Saturday Coffee and Tunes - 19/07/25
Tom Tom Club - Close To The Bone
A belated post from my spin last Saturday morning. I realised this was sitting in my drafts as we had to head off to a 40th. It’s that time of year because we have another one today!
This is a 1983 Japanese press with obi and all. A good find for $35 IMHO from Round and Round, Brunswick Naarm/Melbourne. Surprised it hasn't had a repress.
This morning, I spent some time in the depths of the internet about TTC and golly people are mad. I had no idea they were such a divisive band. A blog was canning this album describing it as "too much humble bubblegummy politeness". I snorted my coffee reading that.
My hot take is Tom Tom Club are great and this is an underrated album. You can hear where Le Tigre and other bands similar were inspired sound wise from some of the tracks on this. I’ve left it out to give it another spin.
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