A Million Miles Away

 

 

In early 1982, the Plimsouls released the quintessential power-pop song “A Million Miles Away”; and it was a bonafide FM hit before Geffen Records wrested the band away from Bomp! Records and pulled the song from the market until their album was finished. 

 

(April 2010)

 

 

As I remember, I already had an article partially written on somebody else when an order from Bomp! Records came in that included a specially priced package of new CD’s by three related power-pop bands:  the Nerves, the Plimsouls and the Breakaways.  I already knew the Plimsouls’ hit “A Million Miles Away”, but just about everything else was a revelation, including the Nerves’ original version of “Hanging on the Telephone” that became Blondie’s follow-up hit after their monster “Heart of Glass”.  I quickly checked Wikipedia and determined that the Breakaways did not have an article, so I dashed off a UARB post on them, hoping to interest others in this amazing music.