Being Stupid Again- Public Image Ltd.
If It's Love- Squeeze
Unitone Skank- Dr. Alimantado
Imperial Bedroom- Elvis Costello
Rock Me When He's Gone- Elton John
Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do- Otis Clay
Time On My Hands- World Party
Being Stupid Again- Public Image Ltd.
Johnny Rotten is back, for better or worse. I enjoyed the new PIL record, and I really loved this track. Your miles may vary, and I'm betting they will.
If It's Love- Squeeze
This track, the whole "Frank" album actually, takes me back to a really lousy time. I moved out of my fantastic apartment on the 28th floor of a building on Mercer Street off Astor Place into a lonely studio on 60th and Lexington. I quit my job of 8 years, which I regretted an hour after doing it. And I was dating a lunatic, who I took to see Difford & Tilbrook perform an intimate acoustic show at a high school in the East Village, where she proceeded to complain loudly about everything from the venue to the people standing around her. The opening guitar riff of this track, the first on "Frank," sets off a flood of crap memories every time I hear it, yet I can still listen to most of this album with great pleasure.
Unitone Skank- Dr. Alimantado
"The Best Dressed Chicken In Town" is considered to be one of the all time great reggae records. Fans of the genre will probably agree. Others, well...I hope you at least get through this track.
Imperial Bedroom- Elvis Costello
One of my favorite non-LP tracks by E.C.. Anyone care to come up with other songs that were album titles not on the albums they were titled after?
Rock Me When He's Gone- Elton John
Speaking of non-LP tracks, this is a great one from the "Madman Across The Water" sessions.
Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do- Otis Clay
The first time I heard this track was on a Huey Lewis record. It was written by Mike Duke, who played keyboards and shared lead vocals with Jimmy Hall for one Wet Willie record. This version by Otis Clay features the legendary Hi-Rhythm Section. (The Huey Lewis version is pretty damn good, too.)
Time On My Hands- World Party
Another non-LP track, this beauty is from the "Bang" sessions. Where's that new album, Karl? We've seen eight COVID variants since you promised it was coming. We ain't getting any younger!
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EC’s Almost Blue :)
Be The Void by Dr Dog was released on the Wild Race EP a few months after the Be The Void LP.
One pretty obvious answer to the non LP title is LZ's "Houses of the Holy". The song appeared on the next album, Physical Graffiti
Houses of the Holy
Waiting For the Sun
VR
Sal, I haven't been able to get your zips to download for several weeks now. Is there something I can do on my end? I click and nothing happens.
Vicki,
The first thing I do after publishing is check the zip. There are no issues on this end.
What happens when you click on the zip?
I have been paying to use a legit site without pop-up ads or any waiting time since the blog started, so after you click, a window with the file should immediately pop up...at least on a Mac.
Is this what we're after? The track "Out of the Silent Planet" by King's X appearing on 1989's LP "Gretchen Goes to Nebraska" and not its predecessor, the 1988 album titled "Out of the Silent Planet". Thanks for doing up your zip, btw. Cheers!
Nice to see a little love for the new PiL, a great listen flying under the radar
Hey Vicki,
I can't even spell ZIP still ...
There is something wonky with some of my security settings in some browsers.
When I click on the zip using Chrome nothing happens (and no error message). These days I'm using Firfox for my Burning Wood browsing. In Firefox I get a message something about a dangerous file but it gives me the option to "download anyway" and I do!
Good luck.
JAYESSEMM & Sal,
Sal, sorry I didn't reply earlier. I needed some sleep. We keep weird hours here. Plus the rain makes our bed more cozy. Especially with Dusty In Memphis. I just forced myself to get up a little while ago. So yeah, no box pops up. But I'm not using a Mac.
JAYESSEMM, I was using Chrome and just like your experience with it, nothing happens - zilch. Which is weird because a few weeks back it worked like a charm. After reading your post I used a different browser. Voila! A box popped up saying: "This file can't be downloaded securely. Malicious attackers might be able to read or change insecurely downloaded files." I rolled the dice. Thanks. I think. Long as the malicious attackers don't molest me:)
VR
Looks like a great mix! I've never heard most of these.
That PiL number sounds purty good to me, all ominous rumble out the gate, but methinks our Johnny might be trying to keep his contrarian cred up there in the lyrics. Not a deal-breaker, tho, since I often don't pay heed to lyrics, if I even take the time to decipher 'em.
That Elty number is familiar, as one of my all-time fave albums is It Ain't Easy by Long John Baldry, which EJ produced half of and Rod Stewart the other. Sounds like the same ensemble that whelped LJB's version did this one, too, and that's not a slight.
Your Song Of The Day led me to seek out the original, now added to my Move playlist. Thanks for that, too!
C in California
How about Sheer Heart Attack - Queen. The song appeared on News of the World a bit after the album of the same name.
I was at that Difford and Tilbrook show too. I hope I wasn't one of the people the lunatic was complaining about! I've always liked Frank--good songs and a good sound. Is this the first song you've posted as a Song of the Day because of the bad memories? :)
During the Imperial Bedroom tour, Elvis and the Attractions were playing "Imperial Bedroom" as the last song of their set, before the (multiple) encores. It was a low-key way to get off the stage, but the "au revoirs" made sense.
Bill
Correction (that today's post called my attention to) -- not Song Of The Day, but Today's Cover Version, for that Move song. But you knew what I meant.
C in California
Must have been a Chrome update: Right clicking to save the zip freezes the browser; Left clicking downloads it directly. Okay, then.
"Brain Salad Surgery" is a tune that was left off the eponymous LP, too.
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