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Certain Songs #371: Easterhouse – “To Live Like This”

November 19, 2015 by Jim Connelly

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Album: Contenders
Year: 1986

Only the 1980s coulda produced a band like Easterhouse. Musically, they sounded like The Smiths if The Smiths had wanted to sound like U2.

The lead singer with the big voice and guitarist with the huge delay on every note were brothers, Andy singing and Ivor on the guitar. Lyrically, they were, well, Communists.

Commie Stadium Rock. On Columbia Records and Tapes.

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17 Musical Moments to Die For

August 27, 2009 by Jim Connelly

Camper Van Beethoven play a house party in Fresno, CA in 1985.It has been four months since I’ve done one of these, a far cry from my original plan of doing one a month, and I can’t promise when the next one will be, or even if there will be a next one.

So, really quickly, the ground rules. These aren’t about artists, or albums, or even songs, but rather, moments: that piece of a song that draws you into it; that piece of a song that you wait to happen again; that piece of a song that is running in your head when you can’t sleep; that piece of a song that you find yourself humming at inopportune times.

That piece of a song that you can’t live without.

This is the ninth in a series: The first one had 25; the second one had 24; the third one had 23; the fourth one had 22; the fifth one had 21; and the sixth had 20; the seventh had 19 and the eighth had 18.

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Filed Under: Music, Musical Moments To Die For, That's What I Like Tagged With: Alter Boys, Beatles, Big Star, Death Cab For Cutie, Dramarama, Easterhouse, Gin Blossoms, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Keith Richards, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Television

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