Radio Song- R.E.M.
Helpless- Sugar
Union City Blue- Blondie
Envy- The Orlons
First Taste Of Hurt- Willie Tee
How Many Friends- The Who
Everybody Have A Good Time- The Darkness
Radio Song- R.E.M.
I had recently quit my job of ten years and began working at Smash CDs on St Mark's Place. "Out Of Time" had just been released and it was the soundtrack of Spring, 1991. The opening guitar arpeggios of this track will always take me back to sunny mornings in the East Village.
Helpless- Sugar
It's hard to believe "Copper Blue" turned 30 last week. I mean, if that record is 30 years old, how old are WE? (I enjoy this album now more than I ever did back then, and I loved it back then.)
Union City Blue- Blondie
A career-spanning, 60 pound, $400 Blondie boxed set was just released. And while I am usually a sucker for big vinyl packages, this seems a bit much, considering the six albums included, individually only fetch about $10-20 on the used market, which makes the 2-LPs of one and done rarities and book cost $280...you know...theoretically. Anyway, this is one from my favorite Blondie album, "Eat To The Beat."
Envy- The Orlons
Over the last year or so, I discovered a few later Orlons tracks which they recorded for the ABC label. I loved them so much, I started to go deeper with their more popular tracks on the Cameo-Parkway label. This one stood out.
First Taste Of Hurt- Willie Tee
Soon after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, a brilliant and heartbtreaking record was produced by my friend Leo Sacks. "New Orleans Social Club" brought together displaced musicians and they covered a very topical selection of songs that expressed both their anger and resiliance, and of course, their need to get back home. Willie Tee updated his 60's Northern Soul smash "First Taste Of Hurt." Here is the original.
How Many Friends- The Who
"You can count'em on one hand!" Had to listen to "The Who By Numbers" on Keith's birthday last week. I maintain, "The Who By Numbers" is an underrated classic.
Everybody Have A Good Time- The Darkness
The best AC/DC meets Queen song anyone has ever recorded!
6 comments:
That Orlons cut is a killer.
Your comment to the effect of "If that record's 30 years old, how old are we?" It's that exact both bombshell, and subsequent need to hit the turntable, that each succeeding "50th Aniversary Edition special", whether it's a supermarket magazine rack tribute edition or re-jiggering of the album itself, it's still the same mathematics...how old ARE we? I think I gauge most of the passage of time from my purchase of my own first LP (having listened to my brother's very impressive surf music collection, he being a surfer, before that).....Buffalo Springfield Again in 1967. It was the first time, after starting regular employment at 9 with a paper route, that I didn't have to chuck in all my earnings to the family fund, that I could buy some music of my own....I remember everything about it...the price label ($3.49) and bringing it back home on my bike from Unimart...and playing it on the all-in-one-box Magnavox record player (with detachable speaker lid!). Only 55 years ago...so how old ARE WE? (laughs)
efredd,
I imagine we will all have our personal experiences regarding records and age, and like you, I can recall every vivid detail of certain record purchases, going back as far as you, 1967. But "Pet Sounds" and "Abbey Road" and "What's Going On" and so many more, feel 50-60 years old. "Copper Blue" does not, at least not to me. That one snuck up on me!
A better way of putting it:
1966-2022 took 56 years.
1992-2022 took 5.
Thanks for this mix!
I get what you mean about Copper Blue and the years. I loved it when it came out too. I actually saw Bob Mould play a solo gig in Scotland almost a year before it came out. His solo career had was looking like it pretty much died on the vine, his last album, a tough listen at times, had flopped and he was back touring alone, playing dives. But an audience showed up and he played a couple of the tunes which became Sugar records, and they stood out, so much so that those songs left you feeling his career still had a few twists and turns ahead. I've seen him many times in the last 20 years, still playing a lot of the Copper Blue sings, which perhaps adds to the feeling that this record isn't a relic from my past. IIRC, it was also released on the same day as Tom Waits' Bone Machine, another favourite record.
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