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This number, the “bonus” song on the band’s somewhat prematurely-issued greatest hits record, Home Movies, sums up the month’s selections quite well, doesn’t it? Read more
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A fine, airy, slightly psychedelic pop offering from one of England’s finest and most underrated bands. Read more
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Jim Capaldi was the drummer and founder of progressive/psychedelic band Traffic. When the band split in the early 1970s, he launched his solo career. In 1977, he released his fourth album, The Contender, and his first for Polydor. It’s a quite varied listen, and it’s rather obvious attempt at a contemporary commercial record, though his guitarist Pete… Read more
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Exile’s an interesting group. Started off as a beat group in the early 1960s, dabbled in psychedelic rock, then went LA singer/songwriter, but scored their first major hit with a disco number…and then became a country band. That hit was a hit for a reason; it’s a great song. Read more
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One of the more fun—if not slightly more obscure—musical trends from the early 1990s was the amalgam of jazz, pop, and soundtrack music. Sure, bands like Stereolab and Combustible Edison made the papers, but there were plenty of other bands out there, making quality music. Few bands did so with aplomb than London-based Corduroy. Recording… Read more
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Tim Buckley’s last stand. As far removed from his folk-singing days as you could possibly get, this track from his final album is a funky R&B ballad, complete with his angelic singing and back-up singers. And twenty years later, the equally-damned son would pick up where this album left off… Read more
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Galatians 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Read more
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A stone-cold soul/pop classic ballad. Dig it for all its amazing properties: the singing, the choir, the orchestration, the lyrics. (Pardon the lyrical video; the only other versions I found of this were rather terrible 1970s/1980s rerecords) Read more
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