January is a depressing month. Tired and skint and after Christmas. Trying hard to get back into the swing of things at work. Dark mornings when you set off and even darker evenings when you come home. It's cold, it's wet or snowy. The joys of summer seem a long way off.
Sometimes though a chirpy cheery pop song comes on the i-pod shuffle and lifts that gloom.
mp3 : The Thrills - One Horse Town
Released in March 2003, it reached #18 in the UK singles chart. It was just about the band's biggest ever hit - but this equally jolly follow-up hit #17 a few months later:-
mp3 : The Thrills - Big Sur
Promo time.....
Told you. One listen and it feels like July.
2 comments:
jaysus, they got an awful doing here in ireland. they became the subject of continued sketches on the radio were their posh upbring/faux american accents became the stuff of ridicule. don't know what became of them but i last saw them at a super furry animals gig about 3 yrs ago. in the crowd. watching
Yep...great debut album...if you could get past the lazy derivative west coast references...listened to the second album once...never played it again.
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