#417/2096
1986 Housekeeping
Tommy Keene
Songs from the Film
Genre: Power Pop
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Places That Are Gone
In Our Lives
Gold Town
Requisite 80s cover:
Kill Your Songs by Lou Reed, Mass dynamic and ominous here.
Bless the folks at the labels who were trying to keep Power Pop viable. I don’t know the Tommy Keene story, he seems to have been cut from the same Matthew Sweet mold: Writes tight songs. Local appeal. Label picked him up with high hopes and they didn’t pan out.
He’s got that Costello nasal sound down. The songs are delectably loquacious confections smartly written and presented.
Maybe he was just too late or too early.
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