It's been a few days of albums from 1980. Well, since I'm here I may as well enjoy myself. The Records followed up their 1979 debut, the one that had "Teenarama" and the stellar "Starry Eyes" with Crashes . This is the one where a young Jude Cole, who had just left Moon Martin, joined up with The Records to replace lead guitarist and vocalist Huw Gower. This was really the golden age of that first wave of power pop that ran in parallel to the chaos of punk. It siphoned off the energy and rebelliousness but wrapped everything in starry pop goodness that payed homage to it's rock roots but was carving out it's own sound.(don't roll your eyes, I worked hard to work "starry" in, and it's not even on this album). The Records had managed to get a foot in the door in North America in '79, and a year later when Crashes was released the band came over to support the release playing smaller rooms, like the legendary Commodore Ballroom in...
A place where I just blather on about shit that I either miss, or am excited about. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally really don't know what I'm talking about. Sometimes I do. Sometimes this is like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the video ... mostly though it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget