#Plimsouls

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The Metro #659

This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your time trip back to the 80s: Modern English, Plimsouls, UB40, Fun Boy Three, Culture Club, Eddie Money, Marilyn Martin, Ian Dury, Nails, Men At Work, Waterboys, Pete Shelley, Let’s Active, Huey Lewis And The News, Untouchables, and finishing off with Yaz. Stream The Metro #659. Download The Metro #659.

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This is why 45’s were invented.

A Million Miles Away shoulda been a double A side single. Nothing else these guys did can compare. Heck few songs of that era can.

I remember Greg Shaw had the single on BOMP ! before who was it, Electra? signed them. In my memory the Shaw mix was hotter but who knows? Peter has been following his own muse for decades and makes some great music that bears no resemblance to the Plimsouls.

The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away (1983) Joey Alkes / Peter Case / Chris Fradkin from: “A Million Miles Away” / “Play The Breaks”          “Everywhere at Once“ LP

Personnel: Peter Case: Lead Vocals / Guitar Eddie Munoz Lead Guitar / Backing Vocals Jeff Eyrich: Guitar / Backing Vocals Dave Pahoa Bass Guitar / Backing Vocals Lou Ramirez: Drums

[power-chords]

One of my favorite Plimsouls songs, platonically embodied by Phil Seymour, maybe the only recording artist capable of usurping the original. (Then again, The Plimsouls in the studio were always a shadow of The Plimsouls live.)

I'm riffing on either S. W. Lauden or Paul Myers when I propose that power pop's generic essence is the performance of membership to an inherited tradition, valuing the devotional over the subversive, an eager disavowal of "novelty" or "invention" in service of the eternal Friday night. (I love that Lauden and Myers have such dignified and collegiate names; they edited the two collections of power pop essays sitting on my bookshelf.)

Power pop's perceived gaucheness (e.g., "Knuke The Knack;" its general failure to thrive except among cultic antiquarians of the power chord) is, I think, not so much a function of its derivative quality per se as the unselfconscious celebration of being derivative, of ascribing to one's forebears an unassailable priority and mythic, almost transcendent significance. Sorry, I've been thinking about zig-zag pathways and converging threads all afternoon. What I'm saying is that Phil Seymour has what it takes to stand behind the figurative bimah and in front of the actual wall of amplifiers.

[rastronomicals]

1:42 PM EDT August 12, 2024:

Jeff Beck - "Rock My Plimsoul" From the album Truth (August 1968)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Beckology

[jt1674]

[speakspeak]

Elvis 82

[deadmegumi]

Listening to my dad's stories about growing up in la in the 70s and 80s and quivering with rage and jealousy

[kosmik-signals]

The Plimsouls

[transpondster]

The Plimsouls, Oldest Story in the World

Nothing lasts, no one’s to blame

[1977-1981-the-era-of-music]

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Artist: The Plimsouls

Title: I Want What You Got

Album: The Plimsouls

Played on: Fri Oct 11 2024 08:23:12 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)

#The Plimsouls #1977 to 1981 ERA OF MUSIC

[iwantthebeat]

The Plimsouls - “I’ll Get Lucky”

[tfc2211]

Ossie Laine Show – Maddox 2 (1969)

[power-chords]

Don't go back to playing with Jack / Don't get crushed, 'cause he'll knock you flat / The beats are rushed when you're playing with Jack

[rastronomicals]

7:57 PM EST January 11, 2023:

Jeff Beck - "Rock My Plimsoul" From the album Truth (August 1968)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Beckology

[spilladabalia]

The Plimsouls - Oldest Story In The World