The latest in the occasional series where you get to hear two (or more) entirely different songs with the same title.This week sees a couple of great Manchester combos alongside the 2nd best act to come out of East Kilbride (a town some 8 miles south-east of Glasgow), although I have resisted the temptation to also give you a little bit of Diana Ross....(maybe Davy H can do that soon as part of the cheese selection he serves up every Friday over at his wonderful place).
mp3 : Magazine - Upside Down
mp3 : The Jesus & Mary Chain - Upside Down
mp3 : James - Upside Down
The song from Howard Devoto & Co is a great lost single. Indeed, it wasn't until I got my hands on the box-set Maybe It's Right To Be Nervous Now (a fantastic 40th Birthday present - thanks Jackie & Richard) that I even knew of its existence. It was released in late 1980, around the time of the LP The Correct Use Of Soap, It's something that, on reflection, might not have fitted perfectly on that LP (its more akin to the lighter sound that would appear on the 1981 release Magic, Murder and The Weather) , but it was obviously just too good a pop single to have left lying around doing nothing.
Moving forward four years, we have the debut single of the Reid Bros and co. Confession time. It took me a while to appreciate JAMC. I was too busy being a bit fey and twee back in 1984 to be anything but scared of this lot. Compared to what I was listening to and enjoying in life at that time, this was just a bloody racket....and when you were reading week-in, week-out about how all their gigs were over in about 20 minutes amidst a hail of bottles and all sorts of violence, well it just wasn't attractive to any sort of boy with a CND badge on his second-hand raincoat....but by the time I heard Just Like Honey a year and a bit later, I realised that there was more to the JAMC than first impressions.
Now I know I've featured a lot of James tracks at TVV over the years (and there's more to come with something a wee bit special for the 700th post in a few days time...). I wasn't actually sure whether to post this song. It's from last year's LP Hey Ma which actually turned out to be a far better comeback release than I could have wished for. This song will, I'm quite sure, have its fans, but I'm not one of them. It's just too much like bloody Coldplay....
Happy Listening.
3 comments:
My mum called Coldplay 'Cold Power' one day, by mistake. That's a brand of clothes washing detergent here in Oz.
So in my family, it's Cold Power, not Coldplay.
Suits em even better I reckon.
Have to disagree with you about the Mary Chain and CND badge wearers. I was chair of our local youth CND and when I first heard the malevolent strains of Upside Down I nearly wept with joy as this was just what I had been waiting for.
tops
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