#the quick

Currently reading Small Angels by Lauren Owen, and it’s creeping me out. Folk horror about a family curse, a haunted forest, and the villagers who live in denial about it. I loved Owen’s previous novel, The Quick.

the graveyard book - neal shusterman

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While dance-pop duo “The Quick” themselves hailed from the UK, their biggest hit, 1980′s “Hip, Shake, Jerk,” achieved most of its success in the Australian market, for some reason. It’s a hooky, high-energy tune that you’d think would have quite a lot of international appeal, making appearances in all the discotheques of the world, but the charts can be fickle! It seems especially odd to me given that light and danceable synth-pop doesn’t seem to be such a regular feature Down Under, and there seems to be a greater interest in rock music there than in most of Europe. I suppose this track has a bit of a punkish edge to it, though. Despite having a few other songs that got some traction in the dance clubs later in the 80s, The Quick would never quite duplicate the popularity of “Hip, Shake, Jerk.”

in other words, i love this album, please listen to it

A lazy day of novel reading.

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