An occasional feature in which we mark the songs of our relative youth as played over public muzak systems and beyond.
Date: 22 November 2016
Place: "Gilmore Girls" Season 6 season finale
Song: "Taking Pictures"
Artist: Sam Phillips
Irony Matrix: 1.9 out of 10
Comment: We sampled a few episodes from the last two seasons of "Gilmore Girls" to get ready for the reunion shows debuting on Netflix this weekend. Despite misty eyes, we flagged Sam Phillips -- along with Grant Lee Buffalo an official troubadour for the turn-of-millennium show -- uttering the line "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." Oof. Take that, Soundtrack of Your Life! Phillips emerged in the late '80s and early '90s during the Heyday of the Planet of Sound after hooking up (romantically and musically) with T. Bone Burnett, who produced her most memorable albums, including "Cruel Inventions" in 1991 and "Martinis and Bikinis" in 1994. The cassette of the latter died out on me a while back. Nostalgic recording formats ain't what they used to be. Phillips has the voice of an angel recovering from vocal-cord surgery, and she knew how to turn a phrase in a minor key. We don't dwell on television here, so we won't go on about one of our favorite shows ever, but we are looking forward to Amy Sherman-Palladino getting the opportunity that was denied her during the seventh and final season of the series a decade ago -- giving Lorelei and Rory the ending she had envisioned all along when she created the unique world of Stars Hollow and brought my long-lost little sisters to life. Let's hope Netflix doesn't screw it up.
Here is the song, with bonus Luke-and-Lorelei footage:
(Here's a backup version, in case that first link doesn't play from the embed:)
Here's Phillips' "Love and Kisses," the opening track to her fine 1994 album "Martinis and Bikinis":
Then there's the Beatlesque "hit" from the album, "I Need Love":
And her breakthrough, "Lying," from 1991's "Cruel Inventions":
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