We're Not Who You Think We Are
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.
[Read more…] about Certain Songs #371: Easterhouse – “To Live Like This”
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.