The Hit Parade

If you know me you know i love the bourgeois, snobs, new money. Not pretentious per se (i'll save that for another post... oh! it'll be good) but just good old fashioned bourgeois. Which leads me to todays musical posting; The Hit Parade. There is something very innocent and honest to there music. Something that reveals a very basic love for fun pop melodies. I think there is something about the fun they have found that reminds me of the modern bourgeois. Its the adult party kind of fun. (not adult like naked but mature) A type of fun that is refined, the type of fun you can find in a good aged cheese!

Alright, it's a little ridiculous comparing pop music to cheese, but if you listen to these two album, you will find a level of maturity and class that does not exist in pop music these days. I know I'm throwing using a lot of terminology that would make most people cringe, (the adjective "mature" to describe music usually puts up a red flag for me) but embrace it, let the melodies take you away... To a cocktail party at a private beach on a warm summers day, eating foie gras and watching the sunset. doesn't that sounds rad!

The Hit Parade - "With Love From The Hit Parde"

This is a collection of singles origonaly released in 1988 and then re-issued in 1990. My favorite of theirs. Guest vocals by Cath Carroll. click to download

The Hit Parade - "More Pop Songs"

First real LP by the Hit Parade. A very good album! click to download

Check out their Myspace to listen to more songs (might I recommend the "Queen Of Mousehole")

Links taken from Take The Pills