine but the rains come tomorrow and I love the way it starts but I hate the way it ends the way the end denies the start and sends little rhythmic arcs sending me round and round and round and round the bend your voice sounds so sad and my heart’s filled with sorrow your tears and my pride are both so hard to swallow” _ Adam Franklin, “Good Times Are So Hard to Find” off of the Future Ruins album

 

Meagan Dreams is live every Tuesday at 6pm Pacific on www.eardrumbuzz.net

 

Lisa Gerrard & David Kuckhermann - The Beginning (from their 2018 album Hiraeth)

Red Sparowes - As Each End Looms and Subsides (from the album The Fear is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer)

EBN - Beginning of the End (from Telecommunication Breakdown)

 

spoken break (backannounce, welcome and introduction) 

 

VU - Beginning to See the Light (Closet Mix) (from their third studio album, The Velvet Underground, 1969)

Crowded House - Start of Something (from their 2021 album Dreamers are Waiting)

Gang of Four - Forever Starts Now (from Anti Hero)

 

spoken break

 

The Mandelbrot Set - Punter Startler

New Order - Dreams Never End (opening track off of Movement, 198

The Cure - Siamese Twins (from Pornography, 1982)

 

spoken break

 

Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle (1972)

Mint Julep - Halfway (from In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep, 2021)

Wild Nothing - Midnight Song (from Nocturne, 2012) 

 

spoken break

 

DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water (from Frog in Boiling Water, 2024) 

Milly - Stuck in the Middle (from Eternal Ring, 2022)

Alcest - Into the Waves (from Shelter (Luxus), 2014)

 

spoken break

 

Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses 

Franz Ferdinand - All Your Friends (OV: LCD Soundsystem)

Depeche Mode - Goodbye (Gesaffelstein remix, 2013)

 

spoken break

 

My Bloody Valentine - Never Say Goodbye

Elliot Smith - Bye (from Figure 8) 

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren

 

spoken break

 

Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody - I Used to Live for a Thousand Years (from their 2013 release Black Horses) 

Swervedriver - Good Times Are So Hard to Find (off of the Future Ruins album, 2018)

Adam Franklin - End Credits (from Spent Bullets, 2009)

Swervedriver - love/hate the way it starts/ends (live from Tower Records)

 

spoken break

 

The Reds Pinks and Purples - Seems Like We’re Always Starting Over (from their release, Slow Torture of an Hourly Wage, 2022) 

The Sundays - Here’s Where the Story Ends

M83 - Farewell/Goodbye (from Before the Dawn Heals Us, 2005) 

 

spoken break

 

Father John Misty - We’re Only People (And There’s Not Much Anyone Can Do About That) (From God’s Favorite Customer, 2018)

Smashing Pumpkins - This Time (from Machina, Machines of God, 2000)

Air - Surfing on a Rocket (from Talkie Walkie, 2004)

 

spoken break

 

The Smiths - Barbarism Begins at Home (live, unknown performance)

Joy Division - Atmosphere

 

spoken break and farewell/goodbye 

 

The Cure - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

The Smiths - I Know It’s Over (from The Queen is Dead, 

RIDE - Vapour Trail 

 

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