Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

"I know there's something going on" by frida, a/k/a one of the girls from abba, sounds nothing like abba at all - phil collins produced her entire solo debut, and it's surprisingly hard-edged rockish pop. "I know" itself has that same paranoid, eerie feel as phil's "I don't care anymore" and "mama." the snare tattoo is very military; the guitar solo (which bleeds into the song's end) is all evil-sounding and mutant, and sounded ace as hell late at night in 1983, when I was supposed to be sleeping but was instead listening to wls-am at low volume. as usual, however, paul nailed it, when he said in an email that "It falls in that category of overly serious, almost militant-sounding, pop songs like Robert Tepper's 'No Easy Way Out' or Journey's 'Separate Ways.'" damn, he's good.