‘In The Good Times’ comes from Defunkt’s eponymously titled debut album and is, not surprisingly, inspired by Chic’s more famous track of nearly the same name. It’s a documentation of singer Joe Bowie’s drug addiction at the time and is a great piece of bass-driven heavy avant funk. The guitar work and effects burst out all over the place, kept in check by the vocals, bass and horns. It’s another one that takes me back to the smoke-filled bedrooms of my youth and hearing it now brings on a Proustian rush. Defunkt’s first two albums are brilliant, and I was lucky enough to see them at the New Morning in Paris in the mid nineties. And I think I touched Joe’s trombone.
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