The Next 30 Day Song Challenge - day 19

Day 19 - A song that tells a story


Sadly I've already mentioned Joel and Rosselson on the Another 30 Day Song Challenge, so those two great singer-storytellers are out of consideration. This song and this song immediately sprang to mind when thinking about the challenge but I think that has more to do with my unresolved issues concerning Red Wedge and my unread copies of Marxism Today from the '87/'88 period.

So I'll get off the eighties lefty schtick - if only for a moment - and plump for Janis Ian's 'At Seventeen'. Drop dead gorgeous:

The Next 30 Day Song Challenge - day 16

Day 16 - A song that reminds you of first discovering the opposite sex

I'm sure that there's other earlier moments but this song - or rather video - sticks in the mind. It's '83 or '84 and for some reason I'm watching Richard Skinner presenting Whistle Test (the title had been shortened at this point) and he cues up this video by The Bangles video: 

'nuff said.

He never stood a chance #2

If only the poor bastard had had a set of cheekbones. They would have been bigger than Joy Division. It would have been a case of Uwho?

Brilliant clip of The Sound from The Old Grey Whistle Test. Don't know the year, but the songs off their second album, 'From The Lions Mouth', that dates from 1981.

I still think that '81 was the best year for music . . .still think the late Adrian Borland is the spitting image of Christopher Hitchens.