PSoTD

Phil Lynott sure had a great voice. Hard to believe he's been gone over 20 years.

Discovery.

A good enough song to repeat.

One of my favorite soundtracks, ever, is for Sid and Nancy. I wish there was a clip on YouTube of Joe Strummer doing this song - it's just a great listen.

This is New York boy
We wanna hear you talk boy
This is New York Boy
You ain't never gonna walk
Downtown they got some guy
Shot forty-seven people on a PCP high
Uptown they got a team from Queens
Busy beating people through a mean machine, yeoww

You had a shot at a thing called love
In the Hollywood hills
You can't help but follow that love
Even if it kills

This is New York boy
Murder one in court boy
This is New York boy
You ain't ever gonna walk

You were a rebel in a drum town son
Somebody loaded up the plastic gun
Seen that monkey got you shooting in your blood
Using bullets from the dum dum club

You had a shot at a thing called love
In the Hollywood hills
You can't help but follow that love
Even if it kills

You had a shot at at thing called love
Like shooting up on pills
You can't help but follow that love
Even if it kills

You can't make a deal son
Your life is ruined
You can't play with knives
The junkie's still alive

You had a shot at a thing called love
In the Hollywood hills
You can't help but follow that love
Even if it kills

You had a shot at a thing called love
Like shooting up on pills
You can't help but follow that love
Even if it kills

You gotta follow that love
You gotta follow that love
Just follow that love
Follow that love

Even if it kills
Even if it kills
Even if it kills

What this blog needs today is one great song ...

Yep, took a listen again to David + David's Boomtown on tape. I still think it's a great album, and I tend to agree that it was a sleeper classic of the 1980s. I didn't know until I checked out this site what happened to the group after this album.

This Way Down.

I always liked Ronnie Montrose, but never quite got into Gamma, although I made tapes of their albums from a friend who was a big fan.

Gamma 3 is pretty humdrum. I much prefer his work with his namesake band, Montrose.

Finn Brothers.

Damn, I have no idea how such a great song escaped my ears for so long.

Since Maria McKee was mentioned, I feel obligated to bring up her brilliant and unfairly out-of-print 1996 solo offering "Life is Sweet". Disdained by many of her fans as too experimental and deleted from the catalog soon after its release by Geffen Records, the record had more in common with glam-period Bowie than with McKee's customary country and R-n-B flavored rock. This is also said to be her personal favorite record.

Masterpiece or mistake? Decide for yourself ...

I actually also have this CD, but this tape was my first go-around with Lone Justice's second album, Shelter.

The band only had two albums released while they were together, and apparently only Maria McKee, the vocalist, was part of the band for both. They received critical reviews but couldn't sell enough albums.

I was hoping to find a YouTube video of their song "Belfry", which is probably the best song on the album, but no such luck.

Alright, I have to go see this movie next week. I suspect I'll end up buying the soundtrack by Eddie Vedder as well.

Wednesday's Cassette was from The Beat Farmers: Tales of the New West.

It's a pretty good album, more novelty than musicianship, with one of the more fun songs to sing along with from the 1980s - Happy Boy. Don't believe me? Check it out.