
Richard Osman's love of language
Word of Mouth
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Patty McAlloon
Lyrics are the thing I love and bands with great lyricists is what I love. Take someone like Patty Mcalloon, who's most unfairly overlooked lyricist of his generation for various reasons. My brother is a musician and he listens to music via the... Swade,. So he listens to me, he's listening to the riffs, he’s listening to the instruments. He couldn't tell you what instruments are being played. And so, essentially when you're listening to a song, you're hearing the poet sing his words. You think, come on. That's tasty. The Old Magician has not improved with age. It's just about this guy sort of
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