Dang, that week went by so fast, it's another Fun With Music day already. I'll have to pick up the pace with the postings this week.
Today's musical fun-ness is a 1988 performance of "I Love My Leather Jacket" by The Chills, a New Zealand band described by Wikipedia as "possibly the most successful Dunedin Sound rock band of the 1980s and 1990s".
"Pink Frost" is probably a bit better known but this was the first Chills song I heard. I didn't know the story behind it until I looked up the lyrics recently (I could never make most of them out). Turns out the jacket in question was left to Chills singer-songwriter Martin Phillips by a bandmate who passed away:
I wear my leather jacket like a great big hug,
Radiating charm, a living cloak of luck,
The only concrete link with an absent friend,
A symbol I can wear till we meet again
OK, that part may not be "fun" so much but it's a great song and a great performance so just enjoy it anyway.
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