The Trashcan Sinatras, hitting the American music scene in 1990 with their hit song "Obscurity Knocks," perhaps have written the most beautiful pop song of all time, at least my favorite. Full of romantic longing and the dread of mortality, the song is bitter-sweet, addictive, ecstatic. The TCS almost quit, languishing without an American recording contract in the mid 1990s, but world-wide Internet support persuaded them to keep going and now they remain a classic band, up there with The Smiths.
Another band that should survive, The Clientele, has written one of my top ten favorite songs, "Reflections After Jane."
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