Ben Lee "Pop Queen"

This week, I'm looking at artists that we came to play later in their career, asking the question "should we go back and play the band's earlier tracks?"

I can remember when "Pop Queen" came out, and I thought it was a little pop gem, that sounded great on alternative radio.

But compare it to the more modern day Ben Lee (see "Love Me Like The World Is Ending" below), it hardly seems polished, and in fact seems kinda primitive.

Through the long lens, while "Pop Queen" is an important song in Ben Lee's career, and it has its own shambolic charm, it probably wouldn't be up to snuff, to take this old song and put it in rotation at mvy . . .


See the video on Youtube.


See the video on Youtube.

Ben Lee "I Wish I Was Him"

Here's another Weekend Post:

Like the Vanishing Point in perspective drawing, the last 3 posts (one, two, three) culminate here:

This is Ben Lee (look at how young he was) singing a song, about Vineyard-connected rock star Evan Dando.

At the height of The Lemonheads popularity, little Ben Lee became a little famous for this song about Dando. Then Dando himself went on to cover it.