This came out on January 2. I love Fiona Apple’s raspy, almost Bonnie Tyler-esque vocal intensity, the jazzy production touches and the nervous post song dance. She puts it all into this version of the song. There was nothing left, hence the collapse in the final seconds of the video. Of course, I always liked Mandy …
Mike Scott has always had a little Jagger swagger, fancying himself a rock n roll troubadour, yachtsman’s cap and all. It’s not definitional, per se, to his wide-ranging song-writing cannon, but it’s there in anthems such as “The Whole of the Moon,” “Everything is Rags,” and, most notably, “The Big Music.” Nearly two decades ago …
When I posted the recent song “St. Helena” by Standing Before Kings I was reminded of this song as they both find great lessons in history and deserve to be listened to. One thing I didn’t remember about this song was the WICKED sax parts, which compete with the Sike Furs “Pretty in Pink” for …
A year-and-a-half ago I walked into the legendary Berlin nightclub on Belmont Street in Chicago for the first time in probably two decades. A bit of expansion, some needed touch-ups to the restrooms, but for the most part the place retained the charm the key value that made me a straight regular at a mostly …
“I have heard the big music, and I will never be the same.” Understatement of the decade. I was just saying the other day… one of the great things about being young in the 1980s is that it seemed that every week you’d hear something new and wonderful that you’d never heard before. The Waterboys’ …