All My Favorite Songs #11: Days
Can't really put my finger on what gives "Days" the edge; "Waterloo" is obviously great, and I have at least as much love for Village Green's title track. But it's about as sweet a love song as one can imagine without being maudlin, arguably a British take on the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows"--"Thank you for the days, those endless days, those sacred days you gave me." The melody underlying the verse is wonderfully insinuating, with the Davies brothers, the ultimate riff-rockers, forgoing power chords for some restrained finger-picking behind an eminently hummable tune. Dunno, but the song just works on every level.
Not surprisingly, a lot of artists have tried their hand at the song, but nobody comes close to the late great Kirsty MacColl at inducing tears:
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