Thursday, February 23, 2006

Song Of the Day: February 23, 2006


Start - Where I Want To Be

From the LP Look Around,
Fresh Sounds Records, 1983


There are elements of Start's sound (besides just their name) that suggest that this young Lawrence, KS. band members were fans of the Jam. Their lyrics are charming, almost painfully earnest slices of youthful introspection, the drumming is stiff-but-propulsive, and on "Where I Want To Be," guitarist Jay Francis demonstrates some tasty Weller rips. However, Start saw fit to fill in the sound with keyboards rather than slashing chords, and instead of the punkly call-to-arms of the neo-mod bands, Start substitute a naive sweetness. The results are more interesting than most similar genre exercises and a rather unique (especially for a US band) blip on the radar from the early college-radio era, .


4 Comments:

Rinjo Njori said...

This is a great song. There sound isn't as big as The Jam-- but this is only one song.

Great Blog!

1:39 PM  
lost socks said...

Wow...I've never met anyone else who has this LP! Nice choice!

1:01 PM  
Anonymous said...

I second lost socks comment (above). Isn't there a song on here w/ vocals provided by beat poet Allen Ginsburg?

7:05 PM  
Jon Harrison said...

Yes.

5:45 AM  

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