finding Odd Songs By Odd Bands has been a kind of hobby that has been made a lot easier now, with either youtube or spotify, so i don't have to go out and buy the singles. when we lived in England, my ex had a friend called John, who also had an Odd Song/Odd Band peculiarity, only, he had the music on countless singles, and whenever we saw him, he'd pass us a cassette filled with those weird, odd songs, which we kind of knew, or just sounded familiar, and the tapes became the soundtrack to our life together for many years. John also had the tendency to write very long letters, talking about certain artists, or an episode in his life where that particular song featured largely, and ex would sit at the kitchen table, reading those letters out to me, and we'd giggle, or look confused, and we'd know a weird nugget of info about an artist we'd never heard of and would probably never hear from again...
Strawberry Alarm Clock was one of them. i have no idea what bit of lore was told about them - he'd probably seen the singer on a bus somewhere, in Eastbourne, where he lived, or did the caretaking in an apartment where the bass guitarist lived... i have no idea, but the name of the band stuck, and hearing them on the radio brought back memories of sitting in the kitchen in the apartment in Hastings where we lived, with little Max pottering about, 25 years ago. music can do that so easily - take you back to times gone by, events that happened in your life, moods can shift. even songs that you don't actually know, but sound like songs that you enjoy...
what songs have you {re}discovered on Spotify?
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