early bird request line

three days a week, the alarm goes off at 5.30, waking me up in time to hear the early edition's early bird request line. i rarely hear it, and when i do it is often through a sleep fog. monday's song, however, made my morning. i tried all night to track it down: swing out sister's you on my mind. it's a big 80's pop song, reminiscent of everything but the girl's more produced albums, but more.. propulsive. solid. i love the melody, the double tracked vocals, and the anthemic chorus. it's what i want from so many of my 80's hits but can rarely find. it all builds, and the climax is, for once, appropriate. i think i'll go buy the album soon. i bet i can find it on vinyl for a dollar! 'if we could make it work this time...' i've just listened to it six times in a row.

there's a whole vein of this stuff: mid-period everything but the girl, sade, matt bianco and basia, and apparently swing out sister. i may be signing up soon.

i'm glad that this song turned out for me, that its initial rush wasn't just a sleepy delusion. i'm more aware than i think when half asleep.

see, the day that bombs went off in london i slept in until 7.30, maybe, despite having had the radio come on at 6.30. i dreamt about bombs in london. then i woke up, and all the regular CBC programming had been interrupted. i didn't believe it. i'd DREAMED it! but it was real.

still listening to low. earlier, before the swing out sister-mania, i listened to trust, from 2002. it's a good album, very good, in fact, but not one i ever feel compelled to listen to, unlike the great destroyer.

aha! i made the connection: you on my mind is what the fifth dimension could have recorded in 1989, if they'd still been a going concern and had moved to england.