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We Don’t Talk Anymore strikes me as the song Todd Rundgren didn’t write. It would fit nicely on Hermit of Mink Hollow.
ah yes, i totally hear this!
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 30 January 2023 09:04 (one year ago) link
My favourite Cliff album at the moment is his partly self-penned semi-song cycle The 31st of February Street. It was released at 1974 after a very long gap following his previous proper album and was a total flop but it acts as a necessary and nearly fully-formed prelude to his 1976 I'm Nearly Famous/Bruce Welch/Devil Woman renaissance. Ahem, (it's his Impossible Princess!)
My favourite songs are more often the drumless baroque and acoustic ones - an interesting remake of Travellin' Light with querying strings (all pointed eyebrows and memorable expressions) is really good, and on a similar note is Fireside Song. And then there's Cliff ploughing vaguely Brian Protheroe-adjacent fields:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y-wTGNajbc
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 30 January 2023 09:17 (one year ago) link
It was the end of his wilderness years and he hasn't failed to have a successful studio album since (with the partial exception of The Rock Connection) so it is very buried. Bob Stanley mentioned it to him in his Record Collector interview a few years ago which is the only time I've heard Cliff speak about it.
You’re not thought of as a songwriter, yet you wrote most of the songs on the 1974 album, The 31st Of February Street.That was produced by Dave Mackay. It was a really nice production – we did a version of Travelling Light. I played guitar on it, which I rarely do. I’m no good at playing it now. So it was a nice album. But you know, you can’t outguess the public, they know what they like. And even though you may make a very sweet album, it’s just not sweet enough sometimes. We all go through that, though. Not all of our albums happen. I should have kept playing guitar. I could probably have been a better writer had I kept playing, but I found guitar onstage a total hindrance.
https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/cliff-richard
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 30 January 2023 09:31 (one year ago) link