Selected Listening N°1: Flash and the Pan – First and the Last

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIDqHfJ-FDU&list=LLRbgvZkbV127DEFpdPrTLvg&index=12

Australian new wave group initiated during the late 1970s by Harry Vanda and George Young, both former members of The Easybeats.

I first heard this song on a Mixtape (cant rememebr it if was Mixcloud or soundcloud) but i instantly loved it because of the Lyrics poeticness and the slow pace in which they are delivered. I especially love when it gets to the Aye ya, ya ya ya ya. I think i night buy an album of theirs on vinyl

In the middle of the star swarm
An overfill of life There’ll be a blinkered star child
Balanced on a knife
Lost to all the glory
Inward looking eyes
Extroverted hero
Losing paradise

In the wheel of turning circles
In an orbit of the moon
Through a maze of moving pathways
There floats a spinning spoon
In spite of its existence
A test for weary heads
A marker for the new man
The road ahead

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