VIDEO THRWBCK: Pale Saints - Blue Flower (1992)
Some songs just get around. "Blue Flower" is best known as a Mazzy Star tune, but it was originally done by the insanely great art-pop group Slapp Happy in 1972. Today, however — right now, at this particular moment — we (you and me) are just going to agree to prefer the version by OG shoegazers Pale Saints, which followed Mazzy Star's by two years. Singer-guitarist Meriel Barham deserves a Grammy and an Oscar for this performance. And maybe a Nobel Prize for androgyny.
