but I don't think Shane would have been allowed to sing, "I love your breasts, I love your thighs".ģ. What if the Pogues had been around in the 60s? They might have appeared on Ready, Steady, Go as in this video recreation. The reggae original is the most well-known very, but Brownsville Station also did a pretty cool hard-rocking version too. Written and produced by Jimmy Cliff, taking a biblical quotation (Matthew 5:37, scripture fans) and turning it into a chat up line.
The guitar also sounds very reminiscent of Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London, but as Browne produced that and was good friends with Warren, we'll let him off.ĭedicated to the woman who betrayed Shaun Ryder. This one's only from a couple of years ago, but it sounds like it could have been lifted from Browne's 70s heyday. Twenty years later, they released a second eponymous album which harkened back to their early days. Sometimes, even at the height of her fame, Cyndi was a little bit too kooky for her own good.īefore they became leading lights of the power pop scene, Cheap Trick had more of a hard rock sound on their eponymous debut album in 1977. More incisive musical criticism to follow. Spaceman is still a bit of a dick though.
but good," is the funniest youtube comment I've read this week. Oh, and special mention, of course, to Karen O and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Anyway, ten songs indebted, one way or another, to the chorus hook of She Loves You, since, if we can only agree on one thing today, it's that the Beatles surely invented the idea of putting more than one yeah together in a song lyric. I dunno, Bob Stanley or someone far smarter than me about pop music will have a theory on that, I'm sure. OK, pop music had been around for a long time before the Fab Four hit the Cavern, but maybe pop music wouldn't mean what it means today if it hadn't been for the Beatles. Of course, the Beatles didn't invent rock 'n' roll, but maybe they did invent pop music. (*I would have reposted My Top Ten Songs About Moving House, but as it's only 18 months since our last move - don't ask - it seemed too soon.) I really wanted to pay tribute to the late Glenn Frey this week (far too many of our heroes are dying young at the moment), but sadly I'm moving house* on Monday so I don't have a spare second.
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