Saturday, June 04, 2005

The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

A strange twist that I should have ended up with a Hollies cd in my collection - a best-of. "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "The Air That I Breathe" are the memorable ones; the other songs blur into each other in a (to these ears) undistinguished swathe of 60s/70s AM radio easy listening fabric. Incidentally, I've just dug up a copy of the Virgin Suicides soundtrack - a soundtrack which I didn't like half as much as I'd thought I would - and found "The Air That I Breathe" on it (I'm far more familiar with - and fond of - the Feline cover)...