Old Enough to Forget

A new to me release. Many years ago I picked up Romeo Unchained , and Notes from the Lost Civilization (not in that order) mainly because they were on WHAT?/A&M where Mark Heard's iDEoLA project was released. So I figured it was a guilty by association sort of thing. It was an indie label after all so that had to mean something. I remember liking Notes from the Lost Civilization , but honestly I was getting so much music back then that unless I really had something blow my hat off, I gave things a listen or two and then filed them. Here I am years later, and up pops a rather water damaged copy of Life in the Foodchain . It made me sad looking at it. The vinyl was in surprisingly good shape, but any liner notes and credits were long lost to the gods of misplaced socks. Still, this was an album I had always been curious about, so I brought it home where it the joined the queue of treasures waiting for a turn(table). I pop it on and the title track is cranked in the cave (everyo...

It was 1985 and sixteen year old wunderkind Charlie Sexton was making a run for the brass ring. It boggles my mind the level of maturity in his singing and playing that is here at such an early age. I was in my early 20s when this came out and was leaning toward what was going to be affectionately known as "hair metal" but I liked a lot of new wave, Bryan Adams and even Corey Hart (the last one more a guilty pleasure) and here's young Charlie already a seasoned player making it look easy. I remember hearing "Impressed" (written by Steve Krikorian, also known as Tonio K.) on the radio and thinking it was okay, but it didn't inspire me to run out and lay out my cash. I mean, I was buying a lot of stuff, but it's all relative. What you think is a lot, and what I think is a lot, aren't necessarily in the same ball park. We also didn't have MTV, we had Much Music, and while close, weren't the same. Although they both actually played videos all day...