Where do my blog themes come from, you ask? Usually from hearing commonality within two songs in quick succession from my music collection, while either driving in my car or mowing the lawn with noise-cancelling headphones. Which leads me to search out a third song in the same vein. These first two songs played back-to-back while I cut the grass the other day. There's always room for cello.
Yeah I'm still here. If things work out right, once or twice per month I get an opportunity between midnight and 5 AM to sift through the archives of the MTV show 120 Minutes/Subterranean in an attempt to find musical gems that I either forgot about or never heard at all. The show ran in one incarnation or another from 1986 to 2013. I've been perusing the playlists chronologically for the past 3 years and I'm only up to May 1997 so far. I only have a year to get through the final 16 seasons. So I need to pick up the frequency and pace of my sessions or find a different method altogether, if I'm to complete the mission by next July.
Anyway 3 weeks ago I was awed by the following song and wondered why I hadn't heard it before. For that matter why hasn't everyone heard this cast-aside gold-plated diamond of a song?
Rollerskate Skinny - Speed to My Side
I confess that when I first heard the next song on 102.7 WLBS in 1984, I thought it was Big Country (who like Simple Minds are from Scotland).
Simple Minds - Speed Your Love to Me
And finally another Scottish band that produced a song keeping with the speed theme.
