Real Wild Stray Cat

Don't ask me why, but I have had this song on repeat for the past three days. I am in love with this song. Thanks to my father, I have liked the Stray Cats since I was like six. A love instilled early? Anyway, there's something about hair that's piled high with 1950's style and a 1980's twist. Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker, and Slim Jim Phantom being the prime examples of that style. So, borrowing a Stray Cats CD from my brother, I now have a collection of amazing rockabilly tunes. No joke, we still have the original cassestte tapes from these guys in a box downstairs. This song, "Bring it Back Again," is off of their 1989 reunion album. I think they broke up in 1984, then did this album a while later. Then they got back together a few years ago, that's what I read on Wikipedia. You know how I'm always talking about how all the music that I like is always more popular in the UK than in the US? Well, it started young because the Stray Cats were popular in the UK before the US. I thought that was interesting. There's something about the Stray Cats that sounds awesome. I mean it's just three guys, a drum set, a guitar, and a bass. Plus, how many drummers, today, play a drum set standing up? The Stray Cats are unique. Can you tell I have been doing a lot of reading on these guys? I also feel inclined to call everybody cat after I listen to these guys, for whatever reason. So, if you can't already tell, I love the Stray Cats. As weird as that may sound with all the pop stuff on the radio today, I love the '80's in general. The Stray Cats were essential to the '80's, in my opinion. My dad and aunt went to a Stray Cats concert, like when they were still together in the early '80's, and dad said that they played like a ten minute version of "Rock This Town." Which is only about three minutes long on the record. Yeah, they're pretty rad.

Happy New Year. "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't to look around once in a while, you could miss it."-"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" John Hughes. Oh, speaking of John Hughes, just about the coolest movie montage I found on Youtube the other day. It's from the movie "Easy A" and if you love '80's movies, like John Hughes type of stuff, then I highly recommend you watch this clip.

Have a good first week of 2011, you crazy cats.:0

-shelby