1 post tagged “ireland”

I'm back from a non-blogging week in the sprawl of suburban Maryland with my head full of music I want to share, only a fraction of which I'll get around to.  I spent one afternoon in the planned city of Columbia; you can't go to Columbia without driving on, or seeing roadsigns for, Broken Land Parkway.  And that always reminds me of "Broken Land" by The Adventures.  That was one of a very few songs I heard on latter-day WHFS (i.e., late 80s) that made me go out and buy the album.  I had seen The Adventures open for Tears For Fears at the Baltimore Arena in 1985, but they didn't make much of an impression.  That was in support of their first album, Theodore and Friends.  For their second album, The Sea of Love, they tapped into their Irish roots and came up with a beautiful album, with the outrageously hooky "Broken Land" sitting at the pinnacle:

And while I'm on defunct Irish bands of the 80s, here's another one I liked, In Tua Nua: