I don't know if this happens to you, general collector's of things, or if it's just me. One day, I just get a hair up my butt that I want something, and must have it then and now. Never mind that I'm not necessarily a fan of it, or on any other day of the week would have even given said subject matter another thought. This is how I ended up with G1 Transformers, Real Ghostbusters, and more relatable to this post, a lot of CD's.
One day, while perusing my local CD shop, I came across the Eric Clapton section, and found the majority of his 80's albums tucked within the shelf. Mind you, I don't like the artist. I couldn't name a song beyond Layla that I would honestly give a moment of time to listen to. Even then I would turn it off when it got to the long winded, and allegedly plagiarized piano section.
As far as I'm concerned, the guy had a lucky moment in the 70's where he became relevant with Cream, but then never went away. Lucky us? Yet, here I was, scooping up relatively cheap Clapton albums, fleshing out an entire discography of 80's albums.
Well, now that I have them, I have to listen to them...ugh. Well, let's get this ball of garbage rolling.
We start with 1981's Another Ticket...see, here's how much I care about this. I don't even know the album's name. As I started typing it out, I almost put "Ticket To Ride".
By track two, I had my fill of rhythm and blues, and was wondering if it was over already. It wasn't. There were seven left to go. What was this nonsense? I felt like I was stuck in that one scene from Adventures In Babysitting.
Seriously, and also, who names their album after a slow and monotonous track? Another Ticket, the song, is about as enjoyable as watching paint dry. Just when I thought that bashing my own head in with a bat would be a reasonable solution to my problem, I Can't Stand It came on. Yeah, you and me both, Clapton. Fortunately, this was a forgotten tune for me from the era that once played the airwaves of my yesterdays.
Putting the bat down moments from impact, I thought, "Hmm...Maybe this will get better now?" Well...I now...hospital...head trauma...no do can think more good no more. To summarize, Another Ticket, no thank you. I Can't Stand It, and Rita Mae were tolerable. The rest was a hard pass.
Ugh...four more albums to go...
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| THIS WEEK ON THE CHARTS June 27, 1981 |
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