My Music Monday: The Clarks
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Loading ...Welcome to My Music Mondays. Each week I will be delving into my music collection and looking at a new artist going somewhat randomly currently but eventually from A to Z. I’ll examine why I first started listening to them, my favorite album and my top 10 songs for the artist. As my music collection is pretty extensive and I have a lot of one offs, I have set a qualification to be featured here. That is that I have to have at least two albums of the artist’s music before they can be considered. This week I look at The Clarks.
I’m not going to make any lame excuses about it. I dislike summer. I dislike the heat. I dislike the long days of sunlight. I pretty much dislike everything about it and would prefer to stay indoors away from the retina burning light of the sun. However its generally frowned upon so in an effort to stay social I do venture out in the sunlight on occasion. One thing that helps me get through the long, heat filled days (besides copious amounts of vodka) is music.
I have a very particular taste in music when summer roles around though, the music should generally be upbeat but not very heavy, almost laid back in a way but filled with the positive vibes that the sun is sucking out of my soul every minute I have to be out in it. Over the next few weeks for My Music Monday’s I am going to highlight some of my favorite “summer” bands. That’s not to say that their music isn’t good for me during more ideal forms of weather (like maybe a blizzard) but listening to these bands during the hot summer months always makes me feel less like killing small children than normal.
The second band on my small checklist is The Clarks. Despite being pretty big in the Pittsburgh area, The Clarks never seemed to latch on elsewhere, so despite being around for over two decades I never had heard of them until one fateful night last summer when I took my wife to the Beach to see one of our favorite bands, Sister Hazel. The Clarks opened up for them and while I wasn’t expecting much, what I got was a band that has a very polished rock vibe and was one hell of a live show. They sound a slight bit country and a slight bit pop but somehow they pull it all together to play their own style of bar rock.
Favorite Album: Let It Go
Let It Go is one of most polished rock albums I have listened to in the past decade. Sure it leans decidedly pop-rockish with its reliance on catchy riffs and hooks but it is a great listen and not only is it one of my favorite albums to listen to in the summer but any time.
10 Favorite Songs
10. Happy
9. Highwire
8. The River
7. Snowman
6. Let It Go
5. All the Things I Wanted
4. Shimmy Low
3. On Saturday
2. Better Off Without You
1. Butterflies and Airplanes
So what do you think of The Clarks? Better yet, how many have even heard of them as once again they are kind of a East Coast thing.
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