Post by The Curmudgeon on Jul 17, 2016 12:04:57 GMT 2
I reckon it's been long enough now to start this ball rolling again. And this song sat buried on my iPhone for months without me really knowing about it. The perils of listening to music on your phone, I suppose. I bought this album but didn't really listen to it, just put the disc on iTunes and, well, forgot all about it. But track eight, discovered on a random shuffle and one of those, "woah.. what is THIS?" moments, has now been played to death ever since. I had originally bought the album for the brilliant, off-key pop gem "When You Walk in the Room" but this upcoming song is the star here.
Fyfe Dangerfield is something of a contradictory figure.
Once a music teacher and a composer for choirs and orchestras, he is very much not a pop-star, but has created some unashamedly enjoyable pure pop songs, either with his band the Guillemots (honestly, "Annie Let's Not Wait" is the sort of thing you'd expect to hear on the radio forever, but it's been largely forgotten), and here, this single I'm playing today, with it's enormous chorus that turns into a Roxy Music glam stomp, should be in the top ten of every country. It didn't even make a dent. Such is life.
So today's track, then. "She Needs Me" should have been huge, but wasn't in the slightest. Take a listen and see if you think that's right.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBPt2kfqi90
Fyfe Dangerfield is something of a contradictory figure.
Once a music teacher and a composer for choirs and orchestras, he is very much not a pop-star, but has created some unashamedly enjoyable pure pop songs, either with his band the Guillemots (honestly, "Annie Let's Not Wait" is the sort of thing you'd expect to hear on the radio forever, but it's been largely forgotten), and here, this single I'm playing today, with it's enormous chorus that turns into a Roxy Music glam stomp, should be in the top ten of every country. It didn't even make a dent. Such is life.
So today's track, then. "She Needs Me" should have been huge, but wasn't in the slightest. Take a listen and see if you think that's right.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBPt2kfqi90
