Come a Little Closer So that I can Kiss You

The Action - Something to Say

An upside of living in Los Angeles is that I drive everywhere, giving me plenty of time to listen to music in my car. But I've found that I lean towards a specific type of song when driving on the freeways. I mean, most of the time I find myself cruising along with the setting sun in the foreground. So I don't want to hear some wintery sad bastard music -- I want to hear well-crafted driving pop. A little desperation is nice too. The Action were tailor-made for such activities. I could listen to this song all night. And as Los Angeles fools itself into thinking its fall outside, Rolled Gold, with its ironic, desperate pleas for immortality bridged alongside the false confidence of a failed lover, sets a perfect soundtrack to my days and nights.

This record, Rolled Gold might be familiar to some of you, but it's certainly new to me. I picked this up on Friday after a recommendation from a friend, and I haven't stopped listening to it since. It's just a perfect pop record, from start to finish. This is one of those long-shelved "lost albums." The short story is that after a series of mildly-successful British singles, their distributer refused to put out the record because they thought it wouldn't sell. It's too bad, because this thing should be standing proudly alongside other classics of the day like Who's Next and anything by the Small Faces or the Kinks.

This particular song is a highlight, but it's nowhere near the best song on there. That title is held by Brain, which is just an absolute monster of a song. Reginald King's voice is nothing short of amazing. He's up there with Rod Stewart and Eric Burdon on the shortlist of great white soul voices. I highly recommend this record. You can pick it up from our friends at Parasol Records for a mere 10 bucks. You can also download it at iTunes It's so worth it.