Providing Musical Distractions for our Sick, Sad World
Song of the Day: Graham Parker and the Rumour – Endless Night This frantic rave-up is from Graham Parker‘s last album with his great backing band The Rumour (until their 2012 reunion), The Up Escalator (1980). We are featuring it because it is a song even some Parker fan’s may not be familiar with, a shoulda been hit …
Song of the Day: Elliott Murphy – Last of the Rock Stars Elliott Murphy was one of the dozens of “New Dylans” back when that was a (slightly) more common thing. As with most who were saddled with that designation, it was not very accurate and it may have hindered his career more than helped …
Song of the Day: Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane – April Fool Rough Mix (1977) is one of our very most favorite albums here at Infinite Jones so on April Fool’s Day there was little question about what the Song of the Day was going to be. This Ronnie Lane tune is sad, sweet and heart-breakingly beautiful. …
Song of the Day: Lee “Scratch” Perry – People Funny Boy Apparently ‘Scratch’ was mad at his former producer, Joe Gibbs when he wrote this but, we always felt it could be applied to all the big shots of the world. People are funny boy but, not in a good way. But, hey, this early …
Song of the Day: Bob Dylan – Everything Is Broken Bob Dylan thought everything was broken back in 1989. He always was ahead of his time! This is from his Daniel Lanois produced Oh Mercy album. It is generally considered one of his best albums of the ’80’s, which may be faint praise but, we have …
Song of the Day: Tonio K. – The funky Western Civilization “Just because we’re hypnotized, that don’t mean we can’t dance” is Tonio K.‘s arch solution to dealing with the Sick Sad World we (still) live in. This typically sarcastic and not actually very funky piss take is from TK’s critically acclaimed 1978 debut album, Life in …
Song of the Day: Crack the Sky – We Want Mine Crack the Sky have had enough of the Haves always getting all the good stuff. This grammatically questionable demand for their fair share from the 1976 Animal Notes album is a tough, tight Pop Prog Nugget that should be better know than it is. …
Song of the Day: Mitch Ryder – Long Hard Road This funky Mitch Ryder jam about the difficulty of the Rock and Roll Lifestyle is apparently pretty rare. We have it in a vinyl rip from an also pretty darn rare compilation album called Michigan Rocks but, otherwise we can’t identify an original album or …
Song of the Day: David & David – Swallowed by the Cracks Did you ever have one of those days when it seems that life has passed you by and your dreams are both faintly ridiculous and, worse, unattainable? David & David both know how you feel. This beautiful loser anthem from their 1986 Boomtown …
Song of the Day: Fugi – Revelations These are the Days of Revelation! So says Fugi, and so say we, ain’t it always? Fugi is mainly the work of one Ellington Jordan a producer (for Chess Records) and songwriter (he was a co-writer of I’d Rather Go Blind). His lone album as Fugi, Mary Don’t Take …
