• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • About
  • Archives
  • Contact

Medialoper

We're Not Who You Think We Are

Lets Make Some Plans

Certain Songs #240: Close Lobsters – “Let’s Make Some Plans”

July 3, 2015 by Jim Connelly

511AYsJQPeL._SL500_SY355_ Album: What is There To Smile About? EP
Year: 1988.

Coming on the heels of Foxheads Stalk This Land, the late 1988 What Is There To Smile About? EP showed the Close Lobsters toughening up their music. They were still jangling all over the place, but this was one of those EPs that was more of a progress report than a stopgap. Songs like the title track and “Loopholes” sported the kind of world-class guitar riffs & hooks that would make Johnny Marr spin around in his grave.

And if you’ve ever heard any Close Lobsters song, chances are it’s “Let’s Make Some Plans.” Not only was there an actual video made, it was covered by the somewhat less obscure Wedding Present during the height of their somewhat less obscureness.

[Read more…] about Certain Songs #240: Close Lobsters – “Let’s Make Some Plans”

Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Close Lobsters, Lets Make Some Plans, What Is There To Smile About?

Primary Sidebar

Lopy

Search

Previously on Medialoper

  • Certain Songs #2542: Sugar – “The Act We Act”
  • Certain Songs #2541: Sufjan Stevens – “Too Much”
  • Certain Songs #2540: Sufjan Stevens – “Djohariah”
  • Certain Songs #2539: Sufjan Stevens – “Heirloom”
  • Certain Songs #2538: Sufjan Stevens – “Casimir Pulaski Day”

Copyright © 2023 ยท Medialoper