Monday, February 04, 2019

Naked Eyes: Naked Eyes (1983)

"C-9 is for the Naked Eyes"
- Certain Songs, The Hold Steady

Despite the massive hit, Always Something There to Remind Me - I feel that this record is somewhat underrated. There are other great tracks on this LP.

I had a friend who noted, quite perceptibly I think, that the lines:

"Oh how can I forget you When there is always something there to remind me"

and 

"You'll always be a part of me ooooh"

are really about a man who has contracted a sexually-transmitted disease. It's not a bad interpretation.

By the way, this record was released under the title Burning Bridges outside of North America. Burning -- hmmm.


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