Once again, my introduction to the weekly featured tune was through the promotional singles the major record labels used to send to music stores back in the day. This one, though, had to be one of the earliest ones I ever received, as it was released the year I began with Camelot Music (1980). Time does, my friends, indeed fly....
To call Gary Myrick a one hit wonder would be generous, but he's still managed to have over forty years in the music business. Starting in 1980 with his band the Figures (which lasted an entire two years), Myrick then went on to a solo career, joined forces with Paul Simonon of the Clash fame to form a band called Havana 3am, returned to his solo career, reunited with the Figures, before once again returning to his solo career. Myrick has also done guitar work in the studio and touring with John Waite, Todd Rundgren, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Brian Wilson, and Stevie Wonder, among others. For his career, counting bands and his solo work, he has released ten studio albums. Considering that the highest charting album Myrick ever had hit #138 on the Billboard 200, one has to admit that Myrick has done quite well for himself.
"She Talks in Stereo" was the first single released from Myrick's quite innovatively entitled debut album, Gary Myrick and the Figures. The single did not chart in America but did hit #56 in Australia (so many cool kids in Australia!). The album just missed the Billboard 200, reaching #203.
Like many a tune before it here on Friday Night Jukebox, "She Talks in Stereo" isn't likely to go on any best singles of all-time lists, but it's still a hell of a pop song. Featuring an 80's new wave vibe with a hint of jangly guitars and plenty of synthesizers, the song is a paean to the early days of a love relationship--and how the voice of a lover can sound like the lilts of angels. The chorus is about as catchy as a chorus can get and Myricks staccato vocals do just enough to capture the rapture of being in love. Sweet emotion, indeed--all courtesy of an infectious piece of pop pie.
Lyric Sheet: "Slippin' slidin' we go drivin' by/And I can hear her say/ My baby says hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey..."
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emaycee
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