Friday morning upper from the ‘decade under the influence’...

Television
“See No Evil”
Marquee Moon / Elektra / 1977

This is a fun song to play while driving in a car with a full-sounding stereo system with good bass response.

Television is one of those bands that has influenced everyone from influential-in-their-own-right early New Wavers of the late ’70s through early ’80s to the back-to-basics garage rock revivalists of the early 2000s.  “See No Evil” is a standout track in part because a lot of the jams on Marquee Moon are mellower and even sort of meditative, such as the title track.  The album is recommended for anybody who digs leaner ’70s rock, alongside seminal semi-subterannean staples like Bowie, Roxy Music, Magazine, Brian Eno, The Modern Lovers, New York Dolls, Big Star, et cetera.

I keep coming back to seventies music whenever I start trying to spiritually ground myself again.  I will definitely be sharing more Third Great Awakening decade music on this here blog.

Saturday indie rock moment...

The Vaselines are a Glaswegian band that was famously beloved by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.  During the 1980s the primary members and songwriters were Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee.

I wholeheartedly recommend the 1992 Sub Pop Records retrospective The Way Of The Vaselines: A Complete History.

This is a catchy song about lust called “Dying For It.”

Lyrics:

She said to me, would you like to be,
I got plenty of time, It's gonna take some time.

Ahhhh I'm hanging out.
I'm hanging out baby, I'm hanging out,
Ahhhh I'm hanging out.
I'm hanging out baby, I'm hanging out,
Ahhhh I'm hanging out,
Come on now, come along sing my song.

She said to me, we're gonna lie on the floor,
Cause we don't need to go and can choose some more.

I'm dying for something, oh what will it be,
I'm dying for you to do something to me.

Thursday morning blissout...

Donkey is a somewhat obscure UK band that put out an album of alt-rock experiments back in the nineties called Stroke My Wings Gently (Guided Missile/Wormer Brothers, 1997)  Funnily enough, the liner notes claim that part of the album was “recorded in a cow-shed.”

Whenever I find myself playing it in the car, I often skip to track 10, a delectably blissful shoegaze number called “Kissy Kissy Traction”: