You *might* know Garland’s version of Wild in the Streets, or 96 Tears, but Mystery Kids was always my favorite.
Torn and Frayed is one of the severely underplayed songs from The Rolling Stones’ catalog.
I will admit I was never the biggest fan of The Clash. I liked them fine, and saw them as one of the acts on a Day on the Green in the Bay Area, but I own one album by them.
I’ve always liked Roxy Music, it was just different than the rest of the stuff out there, with some curious lyrics. And I love the late albums by the group, but maybe my favorite song by them is “Do The Strand”.
So many of the songs I love from this millennia snuck by me without notice when first released. So is true for Pete Yorn’s “Life On A Chain” and I’ve only been enjoying it for the last five years or so.
You probably do hear Happy Xmas a bit this time of year. It’s one of John Lennon’s best, though.
Sir Sly isn’t a household name. I honestly don’t know if I ran across them from radio station WXPN or some other way. But “&Run” is an earworm, and the vocals are absorbing.
Dizzy is at the top of bubblegum pop created at the time, by Tommy Roe.
If you don’t know where or how Power to Believe fits into Thanksgiving, you go look it up and share it with family in a week.
One of the earliest of the visible punk banks, Eddie and the Hot Rods had a brief but very engaging time as a recording artist in the “movement”.