If
Paul Schrader can pick the
The Big Lebowski for his Film Cannon (in the September/October issue of
Film Comment)--choosing it, mind you, before
Sunset Boulevard,
Gun Crazy and
Salvatore Giuliano--I feel I can safely place
Strum & Drum by the
Sex Clark Five way up high at the top of my
Definitive All-Time Greatest Albums Of All Time List (Canon). The angelic vocals of
Fool I Was, those tentative White Boy rhythms in
Alai, the curious subject matter blending the quest for nervous love (
If You See Her With Me (Let Me Know),
Girls Of Somalia) with precise descriptions of geo-political conflicts (
Sarajevo)...all of it would sit nicely on my Western Canon trophycase (next to
The Residents'
Third Reich And Roll,
Daniel Johnston's
Hi. How Are You? and
The Fall's
This Nation's Saving Grace).
4 comments:
Wow. Thanks.
From half (or a third? who knows) of the angelic vocals,
Joy
My all time greatest albums canon woul d have to include Strange Man, Changed Man by Bram Tchaikovsky. He was the greatest of all Tchaikovskys.
sex clark five isn't just a band. they're a curriculum.
The Sc5 are musically all over the map and I love them for it.
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