Sinister: Left Banke's "Something On My Mind"

Aadam <curator-House Of Precarious Stacks> aadam at xxx.com
Wed Dec 31 14:44:00 GMT 1997


Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB wrote:
> 
> Well Aadam, I couldn't resist the urge to do a little research on this,
> starting from the perspective of someone who knew nothing at all about Left
> Banke.  I went to www.cdnow.com (an excellent site, BTW) and searched for Left
> Bank as an artist, found the correct spelling and a CD called "There's Gonna Be
> A Storm" on Polygram which says its the complete recordings 1966-69.  And
> there's a track called "I've Got Something On My Mind".  So there! 
Boy do I feel like a dolt. That's the CD I have. I only skimmed the
titles of the songs, and it's because I was not looking for "I've got"
that I missed it.

> It had a
> pretty harpischord backing (on B&S's version, anyway).
On the Left Banke's version too. It's a lovely song, but I prefer
"Pretty Ballerina."
> 
Aadam 

  - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy

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