Thursday, August 04, 2005

Song Of the Day: August 4, 2005


Snips - 9 O'clock


EMI Records (UK) 45, 1980

Snips (a.k.a. Steve Parsons) had a legit career in the straight rock world with Sharks and the Baker Gurvitz Army before the punk explosion, but proved himself extremely adaptable by making some beguiling new wave pop singles. This one, which had Midge Ure of Ultravox in the producer's chair, is perhaps his finest, and it really seems like it would make a great cover for some hip young band like the French Kicks.


5 Comments:

Anonymous said...

showing up at more than one blog because of one reason. It is a terrific song.

7:49 AM  
wsb said...

yeah i'm going to link to this gem, too. Do you hear that popular Strokes song that this tune predicts? "I don't see it that way..."

6:00 PM  
Anonymous said...

This is a cover by somebody else...and I'm totally blanking on who. Please check the songwriting credits and let us know, thanks.

10:16 PM  
Anonymous said...

This song was written by Parsons (Snips)

Best,

Jon

8:18 AM  
Anonymous said...

Yeah, right after I made that post about "9 O'Clock" being a cover, I realized that I had actually heard the song covered by somebody else. If it wasn't Nick Heyward, then it was certainly somebody with a similar style. The song sounds really nice as strummy acoustic pop. Now if I could only remember who covered it...

2:17 PM  

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