The Best Record of All Time
I watched a movie on the DirecTv thingy the other day — a little thing called The Lather Effect.
It was – is? – supposed to be a sort of The Big Chill for Generation X.
Now, The Big Chill was loaded with music from the 60’s.
The Lather Effect music was from the eighties. The poor, deprived, eighties.
Every ten minutes or so (it seemed), one of the Lather characters was dropping the stylus on a vinyl LP track and declaring “Now THIS is the greatest record ever made!!”
I got to hear A-Ha doing “Take On Me,” two nothing songs from English Beat, and two (really!) versions of Night Ranger’s “Sister Christian.”
To top it off, one of the women in the flick slapped on Laura Branigan’s “Gloria” and said that IT was the greatest record of all time.
Ack.
A couple of weeks ago, I “saved” my vinyl LP collection from the shed and brought the crates inside. I lost a number of my best records during the “I’m Starving” sales back in the early seventies, but there are still some goodies in the boxes.
Ten Years After’s “Criclewood Green,” for example. Ten tracks on the album, and each track just kills any of the “best record’s of all time” from Lather.
Some examples:
“Working on the Road,” a pretty good ‘road song’
“50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain”
My Favorite —
Anyway —-
You remind me of a cool version of my dad. He’s full of music I’ve never heard of either.
Wheeeewwww… best album ever? That’s a tough one. Here’s my favorite though.
Bob Marley – Babylon By Bus
…and a tidbit
bradley
June 1, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Surely you’re not saying your dad’s not cool? —-
I appreciate Bob Marley and that genre more now than I ever did when I was younger.
backstripe
June 2, 2009 at 7:48 am
Well, not necessarily un-cool. I’m just not sure that The Carpenters and such were known for their long jams and heavy guitar solos.
bradley
June 2, 2009 at 8:39 am