There’s more worth hearing, but this is really all the Jimmy Cliff you need.
And The Harder They Come also features some all-time great reggae tracks by other artists, so bonus.
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Top 100 at one a day: Today: The Harder They Come by Jimmy Cliff (and others). (For the next 100 days, I’m listing a favorite album a day. Rules: No repeat artists, no greatest hits packages)
A GIRL CALLED EDDY - Jody [Audio]
About sixteen years ago, A Girl Called Eddy released a pretty tasty album, packaged to look like a well worn seventies LP, with music that kind of shared that mid seventies singer-songwriter vibe:
The follow-up just arrived a decade and a half later, and I’m all about this song. It’s exactly what I hoped the next disc would sound like (back in 2004). Dig those late seventies Steely Dan horns.
Cuts from three of my all-time favorite albums, all relatively ignored then and now.
Dramarama’s Vinyl (1991) - Some people remember their late 80s singles “Anything, Anything” and “Last Cigarette” (both truly great singles), but this disc was as good as pop music got in the early 90s (okay, aside from Matthew Sweet’s “Girlfriend” and anything by Teenage Fanclub). I suppose they were a little out of step with the emergence of grunge, but the album holds up better than a lot of the stuff that followed in Nirvana’s wake. Includes a killer cover of Mick Jagger’s solo single, “Memo From Turner.” The cut here, “I’d Like to Volunteer (Please),” features Mick fucking Taylor on guitar. I remember opening all the windows in my college townhouse on a beautiful breezy spring night and blasting the shit out of this cut while my roommate and I drank and danced like schoolgirls. Which we were not.
The Wild Colonials’ Fruit of Life (1994) - I love everything by this weirdly overlooked group. “Everything” consisting of two proper albums (this one and 1996′s “Life as We Know It”), a collection of their music from films (2000′s ”Reel Life, Volume One”), a brief latter day seven track release (2007′s “Life As We Know It”), and assorted odds and ends (including singer Angela McCluskey’s solo work). But their debut made a huge impact on me when it dropped, and no one else seemed to notice.
Richard Davies’ Telegraph (1998) - Davies was a member of Cardinal with Eric Matthews, but this, his second solo album, is the work that resonated most with me then and now. Almost psychedelic, but dreamier. Almost folk, but with more musical color. Poetic and lovely. As with the best nineties’ albums, it never feels rooted in time or place. Great stuff.
Torn and tattered, but still here. A pile of 45 sleeves reflecting an 80s childhood. Almost every one purchased in a record store (either Camelot Music or the lesser Musicland) in Towne East Square Mall in Wichita, Kansas.
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Torn and tattered, but still here. A pile of 45 sleeves reflecting an 80s childhood. Almost every one purchased in a record store (either Camelot Music or the lesser Musicland) in Towne East Square Mall in Wichita, Kansas.
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National Lampoon’s “official” Pot packs, to conceal your joints within. From NATIONAL LAMPOON MAGAZINE, 1971.
Otherwise known as Weed ‘n’ Coke Funnies.
Spotify this: Twenty great albums from the 90s. Part two.
Spotify this: Twenty great albums from the 90s. Part one.
Cockrum's design for Spider-Man villain(ish) the Black Cat, and her first official appearance, on a cover by Al Milgrom.
