Nick Lowe -- "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass"
This track captures that moment when British pub rock turned into new wave. The bassline is pumping out disco, for the most part, but at this point disco had yet to be defined as the enemy to rock music, and there was a lot of musical freedom to be enjoyed. The piano solo seems to me like the work of a virtuoso who is slumming it, trying to see what he can do with one finger, and I've always loved that quality. Of course, I know very little about the piano, and I might be completely wrong.
But let's not forget Lowe's part. It's his song, after all. Here is Nick Lowe, about as young as he can be, and he still seems pretty old, a cynical bastard if ever there was one. Where would he be without the sound of breaking glass? Without a career, that's where he'd be.
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