tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post7055004379581394237..comments2024-03-28T14:09:53.330-07:00Comments on The Song In My Head Today: Holly A Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17828633442418722187noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post-51436253177757465212011-06-28T08:31:13.832-07:002011-06-28T08:31:13.832-07:00Oh, good! I'm glad you know it. I love "...Oh, good! I'm glad you know it. I love "From a Window," too, and also "Nobody I Know." The latter was one of those where I held my breath the first time it came on because I didn't want to break the spell it created.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post-7302427689442016762011-06-27T17:56:15.700-07:002011-06-27T17:56:15.700-07:00Oh, I love Lost Songs! The idea of Graham Parker a...Oh, I love Lost Songs! The idea of Graham Parker and Kate Pierson in the same studio was just too delicious to resist; but once I got it and listened to it, I loved it even more, and you've put your finger on why, wwolfe -- these artists plumb so much more in those songs than the original non-Beatle artists ever could have. Graham's version of From a Window is my favorite track, but there are so many other good ones...Holly A Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828633442418722187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post-73136538693311696392011-06-27T16:39:46.734-07:002011-06-27T16:39:46.734-07:00From a Window the Lost Songs of ....is a great, gr...From a Window the Lost Songs of ....is a great, great CD...and Graham and Kate even toured to promote it---a very fun concert...and a highly recomended album.SqueezingOutColumbusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post-13661603357405495522011-06-27T11:19:53.545-07:002011-06-27T11:19:53.545-07:00The mention of both the B-52s and the Beatles remi...The mention of both the B-52s and the Beatles reminds me to ask if you've ever heard "The Lost Songs of Lennon & McCartney"? It was a collection of songs written by John and Paul for other English acts, reinterpreted here by Graham Parker, Kate Pierson, and Bill Janovitz (the last of whom I don't know, apart from this album). Released in 2003, it was one of my favorite albums of The Aughts. Hearing new arrangements of familiar songs sung by people in their 50s, instead of their early 20s, reveals a level of wistful melancholy in the material that I couldn't hear (or understand) when I was a little kid and the singer was, say, Billy J. Kramer, who definitely couldn't hear or understand, much less express, those shades of meaning. I'd substitute Peter and Gordon's "I Don't Want to See You Again" for Badfinger's "Come and Get It" (the latter's a swell song, but it comes from a perspective different from a young man's heady, somewhat unsettling first experience of love that dominates all the other songs ont eh album), but otherwise this is a very enjoyable album, and a terrific way of rescuing a bunch of otherwise underestimated songs.wwolfenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36596203.post-57299801249317710352011-06-26T10:13:46.873-07:002011-06-26T10:13:46.873-07:00It's funny, I haven't listened to Californ...It's funny, I haven't listened to <i>Californication</i> so every time you mention it I only think of it as being famous as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californication_%28album%29#Sound_quality_issues" rel="nofollow">negative example</a> of the "loudness wars."NickShttp://femtohacker@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com