From 1973, please enjoy the unjustly tarred as one-hit wonder Stealers Wheel and two pop-rock masterpieces that should be even more well known than "Stuck in the Middle With You"; the gorgeously McCartney-esque "Star"...
...and the haunting psychedelically revisionist "Everyone Agrees That Everything Will Turn Out Fine."
Those two actually were hits, of course, although primarily in England, but I wore out my 45rpm copies of both of them back in the day; in any case, I think each is a better record than "Stuck." I should add that the single version of "Everyone" differs significantly from the album version, which is a grossly inferior remake, and as far as I know the hit heard above is not available on any Stealers Wheel compilation. Why? No man can say.
Some wonder stuff there.
ReplyDeleteThat line by Rafferty and Egan, "Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you" is both timeless and Dylan-worthy. And yes, "Everything Will Turn Out Fine" is a great song, even on the Ferguslie Park version I have.
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