Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth For Christ Choir
LIke A Ship...(Without A Sail)
Ok, embarrassing revelation time. I have this record in my collection, filed away as an indication that I've listened to it.
Somehow I ended up with a second copy, probably due to the fact that both Light In The Attic and Numero Group have both reissued it over the years. Anway, I pulled it out to listen to, and I'd be goddamned if my immediate reaction wasn't "Wait...isn't this a Parliament song?"
As I pull at the thread further, what I've come to realize is that the title track has been played often over the years on the TMR turntable and beyond. I've heard it dozens of times, no doubt.
But I never really connected it with the Barrett LP. I thought it was George Clinton and company.
Nevertheless, the soulful vocals, the propulsive funk bass bottom and the magical spark in the air anytime you've got a youth choir and this record is IT. In addition to many other dream hypotheticals, a perfect world is one wherein there's a thousand different albums just like this, just as good. I can only imagine...
And since I've got two copies, one can be yours.
Post your best story, truthful or fiction, that explains a song you mis-attributed to the wrong artist, in good faith, because of how much they sounded alike. Except for "Lies" by the Knickerbockers sounding like the Beatles. You can't post that story because I lived that one too.
Get your words up here before midnight January 30th and the winner, as chosen by me, will get this delicious LP mailed straight to their doorstep, or failing that, PO box.
Discovering Nirvana at 14 yrs old was my second birth and Kurt Cobain was/is my personal Christ. Anyways, sometime in the early 2000’s, when I had digested totally on a soul level every Nirvana track I could get to my ears, someone gave me a cassette or mini disc with various songs that they thought matched my vibe. There was one song on there that in my discovering it, I fully believed, no… knew fully that I had found it… The lost Arc… A lost Nirvana song. Not only a lost Nirvana track but a Nirvana song that seemed as authentic and honest a confessional piece from the soul of Kurt ever to be revealed in his art. I cried when I heard it the first time. I cried when I listened to it the second time. I cried when I listened to it the third time… I wondered if I would cry every time I listened to the song… I should cry every time I listen to the song. If I failed to cry when listening to the song it may mean that I didn’t love enough. When listening to the song then I would sometimes have to push myself a bit to bring the tears… I started to avoid the song in case I would not cry. That would be unimaginably terrible… I would not be an adequate disciple to the sight of the holy noise…
Sometime later, perhaps months, perhaps years, I was introduced to a band named Stone Temple Pilots and their song “creep”. I still avoid this song.
I had a pretty embarrassing moment a few years ago while out dancing in a club. There had been a discussion earlier in the evening about bands from various areas of the UK and which region had the best. As I am Scottish I was quick to point out the current song playing was a classic by Primal Scream. Some strange looks towards me and I was swiftly corrected that it was in fact Sympathy for the Devil by the Stones. Ahhh, yes… Obviously… But hopefully you can see where I went wrong after quite a few beers!
Does being a young and naive 90s kid downloading god-knows-what via Limewire in the early 00s count? Because if it does; Teenage Dirtbag – Weezer