From the beginning she's chosen great material. This song, with its retro feel, is very cool.

A young Sam. Over the years a little loss of range, and a little raspier. But still she sounds great. 

 Mandible wrote: 
Because that's where she keeps all of her stuff.

When I first heard this played, I thought it was a cover of the Eels' Flyswatter. But with different lyrics. 

 Randomax wrote: 
Yeah, she was married to T-Bone. I think he produced one of her albums after the divorce. 

Nice segue from U2's "Love is Blindness"...

I thought, initially, via the vocals, that this might be Cyndi Lauper...

I dig me some throwback 60's - gotta love the sitar!

 Mandible wrote: 

Agoraphobia?

Kinda old ( a little crimsony and cloverish) and 70s sort of guitar work, and edgy vocals, humm. I do like it, gots a backbeat and I can use it :-)

This works for me.....

 Frater_Kork wrote: 
Well put...but I didn't see it as that at first. I thought it was a close up of female genitalia with her head sticking out of it. Thanks for the relief Frater_Kork. Whew! I know...I'm a sick bastard. What else is new?

 ziakut wrote: 
Yeah, that was a truly risque album cover... Around 1955.
I mean, that is just waaay too much elbow.

Hey, the Wikipedia link is for Sam Phillips - the Sun Records guy!....Samuel Cornelius Phillips . It should go to Leslie Ann Phillips, aka Sam Phillips.

The song is good enough to sell without the risque album art. Wonder if the rest of the album is any good. Maybe I'll check it out. Wonder why this artist felt so compelled to use this close up? Hmmm....

Love this song and all the songs on Martinis & Bikinis!!!  Ms. Phillips rox...saw her open for Bruce Cockburn once...awesome (used to be married to Tbone Burnett - right? or did I dream that?)

I join the earlier suckers who thought they were getting Doors and well it was never going to live up to that but still a decent little tune.

Shades of Teardrop Explodes....

She now has a pretty cool web site.

samphillips.com

 ca1vinandhobbes wrote: 
My thought was if it might have sounded retro back in '88....

Nancy Sinatra and Question Mark & The Mysterians — together again for the first time!

This was the first Sam Phillips song I heard years ago that got me started being a big fan of hers.

 LD wrote: 

Holy crap, you're right! I just saw 10 minutes of that on cable TV at my gym—she and Jeremy Irons were about to get it on in a very S/M way. I wonder how the hell she got that gig. 

 Mandible wrote: 
I assume she feels as if she might otherwise fall off.  I guess it also could mean she's digging with her hands and is having a hard time holding onto the dirt.

4>6
why is she tryin to hold on to the earth anyway?

 E_A_D_G wrote: 
Yes that's what it reminded me of as well.

 kalkin84 wrote: 
Repetitive, too.

Who cares? You mean to tell me the Fabs never repeated a lyric? Why, that was standard songwriting procedure prior to Rubber Soul. Fuhgedaboutit.

 ca1vinandhobbes wrote: 
I was thinking Zombies when I heard the intro!

 kalkin84 wrote: 

On of my all time favorite albums, and if I like something I don't mind the artist
repeating it.  Maybe music just isn't your thing, because most of it does have
parts in the piece that repeat.