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Kid Creole & the Coconuts, “Dear Addy” (1981)
I like just about all the Kid Creole & the Coconuts stuff, particularly through the ’80s悠 saw them live in 1986 and they were way, way better than I had any right to expect. Probably Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places is my favorite album, with its whacked-out concept about a sea voyage whose songs borrow rhythms and various stylings from all the ports in which the traveler stops, including elements of Broadway, calypso, cha cha, disco, funk, Latin, reggae, rock, and more, all served up in bite-size pop songs. “Dear Addy” is the the album closer, a very lovely ballad about sailing the world ’round only to find that the one waiting for you at home is the one you love and want. Or you hope she’s waiting for you anyway, the source of the song’s bracing tension.

First foreign place: “Going Places”
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  3. 3.

    JGabriel

    While we’re talking about lovely ballads, see Marion Cotillard on last night’s Daily Show for a visual definition of the phrase ridiculously beautiful.

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    Amir Khalid

    It’s already September 11 on my side of the International Date Line. This song, from an album that seems to be on a lot of people’s minds as the anniversary comes up, made me weep the first time I heard it. Sometimes it still does.

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    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    If This is Goodbye is a 9/11 song too.

    My famous last words
    Could never tell the story
    Spinning unheard
    In the dark of the sky
    But I love you
    And this is our glory
    If this is good bye
    If this is good bye

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    Brachiator

    Related music thingie, for Spotify users

    The tech writer Andy Ihnatko offered up a little challenge not too long ago:

    I wanna try something I’ve tried a couple of times on Twitter, to great satisfaction:
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    Recommend one and only one music track.
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    One, not two. A track, not a band or an album. You don’t get to ask “well, what kind of music do you like?” Go through your music library and pick just one track that you can proudly and confidently recommend, based on any criteria that you like.
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    Explain your choice if you absolutely can’t stop yourself, but ideally, let the track speak for itself.

    One of the responders took the songs, about 400 or so, and turned it into a Spotify playlist. If you have the service, you might want to check it out, here.

    http://open.spotify.com/user/phidauex/playlist/2yO4TEVNFxRXRMi0GSwIO8

    BTW, I got no interest in Spotify other than as a casual user of the free version of the service.

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    trollhattan

    @Amir Khalid:

    It’s already September 11 on my side of the International Date Line.

    You sure about that? Beause if it is, I’m two global spins behind ya.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    @trollhattan:
    Oops. Still only Sept 10 over here. My bad. But the anniversary is coming up, and Into The Fire is an appropriate song; besides, next week’s SOTW post will be after the anniversary.

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    Montysano

    @JGabriel:

    see Marion Cotillard on last night’s Daily Show for a visual definition of the phrase ridiculously beautiful.

    Boy howdy…

    Thanks, DougJ: I hadn’t listened to Kid Creole in years!

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