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Primitive Radio Gods' 1996 international hit "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" is one of those one-hit wonder songs that I can listen to again and again.
I haven't heard any of the band's other songs, and I'm frankly not interested in it. It's an dreamy atmospheric song with good vocals and a nice B.B. King sample that nearly made me by the song's album when it came out. (I still might get it at a second-hand store, if I find it, one of these days.) What interests me about the song's wider import, now that I think about it, is the way that the song's music and the sampling of an old-school blues singer prefigures quite tellingly Moby's later CD Play. Coincidence?
I haven't heard any of the band's other songs, and I'm frankly not interested in it. It's an dreamy atmospheric song with good vocals and a nice B.B. King sample that nearly made me by the song's album when it came out. (I still might get it at a second-hand store, if I find it, one of these days.) What interests me about the song's wider import, now that I think about it, is the way that the song's music and the sampling of an old-school blues singer prefigures quite tellingly Moby's later CD Play. Coincidence?
