Song Of the Day: March 3, 2005
Steve Mitchell was relating a story of a discussion he once had with Clare at Sarah Records. She told him it was annoying that people so frequently said that the best Sarah single was the first one, "Pristine Christine" by the Sea Urchins. "Well, it is," Steve repiled. And he might be right. It's pretty hard to top something like that. That said however, my favorite Sarah single is the grandest one, St. Christopher's "Say Yes To Everything." I remember getting this home and thinking how remarkably huge it sounded compared to most of the other Sarah 45s, with the big electro drums, tympani, and crashing bass notes on the piano. Fortunately, St. Christopher, a band who went so far as to name one of their EPs "Bacharach," composed a song that would have made their chief influence proud. The result is undeniably "indie", yet atypically bold, big, and ambitious.
3 Comments:
was there ever a bad sarah single?
Not the kind of bad you're almost certain to hear if you turn on the readio, but I think there was a decline phase where records were released becasuse they had a certain "sound" rather than because they were great songs. I don't have the list in front of me but I'd say nos. 1-50 were definitely stronger as a group than nos. 51-100.
And while I wouldn't say they were "bad," I just never could get into the Golden Dawn 45s
thanks a lot for this, it's a good one- I hadn't heard it before, but it kept reminding me of something, and I just placed it... I'm Affected by the Ramones off End of The Century (prod Phil Spector hence the big sound)
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