Boyd Rice
Presents: Music for Pussycats (LP Color)
These songs
literally constitute the soundtrack of my life, going back to age 16 or
perhaps earlier. It never ceases to amaze me that when I encounter
aficionados of girl pop, none of them have ever heard of singers like
Robbie Winston, Susan Rafey, Diane Ray, or most of the others on this
comp-all women who I feel have contributed works equal (if not superior)
to the best the genre has to offer. These singers, and the songs
they've recorded, have long occupied a special place in my heart. And
the knowledge that I was listening to songs that virtually no one else
seemed to know of, afforded me a peculiar kind of thrill. A mentor of
mine once told me that the power of forgotten music, is that when you're
perhaps the only person in the world listening to it, it's as though
it's yours alone. Consequently, the experience of something magical
becomes ever more magical. For going on 25 years, I've shared these
songs with everyone close to me, all the while wishing that everyone
interested in this type of music could be exposed to them. As much as I
loved keeping these songs more or less to myself, I always had an odd
sort of melancholy that they were never the huge hits I'd felt they
deserved to be. In a better world each of these songs would have been a
chart-topper, and the girls who sang them still playing sold out
concerts in Vegas. I've spent years trying to track down some of these
singers, and even the more well known among them (such as Priscilla
Paris) seem to have vanished into thin air. But I didn't want their
memory-or music-to vanish, so I compiled this CD as a sort of tribute to
them. They, and others like them, may have missed out on the glory and
rewards that they so sorely deserved; yet they created something
uniquely enduring and endearing. And it deserves to endure. So I share
it here with you, dear listener..." -- Boyd Rice.
Details
Cat. number: CAL 13
Year: 2019
