Starchild (12 Inch Version)
Level 42
12 Inch Single, 1981

This is another record that I got from Jonesy (who finally has something I can link to). He probably has the illest record collection I’ve ever seen. He told me downsized it (to 20,000 from 40,000) because he only wanted to keep the stuff he knew he was going to play (whoa). As you might guess, most people with 20,000 records struggle a bit with organization. Not him, which is especially impressive as he keeps his records with the spines facing in, for easier access to the actual records, but that means he can’t see a single title.

I made a few trips out to his NJ lair a few years ago and came back with about 50 records each time for about 1/5 of what they were worth. This was a record I got on one of those trips. I was passing over stuff left and right (Cloud One “Atmosphere Strutt,” Jimmy ‘Bo’ Horne “Dance Across The Floor,” Odyssey “Inside Out,” this record, Seawind “Light the Light” – which I ended up using on Juxtapose Vol.1) and he kept asking me, “do you already have that?” and I’d give him a tentative “no” which meant, “um, no…do I need it?” Then he’d play it for me and 4 times out of 5 I it would go immediately onto the pile of stuff I wanted.

This song is a surprisingly great bit of spacey-dance-pop-rollerskating-music. It’s a lot more varied than their more famous hits like “Something About You” and the synthesizer bits (especially 2:06) don’t sound like anything else I can think of.

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