Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood” could be my favorite album of 2006. It brings back memories of working out with weights at the YMCA, and of vacationing with family in Montana. It’s an album that I had on heavy rotation for my personal listening for a long time.
They should play this song before sports events.
And we could all wear gabardine suits. I don’t even know what gabardine is. Sounds uncomfortable.
Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno put together one of the most underrated album gems of the 1970s with Diamond Head. Miss Shapiro is a great cut from the album.
I don’t know much about Alive N’ Kicking, but I love this 1970 version of Tighter and Tighter.
One of my favorite instrumentals from my vinyl collection days. Astradyne, from the album Vienna by Ultravox, is pretty much dominated by synthesizers and a fantastic opening to the album.
Karl Wallinger, the force behind World Party, passed away last week. World Party had some great albums in the late 80s and early 90s, and my favorite was Goodbye Jumbo. And my favorite track – Way Down Now – had classic lyrics.
I just discovered the song “Fun Destruction” by Teleman about half a year ago and it quickly became an earworm. I find it very reminiscent of Ultravox, not so much due to the music as the lyrics.
One time in Muncie, I bought a 50 pack of 45 records in a box for like a dollar or something, and ran home to play them on my relatively new record player. There was one good record, the rest were terrible. This was it.
People today don’t remember her well, but Melanie had giant hits in the early 1970s and performed at Woodstock in 1969. This song – Lay Down – was inspired by her performance at Woodstock and how the crowd responded to her.
Suzanne Vega made beautiful songs in the 1980s, none any more beautiful than Small Blue Thing.