The Other Alf

Not the one who eats cats. Alison Moyet, known affectionately in England and those parts as "Alf." My best friend in high school looked like her...they were both big girls with great booming voices. Her career obviously didn't skyrocket over here. I think she is still held in a certain esteem over there...I saw her on Graham Norton one night and everybody seemed quite thrilled to have her, so I think she's still "theirs." My Media Player is hungry so I have about a hundred c.d's. to feed it...don't you hate when you put your own compilations on here...because the puter can't search and fill in all the blanks! I'm too lazy for that...so I just leave them as "ghost c.d.'s"....click on the whiteness to learn what it is...Upstairs at Eric's is a good album...not a great one...some of the tracks Alf is too showy but surprisingly the ric-a-nic, dweeezy keyboards of the early eighties are actually spritely enough under Vince's capable hands that most of the tracks don't sound too dated...i love the voice collage they included here with the old lady laughing, "I Before E Except After C." Ah, gotta love those stoner tracks when they get included. Alf is clearly feeling no pain on her recitative. I've heard "Don't Go" too many times in this lifetime to really be able to "hear" it anymore...ditto with "Situation" which has to be the most obnoxiously over-deejayed song ever..that thing will never die, congratulations Vince....but I like "Too Pieces, "In My Room" and "Winter Kills"...hey even schlockmeister Richard Clayderman covered "Only You"....i swear that sounds as though it was written to be on a little Precious Moments music box...okay why am I downloading this album...since I'm busting on most of it...oh well, because it is comforting in some weird way i suppose...the way they play that shit in the elevators and the nursing homes..."Situation" will probably be a big tune to die to in nursing homes in about thirty years...oh well Sinead O'Connor is next so I'll get some serious blood in the next tracks...I loved when Robin had to explain "No Man's Woman" to Howard Stern when he interviewed her...she was such a good sport...but she's Irish...they understand a dirty mouth isn't going to kill anyone, you cunts....her closing track..."Kyrie Eleison"....very nice....lots of this album are great...

Okay enough yabbing, more ripping...