#360/2040
1986 Housekeeping
Peter Case
Peter Case
Genre: Americana
3.75 out of 5
REQUISITE 80S COVER:
The Pogues’ “Pair of Brown Eyes”. Not as good as the original. The kind of thing you’d find on a Pogues tribute album.
Do you know The Nerves?
No?
Stop what you’re doing and go look for The Nerves. These guys wrote “Hanging on the Telephone”, and their version is better than Blondie’s who turned it into a hit.
“Paper Dolls”?
“Working Too Hard”?
Ok. Maybe not since they flashed and then were gone.
But the members went off to do amazing stuff.
Paul Collins would go off to start The Beat. “Walking Out on Love”?
No??
Dammit. This is the cornerstone of great Power Pop.
Wait! I know.
The Plimsouls. They were fantastic, right? (https://septenary.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Plimsouls)
Well, Peter Case started The Plimsouls.
But now…with help from T-Bone Burnett and the seemingly omnipresent Mitchell Froom, he has crafted this record and, with it, Peter Case seems to want to have become Bryan Adams. Or John Mellencamp.
it’s fine. But it’s not The Nerves. Or the Plimsouls. He gets reminiscent of them on “Satellite Beach” but it’s too late for me…
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