Gap Dream - 58th St. Fingers

Allow me to be the 19th music blog to post this song, but presumably the first to note that the guitar line reminds him of this, while the synth ostinato (look it up, bitches) reminds him of what kicks in at 0:44 in this?

Lots more Gap Dream music available here. I will take this link down in a day.

Hey party people - our latest show for Viva Radio premieres today at 2 PM. This week's show features a lot of new-to-me stuff that I've been enjoying lately, plus a few classics from deep in the archives. Featured artists include Cheap Trick, The Katzenjammers, Automatic Man, Jermaine Jackson, Eye To Eye, Desmond Dekker, Joe South, New Order, and more! Remember that archived shows can always be accessed here.

The photo above is of yours truly circa 1985-ish (thanks to my sister for digging it out of the archives). Chillingly, pretty much my entire future is foretold in this photograph. Trivia Question: can anyone identify the record in the foreground? (Hint: it's the back of the record, not the front.)

Expansives - Life With You ....

Melody reminiscent of Freak Out by Chic, with some Bee Gees-style falsetto stylings on the chorus sucking you deeper into the vortex. Thanks to my imaginary youtube friend 0x51d for the tip. Ripped from the reissue on Panama Records. Also, "The Expansives." Best band name I've heard in a while.

"Listening to-night to the names of all those great singers of the past it seemed to me, I must confess, that we were living in a less spacious age. Those days might, without exaggeration, be called spacious days: and if they are gone beyond recall let us hope, at least, that in gatherings such as this we shall still speak of them with pride and affection, still cherish in our hearts the memory of those dead and gone great ones whose fame the world will not willingly let die."

--James Joyce, The Dead, 1904