#198
July 1984
The Saints
A Little Madness to Be Free
4.25 out of 5
Walk Away
The Photograph
The Angels
Ghost Ships
Let’s stay down under for a wee bit more, since the sheer output from that country is staggering. I’ve heard a lot of sounds from that place but this is the first time I can think of that someone is aping Mick Jagger as blatantly as Chris Bailey here. I heard their two 1978 records and they were fine, but this is much more lush and picaresque. Bailey may be trying to sound like a bluesman from down under but he’s fooling himself. He’s a punk who is growing up and disillusionment in life and the world is catching up to him, these songs are those of an old soul, someone with his own map of the world in his voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZwm5eci0xA
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