La Fin de La Semaine Essay Question: Special "A Rose Among Thorns" Edition

Okay, I'm still decompressing from our quite wonderful Scottish vacation. So without any further hoo hah let's get directly to the subject of our new weekend business.

To wit:

...and the post-Elvis rock/pop/folk/r&b song/record you absolutely adore and couldn't live without by a major league band/solo artist the rest of whose work you otherwise couldn't give a shit about is...???

Discuss.

My pick to click? Gotta be this one.

Hey -- the freaking Cure, when I'm not giggling at head honcho Robert Smith's fashion choices, mostly bores me to scowling fidgets. But wow -- if there was a more gorgeous three and a half-plus minutes of anything in the last forty or so years, I for one haven't heard it.

Alrighty then -- what would your choice(s) be?

And have a great weekend, everybody!!!

Closed for Post-Scottish Monkey Business

Still decompressing from our fabulous Edinburgh et al vacation.

Coming tomorrow -- a genuinely way cool Weekend Essay Question.

In the immortal words of Andrea Martin as Edith Prickley -- "could be a hot one!" 😎

What I Heard on My Scottish Vacation

The charmingly monikered Northumbrian pipe virtuoso Kathryn Tickell and her infectious "The Wedding."

And Scottish folk rock band Rura with the interestingly minimalist and quite lovely "Elliott's."

By way of explanation I should add that a certain Shady Dame and I took a particularly fun afternoon trip out to the Highlands and Loch Ness the second day we were in Bonnie Scotland. And our tour guide/bus driver, a delightful gentleman named Alex McClure, had some interesting playlists of sort-of traditionalist Scottish music prepared for the excursion; the two songs above particularly caught my ear.

I should also add that both Tickell and Rura are considered in the vicinity of national treasures by their fellow Scots. And yes, the Tickell song at times sounds (amusingly) like the music accompanying a Nintendo game. 😎