Don’t know who handles the ScottishTeeVee YouTube channel but, wow. Thank you for all the #MariaMcKee content! Watching a 2003 concert from Stockholm that brings back memories from when she played Philly that same year.
🗓️ 30th anniversary! (March 26, 1996)
💿 Maria McKee - Life Is Sweet
🎶 Paint a picture/ Write a song/ Tell your story/ Bang a gong/ Life is sweet/ Bittersweet
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The eponymous debut album from Lone Justice from 1985. I was 15 when this came out and it still sounds just as fresh!
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Six years ago this week, the world went bats**t crazy due to Covid-19. But my life was semi-alright due to the first studio album in 13 years from the mercurial #MariaMcKee, La Vita Nuova. oldgreycat.blog/2020/03/13/f...
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Maria McKee album High Dive propped up against my stereo shelf, which is surrounded by books and bric-a-brac. Photography: Jim Akin The cover image is a black and white 3/4 portrait of McKee standing in front of a white wall. She is looking off into the distance. Her name is top left, album titke top right.
Maria McKee - 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘦
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“ #mariamckee #lonejustice #scottishteevee” / “Maria McKee Live Sweden 2003” (1 user) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWeLdGYiDxg
apron stained... glass in hand
sipping like Julia child
from my own dry pour
dancing in my Sunday dress
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Day 16: Song with an In the title
Artist: Maria McKee
Song: Drinkin' In My Sunday Dress
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In 1985 former Undertones' singer #FeargalSharkey had his only UK #1 single with 'A Good Heart' #MariaMcKee wrote this song about Ben Tench ( Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) with whom she had recently ended a relationship.
A Good Heart (TOTP 1985) youtu.be/l-Der6SkXRk via @YouTube
Written by #LoneJustice singer #MariaMcKee & produced by #Eurythmics’ #DaveStewart, #Irish singer & former #Undertones frontman #FeargalSharkey’s 1985 single “A Good Heart” was a big hit in the UK but a miss in the USA- still it was a beloved #StarckClub classic
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I was working at Sound Warehouse in '89 when this album came out, and Jesus Christ, I wore it out! Still one of my all time faves. Her voice is achingly beautiful. And the lyrics... Perfection from the first track to the last. 🥰 #MusicSky #MariaMcKee #SoundWarehouse
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I fell in love with her voice the first time I heard her sing
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This is so much better than the album version, it takes away the gloss here.
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Thank you to both Drew and Yuri for being such great hosts, and all taking part. Here’s my playlist with a few additional choice cuts😋
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15: You Possess Me (Viva Lone Justice, 2025)
Bringing it full circle with this vocal tour de force, from the “new-old” Lone Justice album release.
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14: If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags) - Maria McKee (1994)
The only original song on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, its breathtaking beauty juxtaposes with THAT Marcellus and Butch scene. Classic Tarantino.
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13: This Perfect Dress (Life Is Sweet, 1996)
I still think this is her best album, and this was the song that originally hooked me.
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12: Effigy of Salt (La Vita Nuova, 2020)
A shout-out to Maria’s later output. She describes LVN as the bookend to Life Is Sweet, and followed her coming out as queer in 2018. Sadly, no room for a song from Peddlin’ Dreams (2005)😔
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11: We Pair Off (High Dive, 2003)
A seven-year break between albums, High Five has a truly independent feel, full of clever songwriting, and great use of strings and horns.
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10: My Girlhood Among The Outlaws (You Gotta Sin To Get Saved, 1993)
I’ve gotten behind, so a couple tonight, the first being from this excellent southern soul-tinged album. I had a shortlist of SEVEN songs to work from!
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9: Scarlover (Life Is Sweet, 1996)
🎶 Ugly inside of me taught me of beauty I wouldn't trade that work of art
For all the silk of perfect skin…
A raw, ragged album that Geffen hated. It’s a “lost” gem. I flippin’ love it. 💎
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8 (catch-up)
Nobody’s Child (Maria McKee, 1989)
🎶Take this veil, I’ll dry your eyes
In a world like ours you’re nobody’s child
I could have picked several from her eponymous debut, but this one stuck with me from way back when.
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7: Wheels (Shelter, Lone Justice - 1986)
Slightly difficult second album with overwrought production, but there’s no denying the quality of the songwriting.
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6: Absolutely Barking Stars (Life Is Sweet, 1996)
First pick from my fave. An abrupt departure from Americana; the product of a heady mix of glam rock, Suede, The Auteurs, the death of Kurt Cobain and her own mental health issues
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5: Has He Got A Friend For Me?(Maria McKee, 1989)
Cover of the Richard & Linda Thompson song from ‘I Want To see The Bright Lights Tonight’. Piano and vocal, stark and stunning.
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