Now join me in a new Lloyd Cole Robert Quine phase.

You may have detected a narrative in the recent series of musical posts by now. What we have here, friends is a musical walk through the passage of one life. This unique memory of dates and times is likely, like most, less than perfect-achronological. You may receive a post about Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks album after a post about Style Council as an example. I was introduced to or discovered artists, not by the Artist release date but by” right on time” synchronicity for my stage of life and development. Most of us are introduced to artists by family, friends, and synchronicity. Consider your most “purple prose” romantic breakups in early adolescence. What music did you accidentally, by coincidence or chance, discover that gave voice to your inner dialogue/torment? I was introduced to Lloyd Cole by my friend Liz. I was coincidentally reading Robertson Davies’s “Deptford Trilogy” contemporaneously. “Jennifer, she said,” was the first track Liz played. Lloyd’s voice had the sultry crooner effect of Billy Idol with something more. The more was lyrical content drawn from literature and film, written by a master storyteller.

It would not be easy to find a more apt artist soundtrack to accompany this brief moment in my life, a friendship in early bloom, the redolent prose of Robertson Davies, and Lloyd Cole’s sultry, slyly wise vocals. Music has a way of finding you at just the right moment. Think of the first time you heard Traffic’s “John Barley Corn must die,” then listen to the 1972 live concert with Steve’s solo acoustic version.

Jennifer she said – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

CR’s Take

Recommended
Score 77
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Lloyd Cole, ‘Perfect Skin’ live, 1990

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions – My Bag

Lloyd Cole – Full Performance (Live on KEXP)