Many people retreated to our consolation meals in the course of the pandemic, from favourite motion pictures to dog-eared paperbacks to basic albums. Males at Work frontman and solo artist Colin Hay made an entire album out of his musical consolation meals on I Simply Don’t Know What To Do With Myself, which options covers from the Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Faces, and Jimmy Cliff. We’re sharing his tackle the Kinks’ “Waterloo Sundown,” which closes their enduring 1967 album One thing Else.

“‘Waterloo Sundown’ is brilliance on so many ranges,” Hay wrote in an e mail. “It stalks the boards of vaudeville halls of Britain, it talks of the beautiful fantastic thing about house. It introduces us to Terry and Julie, two individuals who stay in our everlasting consciousness. A chic melody, one of many biggest guitar strains ever, an ideal pop music. Every time I hearken to it, or play it, it creates an ache in my coronary heart, for household I cherished and misplaced, and for a time without end unforgotten. It was nothing however pleasure to have the ability to file a model of one of many biggest songs ever written.”

I Simply Don’t Know What To Do With Myself is out August 6 on Compass Data and will be preordered right here.

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