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My iPod #300: The Wombats – Dr Suzanne Mattox PhD

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I’m not really into The Wombats anymore. I was never a huge fan of the band but I thought their singles from the first album were catchy. I think I got it for a birthday or something eventually. I think it was those “aaaahh-ooh-wah-wah” vocals that made the first album that bit more enjoyable. I’m sure the band decided to focus more on the singing than on the scatting, and that didn’t work out so well. They’re a bit boring now. Sorry.

“Dr Suzanne Mattox PhD” wasn’t released as a single from “The Wombats Proudly Present: A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation“. I think it could have been, in my eyes. There’s a whole bunch of scat singing occurring in this one. But also it’s got a memorable chorus, a fuzzy guitar line which plays before that chorus begins, and a vocal melody, particularly during the verses, that reminds me of a song from a children’s school play for some reason. I do like that final D7 chord which ends the track too. Just like the way it sounds.

It’s about a guy falling for his GP, and gets upset whenever he sees her because she thinks he’s lying about his injuries/illness just to see her more. If you have been in that situation before, this is the song for you.

My iPod #299: Larrikin Love – Downing Street Kindling

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This is the first of two posts today. This track should have gone on yesterday, but I was not feeling good… at all. So I only had time to do one. Now that’s out the way, let’s get to the song.

“Downing Street Kindling” is a song by the band Larrikin Love. The group split up years ago in 2007, and only a few months after releasing their album “The Freedom Spark“. Larrikin Love were alright. They made some real energetic folk-y type songs about life, love, and English society and whatnot. It’s a shame they broke up so soon.

“Downing Street” has lead singer Edward Leeson lamenting about living in England. He doesn’t like the government, the weather…. it has nothing more to offer him. It’s a funny one though, especially his dramatic vocal delivery when he announces that he can’t carry on in the country for he thinks.. that it is… HELL.

Even though Leeson obviously hated the country, people like the song enough that it got into the top 40 in the charts. Maybe people felt the same way.