Monday 12th July 2010

ARCHIVED: FAVOURS FOR SAILORS – “MEDIEVAL JON’S”

I thought all the Favours for Sailors songs existed online already. Then I found this gem hidden away, waiting to remind the world again of the immutable power pop tenacity of these once park dwelling miscreants (the parks now abandoned for steady and unsteady employment, I learn).

In an interview I recently did with the wonderful Neu, I fantasised about Favours for Sailors one day becoming this century’s The Nerves. Circumstances dictate that’ll likely never happen. But in all their songs, even in this one long since discarded by them, are the embers of that dream. I think that’s because each one of their songs is about either sex or money, or both. The relevance of those things never diminishes, even when the ability to obtain them decreases (i think there’s perhaps some kind of negative correlation there).

Now all we need is this century’s Blondie…

DOWNLOAD: Favours for Sailors – “Medieval Jon’s”

(Photo: Henry Mackay)