Juke Box Jury
Certain records make me weary the first time I hear them, not because I hate ’em, more because I kinda like them but realize that the formula holding them up is so skeletal that after a couple of weeks it’s bound to start driving me crazy. They’re always monster hits, too.
Juke Box Jury
BY
GREG SHAW
Weary With The Renaissance
Sept. 22
Certain records make me weary the first time I hear them, not because I hate ’em, more because I kinda like them but realize that the formula holding them up is so skeletal that after a couple of weeks it’s bound to start driving me crazy. They’re always monster hits, too. “Rocket Man” was such a record. So was “Maggie May.” All of Paul Simon’s stuff fits, and most of McCartney’s. This list is long. Latest addition to it has got to be “Angie” by the Stones (RSI9105). I still enjoy it, but force myself not to listen because it’s only two weeks old and the sooner I get sick of it the longer I’ll have to endure. It's really a shame the Stones had to put out this single; nobody ever minded waiting a year for their next 45, because what came was always a blessed relief from everything else. The fact that we don’t really need relief from anything lately is just another sign that the. times they are indeed a-changing, again.