Love Is Blue, Green Tambourine, Love Theme of Elvira Madigan Featuring The Young Lovers

Title: Love Is Blue, Green Tambourine, Love Theme of Elvira Madigan Featuring The Young Lovers
Artist: The Young Lovers? Maybe?
Purchased: Half Price Books, Madison, WI, Summer 2006
Verdict: Gone

From this point forward, I will only refer to this album by "LIB", since the title is so long and unruly. I suppose no more unruly than this paragraph, which exceeds the word count. Well, it's my blog. Go get your own if you don't like it.

Do you remember the episode of The Simpsons from the first season where Homer and Marge go out for dinner and dancing, leaving Bart, Lisa and Maggie in the hands of the Babysitter Bandit? Well, it aired. In the "dancing" part of their date, Homer and Marge grooved to the sounds of a band called The Larry Davis Experience that plays a listless version of the Perez Prado song "In A Little Spanish Town." Catchy melody, but drained of whatever spunk it originally had. Thus, it was funny for Homer and Marge to dance enthusiastically to it.

In a nutshell, that is LIB, only without cartoon parents dancing. They (whoever the band is; it's kind of uncertain from the cover) manage to trudge their way a decent "Green Tambourine," but who can't? There were no shortage of records where tiny labels hired stringers to re-record well-known songs and dumping them in Woolworth's to an unsuspecting consumer. See my previous Super Hits for another example. Sometimes, they're worth the buck, of only because you hear a familiar song you never knew the name of, or there's a genuinely good arrangement on the album. Unfortunately, there's no great title revelation or mind-blowing arrangement here. So it's time to crack out the USB turntable I got for Christmas and save one song for posterity. And the album goes to the thrift store in the sky.