Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

I just discovered this excellent piece on Mary Margaret O'Hara from Perfect Sound Forever while listening to her '88 single "Body's In Trouble," an utterly genius record of her swooping, wandering vocals accompanied by time-out-of-mind (or mind-out-of-time) instrumentation that's just kind of there to augment her, push O'Hara along a bit, perhaps. Find her one and only album, Miss America, at any cost (Koch USA reissued it in '96). Download it. Do whatever you need, but get it. "Body's" is just one of its highlights. More proof that in many ways, no nation gives us (the world) classic iconoclastic women (see also: Jane Siberry, Joni Mitchell, k.d. lang) like Canada. O, Canada!