If you’re Paul McCartney, you’ve had a lot of albums and singles released under your name. Many of these have been worldwide hits, no doubt. But you’ve also found the time to put things out that weren’t released as singles or just became little bits of treasure to certain circles of fans. If you’re Paul McCartney, you can continue to do these types of things, as you have tons of money and at this point in your career it doesn’t matter at all if you get back on the charts. Your fans are there and they will embrace something of yours out there somewhere. Luckily, though, you happen to have some tasty non-chart topping album cuts that are worth discussing. If you’re Paul McCartney, we’re going to be discussing those bits right now. If you’re not, just read, learn, and enjoy it all just as well. As Clint Harrigan (whoever the hell that was) said in the liner notes on the back of the first Wings album, “Can you dig it?”
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I’ve been going through this really weird musical phase lately, where I’m positively lapping up awesomely cheesy AOR from the ’70s and ’80s. After posing a question to the Audities list – the home of insanely great pop – about some of the best bands in the genre and being pitched recommendations for bands like Shooting Star, Tycoon, and others, it was brought to my attention that the New Pornographers did a cover of a song called “Your Daddy Don’t Know,” by the Canadian AOR band known as Toronto. (Geez, would you have guessed they were Canadian if I hadn’t told you?) I don’t know if the rest of Toronto’s oeuvre is as good as this song, but as long as it’s as least as good as the outfits the Pornographers are sporting here, I sense a best-of purchase is in my future…
Oh, and before you ask, no, I don’t know where you can actually purchase this cover, but I can tell you that it’s on the soundtrack to a Canadian movie called “FUBAR.” The soundtrack itself isn’t on Amazon, but given that it also features Sloan doing Rush’s “In the Mood,” Treble Charger doing April Wine’s “Roller,” and Chixdiggit taking on “The Kid Is Hot Tonight,” I’m half-tempted to click on the below photo and order a copy of the DVD. I mean, if that’s the only way I can hear the tunes, then so be it, y’know…?
1. Take a record sleeve with a face or body part on it.
2. Cover your respective body part or your own face with said record sleeve.
3. Have someone take your picture.
I came into the Prefab Sprout camp pretty late in the game, knowing precious little about them until they released their greatest-hits disc, A Life of Surprises, in 1992. Why did I finally take the plunge and pick up that collection? Because of my friends Brian Becknell and Jessie Oulahan, who drove up from Chesapeake, VA, to see me graduate from Averett College, and informed me that Prefab Sprout was the soundtrack to their entire drive. Both those kids have damned fine taste in music, and when they told me that, I knew I needed to give the band a chance. So I picked up the best-of, then began working my way backwards, starting with the group’s most recent album (at the time), Jordan: The Comeback, which opens with this song.
Now, Prefab Sprout’s one of my favorite bands and, if you saw my list of my favorite music of 2007, you know that the recent reissue of their Steve McQueen album was one of the best CDs I heard last year. (Even if you already own it, trust me when I tell you that the new disc of acoustic re-recordings is worth the price of admission.)
Paddy MacAloon, you rule. Now, c’mon, give us another album, eh…?
You might think that Kris Kross’ legacy rests solely on one song or more importantly their style of wearing their pants backwards. But no, music fans, their true legacy lies within the “Make My Video” video game. Behold and cower in its glory.
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