Garland Jeffreys - Escape Artist
#93
1981 Housekeeping
Garland Jeffreys
Escape Artist
Genre: Rock
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Modern Lovers
Christine
Requisite 80s cover: “96 Tears” which at once sounds exactly like the original and also like they all took some downers just before recording it.
I have a bad habit of a set stock of bands that I use for comparing. Like, when I talk about “New Wave” the number of times I reference The Cars, Adam and the Ants or Gary Numan gives away my preferences. Those were the bands that I gravitated to so I use them as reference.
It’s not fair, I know, because there are soooooo many other bands that I could or should use but that’s my lexicon.
For instance, when I talk about bands that sound like Springsteen my go to is, say, John Cafferty and that’s because I didn’t know about Iron City Houserockers. Had Joe Grushecky had a hit song on a soundtrack that permeated MTV, I’d probably use him instead. But he didn’t.
So, that brings me to Garland Jeffreys.
If you were looking for a Venn diagram of Springsteen and Elvis Costello, you would find Garland Jeffreys.
The songs are good. And way too late to catch that New Wave skinny tie rage. Which is a shame because he has an Iggy/New York Dolls snot about him that makes me want to hear more.
Not right now, though.
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