YMU Album Playlist: Grant-Lee Phillips - 'Nineteeneighties'

Firstly, thanks to Robert Burke of Yahoo! Radish for mentioning this blog over at the official Yahoo! Music Blog's 'This Week In Playlisting' weekly entry - it's very much appreciated, and I'll try to keep up regular entries here to justify the 'hype'.

While this isn't a custom playlist, the Grant-Lee Phillips album 'Nineteeneighties' [YMU link] is almost a compilation its own right, since it features the former Grant Lee Buffalo ringleader, who has apparently "become a reoccurring character on the WB's Gilmore Girls", according to his own site's news page, doing some marvellously downtempo, reflective covers of classic '80s songs.

As his site notes: "A tribute to the songwriters and artists who influenced his own music, nineteeneighties features Grant-Lee Phillips' stunning reworking of The Pixies' "Wave of Mutilation," The Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way," REM's "So. Central Rain (Sorry)," and many more."

[Mind you, my wife, a major Morrissey fan, doesn't dig Phillips' closing, almost whispered version of The Smiths' 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me', and I agree that it's almost too glacial, but everything is forgiven, thanks to the beautiful cover of The Church's already gorgeous 'Under The Milky Way'. More, plz!]