A complete aside from all things toys as is my occasional want here are some recent observations of the musical persuasion.
Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull. Now first off I'm a Tull fan and I adored certain LP's in the Seventies. Alas there just wasn't time to listen to all of Tull's prodigious output when I was a teenager and like many bands I have had to catch up with them later.
Thick as a Brick was one of those missing albums, omitted from my knowledge like a lost jigsaw piece. I did, I sat it out.
So, I have just listened to the whole thing on You Tuber. What can I say. I was sorely disappointed. Apart from the title track, which is classic Jethro, the rest is a mess. It sounded discordant and lacked the Tull sense of melody I found on Stand Up and Aqualung. Am I being thick?
Save a Prayer by Duran Duran. Being a greasy hippy rocker I was at sea when it came to the New Romantics at the time in the 80's. It seemed like glorified pop but over the decades all things punk and post-punk have grown on me enormously to the point where I'm now very nostalgic about most of it.
I recently heard Save a Prayer and thought, hmm, that opening two-note keyboard motif really reminds me of a sci-fi film melody I'm sure. Its so very John Carpenter. It's also very Terminatorish so I'll plump for that, John Williams' Big Arnie theme tune as my Save a Prayer soundalike. Why do I do this? Tunes just get stuck in my lobes and they absolutely will not stop!
Suffer Little Children by the Smiths. Or is it The Smiths. Probably. This is the song I think another song sounds like but that one's title evades me. With me so far? To be specific its the opening Johnny guitar jangle that I'm on about. There is another song by a later artists with the same opening riff I'm sure. I even said to the Missus 'Hey, Missus, Its The Smiths!" as we listened to Smooth Radio but Lo! it wasn't the Manc shoegazers at all. If only I could remember. Frankly Mister Shankly I'm losing it.
Wicked Game by Chris Isaacs. This hypnotic howl has crept into the nerve-bundle of the Moonbase before and I heard it again recently on the Newcastle Ferry. Its wistful tremelo tip-toed round the decks like a stowaway and brought to mind a musical mystery we once covered, the elusive "Haunted by Two Loves" I think it was called, from the 1997 TV Movie Nightscream. The singer was never revealed. Its VERY Chris Isaacs and Wicked Game immediately jumps to mind. The closest we got to was that the film's music was composed by one Garry Schyman. You can see the film listed here https://garryschyman.com/credits/ As it happens I am having great trouble finding the film to view online so I can't play the song. Even scarcer is the song itself. It doesn't exist online! Now what is going on there? I'm haunted by two songs! Ow-oooooo [Isaacs-style wailing].
That's it. Stylus lifted.
Thoughts?
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