“Buh-buh-pow, buh-buh-pow… “ It was New Wave’s answer to The Surfaris’ “Wipeout;“ all through the 80s – along with Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” — it was the song that every young drummer aspired to, and what every aspiring drummer tapped school desks and car dashboards along to. I’m going to skip this school-band stuff, kids daydreamed, …
This is not as bad as the concept seems at first blush. It’s synthy, nifty, okay-ish. According to the Youtube description, Debbie Harry recorded this tune for the movie “Three Businessmen” in 1998.
“That’s when I absorbed the entirety of the musical artist’s vision for the first time in years. And that vision, my friends, is delivered in the space between the songs, a pause that has no place in a sea of discreet digital files. On an album though, that white space focuses the mind on the …