Old Enough to Forget

Wings. Not Paul McCartney and Wings. Just Wings. Of course the reality is Wings was Paul's band. End of discussion. Wings at the Speed of Sound though is a band effort. To me this was their best line up. The core trio of Paul, Linda, and Denny were augmented by Jimmy McCulloch, on stringed things, and Joe English on drums. While the majority of the songs were credited to Paul and Linda, each member got a turn taking lead vocals which I was Paul's way of emphasizing Wings was a band. As a kid, it was the radio hits I knew, and on occasion a deeper track that would get some play. This is unfortunately the album known for "Silly Love Songs" a song so deeply and truly shitty I want to drag the needle across the record. I don't though. I persevere and who know, it's pushing fifty years now, it should be softening. Why not, I bought a Village People album ... and enjoyed it. I suppose I should just put the record on. I won't have to make any rash decisions unti...

Time for another edition of A Streaming Pile of Hit - where you put the "s" in hit is up to you.  Not sure why I've been going back to the old CCM stuff that I was particularly enamoured with back in the day. Rick Cua had been playing bass in The Outlaws, most notably on a coupe of their later albums: Ghost Riders (1980)  and Los Hombres Malo (1982) and when he dropped Koo'-ah in 1982 I was really looking forward to hearing it. It's weird that this is listed as being from 1985 ... I can't make heads or tails out of where the dates come from. After all both Hughie Thomasson, Billy Jones as well as Freddie Salem from The Outlaws were playing guitar on the album (and killing it by the way), and former Wings drummer Joe English was featured on several tracks. If nothing else there was some pedigree on the album. The songs though were mostly middle of the road, with a little extra punch here and there. I remember wanting to like this more than I did. The songs ...