Song Of the Day: November 16, 2005
One-off rolling powerpop feather-touch rocker from south-of-London bearded
'n' cowboy-booted crowd-pleasers, weened on the 'Feat but shaken by the "My
Aim Is True"-ness of the New Wave. Privately-pressed and paid-for,
purposefully parlayed around local shows but not much further afield, the
single's melancholic beauty has survived intact and is presently, the world
over, breaking more hearts than ever. As a rootsier (what isn't?) "I'm Not
In Love" (and even those who question the superpop greatness of "I'm Mandy
Fly Me" or, especially, the hyperactive multiple-personality fun'n' froth of
"The Dean And I", must surely acknowledge the 256-vocal-overdubs and
fader-playing of "I'm Not In Love" as a defining moment of all post-Beatles
pop/rock) it's, well, the fucking shit. When I last looked, which was no
more than three years ago, The Bozos were still together and playing live: I
was invited, but declined to go, unwilling to have "Weekend Girl" reduce me
to tears in public as it so often does in private. When Pilot sang of
"Magic", this was one of the records they were imagining.
-Steve Mitchell
1 Comments:
Well put, Steve.
Whatasong.
-zac
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