A few good times in my life
This week shows some songs from the sixties, soul and mainly songs from the end of the seventies, where great songs were written.
1967: Dave Davis
1981: Soft Cell
1981: R.E.M.
1965: Sonny & Cher
1971: Aretha Franklin
1976: The Ramones
1965: Wilson Picket
1967: Bobbie Gentry
1970: Jimmy Cliff
1969: David Bowie
1963: The Crystals
1979: The Boomtown Rats
1979: The Flying Lizards
Another three songs that appeared on my mobile phone in a row a few days ago on my way to work. The first one was by The Gun Club's second album Miami from 1982. A long time ago of course but I love this album from the first time I listened to it until now. It was a rough and grounded sound torn between post punk and pre-grunge. Seldom listened to a true sound like this later.
The Gun Club - Texas Serenade
In 1979 The Flying Lizards released their first self titled album, an experimental excursion in new sounds trying to find their own way between pop, experimental and dub. Their legacy will be superb cover versions by Eddie Cochran and Berry Gordy.
The Flying Lizards - Summertime Blues
Polly Scattergood is an English singer/songwriter and released more than one year ago her latest album In This Moment. It is an album I enjoy listening from time to time to her Eighties-tinged pop that could be recorded in David Bowie's Hunky Dory days
Polly Scattergood - The End Was Glorious
Another compilation came to my ears a few days ago. Do You Have the Force? It sprawls the years from 1978 to 1982 after punk broke and a few artists are ready to create alternative electronic sounds. Based on the ideas of punk and that everything could be possible bands like Suicide in NYC or Flying Lizards in Britain created a new kind of sound. Instead of guitars and drums they were focused on electronic equipments and prepared the floor for the the upcoming club sounds. It made fun listening to this long gone songs again.
Suicide - Mr. Ray
The Flying Lizards - Steam Away
New to me was The Sea of Wires, a DIY-synthesizer duo from Coventry and as far as I know they released their songs only on cassettes. It is a dark krautrock inspired sound and too good not to give them a listen.
