The Searchers - Love's Melodies
#464
December 4 1980 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
The Searchers
Love’s Melodies
Genre: Power Pop
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Silver
A Little Bit of Heaven
Love’s Melody
Everything But a Heartbeat
Another Night
Requisite 80s cover: Hard to call them “requisite” since the album is replete with music written by others.
A sweetly earnest and tambouriffic version of “Almost Saturday Night” by Fogerty. Excellent.
“September Gurls” by Alex Chilton. Talk about a band knowing their wheelhouse.
Wait…THE Searchers? They were still around in 1980??
I mean, I guess that shouldn’t be so surprising. After all, anyone recording at this writing that was also around in 2003 has been around the same amount of time.
Boy, the tyranny of time is a thing, huh?
Because I was so attuned to the music of the day in 1994 bands like Weezer and Green Day don’t feel old to me today, even if their music isn’t something I turn to immediately anymore. But, 1994 was over a quarter century as of this writing and in 1980 that equivalent would predate “Rock Around the Clock”. But we didn’t think “Rock and Roll” would have longevity back in the 80s. I remember reading Rolling Stone articles about how crazy it would be that Mick Jagger would still be playing concerts…IN HIS LATE THIRTIES!!!” Without an oxygen tank!
So, should I be surprised that an early Liverpool group that climbed out alongside The Fab Four would still be slogging in 1980?
If it was Quicksilver Messenger Service then…yes.
But this isn’t that. This is high quality, delicious harmonies, lush production Power Pop at it’s best. Especially the Phil Spector-esque Andy McMaster song “Love’s Melody”.
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