Beautiful Scottish jangle pop album from the 1980s. āI Kiss the Flower in Bloomā is mesmerizing. Recommended if you like The Sundays, The Laās, Teenage Fanclub, etc.
New live CAN, from pretty late in their time as a band. They had recently added Rosko Gee as a bass player, so Holger Czukay is making experimental noises in the background.
There's also a heady new release of an old Czukay collab with Brian Eno.
This may not be the first song I remember hearing, but it is one of the first I can recall having a visceral reaction to. My mom was an avid soundtrack collector of her favorite moviesā The Lost Boys soundtrack often played in my house growing up. One day I was laying on my bed on a dreary afternoon and I remember hearing Jim Morrisonās voice floating up from the downstairs stereo. As he sang faces look ugly when youāre alone I stared into the small faces of the porcelain dolls on my shelf (that my mom insisted I keep on display even though they always made be slightly uncomfortable) until I imagined their faces warping and bending into strange expressions.