There was always something strangely appealing to "The Captain of Her Heart" when this came out in '85. It was right at the height of everything cool about the '80, and then there would be these occasional outliers that would hit the radio. When Sade hit with "Smooth Operator" I was in the minority or people who couldn't stand the song. Although I suspect this has softened over the years, but my initial reaction still when I hear her name isn't positive. At. All. So it's odd that I clicked with Double, but not really. I had gotten into Michael Franks, starting with Skin Dive in '85, and it wasn't normally the sort of thing I listened to, but it was kind of cool. From there I'd pick up a few of his albums, and really liked The Art of Tea from 1975 and the song "Popsicle Toes" which kind of surprised me, considering my general happy place was rock. Double had some similar elements. I guess I'm just trying to show that I...
A place where I just blather on about shit I either miss, or am excited about, or just found and want to share. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally don't know what I'm talking about, but sometimes I do. This generally reads like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the images ... mostly it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget