I just re-discovered Squeeze. Some great songs I had forgotten about over the years, like Another Nail for my Heart and Cool for Cats.
So what bands have you re-discovered?
I started this thread because I heard Pulling Mussels from a Shell on the radio and realized what a great song it is.
I don’t listen to rock much anymore, but occasionally I’ll hear a song and re-visit a band’s catalog and hear some great songs I missed.
Most recently it was the The Who. For instance, Who Are you and Love, Reign O’er Me are really terrific.
So yeah, what are some great songs/bands you have re-discovered?
The Small Faces - proper East London working class boys, and in particular Stevie Marriott. I don’t know how I lost them …
He’s 18 in this clip, belting it out in a typical local dance hall of the era (bit livelier at the back). Fucking beautiful:
Oddly enough, my most recent was also Squeeze. “Up the Junction” is one of those songs I didn’t get in the least when it came out, but with 30 years experience now all of a sudden it’s brilliant. Boy, has it changed…
I also recently re-discovered that The Specials are much more interesting than just a fun dance band. Though they are also a fun dance band.
Tempter by the Fruit of Another was always one of my fav’s …
Interestingly, that track was sung by the keyboardist, Paul Carrack. I never really noticed the difference…it sounded like Squeeze.
It’s sung on the original by a combination of Carrack, Glenn Tilbrook and Elvis Costello (the very low and very high lines) who produced it and asked them to change the arrangement into a soul ballad. Carrack says when he hears it all he thinks of is how under-rehearsed he was.
Squeeze still put on a great show. with practically the East Side Story line-up - only Carrack is missing and last time I saw them he was replaced by Steve Nieve!
MiM
He wrote it, of course. He took over keyboard duties from Jools Holland but was only in the band a year or so …
No he didn’t - it’s a Difford/Tilbrook song. Chris Difford mainly wrote the lyrics on the way to the airport in London. Whereas the very English ‘Up The Junction’ was written in the USA. Strict division of labour in Squeeze, Difford would give lyrics to Tilbrook and he’d come back with the song.
MiM
Funny you should mention Foetus, since my answer was going to be Thirwell’s avant-garde big-band-y instrumental project, Steroid Maximus. I’m in the middle of moving and found some of their discs I hadn’t listened to in many years. Very good stuff.
Opps!
one of the greatest sexual lyrics ever written:
Dare I ask what it means, exactly?
Call me pervy Pedro but - imo - he’s referring to digital stimulation of lady bits, except here it would be mid-teens. Some might say oral but I say naaay!