Song title: Kim the Waitress
Artist: Material Issue
Album title: Freak City Soundtrack
Year: 1994
Genre/Style: Power Pop
Record label: Polygram
City/Country of Origin: USA
Personal notes:

So here it is, a little piece of power pop perfection. The only cover on Material Issue's 2004 Freak City Soundtrack, it has everything you want in that quintessential pop song. It clocks in at just under 5 minutes. It's that type of song that ends and leaves you wanting just a bit more.

Sorry to all the Green Pajamas fans out there, Ish's cover kills the original. Hats off to J Kelly for writing a fantastic song, but it's Jim Ellison's phrasing, those silent pauses, driven through by the guitars and bass and drums, that lets you linger over those images in your mind. When he sings "I'd like to gently pull her to me and kiss her with no warning .... Seeing her some sunny summer Sunday morning ..." It puts you right there in the booth. Sometime words just flow so wonderfully, and this is one of those times. Now I'm not talking something like Dylan's materpieces here, but the choice of words, the way Ellison puts them out there, in that slow building tension. And when it ends, it seems it ends just too soon, like a love that left you wondering what could have been.