Sunday, February 16, 2025

Some Other Time - the Shazam

Some Other Time - the Shazam
2:48
Godspeed the Shazam, 1999
Written by The Shazam, probably?

Another band totally new to me, this is power pop heavily influenced by the 1960s sound, with catchy hooks, similar to Big Star.  This is a wistful "coulda-been" love song: "Maybe in a fantasy / Or a memory / You and me could've really been something."  And the dry witty hook that turns the usual cliché on its head: "But now you're old / And I am everything I said I would be."  Hints of Beach Boys harmonies, with a theremin at the end nodding to "Good Vibrations."

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