This is so Precious. That’s the song; that’s the album summed up for me. There is something about the whole package: the snark of the lyrics, Chrissie Hynde’s perfect voice & the music that just fits. This song sums up the attitudes of the times then, and pretty much now. …
“Look Sharp”, “I’m The Man” and “Beat Crazy” are the essential Joe Jackson New Wave albums. In “Beat Crazy”, we see Jackson starting to move on to new musical pastures. While his New Wave phase is my favourite, I continue to enjoy his writing and music on his later albums …
Their first album was a great example of what was to come from The Cars. It almost serves as a “Best Of” album given the number of hits it contained (3 in Billboard Top 100) and airplay that the other songs received. If you’re familiar with the Cars, you will …
I was asked to take a listen to The Monks album “Bad Habits” in a response to my posting Elvis Costello’s “My Aim is True” in an Album of the Week. When I saw the album cover, I thought it looked familiar, so I checked my record collection, but did …
This album came out in 1977. This was an interesting time for me musically as we were in the heyday of disco & punk with an emerging New Wave. The heavy rock of the late ’60’s and early ’70’s was still there, but more in the background, perhaps a bit …
