A great title track is par for the course when it comes to great albums. If the title track doesn’t cut it, what does that say about the album itself? This month, the Mental Jukebox will be playing some of my favorite title tracks – inspired by @NicolaB_73’s music Twitter challenge, #TopTitleTracks.
Finding The Barr Brothers was one of the most glorious moments for me as a music fan. They had elements of familiarity – ones I couldn’t always quite put my finger on. But at the same time, they seemed to occupy a space all their own. Never contrived or boring. The guitars were often competing head to head with the harp, making sounds that seemed to to dig deep into my bones. When they promoted Queens Of The Breakers, I was fortunate to catch them as they passed through New York. They played a phenomenal set list that included the album’s title track.
“Queens Of The Breakers” possesses a carefree spirit, light in its musicality and sounds great in the live setting. It reminds me of Fleetwood Mac’s “Hold Me” with its high-soaring guitar riffs. The unpretentiousness and authenticity of the lyrics is something to behold. Lyrically, “Queens Of The Breakers” sounds more like a letter to an old lover than a rock song.
“On a red-eye flight from New York, I was looking for you down on the ground.”