Starry Eyes - The Records | The Midnight Special

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[@MikeTheTeacher]

One of the greatest Power Pop songs ever written. This songs says "Summer"!

[@LarzGustafsson]

Yes!!

[@synthgroovesongs]

Possibly the best power pop song of all time. This band should have been as big as the Cars imo.

[@senseiruss]

Absolutely agree! WOW!

[@richalderson6069]

This great band had one of the best songwriting partnerships of the power pop era with drummer Will Birch providing the lyrics and singer/rhythm guitarist John Wicks (RIP) writing the melodies. Hopefully these new uploads will encourage people to go and check out more of their wonderful music.

[@wildmansteve5451]

This song is actually better live! Amazing performance.

[@LarzGustafsson]

One of the best songs ever!

[@SLADDYBADFAST]

Wow, who dug this up? Great quality, one of my favorite bands of all time.😊 Love The Records!

[@somedaysometime]

best thing about this song is that it's actually a diss to a manager they had who had screwed them over. very well disguised

[@ardiris2715]

This band inspired me to move up my guitar playing from punk to power pop. (:

[@thomasmartin2838]

THANKS for posting this one Midnight Special! I remember being so stoked to watch this episode with The Cars hositing, The Records, Suicide, and some nice videos from Iggy Pop! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS WHOLE EPISODE AGAIN!!!

[@KittyGrizGriz]

3:22 lead guitar part is so beautiful especially when the keys come in it sounds like rain softly falling - bringing coolness-relief on a hot summer day.

[@Sucker_MC]

These guys were a major influence on The Cassettes!

[@marknjp]

Don't forget The Eight Tracks! 🙂

[@KittyGrizGriz]

And, The Reel to Reels 👍

[@AdrianDeVore]

Don't forget about their influences on downloads, MP3s, and streaming.

[@richalderson6069]

They often cited the 78 rpm's as a formative influence.

[@davek5027]

Loved this song when I first saw this exact performance in ‘79! It was so different from the mainstream rock of the time that it really stood out.

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

This and Teenarama were huge in 79. My cousin love them and thought they were going to be huge.

[@that70sgirl90]

Some nice-looking guys there!🤩 Their style reminds me of the "Romantics." Happy Tuesday... thank you for sharing! 💖

[@maxthepupp]

@that70sgirl90 : Highly recommend The Records first couple albums. Very tight 'power pop' records and keeping with Big Star as the best first albums no one ever heard of until it was too late. Rock on!🤘😎🤘

[@richalderson6069]

I really like the third one as well, though it sounds very unlike the first two with a different lead singer on board and more sparse sound with the occasional synthesizer included, but all the songs are up to their usual standard. @@maxthepupp

[@charliekopp443]

Always loved the Records. So glad this has finally been posted! Thank you.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Very handsome men-band! 😍 Like this song & haven’t heard of it before. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Love the keyboards part, a Power Pop song about a breakup and not the “romantic” kind. Thanks again Midnight Special! ❤ It’s fun discovering “new” bands and the camaraderie here amongst music lovers! Peace Everyone. 🫶

[@senseiruss]

It is, from what I've read, about their problems with the band's manager. The lyrics bear that out, I think.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@senseiruss Thanks for the explanation I appreciate it, that’s so kind of you ☺️. Seems a lot of that kind of thing went on back in the day, sadly. “Badfinger” band comes to mind I loved their music!

[@martinrice9190]

Simply beautiful and quietly complex in so many ways. Somehow in all my years I have missed this band completely. Fragile and down to earth. The singer somehow draws you in and there is no escape. Now I need to find out more about these guys.

[@SuperAnimelover100]

British band !!! UK always wins !

[@user-mg6yd6el5u]

Thanks the first ‘real’ band I saw live in ‘79 and even now I get goosebumps thinking about them once again thanks😃

[@Boomop381]

One of my fave bands. Definitely "the ones that got away"! Still after all these year I can't understand why they weren't huge. Still listen to 'Shades In Bed" ; great, great album.

[@bigloo609]

I saw live two nights in a row. The first night they opened for Joe Jackson, and the second night they played at The Fast Lane, a small club in Asbury Park, NJ.

[@0thecourtesydesk0]

Love all the performances on this show/channel but really needed some power pop today! Thank you!

[@MauriceOrtiz-ut8yi]

One of the most infectious power pop songs created. In my humble opinion.

[@OWR0406]

British power pop/pub rock at it‘s best

[@user-ux9bx8kc5y]

I like that you can see the drummer singing along

[@SLADDYBADFAST]

That’s Will Birch. Met him just before the pandemic at a book signing in NYC. He wrote Nick Lowe’s biography, who was there too!

[@SuperAnimelover100]

@@SLADDYBADFAST Lucky you.

[@thevinylchimes7515]

Wow! So so good

[@keithhenderson5976]

A fun tune. Always great to hear.

[@madhusudan]

A favorite feel good tune. Love the cadence of lyrics and the melodies.

[@senseiruss]

WOW! If a more perfect power-pop-rock song has been written, I wanna hear it. "Go All the Way" by the Raspberries is tied with this one, IMO.

