Thursday, October 09, 2014

Music That Surprised Me


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4 comments:

Ron Scheer said...

This song has always amused me, love the lyrics, and our nextdoor neighbors at the time were a Betty and Al. Straight out of a short story. They had a jukebox on the front porch and played it sometimes into a summer night after a few drinks. I'd have to go over and tell them I needed to get my sleep if I was going to go to work the next morning.

1:59 PM
David Cranmer said...

I remember when this album was big and Simon was everywhere. I also like The Rhythm of The Saints.

5:31 PM
Gerard said...

I listen to BBC 6 Music fairly regularly. I use to listen in the evenings when they played documentaries on musicians, producers, record labels, etc. One documentary piece was about the making of this album and how Simon was breaking a serious musician boycott against apartheid.

The boycott break could be argued since the album's huge success helped draw more attention to apartheid's stupidity and Simon was working victims of apartheid. But, I also recall Simon looking very bad in the way he hired, paid, and credited the African musicians.

5:54 PM
Charles Gramlich said...

I don't know that I've ever thought of music surprising me. Will have to give that some consideration.

10:07 PM

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