Some very good suggestions this week, introducing me to all manner of songs I hadn't heard before...
Alyson suggested Joanna Newsom - '81.
Nice harp there, as always from Joanna.
C & The Swede came up with Miles Davis - 81.
I wish I could be hip enough to pretend to have loads of Miles Davis in my record collection. I'm not, but I do like a nice bit of trumpet.
The Swede also offered Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand - '81st Street'.
The Swede is doing his best to get me into proper jazz... and to be fair, he's got more chance of that than getting me into Simple Minds, though it was inevitable that New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) would crop up again this week.
Meanwhile, Rigid Digit - who's just about given up on trying to get me into Jim Kerr and his buddies - tried Marillion - White Feather, which contains the following lyric...
When I hit the streets back in '81
Found a heart in the gutter and a poet's crown
I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears
Where have I been for all these years?
Found a heart in the gutter and a poet's crown
I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears
Where have I been for all these years?
Not in my collection either, but still more palatable than SM.
Much more my cup of tea (but sadly not yet in my collection) was Lynchie's suggestion: Candy & The Kisses - The 81. That would be a winner if I owned it.
Chris also came up with a suggestion I liked... but don't own... Roger Whittaker - New World In The Morning. Another lyrical 81... but that doesn't rule it out... as you'll see shortly.
I met a man who had a dream he'd had since he was twenty,
I met that man when he was 81
I met that man when he was 81
If all those weren't in my collection... what was? I was struggling a bit this week. The only titular 81 I could find was this...
The Fuzztones - Ward 81
It's not bad. Actually, it's MAD. But it didn't really feel like a winner. So I went lyrics diving myself... and this is what I came up with. One of my favourite from MCC... great Tom Petty nod in the chorus.
All the way down 81
I've got some friends in Nashville
Atlanta it's been way too long
By morning I'll make Asheville
...all of which takes us to the last of the 80s: number 80. Any suggestions?