[@StephanieJeanne]

They sounded familiar. Seems like during that precursor to New Wave era. Catchy tune!😎😊

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

I’ve always thought they sounded like The Kinks of late 70’s early 80’s era and a little bit of Nick Lowe Labour of Lust album timeframe

[@StephanieJeanne]

@@curtisphilumalee1447 You must be more familiar with them. Just from this first listen, I can see the Nick Lowe comparison. If I had to pick someone they remind me of, I'd say early Elvis Costello and the Attractions. I think all of these were in that in-between classic rock and new wave transition period. The Kinks (one of my favorites) were ahead of their time early on. 😊

[@terilandi6269]

It’s called Power Pop!

[@richalderson6069]

They have members that came from the British pub rock scene of the early/mid 70's, the drummer Will Birch was in a moderately successful group called The Kursaal Flyers that had a hit called Little Does She Know. The Records have a passionate following among lovers of power pop.

[@beatlefan64]

Classic song, big fan of the band.😃

[@tonylamosa3]

O baixo tá lá, pulsando ( Rickenbacker rouco).

[@johnnicolette9919]

Great performance. I love that these are live. Highlights for me how much better Top of the Pops would have been had they had an acoustically sound studio.

[@stephenkane2464]

awesome!

[@donaldellis-wt6xl]

In my alltime top ten

[@frankenbeans6930]

Great song a deceptively difficult to play!

[@jml-rj5re]

Huw Gower delivers on his iconic guitar rifs.

[@larstiranos]

Two lefties. Don't see that often. Great track.

[@user-tm1bq9rd3w]

밋나잇 스페샬 짱

[@Oklahoma-Dreaming]

I like the yellow jacket.

[@eric_in_florida]

Kind of a Cars look to them with the lefty guitar player.

[@Julia-tz1tq]

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the keyboard player. Same Greg Hawkes hairdo 😂😂😂

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@Julia-tz1tqI see Greg Hawkes too, same body type-stance too, tis wild. Haha

[@richalderson6069]

This was actually on the same episode The Cars were featured on, they possibly had something to do with them appearing on it.

[@Mackermanesq]

@@richalderson6069 The Records opened for the Cars on tour. The Cars hosted and "curated" this episode (they would only do it if there was no host chat, and they could book whoever they wanted on the show).

[@richalderson6069]

Oh yeah, that's right, they spoke about it during the last interview they gave just before Ben Orr died. The Cars knew who the cool bands were!@@Mackermanesq

[@stardaddyo9]

They had a rep for being a great live act.

[@lionelgibaudan3592]

Nice driving bassline

[@user-nx4jl5bw4e]

The good ole Goldie's of our day

[@PontiacS.]

They had One Great song and what a F*cking song it was. Most Bands don't even have that.

[@grooviefan]

There were way more than one great tune . Get all and enjoy . All kier, no filler

[@SuperAnimelover100]

You forgot, Affection Rejected !1

[@MultiSweener]

I hear that Rickenbacker growling

[@scottlarson1548]

No need for anyone to tell us that this was before autotune.

[@richalderson6069]

Sounds so.....REAL!

[@KittyGrizGriz]

They sound absolutely fantastic, here! ❤

[@jsizemo]

The sound mixing in general, is just really good and simple. Honestly, looking back, I don’t think I care much for the “innovations” that started in the 80’s with respect to sound and productions.

[@Music4Movies-sr8vo]

Yes, this was 2 decades before autotune. They did a great job doing a live show especially without in-ear monitoring sometimes not hearing yourself isn’t that great but you can tell instantly that yeah they cut their real vocals in the studio. People are so used to hearing perfect tuning perfect timing most of the group nowadays or artistwouldn’t have a chance out there on a live stage without the help of auto tune. But the only thing I would say is, they should’ve dropped the piano player that wasn’t on the record and it doesn’t need to be there. It gets crowded.

[@scottlarson1548]

@@Music4Movies-sr8vo The only new thing about auto tune is the "auto". Producers have been correcting the pitch of vocals manually since the 1970s.

[@catmandoo5255]

Some parts remind me of Rich Hopkins and Luminarios...maybe Rich listened to them.

[@kenbrownfield6584]

These guys were really a good band...they should have kept up their momentum

[@garyhenson117]

Perfect except ... John Wicks' lead vocal strangely lacks bite. Power pop with a blown fuse. Maybe he should've argued (!)

[@richalderson6069]

Sometimes he puts more guts and bite into it on record, sometimes not. They got a different lead vocalist for their third album cause he didn't think his voice "sold" the band. Third album went nowhere unfortunately.

[@garyhenson117]

@@richalderson6069 If power pop ever makes a comeback, I'm gonna cover this song myself! 🤑

[@garyhenson117]

By contrast, frontman Barrie Masters may not have been blessed with perfect pitch but he sure knew how to belt out a power-pop song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHyboXScnahniM0

[@richalderson6069]

@@garyhenson117 Well, Starry Eyes was basically a rewrite of Do Anything You Wanna Do so I see the relation.

[@jml-rj5re]

@@richalderson6069 Jude Cole sang lead for about half of the songs on Crashes. Chris Whelan was a disaster on Music on Both Sides.