The Price Of Love - The Everly Brothers

I could go on about how this song is the apotheosis of the Brother's stellar late-60s output (though Milk Train, It's My Time and Lord of the Manor run it close). Or I could point out the fact that this song has more snotty, punky energy than any of the art school white noise that came from the King's Road in 1976. Or marvel at how two hillbilly brothers from Kentucky could articulate the paranoid truth of modern social contact in two lines of a pop song:

You're dancin' slow, you're dancin' fast. You're happy now, but that won't last

...but I think I'll reveal how I, like Don and Phil Everly, have a brother, but in order to avoid any embarrassing associations with me or my dubious activities, he has changed his name to Emilio Estevez. How does that work?

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Bareback Donkey Riding - The Clique

Now this is what the Mod revival should have been about: crazed vocals, atomic soul basslines, freakbeat organ and choppy garage riffs. From the best live band of the 1990s, the now-defunct Clique, comes one of those songs that's so good, you have to play it again straight away; donate money to sponsor a donkey for a year at the Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary and declare war on Spain for their shabby treatment of the Giant Andalucian Mule.

I hang around in zoos. I get withdrawal blues. I like to go on donkey rides and make the headline news

You should never ride a donkey without a saddle while eating an ice cream. Just like you should never call anyone 'Boss', unless they are actually your boss.

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Manifesto & Book News

If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols, candy-based metaphors for carnal acts or lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, it's in.

Come like a lightning flash, a lightning flash



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