Old Enough to Forget

A new year and the whole Five for Fighting thing was fun but it's run it's course. I still like the idea of shorter blurbs so I'll do the same thing with a different name and see how it goes. After all who doesn't love it  when you repackage the same old shit and give it a new name? Given the volume of stuff I have on my desk I may end up doing this more often ... or not.  Let's under promise and over deliver. Les Dudek - Les Dudek (1976) Bay City Rollers - Bay City Rollers (1975) Smith - A Group Called Smith (1969) The Inmates - First Offence (1979) Sniff n' the Tears - Fickle Heart (1978) Les Dudek - Les Dudek (1976) The dollar bin giveth, and the dollar bin taketh away. Today it was in a giving mood, and I stumbled upon cover that just screamed "LOOK AT ME!" Good lord, who doesn't want to hear an album where the guy is playing a wicked looking Gibson Goldtop with P90s that had a parrot perched on the headstock? What sealed it was a scan o...

Sniff n' the Tears is generally regarded as a one hit wonder. That may well be the case, as dagnabbit and boy howdy their one hit "Driver's Seat" was an amazing song that cut through the heavy fog disco covered the musical landscape with back in the late 70s. As much as I like shitting on disco, the late 70s was also an incubator for great rock to come. Besides, by 1979 disco was in it's death throws so as we approached the 80s things were looking up - if only I'd been aware that disco's re-branding sneak attack would come in the form of dance music and ten minute extended club mixes.  I did get a Sniff n' the Tears best of CD years and years ago, and to be honest I didn't spend a lot of time with it. I wanted to have "Driver's Seat" and essentially ignored the rest of the album. I did that a lot, so much stuff, so little time. I'm bin diving the other day and there's The Game's Up , and the jacket was pristine, no liner, ...