Another Weekend in the Books
The weather critters predicted rain for the weekend, but apart from a passing thundershower last evening that was all sound and fury but no actual rain in my neighborhood, it was quite nice. It was even warm enough to ride sans pullover. This morning I brought the 3-speed down from the attic, and took down to the path for the first time this year.
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There are many ways a midwestern band from the seventies could go wrong, but as it turns out worshiping the Muswell Hillbillies era Kinks was a very good thing indeed. The link is in the album title header, and the password is..."password."
I'm listening to it right now and it's like discovering a primo stash of mid-seventies Ray Davies.
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To me it sounds more like the Face to Face or Something Else era than Muswell Hillbillies. "Mind of My Own" is very like "David Watts." And they seem to have anticipated that someday Ray would write a song called "Summer's Gone." :)
I wonder if Daniel Johnston ever heard this. The piano part in "It Must Be Love" is very like the piano part in "Grieviences" on Dead Dog's Eyeballs.
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