Song: Just Walking in the Rain Artist: The Prisonaires Year: 1953 It can sometimes be confounding when expressions of exquisite artistic expression are produced by those for whom it is quite clear that egregious flaws lie at the heart of… Continue Reading
Song: Guns of BrixtonArtist: The ClashYear: 1979 By the time they reached the end of the 1970s, The Clash were no longer mere home-grown punk rock sensations but versatile professionals approaching the impending uncertainty of the 1980s with a musical… Continue Reading
Song: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)Artist: Darlene LoveYear: 1963 It’s Christmas time. A time when a long and tedious countdown of yuletide ubiquity gets shoved down our consumerist cake holes only to be expelled in a wet fart of anti-climactic… Continue Reading
Song: I Fought The Law Artist: The Bobby Fuller Four Year: 1965 Written by Texan musician Sonny Curtis, ‘I Fought The Law’ was first recorded in 1959 by The Crickets when Curtis was drafted into the band following Buddy Holly’s… Continue Reading
Song: Hesitating Beauty Artist: Billy Bragg & Wilco Year: 1998 After witnessing Billy Bragg perform at a Woody Guthrie tribute concert in New York’s Central Park in 1992, Guthrie’s daughter Nora approached the singer-songwriter come activist with an interesting proposition:… Continue Reading
Song: The Killing Moon Artist: Echo and The Bunnymen Year: 1984 Often described by Ian McCulloch as “the greatest song ever written,” the Echo and the Bunnymen singer’s praise for ‘The Killing Moon’ reached sacred proportions in 2008 when he… Continue Reading
Song: The Killing of Georgie (Part I & II) Artist: Rod Stewart Year: 1976 From Rod Stewart’s seventh album A Night on the Town, ‘The Killing of Georgie’ is a fine example of narrative lyricism and, in the less liberal… Continue Reading
Song: Marie Provost Artist: Nick Lowe Year: 1978 After reading a copy of Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon, a prevaricating gossip rag first published in the USA in 1965, British singer-songwriter Nick Lowe was inspired to pen a commemoration of the… Continue Reading