pldms wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 9:18 am
A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 1:22 pm
Janice Long. One for the pop-crazed youngsters.
This hit me surprisingly hard. Just seemed such a happy presence in my childhood.
Indeed. I used to listen to her shows fairly frequently as a teen, and whilst she did also have a bit of a penchant for dodgy goth bands, she turned me onto Nick Cave, Julian Cope's solo stuff , Felt, Momus and a few others.
Plus, I have to give her credit for giving me my first exposure to the Fall, even if it was based on a misunderstanding. She played what I thought was "Oh! Brother" - their most recent release at the time - so I bought it the next weekend. Although I grew to like it after a few listens, my initial reaction was "What is this poppy shit? This isn't the song I heard on the Evening Session!".
Turned out I'd misheard the title, and that the track she'd played was actually "An Older Lover Etc.", as I discovered a year or so later after Buying "Slates".
