A friend of mine found this song on iTunes and played it for me. Curiously left off of the band’s debut, Hot Fuss, this track’s wonderful melody, fine arrangement and clever lyrics, puts it among the best of the group’s work. It was released as a B-side on the single for “Mr. Brightside.”
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Originally released on the 1985 album The Head On The Door, this quirky track is definitely Cure-sounding, but the arrangement is a change of pace from the many singles that made the band famous. I first heard it during the mediocre James Van Der Beek vehicle “The Rules of Attraction” – it turned out to be the best thing in the movie and has since grown into the role of my “favorite Cure song.”
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This track came out of the recording sessions for the group’s hugely successful Rumors album. Written by Stevie Nicks (who, by the way, was quite the hottie in her day), the song was named after a town in Maryland that Nicks saw on a trip with then-boyfriend Lindsay Buckingham. Unfortunately, at a running time of 4:29, the song was deemed “too long” to make the album. Considering that vinyl allows for 24 minutes per side and the album’s total running time was 39:03, that argument holds very little water. Nicks has since theorized that the song’s exclusion was an example of the growing tension in the band at the time. Regardless, the song has a delicate, cascading sound and is some of the very best of the band’s work. It was finally released on the group’s box set, 25 Years: The Chain, and a live version recorded on the group’s live album, The Dance, became an unlikely hit twenty years after the original version was recorded.
Listen to a song clip here.
Originally released in 1973, this song first appeared on my radar during the Spike Lee movie, “25th Hour,” where Ed Norton plays a drug dealer spending his last day as a free man before heading off to prison. The song plays in the background during the sequence in the nightclub when Phillip Seymour Hoffman (playing a schoolteacher) decides to kiss one of his more “mature” students. The sweet funky groove and the addictive lyric “but it’s all right / we can still go home” has earned it a permanent place in my iPod. I only wish clubs played music like this in real life.
Listen to a song clip here.
If those 54 counts of child pornography looked bad in 1999, it’s nothing compared to the trouble Gary Glitter is in now.
Dude was just arrested in Vietnam – ‘Nam, man! – for having sex with two underage girls, one of whom was 12 years old. He’s looking at up to 12 years in prison, and possibly the death penalty.
Glitter is 61 years old. And he’s having sex with 12- and 15-year-old girls. Hey, we’re grateful and all for “Rock & Roll Part II” and “Do You Wanna Touch” (which now seems even creepier than when he was busted simply for having pictures of 12-year-old girls) but, come on, man, 12-year-old girls?
On the plus side, it may create a rock and roll first: an artist sentenced to death, which is actually pretty punk rock when you think about it. Any tosser can OD, but to have a country line up a firing squad to take your ass out? You must be a badass. Or a pedophile, one of the two.
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