Margin Call

My hairpiece did a three-sixty this weekend when I bought back a used copy of Steps In Time, the 1984 album by Coventry quartet King, into the store and saw how much we were selling it for. Not that I doubted that it was out of print so much as that I didn't even remember it being in print on CD at any time, since I have had it on vinyl dating back to college or sometime around those parts. "THAT'S NOT EVEN THE ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING!!" Lee roared incredulously when he dropped by the store and I show it to him. And he should know, well-versed in all things 80's and British that he is. "This was one of those RE-ISSUES that came out around 1993 or 94 or so and I bought it way back then -- that's INSAAAANE!!" Well maybe that's a bit overstated, but I get what he's saying; makes one wonder how much an original CD version would be going for on eBay or some real music store that knew exactly what they had, and even more, what they were doing. All I remember was that King had a a song called "Love And Pride" which actually charted to #2 in the U.S. That, and the video that used to get strip-run on MTV hour after hour to the point where once I saw lead singer Paul King and his "Code 7" level mullet appear on the screen I had to change the station. It became a kind of game! Here... wanna try?

PAUL KING - LOVE AND PRIDE
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Something else that came in the same buy-back batch, and surprised me even more, was the CD version of Bloodrock's Bloodrock 2, which I have also never seen on CD and was even more aghast that it wasn't worth more than twelve bones. Maybe because it was, y'know, Bloodrock and they were never really, y'know, good. Well, not they they weren't any good, but, well... the only reason I even knew about this band was because their single "D.O.A." (#36 on the U.S. charts in 1971) was featured in Guterman & O'Donnell's hilarious Worst Rock-And-Roll Records Of All Time and if anybody knows me they know that I love and cherish wonderfully original bad music as much as I love good, if not more, so I finally managed to download an MP3 of the track and was so amazed and delighted by its utterly sincere campy awfulness that I just can't restrain myself from letting you enjoy the moment of first-contact the way I had over tens years ago -- except this time with LYRICS! Because it's just one of those things ya just gotta read along.



Laying here looking at the ceiling
Someone lays a sheet across my chest
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
Pain is flowing all through my back

I try to move my arms and there's no feeling
And when I look I see there's nothing there
The face beside me stopped it totally bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare

I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air

Then I looked straight at the attendant
His face is pale as it can be
He bends and whispers something softly
He says there's no chance for me

I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air

Life is flowing out my body
Pain is flowing out with my blood
The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying
God in Heaven, teach me how to die

I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air