A series for Saturdays in 2026 inspired by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's set of cards, Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas). Eno and Schmidt created them to be used to unblock creative impasses and approach problems from unexpected angles. Each week I'll turn over an Oblique Strategy card and post a song or songs inspired by the suggestion.
Last Saturday's card said [blank white card]. I went into my downloads folder and selected at random the first songs that came up with those three words in the title- Blank Stare by Pye Corner Audio, White Shirt by The Charlatans and Master Card by Mogwai.
Liz Ard suggested the deep listening trilogy/ meditation on death, Triloge de la Mort by Eliane Radigue and in a weird coincidence, Radigue died a couple of days later aged 94. Koume, the third and final part is here. RIP Eliane Radigue.
Jase suggested, quite rightly, Going Blank Again by Ride (and that had been my second thought for the entire post but I went with my first). Ernie went for an index card related track by Khate and JC from The Vinyl Villain suggested The National's Blank Slate, The Associate's White Car in Germany and The Card Cheat by The Clash.
Today's Oblique Strategy card reads as follows...
Towards the insignificant
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'Cease to exist/ Givin' my goodbyes/ Drive my car/ Into the ocean...'
Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf Mix)
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'I lost you/I have found nothing/ That I did not know/ The nothing I have found/ Makes me strong/
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'I liked you before/ I liked you before.../ Clutching insignificance/ Dancing with me'
Pixies, Julian Cope and Tim Burgess, dancing with death, finding nothing, heading towards insignificance...
Feel free to drop your own suggestions and responses into the comments box.
1 comment:
Apologies if this is too predictable but 'Road to Nowhere' by Talking Heads is the first thing that springs to mind.
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