Wishing Like A Mountain And Thinking Like The Sea (studio album) by Poi Dog Pondering

Very much a Paul Simon Graceland era feel to it. A really rather good album.

This band was so different from everything else happening in 1990. There may be some overlap in their sound with Edie Brickell, Paul Simon, and Rusted Root, but they really seem so original even to those comparisons. The band started as buskers and there is a real gypsy feel to their early work, especially this album. It is not my favorite PDP album, but it has some songs like U-Li-La-Lu and Spending the Day in the Shirt that You Wore that are among the band's most fun live. This was the album that introduced me to the band so it will always be special to me, even if I like Pomegranate and Volo Volo more. Not long after this album was released, the band toured England where they were turned onto the Manchester sound. It changed their future direction - on later efforts there are much more soul and dance and electronic elements. But this is the sound of the band before that shift happened and that band, the PDP of old, will forever be my first love. I bought this album from a CD club because I liked the name of the album and for no other reason! Never regretted it!