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Saturday 6 March 2021

More Sounds of the Suburbs

 


Those of you who can remember as far as back as last Saturday will have been rewarded with 4 of the 7 tracks from the great The Sounds of the Suburbs compilation which had previously not featured on these pages.

Time then to complete the jigsaw with the final three and I'm sure you'll  agree they are well worth waiting for.

Elvis Costello is no stranger to these pages but one of his most famous songs 1979's Oliver's Army has not made an appearance. When he plays in Glasgow with the boys of the Mersey and the Thames and the Tine sees the Tine being replaced by the Clyde. Does this happen elsewhere?

Ian Dury hasn't featured here nearly often enough so it is good to hear the bouncy Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick today.Je t'adore, ich liebe dich,

Now for a band making their debut her The Vapors. Their classic song Turning Japanese  howver has appeared here before with a cover from Liz Phair. I'll leave you all to decide whether the song title is an urban myth or not

I've got the follow up The Sound of the City on vinyl and whereas it is perhaps not quite the same gold plated standard as this one I may look to continue this series.


Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Oliver's Army

Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

The Vapors -Turning Japanese


5 comments:

  1. A great compilation album which is good as the first sampler albums I bought in the late 1960's/early 1970's. Do they release sampler albums these days?

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  2. Looking back, this is one of the best compilations I ever bought.

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  3. This was a UK thing, but I have perused the tracklist
    and see why it seems so beloved.

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  4. After getting my first cd player this was the very first compilation album I ever bought. It has a lot to answer for as a lot of the others that I subsequently bought are rubbish

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