Nineties Revisited: Father's Day

Original video located here. Accessed 14th November 2011

Song title: Father's Day

Artist: Weddings Parties Anything

Year: 1992

Why I like this song:

Listening to the Weddo's King Tide album got me inspired so I sought out the Difficult Loves album.
If people know this album it's through this: it's lead-off single. It may sound joyous but it's not a song I can listen to easily: largely because it's told through the perspective of a divorced father as he describes his life.
Still if a song can have such power then it must be doing something right. 
I do recall back in the day this song being a sizable radio hit - which is odd considering the subject matter.

Nineties Revisited: Mondays Experts

Original video located here. Accessed 3rd July 2024

Song title: Monday's Experts

Artist: Weddings Parties Anything

Year: 1993

Why I like this song:

Recently I've been listening to Weddings Parties Anything.

I recall back in the mid-nineties these guys were having some really good hits that managed to get some radio play (and this was one of them) but they have since become forgotten. I suppose that tends to happen given the passage of time but these guys are better than that - not least through Mick Thomas' song-writing and his willingness to keep the tradition of story-telling going. 

As for this song, who can't relate to this? And it still sounds fresh years later.