That’s Toni Lindgren + Northsoul, whoever that is. She (they) seem to have embraced the current aesthetic and assembled a fine little cult on social media and whatnot. Semi-mucho views on YouTube. Got a webpage, too. Girl guitar players still rate some extra man-bites-dog attention if they’re any good. That’s her brother mandolizing nicely with her. The bass player doesn’t get in the way, a rarity in a world where bass players have strapped an extra treble string on their electric planks to play in the wrong register even more. God, I like kids doing things. Especially happy kids doing happy things. Happy young people, while not hunted to extinction yet, are on the endangered species list, surely.
I suppose I could inform the public about original version of this song. That would be bringing coals to Newcastle, though. There’s a reason why random kids would cover it. Everyone knows the words. It’s a karaoke hardy perennial. I gather it’s on the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack, along with an assortment of other songs that don’t have much to do with each other.
If you’re currently old and in the way, you’ll remember the original assault Come and Get Your Love made on the Top 40, and wonder why the kids didn’t do a rain dance before they started playing:
Lolly Vegas made the world incrementally, intergenerationally happier. How many people can claim that?
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Fil (Wings of Pegasus) breaks it down for us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjO-YiiYIww
Guardians of the Galaxy is a decent flick. Most of that whole, long, series are decent, and a couple are very good. A couple are real stinkers too. As far as the soundtrack goes, it’s amusing, and fits in well, except for Cherry Bomb by the Runaways. I shouldn’t even have known about that tune, prior to the movie, but I confess to owning the album. Back in those days, I’d browse the record store collection, and sometimes buy things just because the cover looked cool, or something else struck me. Most of the time, that worked out quite well. The only notable thing I can think of about The Runaways is Joan Jett.
Can’t say much about Toni, except that anyone who calls out Jeff Beck and Roy Buchanan can’t be all bad.