My Top 1000 Songs #852: Turnaround

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Southern Illinois' indie band Shoes quietly released wonderful new wave-ish power pop records throughout the late 70s and 80s, and intermittently beyond. They had a lot of really, really good songs, making it hard to land on particularly "great" ones for the list, but here's a second entry. "Turnaround," off 1984's Silhouette, is a mid-tempo break-up song, blending guitar jangle with gentle synths, sporting their melodic gifts--particularly in an earworm chorus you'll be humming all week, I guarantee it. The song sounds a lot like Squeeze at their best--shades of "Up The Junction" for sure--and makes me wonder if the band might've gotten a little more well-deserved attention had they been British, instead of just sounding British-by-way-of-farmland-outside-Chicago.

Live version: