Buffy ,'Sleeper'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
She also contributed a vocal to the most recent Two Dollar Guitar record.
Trouser Press dismissed The Individuals album as "unmemorable." Poppycock, I say! Glenn Morrow went on to Rage to Live, Jon Klages played with Russ Tolman (ex True West) and Richard Lloyd, Janet formed The Wygals, then Splendora. Sheesh, I know people that still prize their last beat up copy of Fields as if it were precious and irreplaceable (which it is).
Klages also had a solo album that featured an as-yet-unrecorded Yo La Tengo as his backing band.
Wasn't Trouser Press really Anglophelic (is that the word)? No surprise they wouldn't did The Individuals.
Wasn't Trouser Press really Anglophelic (is that the word)? No surprise they wouldn't did The Individuals.
They started off being very Anglophile back when there was a lot of reason for that stance (mid 70s). But they covered tons of stateside new wave and were especially on top of the Hoboken bands.
The Individuals sound very much like a mix of first album Feelies with first two albums by The dBs (Gene Holder produced the record), with bits of Pylon and some later bands like The Silos. But they had three songwriters, four singers and interesting arrangements on all the songs giving them that classic tension/release thang we like from the art pop. Jangly, skittery guitar, superthump bass, danceable rhythms and lots of deadpan surreal lyrics.
On the other hand, would it be terribly wrong to include the Cantina Band Theme from Star Wars on my mix? :)
Although I'm not participating, I'll point out that it isn't the worst song you could come up with. The year of SW was also the year of "You Light Up My Life." Which is too sappy even for me.
Oh, as I said--I was born in a year with a LOT of bad bad bad music. Baaaaaaad music. But that link Jon gave was FABULOUS, and gave me several ideas (and I had no idea a few of them were from my year! (1977, if you hadn't got it by the Star Wars thing)).
Glad t' be of service, ma'am.
I would like to announce that I got the best Chrismukah present EVER from erinaceous today.
Ahem! My favourite song of all time was released in 1977!
RIO! I'm glad you liked it. (Let me know if the crookedness starts to bug and I will harass them to replace it.)
I have been irrevokably earwormed by Gordon Lightfoot. Be afraid, be very afraid.
If people are having trouble with the cover song category, I found this site.