A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
Another one of the defining moments in mid-80s college radio jangle pop! Missisiipi's Windbreakers (they added a prefatory "The" after the first album) didn't get a ton of attention at the time, but they had a handful of great albums. "New Red Shoes" (not the first song here about red shoes), off 1985's debut long-player Terminal, sounds like everything you like in a song by the dB's or Mitch Easter--a gentle mid-tempo tune full of treble-happy guitars and pretty piano touches, with a buoyantly effervescent hum-along chorus.
If you can track it down, I can't recommend their compilation Time Machine strongly enough! (Co-founder/singer/songwriter Bobby Sutliff later went on to a respectable career as a power pop solo artist, but sadly passed away a few years back.)Live 1987:
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