I completely understand the One Things Leads To Another part of listening to something and going on to something else. A few pages back, you brought up John Cale. I thought about it and decided to also go find some JJ Cale stuff. After that, one of the suggestions from Youtube was for Ry Cooder. I hadn't listened to him in a long time, so went down that path. Still, your selection of Melanie was a surprise because I don't remember you posting much from female singers.
My ex was a big Joni Mitchell fan...she converted me way back when; Blue remains an incredible album... Though I was more partial to Patti Smith...
I'm usually lost in my own little world, so I was unaware this was a cover. Been listening to the beck version a ton in the last few days. Beck squeezes some melancholy out of the cover that is more ambiguous in the original.
the beck cover is one of my favorite beck tracks. I believe it was one on the soundtrack of sunshine of the eternal spotless mind.
Old friend heard this playing at the Red Lion in Houston and he had to text me b/c we listened to it nonstop as wee Webster intermediate lads. Hard to believe this came out 42 years ago -- the first KJ album really holds up (in my super-biased opinion): I recently learned that the epic album cover derives from a photo of the N. Ireland troubles circa 1971: spoilered for size Spoiler [/spoiler
