Records I'd Forgotten Existed, Let Alone Loved (An Occasional Series): Special "Kool Kinks Kovers" Edition

From 1979, and the eponymous American version of their debut album (titled Shades in Bed in the UK), please enjoy power pop gods The Records and a fab gear re-make of possibly my all-time favorite song by The Kinks.

That was originally on a 7-inch bonus EP that had three other interesting versions of songs by other people -- "Abracadabra" by Blue Ash, "1984" by Spirit, and the Stones' "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby".

The album per se, of course, included "Starry Eyes," a song which could be said -- in fact which HAS been said, by me -- to sum up the entire mission statement of this here blog.

I played the album to death when it first came out, and the Records were a HUGE influence on the early Floor Models; in fact we used to do a live cover of "Hearts in Her Eyes," from their 1980 followup album Crashes, so often that everybody in Greenwich Village thought we wrote it.

In any case, I had completely not remembered the EP until it popped into my head unbidden last week. And I had absolutely blanked on the Stones cover, which I can not alas seem to find an online version of.

If any of you guys have a copy stashed somewhere, I wouldn't be averse to you sending me a zip file of it, obviously. 😎