Katie Lee - Songs of Couch and Consultation (1961)
I first heard these songs in high school (when first really grappling with being batshit) off an old record in a dusty record shop a guy I was dating at the time worked in. It was (and still is) comforting that some of these issues are timeless (though the music is perhaps not timeless) and that you can always find humor in things.
"Katie Lee's "Will to Fail" stood out among these thrift-store singles
as a pleasantly mental tune about a functioning ne'er-do-well. ("I have
talents that I never use. I try to win but I love to lose because I've
got the will to fail" and "I secretly am enjoying myself but slowly I'm
destroying myself.") The original ode to apathy is on the also
out-of-print album Songs of Couch and Consultation
(Reprise Records, 1961). As this song was virtually my personal anthem
throughout my college career, you can imagine my shrieking delight when
I found the record ten years later, with
original cover art in near-mint condition among my grandfather's
extensive collection."
From: WFMU's Beware of the Blog
From: WFMU's Beware of the Blog
