"Whisper to a Scream" was one of those songs that was so good once it got under your skin it stayed there. I also recall buying the album and listening to the it all the way through probably a grand total of one time, then passing judgment: in these grooves there be nothing but filler. So on this instalment of A Streaming Pile of Hit - where you put the "s" in hit is up to you, I present for my revisionist listening pleasure the 1984 debut album from The Icicle Works, coincidentally also called The Icicle Works . Since I lost my original copy, this was an album I wanted to find on vinyl. Over the last few years I've come up empty. It's not like I was trying super hard, but I looked. Every so often I'd hear "Whisper to a Scream" and think, there had to be more to the band than just this one song. So I kept looking ... until I gave up and just found it on my streaming service. Why not? It doesn't have to be hard, and while there are a lot o...
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