Nuggets: Jack of Diamonds by The Daily Flash

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1. You hit the proverbial nail on the head: lack of a songwriter. This band’s name was on a lot of Fillmore posters, but you can’t have a career on cover songs alone. Unless you’re Jeff Beck, writing quality is the key, not musicianship or image, and I don’t think enough listeners realize this.

   • Obviously other genres get away with existing on covers, but tough for a rock band. Songs are the legacy really.

2. That intro was pretty cool…that I will have to say but the rest was ok. Something seems off after the intro…you are right about the drums. It just didn’t fit.
   I do like the overall sound of it…like most of these.

   • There’s quite a bit of musicianship in the band, just doesn’t quite coalesce for me.

     • I usually like different things…but yea it just didn’t sound right.

3. Not a bad song, but certainly not as good as some of the other tunes you previously featured from that collection. As such, I agree with your lower rating.

   • Yeah, I like what Fairport Convention were doing with traditional material around the same time a lot more.

4. This is one of those Nuggets songs where if I’m listening to the album and this track comes up I don’t even know what the hell it is and I have to go check the tracklist to find out. Which means I never liked it enough to even learn it. But don’t worry, in a few more weeks you’re about to hit a fucking goldmine of good tracks.

5. A good one.

   • I feel like I should like it more than I did – normally I’m all for weird 1960s eclecticism.

     • Sometimes it’s a mood thing, isn’t it?

   • As it turns out it wasn’t Erasure who did the disco songs but it was Bronski Beat. Erasure did the ABBA. I always get all those synth-pop people mixed up. Including Pet Shop Boys.
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     • Tatoo next? 🤣

       • What?? Do people get tattoos of it? Of what?

         • Wordpress!

         • Well, maybe just the little insignia thing, but not the whole word. Ha.

6. That’s a pretty cool tune.

   • Have you heard the song before? It pops up a bit – I know it from Fairport Convention on their debut, but I imagine you’re more likely to know it from old blues records?

     • No. Didn’t ring a bell at all.

     • Fairport was my intro to the song.