In a lot of ways, everything I’m writing about in this little series could be comfortably filed under “Kitsch”, and I don’t mind that. I mean, it doesn’t bother me. I like this sort of thing – disposable pop music of the late sixties/early 70s, especially the English take on it, which was always a…
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Nostalgia For Cold, Rainy, Dark Days in England in The 1970s, Part 2: Beach Baby – The First Class.
Where do you start with Beach Baby by The First Class? There’s a lot going on in there. When I hear Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, I gather the studio kitchen’s a sink down. When I hear Beach Baby, it sounds like they’ve made a studio out kitchen sinks, specifically to record a song that is, equally, if not more, no stranger to the plumbing aisle in B&Q.
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