Ever hear a song you’ve known for most of your life and realize that while you may have heard it a zillion times, sung along with it almost as many, you know the words, you even know the guitar solo enough to scat sing along with it while you wail on your air ax – you still have never really realized just how awesome, or, in fact, how dirrrrrrty it was until, say, you’re sitting […]
Five years before they scored their biggest U.S. hit with “You Sexy Thing”, the band Hot Chocolate, after a brief fling with the Beatles’ Apple label (which put out a 45 of the group’s cover of “Give Peace a Chance”) made their first trip up the British charts with this single “Love Is Life”, a song that marks the intersections between R&B and bubblegum, the Carribean and the spaghetti Western, with its dramatic arrangements of […]
To me, one of the sexiest songs ever. Led by singer Justine Frischmann, Elastica’s self-titled debut album was loaded with bite size chunks of new wave and punk – riffs stolen in broad daylight from records by the likes of Wire and the Buzzcocks, then stripped, refurbished and amplified for the post-grunge mid-90s. It was a perfect antidote for the bloated dreariness that the Seattle sound had become, and it was accompanied by […]