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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Kirsty MacColl - FROM CROYDON TO CUBA |
| Date | Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:43:58 -0500 |
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From: "Craig Leve" <CraigL@ori.org>
> How much earlier? All Music Guide lists both as 1991 releases with
> Kirsty's releasesd in June. No doubt these are independent minds
> thinking creatively, right? So they both get in the R'n'R HoF, yeah?
The notes of FROM CROYDON TO CUBA credit Johnny Marr with coming up
with Kirsty's title: at the time they were recording at Electric Lady
in New York, he was renting her old flat in London , which of course,
made Kirsty his landlady.
The CD set is absolutely essential for any Kirsty fan -- while it has
a lot of inexplicable omissions (no "Turn My Motor On"? No room for
the definitive version of the McGarrigles' "Complainte pour Ste.
Catherine"?), it has a ton of rare and unreleased tracks, and every
single song on it made it onto my iPod. It's tough listening at
times, though: there has never been a rock and roll death that has hit
me harder than Kirsty MacColl's, partially because of its utter
senselessness and mostly because of what was lost. She was one of the
best songwriters of her generation and -- absolutely no question --
the greatest harmony singer of all time. (Yes, including Carl
Wilson.)
Not to mention she was just drop-dead gorgeous.
S
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