🎧 Legit question, then, now and always: "What so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?"

#ElvisCostello's cover was a hit in 1979. #NickLowe wrote and produced.

#EddieFM #Rock #AltRock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHkh5gXLaRE

”As I walk through this wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself, "Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?"
Nick ”Basher” Lowes lyrics are still highly relevant. #nicklowe
https://youtu.be/N3r-TuIcK2k?si=EcrMkGZdc39KM1qC

Brinsley Schwarz - The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz

This is the last Brinsley Schwarz album...but what a way to go out. A super strong set of Nick Lowe tunes, including the first appearance of "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding".

I'd been looking for a good used copy of this for quite some time, and lucked out recently...

#nowPlaying #vinyl #nicklowe #BrinsleySchwarz #pubrock

Cruel To Be Kind
#NickLowe
https://youtu.be/FQdxGpV5aV8

Nick Lowe - Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit

It was probably too much to ask for more perfect records after Jesus of Cool and Labor of Lust, and indeed, they were followed by Nick the Knife and The Abominable Showman, two distinctly weaker efforts.

This LP turned things around a bit with better songs and support from Paul Carrack, Martin Belmont, and Bobby Irwin...and a step back from pop towards Brinsley Schwarz pub rock.

#vinyl #nowPlaying #nickLowe #impurePopForNowPeople

As you might expect, the #ElvisCostello crowd is totally different from the boygenius crowd in the same venue a couple of weeks ago. A lot less standing!! Awesome that #NickLowe opened! Talk about a twofer!!

#NickLowe – The Impossible Bird cd on #UpstartRecords 1994
https://youtu.be/h_U8lR_JrDo

#RuinASongBookOrShowsPlot
#HashtagGames

It's "Kind to Be Cruel"

#NickLowe (1979)

#music #pop #PowerPop #70s #EddieFM https://youtu.be/b0l3QWUXVho

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip

Nick Lowe:
🎵 Endless sleep

#NickLowe

https://open.spotify.com/track/5ip8SLFnp2Crgy8kmCWG1B

https://nicklowe.bandcamp.com/track/endless-sleep

"What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?"

~Nick Lowe (sang by Elvis Costello)

#peace #love #understanding #kindness #kindnessmatters #mindfulness #compassion #gratitude #ElvisCostello #NickLowe #buddhism

🎧 #Mood | #ElvisCostello & #TheAttractions (1979)

As I walk through this wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself, "Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?

What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

Costello & Co were covering a 1974 song by #NickLowe that didn't chart.

Elvis plays the Brown County Music Center in #Nashville on June 25th.

#music #indie #altrock #70s #UK #british

https://youtu.be/Ssd3U_zicAI

[1978] Nick Lowe - I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass. Top of the Pops performance introduced by Noel Edmonds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rroq-UvT-6M

#OldBritishTelly #NickLowe

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #PickOfThePops

Nick Lowe:
🎵 I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass

#NickLowe

https://open.spotify.com/track/4frZ5y5cdVP5eCGLxgOmBi

https://nicklowe.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-the-sound-of-breaking-glass

Probably my favorite singer-songwriter, musician, etc., is celebrating his 74th birthday today. Happy birthday to Nick Lowe! From his roots in ‘70s pub rock to his crooner stage to the amazing stuff he’s done recently with Los Straitjackets, Basher is the real deal.
From 2020, “Trombone” is a horn-saturated gem.
#NickLowe #PubRock @kathimmel

https://youtu.be/eUw5_xOtvzQ

in honour of monsieur lowe, for #jukeboxFridayNight it's got to be a song that he wrote & recorded in 2011 (& sounds like something the arctic monkeys could've done in the past few years)
#nickLowe #music #musique #birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBhsWuTgNQo
('stoplight roses')

#art #history: this is a weird one for me because i usually have a political connection with my subjects, but i don't know much at all in that respect about nicholas drain lowe (born #otd in 1949) - apart from the presence of an biography of karl marx in nick's personal library. that'll do for me. well, that & his exquisite voice, lyrical wit & unparalleled production skills (the damned, the pretenders, elvis costello). #nickLowe #karlMarx #music #musique #powerPop #newWave #art #illustration

Nick Lowe born this day in 1949.
#NickLowe

"You've gotta be cruel to be kind, in the right measure
Cruel to be kind, it's a very good sign"

Happy 74th birthday to Nick Lowe, Born today 24th March 1949

#photooftheday #nicklowe #rockstarscars #rocknroll #rock #music

📸Estate of Keith Morris

"Yes, you call up the law
Do what you like
You keep the car
I'm on my bike"

Happy 74th Birthday to Nick Lowe, Born today 24th March 1949

#nicklowe #rockstarscars #rocknroll #rock #music

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GideonCoe

Nick Lowe:
🎵 I Read A Lot

#NickLowe

https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZXrJDWizRmGzjzw0RQteB

https://nicklowe.bandcamp.com/track/i-read-a-lot