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Showing posts with label Graham Coxon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graham Coxon. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Song In My Head

For me, it's Graham Coxon's "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery" off his 2004 album Happiness in Magazines (which I picked up for $2 at a used book/CD store yesterday). The song -- and the album -- picks up where Blur left off, and, true to form, it's quite a catchy tune. Hear it for yourself:

By the way, Graham Coxon is the rare non-frontman to enjoy a solo career doing things he didn't do as part of a band. He was Blur's guitarist, and he occasionally sung lead ("Coffee and TV"). I guess all the members of The Eagles -- Joe Walsh, Don Henley, Glenn Frey -- had similar career paths but there aren't too many who follow that trajectory. Johnny Marr tried it -- to a lesser degree of success. Who am I missing?