jacobites, robespierre's velvet basement--hadn't listened to this in a long while, but it's something of a classic, with that shambolic loose feel you can't fake
graham parker, another gray area--he's a surly guy who screwed himself commercially and musically by abandoning the hard edge of "squeezing out sparks." that said, he remained an ace songwriter and this is better than i remember.
the church, heyday--a lot of their records are more about the sonics than the songs, but this one is full of tight hooky tunes, including their best-ever, "tantalized"
