Gloomy Tuesday

Dark clouds and blustery rain- not good weather for Cherry blossom viewing here in Nippon. But good for mourning the passing of Nikki Sudden, 50. I imagine that other bloggers will offer up generous helpings of The Swell Maps, British "post-punk" stalwarts and Captain Beefheart interpreted through Council flats. I'm going to offer a few things from maybe the first Sudden I ever heard, Kiss You Kidnapped Charabanc, a collaboration with the infamous Rowland S. Howard. A fine meeting of the minds, further enhanced by a live disc included with the CD reissue. I'm also putting up his cover of Neil Young's "Captain Kennedy". God speed you Mr. Sudden.

Kiss At Dawn
Debutante Blues
Feather Beds

(With The French Revolution) Captain Kennedy