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.
