Highest iTunes Playcounts from the '80s

1980: Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
1981: Born, Never Asked - Laurie Anderson
1982: Tell Me When It's Over - Dream Syndicate
1983: Pills and Soap - Elvis Costello
1984: Pretty Girls Make Pretty Graves - The Smiths
1985: Hammerheads - Shriekback (unexpected)
1986: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Elvis Costello
1987: Tom Waits - Yesterday Is Here
1988: Wish You Were Here (live acoustic) - Pink Floyd
1989: Freakin' At The Freakers' Ball - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

Highest iTunes Playcounts from the '70s

1970: Strangers - The Kinks
1971: California - Joni Mitchell
1972: Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - David Bowie
1973: Men of Good Fortune - Lou Reed
1974: Fear Is a Man's Best Friend - John Cale
1975: Mellow My Mind - Neil Young
1976: Pablo Picasso - The Modern Lovers
1977: Paper Thin Hotel - Leonard Cohen
1978: Équinoxe Part 1 - Jean Michel Jarre
1979: Powderfinger - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Highest iTunes Playcounts from the '60s

1960: Dirty Dirty Feeling - Elvis Presley
1961: Marieke - Jacques Brel
1962: Down on Me - Janis Joplin
1963: Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Bob Dylan
1964: Sie Liebt Dich - The Beatles (unexpected)
1965: Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
1966: Laisse-Moi - Chantal Goya
1967: Wild Honey - The Beach Boys
1968: Baby - Os Mutantes
1969: Candy Says - The Velvet Underground

Veritable Cornucopia

Bristling with images:
Prototype blueprints,
Grappling hooks, stopwatches,
Calendars and paranoia.

Bridges to nowhere can only take you so far,
But it's time, not distance, that matters most
When you're just sitting over coffee, hung over with a cold.

I don't want to go anywhere.
So, I just lean over the railing and stare
At water under the bridge.

Farming the Octogon

Fins sprout like grey stalks of corn.
It is springtime and my head swells
As though my blood and I agree
That the only place to be is outside.