At the end of tonite's episode, Telstar came on as we see Don on a plane to LA. A super, SUPER all-time slice by the TRULY one and only Joe Meek. Whenever I hear this I go back to being a kid, laying out in the backyard and looking at the stars; anytime something up there would move I'd play this song in my head, wondering what it was that was moving so far, far away in the darkness. That's what sucks about living in the city, where the only stars you can see are on the ground. This song, even without words, has an amazingly instant poignancy about it that kills me every time. Absolutely a funeral slice; prolly my favorite instrumental of all time.
ps - while Telstar didn't make my top 50 of all time (tho should've, now that I'm thinking of it), another Joe Meek production, Have I the Right? did. With a bullet. Chick drummer!
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