Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Los Lobos
By The Light Of The Moon
(Slash/Warner Brothers, 1987)
Is it hot in here? No it’s just Los Lobos, reckons MOJO messageboarder…
There may be many reasons why so much ’80s pop culture reached back to the ’50s and early ’60s: a revolt against the modernism of synthpop and newfangled computer games? A deep Reagan-embodying need for ‘simpler’, wilfully naive times? Wry echoes of a previous Cold War era? On release, Los Lobos’s fifth album certainly had a timely out-of-timeness to it, channelling the vulnerability and aliveness of early rock’n’roll and soul. There’s an Orbison-like purity here, and, as the title and cover suggests, this too is music of the night. Songs to dance to, (All I Wanted To Do Is Dance, Set Me Free (Rosa Lee), ache to (River of Fools), or to just give you the Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes. Songs that don’t make sense in the yuppie AOR-hoovering big cities but seem perfect for the barely populated, heat-quivering, black-skied, smalltown night-time streets of early Jim Jarmusch films. You half expect a dusty Tom Waits to stagger into one of the songs. Time travelling, cheerily goosebumping, sensitively midwifed by the magic hands of T-Bone Burnett… and did I mention beautifully well-performed?
Fuzzy
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 30/01/2009
Further Listening
Los Lobos – Kiko (Slash/Warner Bros, 1992)
Chris Isaak – Heart Shaped World (Reprise, 1989)
Ry Cooder – Borderline (Warner Bros, 1980)
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