Thursday, February 26, 2009
Jackie DeShannon - The Definitive Collection
I must have listened to the first half of this comp a hundred times. It's full of super-catchy pop-rock with great instrumental and vocal tone. The second half, however, leaves something to be desired, but I included it anyway for posterity's sake. Things fall apart after "What the World Needs Now", but before that it's pretty much perfection. On here you get "Buddy", a rockabillyish homage to Buddy Holly, the ORIGINAL (and superior) versions of "Needles and Pins" and "When You Walk in the Room" (both covered and made more famous by the Searchers), Jackie's version of the Irma Thomas song (that Jackie wrote) "Breakaway", as well as "Dream Boy" (co-written by Jackie and Jimmy Page), which is on that girl groups compilation). I don't have TOO much to say because I'm sick and out of it, but I was fairly obsessed for a moment there. Check it out!
Buddy
Heaven is Being With You
You Won't Forget Me
Needles and Pins
Hellos and Goodbyes
When You Walk in the Room
Till You Say You'll Be Mine
Breakaway
Should I Cry
I Remember the Boy
Dream Boy
Don't Turn Your Back on Me
What the World Needs Now
WARNING: THE REST OF THESE TRACKS SUCK
A Lifetime of Loneliness
Come and Get me
Splendor in the Grass
For Granted
Windows and Doors
I Can Make it With You
500 Miles from Yesterday
Where Does the Sun Go
It Shines on You Too
Reason to Believe
The Weight
Come and Stay with Me
Put a Little Love in Your Heart
Love Will Find a Way
Brighton Hill
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P.S. I started using sendspace (duh)
Monday, February 2, 2009
Ok I'm back
I've been locked out of this account for a while, working as a decorative painter and killing my brain cells with drugs, alcohol and harmful painting-related chemicals. I'm going to start posting again very soon, though, both for intellectual exercise and to spread music (but not right now).
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