David Clayton Thomas' simple, see-saw of a tune (stolen from "Lulu's Back in Town") backed by some very tight, hot and precise instrumentation. Very clean, very rich, very catchy and with an unmistakable infusion of jazz brass and winds. Excellent arrangement. When I was sitting my final exams in Junior High, it was early June, so the classroom windows were open (no air conditioning there). Someone in a nearby home starting playing this record (repeatedly) at top volume, and I was totally swept into a daydream of having my own band with a full brass section.
I was driven by the raw masculinity in David Clayton Thomas' voice (reminiscent of the fellow who sang the lead in "Vehicle",by the Ides of March but not quite as overtly intense....a bit more controlled).
Within two months, I had put together a seven-piece band and started to make demo tapes -- one of the tapes of original music was so bad that the former EVP of the now-demised Roulette Records, actually threw us out of his office after listening to two minutes of the first of our six songs.
I was crushed.
Enjoy this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi9sLkyhhlE&feature=fvw
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