Give me your dated, your backlashed, your obscure…

When it comes to music, it is the pattern of my life that I never quite embrace things right when everyone else likes them, if everyone else has even heard of them. The album I’ve been listening to most lately is a two-year-old effort by The Apples in Stereo to create the best ELO power pop album never recorded; while I just popped over to the iTunes store to buy a half-century old Skeeter Davis crossover single I heard on satellite radio this morning, just because I found the lyrics to be so amazingly sad.

And to top it off, my biggest geek-out of this weekend came when I discovered that there’s now a video for Night by Night, Chromeo’s scholarly effort to create an authentically dancetastic top 10 single for that time around 1982 that disco and New Wave had their regretted-ever-since fling. You can’t fight the synthesizers!: