Do you have a song or songs that when you hear them that you want to repeatedly play? The sort of thing you do when you’re a kid but that strange compulsion is still there with particular pieces of music?
Today while dicking about on the YouTube listening and watching bits of classic 70s music I stumbled upon this:
Taste: Blister on the moon.
This song is very familiar to me. I first heard it when I was given this album in the early 70s:
Here's a track listing:
Side 1
John Mayall - Room to Move
Blind Faith - Well Alright
Cat Mother and The All Night Newsboys - Can You Dance To It
Jack Bruce - The Clearout
Cream - Doing That Scrapyard Thing
Side2
Fat Mattress - Everything Is Blue
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Indian Rope Man
The Savage Rose - A Girl I Know
Taste - Blister on the Moon
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Miss Strange
The stand-out tracks for me are The Clearout, Doing That Scrapyard Thing, Indian Rope Man, and Blister on the Moon.
The one that I can still listen to repeatedly at high volume until my ears bleed is Blister on the Moon, I have to replay it about 10 times every time. I can’t resist the guitar of Rory Gallagher teamed with the anger vented at a perceived imposition of control, and the resistance to it, expressed in the lyrics.
That is what I have been doing today.
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