That Summer!

 

In a comments on a recent Saturday Shuffle post which featured She's So Modern by The Boomtown Rats our dear friend Brian made the following statement:

She’s So Modern is as good as the Rats ever got and one of the highlights from the best soundtrack ever assembled. Surely I don’t need to name it anymore.

Somewhat cryptic as I'm sure you'll agree but I for one completely got it . He was of course talking about That Summer! the greatest ever soundtrack from 1979 and from what was universally acknowledged as a crappy film.

You want proof? Just look at this tracklist which includes zero duds plus some of the greatest songs of all time

I used to have a copy (on cassette I think) but that has disappeared over the years and I have all the tracks digitally.

Coincidentally prior to Brian's comments I had been checking Discogs for vinyl copies. His comments were enough for me to pull the trigger and my vinyl copy has duly been delivered.

All, or at the very least the vast majority of the 16 tracks, have appeared here at some point and will likely do so again.

I make no apologies 

The Only Ones -Another Girl, Another Planet

Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World

Elvis Costello -Watching The Detectives

Nothing to see here for a couple of weeks as we are off on a well deserved holiday to deepest, darkest  Galloway