THE THEME SONG FOR ALL MUSIC BLOGGERS?/GREAT OPENING TRACKS ON LPs (Part 5)

There are days when all this can seem like a chore rather than a lot of fun. Not all that often mind you, but this is one of those days when I'm not really sure if I have a posting in me....

mp3 : Soft Cell - Entertain Me

Then again, I can say that Non Stop Erotic Cabaret, from where today's offering is lifted, remains a personal all-time favourite almost 27 years after I first ever heard it. All ten of the songs on the original LP are immense. In fact, just thinking about the LP has made me realise that I do actually have something to say - namely that the opening track deserves a place in the occasional series that I'm running just now:-

mp3 : Soft Cell - Frustration

The fact that the LP had already spawned three top 10 singles over a six month period, and that Marc and David were ready to move on with new songs probably prevented Frustration being let loose on a wider public.

I really do think this is one of Marc's cleverest and funniest lyrics - it's bit like the late 70s programme The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin being put to music.

I have hobbies, but they're nothing very special
I do the garden, I watch girls.
I am so ordinary.

Pervy poetry at its finest......