I am instating a song-of-the-day practice. Because, well, every day has a song and if you pay enough attention you can figure out what it is. (Sometimes it declares itself so bluntly that you don't need to do much digging.) I'm declaring
The Wallflowers' "The Difference" today's- and the very first on this blog- song of the day.
Not the best song on their debut album,
Bringing Down the Horse (See: Bleeders), but a good one nonetheless. It's catchy, but not too catchy. It's foot-tapping. And it's fucking old-school. I remember jumping around my room to this song in high school, fantasizing about Jakob Dylan laying those glowing blue eyes on me (among other things...).
And, the song contains one of my favorite Wallflowers lyrics:
They say that children now
They come in all ages
And maybe sometimes old men die
With little boy faces
Though the Wallflowers have been gliding down a downward slope ever since the release of their second album (to their credit, they did introduce me to the song Heroes, which led to my Bowie Awakening), their first album was and remains a little jewel. Just a reminder, in case your
Bringing Down the Horse CD is sitting quietly in the corner, collecting dust.
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