Goin' wherever you take me

I was introduced to the Chi-Lites’ transcendent “Stoned Out of my Mind” by the Jam, who included a cover of the song on a double 7” of their final single “Beat Surrender,” released in the U.K. in November of 1982. The Jam had recorded it a month or so before at Marcus Studios, and I’ve learned only recently in Dennis Munday’s book The Jam & Paul Weller: Shout to the Top that, in a highly uncharacteristic move, the band employed a drum machine on the track, “to underpin Rick [Buckler]’s brushes.”...