Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

Won’t You Dance With Me?

The Problem Attic has the best jukebox: there’s Mexicali and Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl and Hot Child in the City and the entire Led Zeppelin catalog. This one, too: Sweet Pea, by Tommy Roe, features the best of LA’s studio killers providing a fragile and white funk under the simplistic lyrics, and they do a lot with a rather minor piece of music. (There were two drummers on the song; one of their names was Toxie French, and that is the greatest name I’ve ever heard.)

Plus, the video features Tommy pawing a clearly-underage girl for a minute or two, so maybe you should watch this with your Incognito setting on.

4 Comments

  1. Spencer

    This Toxie French fellow has connections to Zevon, Survivor, Midnight Cowboy……and an awesome name.

    • Tor Haxson

      Great name,

      other music names I like ..
      Benmont Tench
      Waddy Wachtel

      • Spencer

        Not even in the same league but i have always been partial to Cornell Dupree and Shuggie Otis.

  2. DC Reade

    “Morning Girl” by the Neon Philharmonic is on this side of the line; / “Clare”, by Gilbert O’Sullivan, is on the other side, and banished to the outer darkness.

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