My Top 2000 Songs #1095: Anxious

I remember The Housemartins' 1986 debut LP, London 0 Hull 4, quietly sliding into college radio rotation, its gentle, exuberant British jangle slotting in comfortably alongside the predominantly American jangle that dominated our listening habits at the time. They struck me at the time as a pleasant alternative to the Smiths, not musically dissimilar but replacing Morrissey with someone far more cheerful. Opening track "Happy Hour" was the obvious single and the song that seemed to get the most attention at the time, but I personally preferred the more hyperkinetic "Anxious." Maybe, like the Feelies, it just spoke to the Jittery White Guy inside me?

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