A title that promises business as usual; a song that delivers just that. Solid Shadowy entertainment that only really takes off when the guitar decides to turn into a mountain bike and kick up some dirt.
Score: 5
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Oh, I bloody love Dakota. And yes, I am one of those “it’s their only good single” people. But my…
RIP Roberta Flack, aged 88 after a few years of illness.
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(more because she wanted her fans to easily find her!)
It's a great line, but I can't find any more (from either side) than "Went to the same violin lessons…
Well the Housemartins' bassist was a schoolchum of both the journalist Andrew Sullivan and of Labour front man Kier Starmer...
I don't believe Dave Lee Roth has gone long enough between sexual encounters to build up the frustration required for…
Here's a thing: if this were a stand-alone freakbeat breakout hit, I'd probably go 10/10 straight away without a moment's…
Tom, I wish I could tear into you for the shortest analysis yet. But what to say? Only that Atlantis, a Jerry Lordan-penned atmospheric blinder that settled at number 2 later in the year, was once voted the greatest record of all time on a Liverpool radio station. Dance On defines cruise control, shoulda been Top 5 at best. Neil Young probably didn’t have it in mind when he namechecked Hank B Marvin on the back of Buffalo Springfield Again.
The blurb for Elvis’ “Good Luck Charm” is shorter!
I’m very glad to see comments on some of these older entries by the way. Most of the ones from ’56 or so on used to have a healthy few comments – not the 100+ epics we get now, but half a dozen or so – and they were all lost when we switched comments systems. So the old entries can look like a bit of a wasteland.
The trouble with a lot of the Shad’s stuff with fairly generic titles is remembering which one is which!
I was about to take issue and say “but what about the drum/guitar playoff?” but that was Foot Tapper, wasn’t it?
Anyhow, there was a period in the mid sixties between their “big hits” and before they took to the MOR “ding ding ding” instrumental versions of vocal tracks, where they cooked up some great stuff. Check out CD2 and 3 of the “Complete singles” 4CD set!
More on The Shadows here: http://musicsoundsbetterwithtwo.blogspot.com/2011/06/strand-of-sand-shadows-atlantis-html
link dnw (edit: I see what happened)
http://musicsoundsbetterwithtwo.blogspot.com/2011/06/strand-of-sand-shadows-atlantis.html
The recently departed Kathy Kirby had a vocal hit with Dance On. And it was written by The Avons, who had the UK hit with Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat. And, err, still not much else to say… I like the octave switch down.
“Shads stuff with fairly generic titles”… the b-side’s called All Day… no memory of it at all!
Has anyone heard Pet Clark’s vocal version of Foot Tapper??
this is The Shadows at their dullest for me – it’s polished and polite with little sense of wanting to try something new, just keep your head down and dance on
Perky and appealing. I would go with a 6/10 here.